(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 2nd - Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
August 9th - Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh
August 16th - Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lilies by Claude Monet

September 15th - The Scream by Edvard Munch
September 22nd - The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali
September 29th - The Night Watch by Rembrandt van Rijn
October 6th - The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck
October 13th - Las Meninas by Diego Velasquez
October 20th - American Gothic by Grant Wood
October 27th – A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
November 3rd – Three Musicians by Pablo Picasso
November 10th – The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai
November 17th – The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer

**Winter Break** - No Class from Thanksgiving to January (11/24, 12/1, 12/8, 12/16, 12/23, 12/30, 1/5)

January 12th – The Dessert: Harmony in Red by Henri Matisse
January 19th – School of Athens by Raphael
January 26th – The Dessert: Harmony in Red by Henri Matisse
February 2nd – The Son of Man by Rene Magritte
February 9th – Whistler's Mother by James McNeill Whistler
February 23rd – Dance Class at the Opera on Le Peletier by Edgar Degas
March 2nd – Ceci N'est pas une Pipe by Rene Magritte
March 9th – The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse

**Spring Break** - No Class March 16th
 
March 23rd – The Banjo Lesson by Henry Ossawa Tanner
March 30th – Little Girl in a Blue Armchair by Mary Cassatt
April 6th – The Broken Pitcher by Adolphe-William Bouguereau
April 13th – Primavera by Sandro Boticelli
April 20th - Summer Days by Georgia O'Keefe
April 27th - The Basket of Apples by Cezanne
May 4th – Dance at Bougival by Pierrre-Auguste Renoir