(Formerly Art Smarts Picture Study - Course Updated 7/10/22)

Enhance your art smarts with this quick ongoing class where we enjoy classic artworks from great artists.  During class, I will share some background information about the artist and the culture in which they lived.  Students will then study the painting closely before I remove it from view and we discuss our observations.  After this, we will look at the painting again and then either discuss or sketch* a second round of observations.  Please note that this class is very interactive and it is important that the students not only participate fully, but also leave their cameras and microphones on.  While I require participation, there are no wrong answers and every observation is valued.  

*Focus is not on the artistic quality of student sketches but on reproducing loosely any observations they made.  Stick figures and sloppy sketches are normal here!

"...the first and most important thing is to know the pictures themselves. As in a worthy book we leave the author to tell his own tale, so do we trust a picture to tell its tale through the medium the artist gave it. In the region of art as else-where we shut out the middleman."  ~Charlotte Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Education, pg. 216

**Schedule**
August 26th - The Flower Carrier by Diego Rivera
September 2nd - The Gleaners by Jean-Francois Millet
September 9th - NO CLASS

September 15th - The Oath of the Horatii by Jacques-Louis David
September 22nd - The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
September 29th - The Hare by Albrecht Durer
October 6th - Nighthawks by Edward Hopper
October 13th - Snap the Whip by Winslow Homer
October 20th - The Cardsharps by Caravaggio
October 27th - Halloween by Grandma Moses
November 3rd - The Hay Wain by John Constable
November 10th - Hidatsa Village, Earth-Covered Lodges On the Knife River by George Catlin
November 17th - Freedom from Want by Normal Rockwell

**Winter Break** - No Class 11/24, 12/1, 12/8, 12/15, 12/22, 12/29, 1/5

January 12th - The Skater by Gilbert Stuart
January 19th - The Favourites of Emperor Honorius by John William Waterhouse
January 26th - A Bar at the Folies-Bergere by Edouard Manet
February 2nd - Children’s Games by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
February 9th - Cancale by John Singer Sargeant
February 16th - Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains by Alfred Bierstadt
February 23rd - Young Woman with a Unicorn by Raphael
March 2nd - Homer and the Shepherds by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
March 9th - The Art of Painting by Johannes Vermeer

**Spring Break** - No Class March 16th

March 23rd - The Cooker by Bartolome Esteban Murillo
March 30th - Architectural Fantasy by Hubert Robert
April 6th - The Oxbow by Thomas Cole
April 13th - The Sultan of Morocco and his Entourage by Eugene Delacroix
April 20th - Wanderer Above the Sea Fog by Caspar David Friedrich
April 27th - Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh
Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow by Piet Mondrian