Prairie~Phlox Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 I saw on someones blog about studying an artist and composer and they had them posted on the wall. I would like to do this. How long do you study and artist/composer and how often? Any ideas would be appreciated! Thanks, Phlox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaneNickerson Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 :lurk5: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitestavern Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 We are going to be doing composer and artist study this year for the first time. I have a dd8 and a ds6. We are doing one artist and one composer per week. I'm using a Childcraft book called Music for the Family, which has one page bios on many of the "great" composers. For art we're using Usborne Children's Book of Art, which has a two page spread covering many great artists. For each week/composer/artist I check the internet for any lesson plans or fun projects or websites that coincide with what we're studying. So for instance one week we're learning about Brahms and there's a wonderful website that takes you through Vienna in the 1890s and introduces chamber music. When we study Monet, we have an art activity pack we'll use and we'll go on a field trip to do some painting. I'm really looking forward to this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crafty Mathy Mom Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 I plan on trying Ambleside for art and music appreciation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather in Neverland Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 I think Jessica from Trivium Academy has one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda in Oregon Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 time period or type of music you'd like to study, this is quite a great site to listen to the music for free. It is extensive and you can create your own radio stations, commercial-free! I love this site! http://www.pandora.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagira Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 I remember reading Charlotte Mason advocated studying two composers and artists a year. Then the child would study 6 works of each composer, or listen to 6 pieces so that the child became well acquainted with each. Quality was always more important to CM than quantity, but you can adjust and have three instead of two, of course :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angela in ohio Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 Artists Study This is a spreadsheet of the artist study I did a few years ago with dc. It is a survey of artists throughout the different periods. I included the most famous art works to study and books about that artist. I integrated How to Teach Art to Children (related to the "Discussion Topics") and Discovering Great Artists for some hands-on art. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannah Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 Here are the artists we are studying. We do an artist of the month. I print out about 4 paitings from Artchive, laminate and stick them up on the wall. We read a children's biography of each. Western painting timeline (roughly grouped) Gothic Duccio Giotto Robert Campin Rogier van der Weyden Jan van Eyck Hieronymous Bosch Italian Renaissance Andrea Mantegna Fra Angelico Sandra Botticelli Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Raphael Titian El Greco Northern Renaissance Albrecht Durer Hans Holbein (the younger) Pieter Breughel the Elder Baroque and Rococco Caravaggio Rubens Vermeer Rembrandt Hogarth Fragonard Neoclassicism and Romaticism Thomas Gainsborough George Stubbs John Singleton Copley Sir Joshua Reynolds Francisco Goya John Constable Eugene Delacroix JMW Turner Impressionism Gustave Courbet Euouard Manet Alfred Sisley Auguste Renoir Edgar Degas Claude Monet Post-Impressionism Georges Seurat Vincent Van Gogh Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec Paul Gouguin Paul Cezanne Gustav Klimt 20-th Century Pablo Picasso Henri Matisse Piet Mondrian Salvador Dali Joan Miro Paul Klee Jackson Pollock Andy Warhol 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 August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 This is a list of mostly male Western composers, but we happen to own the CD's of these composers from a series my dh bought before we were married. 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- As with the artists, we have a composer of the month. We read children's biographies and listen to the music of the composer. I can also recommend Classicsforkids. We listen to the composer's music while doing crafts or other hands-on activities. Sometimes during lunch as well. The book or books we read during the month. I also have the composer's portrait with short bio details stuck up on the wall. ETA: We have started adding the composer to our timeline (see the file section of the yahoo group linked in my signature). In a few weeks I'm going to start having dd write up a short bio of each composer and artist that we study. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannah Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 This blog has some great ideas on Charlotte Mason Style Artist Study. They do an artist a term. I prefer to cover a few more artists in the early years, but my aim is exposure, rather than in depth study. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trivium Academy Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 I think Jessica from Trivium Academy has one. This is post describes what we're doing this year for composer studies, for artists we were using Artistic Pursuits but are taking a break to use Drawing With Children. We will study artists as they pop up in our history work but there's not many to study until halfway through the year when we get closer to the 20th century in history. We also have pictures studies through Primary Language Lessons by Margot Davidson, the art is in full color. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prairie~Phlox Posted August 29, 2008 Author Share Posted August 29, 2008 Thanks everyone. Great lists & ideas! Blessings, Phlox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.