Artist / Picture Study - Ancient History

[Shoes+Ships+SealingWax]

For those of you who use Charlotte Mason style picture studies, how did you approach Ancient Art (when artists are rarely known, or having a half dozen works from one artist is rare)?

[Holly]

Have you seen Simply Charlotte Mason's The Stuff They Left Behind?  Your DC study pictures of artifacts from ancient Egypt, Greece, or Rome (depending on the set).  I plan on using these resources on our next time through ancients, but we skipped them the first time around.  While it's not the typical "study an artist for 6-8 weeks" artist study, CM did have students sketch artifacts for their Book of Centuries pages, so I think this is close to what she would have done.

 

Harmony Fine Arts Grade 5 also covers ancient art, alongside learning instruments of the orchestra.   I'm not sure what ages your DC are, but HFA's logic stage programs can be using with a wide variety of ages.  My DC are 6-13, and all are enjoying the Grade 6 program.  I'll probably combine both arts programs on our next trip through ancient history.

Edited February 24, 2016 by Holly

[Bluegoat]

For the ancient world I think it makes the most sense to organize by place of origin.  So Indian art, Celtic srt, Greek art. 

 

An exception might be prehistoric art which you could look at as a unit, though I think I might divide it by continent.

[Shoes+Ships+SealingWax]

Looking deeper into how the topics are arranged, I really like the way that Artistic Pursuits approaches ancient art at this level. I think we may split the book into K & 1st grade, using half of the text for each so we have time to go deeper.

 

The first half of the book 1 introduces the elements of art (line, shape, form, color). I'll probably add free ArtTango lessons to expand this part.

 

The second half introduces art by where it is found - not geographically, but in a person's life (in caves, on pottery, in clothing / tapestry, on walls, in architecture, in books). It is important to me that Eastern history & art be included in DS' studies - this method would make it easy to tie in Chinese cave art, Japanese pottery, etc.