art history / art appreciation ?

[Halftime Hope]

I have several books that will serve nicely as a spine for this, or as supplement to a video course (I'm thinking a half credit, so something light) but would like recommendations for the visual component.

 

Could you tell me what you liked? Sister Wendy? TTC?

 

We'd probably do reports, compare/contrast essays, and some analysis of different works and styles along the way to round it out, but I'd really like video/lectures to walk us through this.

 

Other simple spine/resource recommendations are also welcomed, the key there being "simple". :)

 

TIA for your recommendations!

[Anna]

In no particular order, these are some of our favorite Art History resources which are all easy to use:

 

*The Teaching Company DVD course taught by Professor Richard Brettell, Museum Masterpieces: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

*E.H. Gombrich, The Story of Art to use with Oak Meadow's The Study of Art Syllabus

*Sister Wendy, The Story of Painting text and video course

*Strickland, The Annotated Mona Lisa

*Patrick Nuttgens, The Story of Architecture

*J. Glancey, DK The Story of Architecture

*Strickland, The Annotated Arch

[Halftime Hope]

It's Anna! (Waves excitedly!!) How are you???

 

In no particular order, these are some of our favorite Art History resources which are all easy to use:

 

*The Teaching Company DVD course taught by Professor Richard Brettell, Museum Masterpieces: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

*E.H. Gombrich, The Story of Art to use with Oak Meadow's The Study of Art Syllabus

*Sister Wendy, The Story of Painting text and video course

*Strickland, The Annotated Mona Lisa

*Patrick Nuttgens, The Story of Architecture

*J. Glancey, DK The Story of Architecture

*Strickland, The Annotated Arch

 

We have Gombrich and Janson; I put Sister Wendy on reserve so should have it by the end of the week. Not sure how I'm going to implement...kinda difficult when you really should use a resource a bit at a time.

 

Brettell's series on the Met is a bit specific. He has other series. How did you like him in general?

[Halftime Hope]

specific rx for, and/or reviews of, visual (media, i.e. non-print) sources is what i'm hoping for.

 

Thx!

[Anna]

It's Anna! (Waves excitedly!!) How are you???

 

:seeya:Waving back at you, Val:D. Both my kids are in college... big part of why I'm not posting here much anymore. Oldest dd has been in Honors Program and is graduating in May with Poli-Sci Major. She's still undecided about after graduation plans... narrowed it down to grad school, federal law enforcement or law school. We hope to see youngest dd (ie, with learning disabilities) also graduate in May from CC. She plans to go to university in fall of 2011 as a junior to major in Exercise Science. Because youngest dd works closely with the CC Disability Center, I also work with her and them from the home front. CC has been the perfect fit for her in transitioning from homeschooling to college. Me? I'm good... doing more homemaking these days rather than homeschooling and dh and I have more 'date time' to be together. How about you?

 

Both Teaching Co. and Sr. Wendy are excellent for viewing.

 

*The Teaching Company DVD course taught by Professor Richard Brettell, Museum Masterpieces: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

*Sister Wendy, The Story of Painting films

 

Brettell's series on the Met is a bit specific. He has other series. How did you like him in general?

 

All of the resources I listed above are a bit specific, each in their own way. That's why we used Strickland's The Annotated Mona Lisa as a general, condensed overview while we dipped into the other resources. Several years ago my oldest dd asked me to purchase Brettell's Museum Masterpieces. She was already in college and was taking an art course and she told me that Brettell's course description was very much like the course she was taking that semester. We love Brettell's lectures. His presentations are thorough, interesting and lively.... no falling asleep while viewing... and his DVDs and guidebook lend themselves very well to discussions and essay writing.

 

Sr. Wendy??? Totally different 'flavor' than Brettell. They are both good but Sr. Wendy is a hoot to watch.

Edited September 1, 2010 by Anna

[FaithManor]

I needed to put something together for our 8th/9th grader and this is what I came up with.

 

Stories of Art by James Elkins

Sister Wendy Videos (Netflix)

Several trips over the next year to the Detroit Institute of Art and possibly one to Chicago if we can get the train tickets really cheap - into Chicago by noon, three hours in the museum, back to the train station - the whirlwind tour!

 

Detroit always has great guest speakers and there are children's programs for the 10 and 11 year old.

 

As far as regular art goes, Ds is really advanced in his mechanical drawing abilities as well as animals but he just doesn't spend any time doing landscapes or anything that smacks of that...so in order to encourage that aspect, I bought the Drawing Basics with Thomas Kinkade DVD's and workbooks. He is in charge of helping his younger brothers work through this course and I am hoping that this will encourage a broader scope of drawing this year. Next year he will be doing a mechanical drafting class for high school credit.

 

My big problem is that the assignments I want to make this year are high school level work but this is one area of weakness for me so I am not sure about grading. My sil is a professional, unbelievable artist but a very poor teacher. She is an absolute perfectionist and so when she grades projects, art history papers, etc. the child just can not get a good grade no matter how good it is....she just tears everything apart and leaves the kid as a quivering mass of oozing jello, not ever wanting to try anything in art ever again! So, I can't ask her for suggestions. The grading thing is going to be this year's thorn in my flesh.

 

Faith