Showing posts with label Electives: Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Electives: Art. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

New Audio Book at Librivox: Great Artists: Volume 1

"Biographies of Raphael Santi, Murillo, Peter Paul Rubens, and Albrecht Durer. This is a wonderful tool for art study as there are references for further study, as well as ideas for language arts to incorporate into the study." Summary by Laura Caldwell.

Click in title.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

When Mother Lets Us Cut Out Pictures/Google Books


Very cute blacklines for children to cut, color and paste. Each picture has a didactic read-aloud. Some are quite simple, others are quite detailed like the intricate Scherenschnitte.

Click here.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

A History of Art for Beginners and Students/Google Books


Click here. Appropriate for middle school and up. Clear, concise, and interesting introduction to art history published in 1887.

Thursday, July 26, 2007

A History of Painting/Project Gutenberg

A Text-Book of the History of Painting 110 black and white illustrations(some in color online), published in 1909.

FIG. 45.—SODOMA. ECSTASY OF ST. CATHERINE. SIENNA.








FIG. 46—CORREGGIO. MARRIAGE OF ST. CATHERINE AND CHRIST. LOUVRE.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

The American drawing-book/19th Century Books

The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction / by J.G. Chapman.

I found this at 19th Century Books, part of University of Pittsburgh Digital Library System. It's quite a thorough and professional drawing course. The first section is just learning lines, and if you skip to the next section on rudimentary drawing, you'll see why you need to master this.