Hi Kids! Lucky you – you have Art Awareness today!
Meet Mona Sheep-a. She is our Belle Aire Art Awareness mascot (BAAA!).
Click or touch your grade to see your famous art for this month:
Kindergarten / First / Second / Third
Fourth / Fifth / Sixth
If you are in a MIXED grade class, click the UPPER grade.
Kindergarten / K
OCTOBER – Caves at Lascaux – Hall of the Bulls
NOVEMBER – “Night-Shining White” – An ink painting by Han Gan (China)
JANUARY – Ancient Aztec Sun Stone
FEBRUARY – Terra Cotta Stirrup Jar With Octopus
MARCH – Collar of Neferuptah
APRIL – Yellow Cow by Franz Marc
MAY – Untitled (Purple, White, and Red), 1953 at the Art Institute of Chicago
First / 1st
OCTOBER – Aboriginal Dot Painting – Australia
NOVEMBER – “Snow Flowers” by Henri Matisse
JANUARY – “Untitled XVII, 1984″ by Willem de Kooning
FEBRUARY – “Paris Street; Rainy Day” by Gustave Caillebotte
MARCH – “Yellow Hickory Leaves with Daisy” by Georgia O’Keeffe
APRIL – The Railway Crossing (Sketch) by Fernand Léger
MAY – Avery Coonley Playhouse Triptych Window by Frank Lloyd Wright on display at Art Institute of Chicago (this was located at Avery Coonley when it was located in Riverside, prior to moving to Downers Grove)
Second / 2nd
OCTOBER – “Pull Boys” – A painting by Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson)
NOVEMBER – “The Great Wave” – A print by Katsushika Hokusai (Japan)
JANUARY – “Tropical Forest With Monkeys” by Henri Rousseau
FEBRUARY – American Gothic by Grant Wood
MARCH – “Constructive City with Universal Man” by Torres García
APRIL – Head. 1920. by Luibov Popova
MAY – Paris Through the Window by Marc Chagall
Third / 3rd
OCTOBER – “Alice” – A painting by Amedeo Modigliani
NOVEMBER – “The Child’s Bath” – A painting by Mary Cassatt
JANUARY – ‘Self-Portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States” by Frida Kahlo
FEBRUARY – Mandolin and Guitar by Pablo Picasso
MARCH – Campbell’s Soup Can by Andy Warhol
APRIL – Central Park Design by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux
MAY – Miró’s Chicago by Joan Miró
Fourth / 4th
OCTOBER – “Fragment I for Composition VII (Center)” A painting by Wassily Kandinsky
NOVEMBER – “Flamingo” – A sculpture by Alexander Calder (in Chicago!)
JANUARY – “0 through 9″ by Jasper Johns
FEBRUARY – Rangoli Designs
MARCH – “Snap the Whip” by Winslow Homer
APRIL – Casa Batilló in Barcelona, Spain by Antoni Gaudí
MAY – Nasir ol Molk Mosque in Shiraz, Iran
Fifth / 5th
OCTOBER – “Nighthawks” – A painting by Edward Hopper
NOVEMBER – Totem Poles of the Northwest Native Americans
JANUARY – Flying Machines from the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
FEBRUARY – Edgar Mueller Street Art
MARCH – “Three Men Walking II” by Alberto Giacometti
APRIL – Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish by J.M.W. Turner – on display at Art Institute of Chicago
MAY – “I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold” by Charles Demuth
Sixth / 6th
OCTOBER – “The Migration of the Negro, Panel No. 3” – A painting by Jacob Lawrence
NOVEMBER – “The Flower Carrier” – A painting by Diego Rivera
JANUARY – “Drowning Girl” by Roy Lichtenstein
FEBRUARY – The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali
MARCH – “I Have Special Reservations” by Elizabeth Catlett || About Printmaking
APRIL – Wrapper, Andinkra Cloth (unidentified Asante artist)
MAY – Waterfall by M.C. Escher and Sea Horse (No. 11) by M.C. Escher
