With more of a focus on STEM, the arts are dying. Learn and appreciate the famous artists and composers of history with this 30 Days of Artists and Composers calendar.
Each day for a month, learn about a new artist or musician! Study their great works, and learn what they were known for. Were they famous while they were living, or did they live poverty? What was going on in the world around them? What inspired their work?
Along with the list, there is a sheet that can be copied, and children can fill it out with information about the artist of the day. I made these with middle school in mind, but they can easily be adapted for younger and older grades!
They also teach Internet searching skills and library skills, as kids research the person of the day. It can be turned into a major study, or an interesting artistic person to start your morning with.
List of Famous Artists and Composers
Here are the 30 artists that I included on this printable!
1. Pablo Picasso
2. Frederic Chopin
3. Henry Matisse
4. Antonin Dvorak
5. Edgard Degas
6. Jackson Pollock
7. Johann Sebastian Bach
8. Paul Cezanne
9. Maria Anna Mozart
10. Edvard Munch
11. Franz Schubert
12. Vincent Van Gogh
13. Antonio Vivaldi
14. Claude Monet
15. Richard Wagner
16. George Inness
17. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
18. Michelangelo
19. Johannes Brahms
20. Henri Rousseau
21. Edvard Grieg
22. Johannes Vermeer
23. Franz Liszt
24. Wassily Kandinsky
25. Johann Strauss
26. Grant wood
27. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
28. Utagawa Hiroshige
29. Charles Francois Gounod
30. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Recommended Resources
Try Blue Manor’s Online Library and hear samples of famous composers music!
- Anholt’s Artists Books for Children (fictional picture books that introduce famous artists!)
- Classical Music for Kids soundtrack
- For the Love of Music: The Story of Maria Anna Mozart by Elizabeth Rusch
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