Artist Index

*Updated 07 Dec 10*

As mentioned in other posts, I recommend at first starting picture study by picking artists with pictures you feel might interest your children, and then continuing to other artists work - possibly following the lists from Ambleside Online or other sites. I also provided a few online museum websites to find pictures you can use.

I'm adding in the links to the Ambleside Picture Study groups as a great place to get pictures. Thanks so much for the wonderful people who have provided that resource to us!

Sites in Index

The Year 0 site (an unofficial AO site, great no matter which year you are in)

AO 8.5x11 format A - (1999-2008 rotations)

AO 8.5x11 format B - (2009 + rotations)

(same pictures in other sizes)

AO 4x6 format

AO 2.5x2.5 format

AO 3.5x2.25 format

Angela Zimmerman's Version of AO selections - an unofficial (I think) site - has all the selections for a year in one pdf. Note that the naming of the files vary, and may have more than one artist in a file, so you do have to look carefully. In index - denoted by (AZ)

Non AO Websites

1. http://www.robertbateman.ca/

How to use the index

Here is a list of the artists that currently are on these sites. This is subject to change. This list is alphabetized by the last name.

• The numbers at the end indicate the official AO sites. They indicate which year it was used, to help you find them on the sites.
• Year 0 means the unofficial year 0 site.
• (AZ) means Angela Zimmerman's site.
• (N1), (N2) etc. means a non-AO site, as listed above.

If an artist has been done more than one year, or is in more than one site, check all locations, as there maybe different pictures and resources, or the quality may vary. If you don't know what the artist's style looks like, I would download the file from Angela's (AZ) site first, as you can quickly see several pictures. (Or you could do a search in google images to see a sampling of thumbnails.) This can help you decide if you do want to do that artist.

Index

B

• Robert Bateman [Canadian] - Note - pictures will still be copy protected. Sites given are to give ideas of what his pictures are like. You will probably need to find a book, or just look at the pictures online! (N1)
• Giotto di Bondone (04/05), (AZ)
• Alessandro Botticelli (00/01), (08/09), (AZ)
• Pieter Bruengel the Elder (06/07), (AZ)
• Michelangelo Buonarroti (05/06), (AZ)

C

• Michelangelo Merisi da Caravagio (99/00), (10/11), (AZ 2 files)
• Mary Cassatt (Year 0), (04/05), (AZ)
• Paul Cezanne (01/02), (AZ)
• Frederick Edwin Church (02/03), (AZ)
• Thomas Cole (02/03), (AZ)
• John Singleton Copley (02/03), (AZ)
• Camille Corot (03/04), (AZ)
• Gustave Courbet (03/04), (AZ)
• Jasper Francis Cropsey (02/03), (AZ)

D

• Michelangelo Merisi da Caravagio (99/00), (AZ)
• Leonardo da Vinci (07/08), (AZ)
• Jacques-Louis David (03/04), (AZ)
• Pieter de Hooch (01/02), (AZ)
• Edgar Degas (02/03), (AZ)
• Andrea del Verrocchio (00/01), (AZ)
• Eugene Delacroix (00/01), (10/11 *not there as of 7 Dec 2010, but should be there soon), (AZ - 2 files)
• Giotto di Bondone (04/05), (AZ)
• Asher B. Durand (02/03), (AZ)
• Albrecht Durer (99/00), (10/11), (AZ - 2 files)

E

• Jan van Eych (07/08), (AZ)

F

• Jean-Honore Fragonard (00/01), (AZ)
• Caspar David Friedrich (08/09), (AZ)

G

• Thomas Gainsborough (Year 0)
• Paul Gauguin (01/02), (AZ)
• Theodore Gericault (00/01), (AZ)
• Vincent van Gogh (08/09), (AZ)

H

• Winslow Homer (04/05), (AZ)
• Pieter de Hooch (01/02), (AZ)

L

• Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (Year 0), (AZ) [the AZ prints were not an AO selection]
• Sir Thomas Lawrence (Year 0)

M

• Edouard Manet (02/03), (AZ)
• Henri Matisse (AZ) [not an AO selection]
• Mauve (AZ) [not an AO selection]
• Claude Monet (Year 0), (09/10), (AZ)

R

• Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Year 0), (01/02), (AZ)
• Rembrandt van Rijn (07/08), (AZ)
• Auguste Rodin (01/02), (AZ)
• Peter Paul Rubens (03/04), (AZ)
• Jacob van Ruisdael (01/02), (AZ)

S

• Raphael Sanzio (09/10), (AZ)
• John Singer Sargent (09/10), (AZ)
• Georges Seurat (01/02), (AZ)
• Gilbert Stuart (02/03), (AZ)

T

• Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (06/07), (AZ)
• Joseph Mallord William Turner (06/07), (AZ)

V

• Diego Valazquez (03/04), (AZ)
• Jan van Eych (07/08), (AZ)
• Vincent van Gogh (08/09), (AZ)
• Rembrandt van Rijn (07/08), (AZ)
• Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (06/07), (AZ)
• Jan Vermeer (05/06), (AZ)
• Andrea del Verrocchio (00/01), (AZ)
• Leonardo da Vinci (07/08), (AZ)

W

• John William Waterhouse (05/06), (AZ)
• Jean-Antoine Watteau (00/01), (AZ)

Robert Bateman Pictures picked!

I know this took a while, but I have finally picked the pictures to be studied that were painted by Robert Bateman. This took a while, as Robert Bateman has created MANY beautiful and important pictures.

I have tried to select pictures that are available for viewing online (although still copy-protected) - that show various types of subjects, and ones that are often thought of if you talked about Robert Bateman.

Please check out the pictures at http://www.robertbateman.ca/ (note that you will need to look around on the site to find each picture.

I couldn't decrease it from 8 pictures.... you will have to make the final 2 cuts....

I selected...

1. Giant Panda
2. The Return - Bald Eagle
3. Power Play - Rhinoceros
4. Watching Siberian Tiger
5. Wolf Pair in Winter
6. The Challenge - Bull Moose
7. Ice Berg and Hump Back Whale (the style on this is a bit different)
8. Polar Bear Profile.

2009/10 Family Rotation Schedule

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Picture Study

Term 1

• Robert Bateman (pick your favourite 6, or do the extra during a break)

1. Giant Panda
2. The Return - Bald Eagle
3. Power Play - Rhinoceros
4. Watching Siberian Tiger
5. Wolf Pair in Winter
6. The Challenge - Bull Moose
7. Ice Berg and Hump Back Whale (the style on this is a bit different)
8. Polar Bear Profile.

• Raphael Sanzio (pick your favourite 6, or do the extra during a break)

1. The Knight's Dream
2. St. George and the Dragon
3. Galatea
4. Young Woman with a unicorn
5. Sistine Madonna
6. The Miraculous Draft of Fishes
7. Ezekiel's Vision

Term 2

• John Singer Sargent

1. Oyster Gatherers of Cancale
2. The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
3. The Breakfast Table
4. Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
5. An Artist in his Studio
6. Lady Agnew of Lochnaw

• Norman Rockwell (pictures TBD)

Term 3

• Claude Monet

1. Terrace at St. Adresse
2. Women in the Garden
3. Jean Monet on His Hobby Horse
4. Woman with a Parasol: Madame Monet and Her Son
5. Tulip Fields in Holland
6. The Waterlily Pond

• (TBD) - I intend this to be a religious artist.

UPDATED: 3 Nov 09

Picture Study

A lot has been said about Picture Study by other Charlotte Mason followers - enough that I feel at the moment that there isn't much to say. Pick an artist, select 6 pictures, and study them for a half a term. Study one picture a week. If possible, get a good sized version of the picture for the family to look at - and if possible get or print picture (snap-shot) sized versions for each child to keep in their "Book of Masterpieces"

The "Higher Up and Further In" blog has a good write-up on how to do this.

Another post on "Higher Up and Further In" mentions that it is important to pick artists that the child is likely to like for a child's first exposure to picture study. Pictures with action in them for boys can make a big difference.

Once you have your children enjoying picture study, if you need suggestions for artists and pictures to study, you can join the Art Schedule of Ambleside Online - but remember that you do not have to be bound by their schedule.

2009/10 Selections. This year, I am alternating the AO selections, and selections that I chose. This year. In general, I intend to include each year a Canadian Artist, an artist that specializes in Nature, and a religious artist. This year, the Canadian Artist also specializes in Nature, so I selected Norman Rockwell for an artist, as his Scouting pictures, as well as his scenes from life have always intruged me.

The selections:

• Robert Bateman. (Famous Canadian Nature artist.) - note that his pictures will NOT be in the public domain, so I recommend getting a good book from the library.
• Raphael Sanzio (Italian Renaissance)
• Norman Rockwell (Famous American Illustrator) - also pictures are NOT in public domain.
• John Singer Sargent (American)
• Claude Monet (French Impressionist)
• tbd
• 
  

I have not picked out all the artists yet for the 2009/2010 year.... I want to find some good exciting pictures for the first artist - and I plan to include Robert Bateman (a Canadian artist that shows nature), and Norman Rockwell. These are more recent artists, so I may have to deal with copyright issues.... but I think these artists will be worth it to start a love of Picture Study.

[update - the artists have been selected for 2009/2010]

Although we are not following the Ambleside Online Schedule for artists, there are a few Yahoo groups that have the pictures for their study available. It is worth joining these groups and checking there for the artists we are doing first when looking for pictures. (The first 2 have the pictures for 8.5 x 11. The other groups have the pictures in smaller sizes for albums or card games. Note that pictures are sometimes cropped to fit the size)

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AO_HEO_PictureStudy_IA/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AO_HEO_PictureStudy_IB/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AO_HEO_PictureStudy_II/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AO_HEO_PictureStudy_III/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AO_HEO_PictureStudy_IV/