Fine Arts the Charlotte Mason Way

"There are few subjects regarded with more respect and less confidence in our schools than this of 'Art.' "— Charlotte Mason

"As in a worthy book we leave the author to tell his own tale, so do we trust a picture to tell its tale through the medium the artist gave it. In the region of art as elsewhere we shut out the middleman."—Charlotte Mason

Picture Study

1. Introduce

2. Look

3. Narrate

4. Look again

5. Display

6. Biography

© 2010, Sonya Shafer www.SimplyCharlotteMason.com Music Study

1. Introduce

2. Listen

3. Narration Ideas

4. Biography

Resources

Artcyclopedia (www.artcyclopedia.com)

Art Renewal Center (www.artrenewal.com)

Classical Kids Collection: Mr. Bach Comes to Call Beethoven Lives Upstairs Vivaldi's Ring of Mystery (a bit intense) Hallelujah Handel Tchaikovsky Discovers America Mozart's Magnificent Voyage Mozart's Magic Fantasy (a bit intense)

CM Bookfinder (www.SimplyCharlotteMason.com)

Dover Publications art postcards (www.doverpublications.com)

Opal Wheeler's composer biographies (www.zeezok.com)

Web Gallery of Art (www.wga.hu)

© 2010, Sonya Shafer www.SimplyCharlotteMason.com Artists and Composers (a beginning list)

Artists Composers Vincent Van Gogh Pachelbel Mary Cassatt Henry Purcell Pablo Picasso (carefully) Antonio Vivaldi Claude Monet Domenico Scarlatti Winslow Homer Georg Philipp Telemann Paul Cezanne Johann Sebastian Bach Edgar Degas George Frideric Handel Georgia O’Keefe Joseph Haydn Rembrandt Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Frederick Remington Ludwig von Beethoven Pierre Auguste Renoir Niccolo Paganini Leonardo da Vinci Franz Schubert N.C. Wyeth Gioachino Rossini Thomas Kinkade Felix Mendelssohn Norman Rockwell Frederic Chopin John James Audubon Robert Schumann Michelangelo Giuseppe Verdi John Singer Sargent Richard Wagner Ansel Adams (photographer) Franz Liszt Frans Lanting (photographer) Johann Strauss II Vermeer Stephen Foster MC Escher Johannes Brahms Carl Larsson Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky P. Buckley Moss Antonin Dvorak Giotto Edvard Grieg Botticelli John Phillips Sousa Maxfield Parrish Claude Debussy Jean Francois Millet Scott Joplin Rosa Bonheur Maurice Ravel Georges Seurat Sergei Rachmaninoff Frans Hals Gilbert and Sullivan Diego Velazquez Igor Stravinsky Jan van Eyck Bela Bartok James Whistler George Gershwin Grant Wood Dmitry Shostakovich Grandma Moses Aaron Copland Wolf Kahn

© 2010, Sonya Shafer www.SimplyCharlotteMason.com