Here at Ridge Light Ranch, we love to integrate art appreciation with our art lessons! Here’s a chronological listing of the art lessons we have available:

On our Art Periods or Movements page, you find simple explanations of each period or movement with a short list of the most famous artists in that period or movement.

Ancient Art

In ancient art, we often don’t know the name of the artist so we study the art of each culture instead.

Prehistoric art in caves and on petroglyphs
Egyptian art and King Tut’s Mask (3000BC – 30 BC)

Greek and Roman Art

Archaic Greek art (750 BC – 480 BC)
Greek (480 BC- 430 BC) and Roman architecture (146 BC – 480 AD)

Medieval Art

Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts (476 AD – 1350 AD)
Celtic Art (600 AD – 1100 AD)
Berlinghiero Berlinghieri (c. 1175–1236)

Pre-Renaissance to Post-Renaissance

Now we move into studying specific historical artists!

Giotto, the Father of the Renaissance (1270-1337)
Ghiberti (1378 – 1455)
Fra Angelico (1395- 1455)
Albrecht Durer (1471 – 1528)
Michelangelo (1475 – 1564)
El Greco and Post Renaissance (1541 – 1614)

Baroque

Rembrandt (Dutch Baroque) (1601 – 1669)
Thomas Gainsborough (Late English Baroque) (1727 – 1788)

Romanticism

Thomas Cole (1801 – 1848) (coming soon!)

Modern Art

-Impressionism

Edgar Degas (Impressionist) (1834 – 1917)
Claude Monet (Impressionist) (1840 – 1926)
Bethe Morisot (Impressionist) (1841 – 1895)

-Post Impressionism

Vincent Van Gogh (Post Impressionist) (1853 – 1890)
Pablo Picasso (Cubism) 1881 – 1973)

American Artists

Grandma Moses (1860 – 1961)
Norman Rockwell (1894 – 1978)
Georgia OKeeffe (1887 – 1986)
Grant Wood (1891 – 1942) )and Regionalism
Andrew Wyeth (1917 – 2009)
Roy Lichtenstein (1923 – 1997) and Pop Art
Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987) and Pop Art
Jim Davis (1945 …) and Caricatures
Op Art (1964 …)