Bang!Zoom! Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 This is one of the projects on my table right now. Beyond the recommendation of materials & scope of the WTM book, do you have any thoughts to add on putting it together? We are doing Modern history for this portion as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannah Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 We study one artist a month. I make four or five prints from www.artchive.com and put them up on the wall. During the month we read biographies or get a DVD about the artist. We have also used Sister Wendy and the Great Artists DVD's and elder DD has gone through the "How to Look at and Understand Great Art" course from the Great Courses. Our approach is pretty low-key, but over the years the kids have learnt a great deal. This is the master list from which I choose 12 per year. Western painting timeline * roughly grouped Gothic Duccio Giotto Simone Martini Robert Campin Rogier van der Weyden Jan van Eyck Hieronymous Bosch Matthias Grunewald Italian Renaissance Andrea Mantegna Fra Angelico Sandra Botticelli Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Raphael Tintoretto Titian El Greco Northern Renaissance Albrecht Durer Hans Holbein (the younger)Pieter Breughel the Elder Baroque and Rococco Caravaggio Rubens Velazquez Vermeer Rembrandt Watteau Hogarth Tiepolo Chardin Fragonard Neoclassicism and Romaticism Thomas Gainsborough George Stubbs John Singleton Copley Sir Joshua Reynolds Jacques-Louis David Jean-Auguste Ingres Francisco Goya John Constable Eugene Delacroix JMW Turner Impressionism Gustave Courbet Camille Corot Euouard Manet Alfred Sisley James Whistler Auguste Renoir Edgar Degas Claude Monet Post-Impressionism Georges Seurat Vincent Van Gogh Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec Edourd Vuillard Paul Gouguin Edvard Munch Paul Cezanne Gustav Klimt Pierre Bonnard 20-th Century Pablo Picasso Henri Matisse Piet Mondrian Salvador Dali Joan Miro Paul Klee Jackson Pollock Andy Warhol Mark Rothko Jasper Johns Lucian Freud South African Artists Annette du Plessis Maggie Laubser Rexon Mathebula George Pemba Hugo Naudé Pierneef Gerard Sekoto Irma Stern Vladimir Tretchikoff William Kentridge Paul du Toit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannah Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 This is the list of composers we cycle through. We play cd's of the composer and read a biography during the month Corelli (1653-1713) Vivaldi (1678-1741) Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 – 1767) D. Scarlatti (1685-1757)) J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Handel (1685-1759) Haydn (1732-1809) Mozart (1756-1791) Beethoven (1770-1827) Rossini (1792-1868) Schubert (1797-1828) Berloiz (1803-1869) Chopin (1810-1849) Liszt (1811-1886) Verdi (1813- 1901) Wagner (1813 – 1893) Gounod (1818-1893) Offenbach (1819 – 1880) Smetana (1824-1884) Brahms (1833-1897) Bizet (1838-1875) Mussogorsky (1839-1881) Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Dvorak (1841-1906) Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) Elgar (1857-1934) Puccini (1858 – 1924) Debussy (1862- 1919) Strauss (1864-1949) Sibelius (1865-1957) Rachmaninoff (1873- 1943) Holst (1874-1934) Schoenberg (1874-1951) Ravel, (1875 – 1937) Mahler (1876-1911) Bartok (1881-1945) Stravinsky (1882-1971) Prokofiev (1891-1953) Orff (1895-1982) Gershwin (1898 – 1937) Copland (1900-1990) Rodrigo (1901 – 1999) Britten (1913 – 1976) Bernstein (1918 – 1990) Lloyd Weber (1948- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSinNH Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 This is great... thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocCityMom Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 This is my artist study plan for this school year. We do a different artist every six weeks. Each week, we read a bio or picture book and study one work of art which is posted in our school room for the week. We also do one or two projects that are inspired by the artist's work. My kids are little, but I think may of the book choices could work for an older elementary-aged kiddo. Artist Study 2013-2014 School Year Weeks 1 through 6: Pablo Picasso Week 1 Read Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists: Picasso by Mike Venezia Picture Study: The Gourmet (The White Child) (1901) Watch video slideshow of paintings from blue period Week 2 Read Picasso and the Girl with the Ponytail by Laurence Anholt and What Makes a Picasso a Picasso? by Richard Muhlberger Picture Study: The Old Guitarist (1903) Project: One Color Painting (from Discovering Great Artists by MaryAnn F. Kohl and Kim Solga) Week 3 Read Who Was Pablo Picasso by True Kelly Picture Study: Garcon a la Pipe (1905) Watch video slideshow of paintings from the rose period Week 4 Read Pablo Picasso Breaking All the Rules (Barron’s Educational Series) Picture Study: Weeping Woman (1937) Week 5 Read Just Behave, Pablo Picasso by Jonah Winter and Oooh! Picasso by Mil Niepold Picture Study: Puchinello with a Guitar (1920) Project: Clown Collage (from The Usborne Art Treasury by Rosie Dickins) Week 6 Read Picasso and Minou by P.I. Maltbie Picture Study: Dora Maar Seated (1937) Project: Fractured Friend (from Discovering Great Artists by MaryAnn F. Kohl and Kim Solga) Weeks 7 through 12: Henri Matisse Week 7 Read Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists: Matisse by Mike Venezia Picture Study: Les toits de Collioure (1905) Week 8 Read A Bird or Two by Bijou leTourd Picture Study: Red Room (Harmony in Red) (1908) Week 9 Read Colorful Dreamer by Marjorie Blaine Parker Picture Study: The Dance (1909) Week 10 Picture Study: Music (1910) Project: Story Color Collage (from Discovering Great Artists by MaryAnn Kohl and Kim Solga) Week 11 Picture Study: The Goldfish (1910) Project: Oil Pastel and Watercolor Resist Week 12 Read Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors by Jane O’Connor Picture Study: The Sorrows of the King (1952) Project: Colorful Collage (from The Usborne Art Treasury by Rosie Dickins) Weeks 13 through 18: Paul Klee Week 13 Read Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists: Klee by Mike Venezia Picture Study: Blumenmythos (1918) Week 14 Picture Study: Senecio (1922) Week 15 Picture Study: Red Balloon (1922) Week 16 Picture Study: Insula Dulcamara (1929) Project: One Line Designs (from Discovering Great Artists by MaryAnn kohl and Kim Solga) Week 17 Picture Study: der Goldfish (1925) Project: Project: Magical Creatures (from The Usborne Art Treasury by Rosie Dickins) Week 18 Read The Cat and the Bird by Geraldine Elschner Picture Study: Highways and Byways (1929) Weeks 19 through 24: Camille Pissarro and Mary Cassatt Week 19 Read Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists: Camille Pissarro by Mike Venezia Picture Study: Orchard in Bloom, Louveciennes (1872) Week 20 Picture Study: The Harvest (1882) Week 21 Picture Study: Children on a Farm (1887) Project: Pointillist Color Cards (from Discovering Great Artists by MaryAnn Kohl and Kim Solga) Week 22 Read Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists: Mary Cassatt by Mike Venezia Picture Study: Children on the Beach (1884) Week 23 Read Mary Cassatt: Family Pictures by Jane O’Connor Picture Study: The Boating Party (1893-94) Week 24 Read Mary Cassatt: Impressionist Painter by Lois Harris Picture Study: Summertime (1894) Project: Tempera Monoprint (from Discovering Great Artists by MaryAnn Kohl and Kim Solga) Weeks 25 through 30: Marc Chagall Week 25 Read Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists: Chagall by Mike Venezia Picture Study: Concert (1957) Week 26 Read A Picture for Marc by Eric A. Kimmel Picture Study: Mariee (1950) Week 27 Read Dreamer from the Village by Michelle Markel Picture Study: I and the Village (1911) Project: Daydreaming with Chagall (drawing with pencil and marker project) Week 28 Read I Am Marc Chagall by Bimba Landmann Picture Study: The Birthday (1915) Week 29 Read What Color Is Paradise? by Elizabeth Lemke Picture Study: The Circus Horse (1964) Week 30 Read Journey on a Cloud by Veronique Massenot Picture Study: Four Seasons (outdoor mosaic mural in Chicago) Project: Scenery Mural (from Discovering Great Artists by MaryAnn Kohl and Kim Solga) Weeks 31 through 36: Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Week 31 Read Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists: Diego Rivera by Mike Venezia Picture Study: Peasants (1931) Project: Choose something out of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Their Lives and Ideas, 24 Activities (For Kids series) by Carol Sabbeth Week 32 Read Diego Rivera: His World and Ours by Duncan Tonatiuh and Diego by Jonah Winter and Jeannette Winter Picture Study: The Flower Carrier (1935) Project: Choose something out of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Their Lives and Ideas, 24 Activities (For Kids series) by Carol Sabbeth Week 33 Read Diego Rivera, An Artist for the People by Susan Goldman Rubin Picture Study: Detroit Industry, South Wall (1933) Project: Choose something out of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Their Lives and Ideas, 24 Activities (For Kids series) by Carol Sabbeth Week 34 Read Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists: Kahlo by Mike Venezia Picture Study: Rivera and Kahlo (1931) Project: Choose something out of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Their Lives and Ideas, 24 Activities (For Kids series) by Carol Sabbeth Week 35 Read Frida by Jonah Winter and Frida Kahlo (Artists in Their Time) by Jill A. Laidlaw Picture Study: The Two Fridas (1939) Project: Choose something from Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Their Lives and Ideas, 24 Activities (For Kids series) by Carol Sabbeth Week 36 Read Frida Kahlo: The Artist Who Painted Herself (Smart About Art) by Margaret Frith and Tomie dePaola and Me, Frida by Amy Novesky and David Diaz Picture Study: Self-Portrait with Necklace (1933) Project: Self Portrait (from Discovering Great Artists by MaryAnn Kohl and Kim Solga) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocCityMom Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 My plan for composer study: Week 1 through Week 6: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Week 1 Listen to http://www.classicsforkids.com/shows/showdesc.asp?id=65 Listen to Piano Concerto, 20 and Eine Kleine Nachtmusik Read Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Composers: Mozart by Mike Venezia Week 2 Read Young Mozart by Rachel Isadora and Mozart the Wonder Boy by Opal Wheeler Listen to Symphony Number 40 Week 3 Read Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? by Yona Zeldis McDonagh Listen to Quintet in A major for clarinet Week 4 Read Play, Mozart, Play! by Peter Sis and Mozart by Ann Rachlin Listen to Piano sonata 11 in A major, K. 331 Week 5 Read Mozart Finds a Melody by Stephen Costanza and The Cat Who Loved Mozart by Patricia Austin Listen to Concerto for bassoon and orchestra in B-flat major, K. 191 and Flute Concerto in D Week 6 Listen to http://www.classicsforkids.com/shows/showdesc.asp?id=207 Listen to a recording of the Magic Flute and to Mozart’s Magic Fantasy Read The Magic Flute by Kyra Teis and selected operas Mozart operas from Sing Me a Story: The Metropolitan Opera’s Book of Opera Stories for Children by Jane Rosenberg. *Mozart’s Magnificent Voyage would make good quiet time listening for this study. Week 7 through Week 12: Frederic Chopin Week 7 Listen to http://www.classicsforkids.com/shows/showview.asp?ID=13 Listen to Op 09 no 2 Nocturne in E flat major Read Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Composers: Chopin by Mike Venezia Week 8 Listen to Op 10 no 3 Etude in E-major Read Frederic Chopin, Son of Poland, Early Years by Opal Wheeler Week 9 Listen to Op 10 no 12 Revolutionary Etude in C minor Read Frederic Chopin, Son of Poland, Later Years by Opal Wheeler Week 10 Listen to Op 21 Piano Concerto number 2 in f minor Listen to The Story of Chopin in Words and Music by Arthur Hannes & Ingrid Haebler Week 11 Listen to Op 28 Preludes no's 15, 20 and either 16 or 17 Read Chopin by Ann Rachlin Week 12 Listen to Op 53 Polonaise in A flat, Heroic Week 13 through Week 18: Benjamin Britten Week 13 Listen to http://www.classicsforkids.com/shows/showview.asp?ID=8 and Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra Use Anita Ganeri book and recording as well as Leonard Bernstein’s recording. Week 14 Listen to Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra Week 15 Listen to Cello Suites, Nos. 1-3 Week 16 Listen to Simple Symphony Read Week 17 Listen to Ceremony of Carols Week 18 Listen to Ceremony of Carols Week 19 through Week 24: Claude Debussy Week 19 Listen to http://www.classicsforkids.com/shows/showview.asp?ID=21 Listen to Prelude to the Afternoon of the Faun Read Claude Debussy by Pierre Babin Week 20 Listen to La Mer Read Composer’s World – Claude Debussy by Wendy Thompson Week 21 Listen to The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (from Preludes) Watch What Is Impressionism?, Leonard Bernstein Young People’s Concerts Week 22 Listen to Suite Bergamasqe (includes Claire de Lune) Week 23 Listen to Children's Corner Week 24 Listen to Jeux ("Games"); a "danced poem" intended to accompany a ballet Week 25 through Week 30: Franz Schubert Week 25 Listen to http://www.classicsforkids.com/shows/showview.asp?ID=25 Listen to Trout Quintet Read Franz Schubert and His Merry Friends by Opal Wheeler Week 26 Listen to Symphony No. 8 ("Unfinished") Read Franz Schubert by Paue du Bouchet Week 27 Listen to Symphony No. 9 ("The Great") Week 28 Listen to Symphony No. 9 ("The Great") Week 29 Listen Impromptus op. 90 (D. 899) Week 30 Listen to Die Schone Mullerin (a song cycle) Week 31 through Week 36: Georges Bizet Week 31 Listen to http://www.classicsforkids.com/shows/showview.asp?ID=28 Listen to Jeux d'enfants, op. 22 Week 32 Listen to The Pearl Fishers* Week 33 Listen to Carmen* Week 34 Listen to Carmen* Week 35 Listen to L’Arlesienne* Week 36 Listen to L’Arlesienne* *Use Greatest Hits: Bizet, New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmilyK Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 Thanks. This thread is full of good ideas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsmm Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 wow, thanks for posting! These are great ideas, and all put together already...thank you! I was planning on a composer and an artist a month, or so. We have the Classical Kids cds and the Intro to the Composers cds. I'll need to go through and start planning so I can order library books as needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sillymommy Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoxcell Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 I pick 3-4 artists and 3-4 composers a year and we read about them from living books. For composers we are using the Opal Wheeler series and for artists I have a variety of kids Bios. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladydusk Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 I like to use Ambleside Online's suggestions for Composer/Artist study. I don't usually do their schedule, though. I pick the artist or composer I want from their list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonia Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Ours is fairly low-key. First off we used the Homeschool in the Woods Composer lapbook and I liked it so much we're doing the Artist one this year. Last year for music we just listened to the Beethoven's Wig CDs, did the lapbook, went through an orchestra book to learn more about instruments. This year we'll start studying individual composers. I chose 6 (we do 6 6-week terms each school year - so one composer/artist per term). I'll get some CDs from the library and we'll listen to them whenever we think of it. During the term I'll have dd read a book about the composer (again from the library), add the composer to her lapbook (a little minibook and the timeline), and listen to music while she works on geography. For artists, we again choose 6. I find 6 pieces of art for each artist and save these to a file on my computer. Before school starts I will have them developed into 4x6 photographs at costco or walmart. Then, at the beginning of each term we hang all six of the pictures for that artist. Each week dd chooses one to pull down. We discuss and look at the picture. Flip it over and "narrate" it to each other. Then she'll write the artist and the title of the artwork on the back and put it in her album. Sometime during that term she'll read a book about the artist, add the minibook to the lapbook, do an art project in the style of the artist or "copy" one of their paintings. This year we're focusing on the Impressionists. None of this is really planned by the week. I just keep a list of what I'd like to do for each composer/artist and when we get to artist or composer study on the schedule dd will choose one of the activities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holly Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 We are also low-key. We cover about 4 composers a year. I play our current composer's music as we clean the kitchen after meals (and as I cook). At some point during the study, I read a short 2-3 page biography from our Childcraft encyclopedia...these are very well done for elementary ages. For artist study, I have a book of 100 greatest paintings (can't remember the exact title). I just pick one that looks interesting and do a CM-style picture study. If I were more organized, we'd have an actual artist to study, but I love how big the pictures are in the book...and there's only one per artist. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladydusk Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Oh forgot this page a day calendar: Art 2014 Gallery Calendar http://www.amazon.com/dp/0761173943/ref=cm_sw_r_an_am_ap_am_us?ie=UTF8 ordered for fourth year. And my husband for work for Christmas. And my MIL for Christmas ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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