SAMPLE Harmony Fine Arts Art and Music Appreciation Grade 8—Modern Era

Compiled by Barbara McCoy www.harmonyfinearts.com Table of Contents

Introductory Pages Artists and Composers List Page 4 Materials List Page 5 Harmony Fine Arts-Overview Page 6 Harmony Fine Arts-How to Get Started Page 7 Supplies List Page 8 Featured Works and Picture Study Ideas Page 9 How to Deal With Nudity Page 10 Notes for Option 2, 3, and Music Page 11 Art and Music Notebook Ideas Page 12

Weekly Schedules Weeks 1-6 Renoir/Tchaikovsky Pages 13-16 Weeks 7-12 Cassatt/Prokofiev Pages 17-20 Weeks 13-18 Gauguin/Poulenc Pages 21-24 Weeks 19-24 John Singer Sargent/Copland Pages 25-28 Weeks 25-30 Matisse/Kabalevsky Pages 29-32 Weeks 31-36 Pollock/Bernstein Pages 33-36

Index Pages Notebook Page Index Page 37 Coloring Page Index Page 57 Art Prints Page 72 More Mini-Units from Harmony Fine Arts Page 83

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Harmony Fine Arts—Grade 8 Artist and Composer Lists

Artists

Pierre Auguste Renoir Mary Cassatt Paul Gauguin John Singer Sargent Henri Matisse Jackson Pollock

Composers

Peter Tchaikovsky Sergei Prokofiev Francis Poulenc Aaron Copland Dmitry Kabalevsky SAMPLE Leonard Bernstein

Harmony Fine Arts—Grade 8 Materials List

You can click over to the Harmony Fine Arts Grade 8 Materials Page for convenience. Scroll down on the page to see the items suggested to purchase for this grade level. You can also access it from the Materials tab at the top of the Harmony Fine Arts website.

Music Appreciation Author ISBN

The Story of Tchaikovsky B000001KD9

The Best of Prokofiev ** Highly recommend but you may B0000014HW choose to listen online.

Poulenc: Complete Chamber Music Vol. 1 ** Highly recommend but you may B00004D3IJ choose to listen online. Copland: Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, Billy ** Highly recommend but you may B0000013O6 the Kidd, Fanfare for the Common Man choose to listen online.

Kabalevsky: Romeo and Juliet, Colas ** Highly recommend but you may B00000148E Breugnon, The Comedians choose to listen online.

Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Mike Venezia 0516262440 Composers: Bernstein Art Appreciation Option 2 The Usborne Introduction to Modern Art Rosie Dickins 0794509231 (Internet Linked)

Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Mike Venezia 0516200682 Artists: Renoir

Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Mike Venezia 0516422782 Artists: Cassatt

Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Mike Venezia 0516422987 Artists: Pollock Art Appreciation Option 3 Artistic Pursuits Junior High Book 2 Brenda Ellis 978-0-9815982-7-7 Purchase used on Amazon

This book has been retitled: Middle School Book Two You can use either version of the book. http://www.artisticpursuits.com/middle- These plans use the page numbers from school-artistic-pursuits.html SAMPLEJunior High Book 1 but you could easily (page numbers won’t match) use Middle School Book 2 and just adjust your page numbers.

Harmony Fine Arts—Grade 8 *1-2 hours per week for picture study, art appreciation, and an art activity depending on which option you choose

SAMPLE Harmony Fine Arts-Overview

Harmony Fine Arts is the art and music appreciation program designed for busy homeschooling families. The Harmony Fine Arts plans organize a variety of resources so you can open the schedule and with little preparation offer your child experiences with great artists and composers.

Harmony Fine Arts was created to fill a need in the homeschooling community. Our family had been using the classical model for homeschooling and we were looking for artists and composers organized into the four year cycle of history as outlined in the Well-Trained Mind. Our family was also interested in using Charlotte Mason’s ideas by making picture study, or viewing great art, the foundation of our plan for art appreciation. As I researched these ideas, I found wonderful resources that could also be used to enhance our experience with picture study. We needed the artists, composers, and resources organized in a plan that would be easy to use and flexible but no such plan existed. This is when the idea for Harmony Fine Arts was born.

Harmony Fine Arts plans for art and music appreciation embrace everything that our family thinks is important. We made picture study the foundation of the plan and with a little practice viewing paintings each week, our children began to getto know a variety of artists within a particular time period. In addition to picture study, the plans scheduled additional art appreciation books that we could use as we had time available. Music appreciation was planned in an easy to follow schedule and we could listen as much or as little as we had time each week.

With these plans, you can choose to complete as much of the plan as you want. You can follow the picture study and listening schedules as a basic art and music appreciation program or you can add in one of the art appreciation books or read more about the composers. You choose!

The Harmony Fine Arts plans pull together affordably priced materials along with internet links so you can have a reasonably priced art and music appreciation program.

There are 32-36 weeks planned in each level of Harmony Fine Arts and this allows your family to review or take a week off here and there and still be able to stay on track to finish each level by the end of the school year. The plans are listed by grade but you can use them for a variety of ages for a family with more than one student.

Harmony Fine Arts—Grade 8 Specifics SAMPLE Art Option 1: All the artwork is linked to internet sources and you can view them online or you can print the paintings out to view and then add them to your art notebooks. See the note on page 9 for more information.

Art Option 2: This option will schedule a variety of activities including viewing artwork, reading about artists, completing notebook pages, and art projects. Coloring pages for some of the artists are included in the back of these plans for you to print or copy.

Art Option 3: Option three will use Artistic Pursuits Grades Junior High Book 2 for lessons in art appreciation. Along with these plans you will be completing many of the same activities as Option 2.

Composer Study: The Harmony Fine Arts plans for this level include six composers. Please see the notes on page 11 for more information.

How to Get Started (See also this entry on my blog.) http://harmonyfinearts.org/2009/01/how-to-get-started-with-harmony-fine-arts-homeschool-art-plans/

1. Choose which option for art appreciation you are going to follow.

2. Look at the book list for your desired option and determine which books you have, which books your library has, and which books you need to order. Make sure to check the music appreciation section on the book list to see which CDs you need.

3. If you have books or CDs to order, click the link on the resource page to go to Amazon and my Harmony Fine Arts Grade 8 Listmania List. This will take you to the direct ordering page for any materials you need at Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/lm/R1HND52RBT7P9Z/ref=cm_lm_pthnk_view?ie=UTF8&lm_bb=

4. Check the supplies list for any art supplies that you will need for the year. I have done my best to see that everything is listed and that I have given you an approximate amount for things like paper and paints.

5. After you have gathered all your materials, take some time to look through them before the school year starts to familiarize yourself with what you have. I hope that you take the time to preview anything you plan to use and assign for the year and adapt the books to your family’s values. See page 10 for some ideas in dealing with nudity.

6. If you are printing your Harmony Fine Arts plans out on paper, you might like to place the weekly plans in sheet protectors so that you can write with dry erase markers any notes for that week or to check off those activities that you have completed.

7. You can keep all your art projects, biographies, and prints in a three-ring binder. Your children can decorate the cover and fill the binder up with sheet protectors. After they finish a project, label the back with the date, the assignment name, and any notations about the art being studied or the time period. Then you can slip the project into a sheet protector. You could add a section for an art and music timeline in the binder if you desire. See page 12 for more information about an art and music notebook. Harmony Fine Arts—Grade 8 Supplies List

Option One Optional 3-ring binder and page protectors for any paintings you print out.

Option Two (For specific ideas for art supplies, see my suggestions HERE*) 3-ring binder and page protectors for notebook pages and art projects Thin markers Colored pencils and a No. 2 pencil Oil pastels Watercolors and brushes Pastel Paper pad Watercolor paper pad SAMPLE Sketch pad Week 5: Tempera paints (blue, black, white) and brushes Week 22: Modeling clay (Crayola modeling clay—1 lb per student) Week 27: 3 sheets acetate (transparency film), Sharpies-black and a variety of colors Week 28: Glue stick, few sheets of colored paper (4 or 5 colors) Week 31 and 32: Tempera paints (bold colors), several marbles, large cardboard box lid or old cookie sheet Week 32: Newspaper, No-run school glue (Elmer’s), squeeze bottles for each color of paint (We used empty glue bottles.) Week 34: Digital camera, glue or photo tape, gel markers and few sheets of colored construction paper

Option Three Suggestions from Artistic Pursuits Jr. High Book Two: Look in the book for the suggested supplies for this curriculum.

In addition: Week 5: Tempera paints (blue, black, white) and brushes Week 28: watercolors and brushes Week 31 and 32: Tempera paints (bold colors), several marbles, large cardboard box lid or old cookie sheet Week 32: Newspaper, No-run school glue (Elmer’s), squeeze bottles for each color of paint (We used empty glue bottles.) Set of markers

Music Appreciation Optional 3-ring binder to hold notebook pages Colored pencils Thin Markers *http://www.squidoo.com/artsuppliesforkids Harmony Fine Arts—Grade 8 Weeks 1-6 Pierre Auguste Renoir Option 1 Weekly Picture Study

Pierre Auguste Renoir 1841-1919 1. Two Sisters (On the Terrace) *IMAGE INDEX+ 2. La Loge *IMAGE INDEX+ 3. La Moulin de la Galette 4. The Luncheon of the Boating Party 5. Umbrellas SAMPLESAMPLE

Option 2 Art Appreciation with Follow-Up Activities

1 Read: Getting to Know the World’s Greatest View this slideshow on Garden of Praise: Renoir Artist: Renoir Nudity on page 13. Complete the Two Sisters coloring page. Use page 28 as a reference. Make notes on the artist notebook page. 2 Modern Art pages 6-9 View: Mother Anthony’s Inn (also on page 19) Links on page 8 View more paintings of dogs on Wikipedia. Sketch or paint a dog for Complete the notebook page: your notebook. What is Modern Art?

3 Modern Art pages 12-13 Compare La Grenouillere paintings on pages 20 and 21. Links on page 13 La Grenouillere by Claude Monet View: The Swing on page 12. La Grenouillere by Pierra Auguste Renoir Sketch on your artist notebook page.

4 Modern Art pages 14-15 View: The Luncheon of the Boating Party Nudity on page 15 Links on page 15 (Try not to get carried away Count the hats in this painting and then pick one to draw in your with all the great links for this page!) notebook.

5 Modern Art pages 16-17 View: Umbrellas Links on page 17 View the tutorial and YouTube video: Tints and Shades Make your own oil pastel version of Van Gogh’s Note the tints and shades used by Renoir in this painting. See if you Starry Night. can paint an umbrella using tints and shades of blue. 6 Modern Art pages 18-19 View: Dance in Bougival Links on page 19 Complete the coloring page. View the link for Open Window Collioure. Finish your Renoir notebook page. Make your own window sketch and watercolor. Harmony Fine Arts Grade 2 Weeks 1-6 Artist Harmonyand Composer Fine Names Arts and— DatesGrade 8 Weeks 1-6 Pierre Auguste Renoir OptionWeek Option 3 Artistic 1 Picture Study Pursuits with Notebook with Picture Pages Study SuggestionsOption 2 Picture Study with Follow-Up Activities

1 Artistic Pursuits Junior High Book Two Read this biography on Garden of Praise: Renoir Xxx Pages 6-8 View this slideshow on Garden of Praise: Renoir Xxxxx

Xxxxx Complete the Challenge on page 8. View: Two Sisters (click to enlarge) Xxxxx Complete the Two Sisters coloring page.

2 Artistic Pursuits Junior High Book Two Artistic Pursuits Junior High Book Two Page 9 Page 10

Practice your new techniques. Complete the project on page 10.

3 Artistic Pursuits Junior High Book Two View: The Luncheon of the Boating Party Page 11-13 Look for primary and secondary colors in the painting. Complete the Try It project on page 11 and/or the Complete the coloring page. Challenge project on page 13. 4 Artistic Pursuits Junior High Book Two View: The Luncheon of the Boating Party Page 14 Count the hats in this painting and then pick one to draw in Complete the New Techniques assignment. your notebook. 5 Artistic Pursuits Junior High Book Two View: Umbrellas Page 15 View the tutorial and YouTube video: Tints and Shades Complete the project on page 15. Note the tints and shades used by Renoir in this painting. See if you can paint an umbrella using tints and shades of blue. 6 View: Dance in Bougival Complete a Renoir notebook page.

Week CompleteOption 3 the Artistic coloring Pursuits page. Plans Option 3 Picture Study Suggestions

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Notes for Weeks 1-6 Option 1: Week 1: http://artchive.com/artchive/R/renoir/terrace.jpg.html Week 2: http://www.artchive.com/artchive/R/renoir/la_loge.jpg.html Week 3: http://www.renoirgallery.com/gallery.asp?id=149 Week 4: http://www.artchive.com/artchive/r/renoir/boating.jpg.html Week 5: http://www.renoirgallery.com/gallery.asp?id=177 Week 6: http://www.renoirgallery.com/gallery.asp?id=31

Option 2: Week 1: http://biblelessonsite.org/art22slide.html Week 2: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Paintings_of_dogs http://www.renoirgallery.com/gallery.asp?id=97 Week 3: http://www.artchive.com/artchive/r/renoir/swing.jpg.html http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/29.100.112 http://www.renoirgallery.com/gallery.asp?id=64 Week 4: http://www.artchive.com/artchive/r/renoir/boating.jpg.html Week 5: http://www.artchive.com/artchive/V/van_gogh/starry_night.jpg.html http://www.renoirgallery.com/gallery.asp?id=177 http://heartsandtrees.blogspot.com/2009/05/tint-and-shade-paint-project-video.html Week 6: http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f?object=106384 http://www.renoirgallery.com/gallery.asp?id=31

Option 3: Week 1: http://gardenofpraise.com/art22.htm http://biblelessonsite.org/art22slide.html Week 2: http://youtu.be/T3BoqDfcxYk Week 3: http://www.artchive.com/artchive/r/renoir/boating.jpg.html Week 4: http://www.artchive.com/artchive/r/renoir/boating.jpg.html Week 5: http://www.renoirgallery.com/gallery.asp?id=177 http://heartsandtrees.blogspot.com/2009/05/tint-and-shade-paint-project-video.html Week 6: http://www.renoirgallery.com/gallery.asp?id=31 Harmony Fine Arts—Grade 8 Weeks 1-6 Composer Study: Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893—Need to check track numbers

1 Story of Tchaikovsky Listen to tracks 1-16 for a narrative biography.

Printable biography: Peter Tchaikovsky Make notes for your notebook page. Optional printable sheet music for Tchaikovsky (scroll down) Listen on YouTube: Romeo and Juliet Overture

2 Listen to: track 17 Nutcracker Suite

Read about the story of the Nutcracker Ballet. Listen on YouTube: Waltz of the Snowflakes

3 Listen to tracks 20-24 Swan Lake

Listen on YouTube: Swan Lake

4 Listen to 25-26 Sleeping Beauty

Listen on YouTube: Sleeping Beauty Waltz

5 Listen on YouTube: Slavonic Dance (March Slav)

6 Listen to any Tchaikovsky music you have on hand or online. Finish your notebook page

Listen on YouTube: 1812 Overture

Music Links: All of the YouTube links can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBB326C0A386BA7C8

Week 1: http://www.makingmusicfun.net/htm/f_mmf_music_library/hey-kids-meet-peter-ilyich-tchaikovsky.htm Week 2: http://www.nutcrackerballet.net/html/nutcracker_story.html

SAMPLE On The Terrace (Two Sisters), Pierre Auguste Renoir. Art Institute of Chicago. Oil on Canvas.