Here at Ridge Light Ranch, we love to integrate art appreciation with our art lessons!
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.
Here’s a chronological listing of the art lessons we have available:
Ancient Art
In ancient art, we often don’t know the name of the artist so we study the art of each culture instead.
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)
Pre-Renaissance to Post Renaissance
- 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 …)