Here’s a wonderful page that’s chock full of art appreciation lessons, art activities and downloads from Nadene Esterhuizen at PracticalPages. Of particular interest are the excellent resources about famous artists & their work, and an extensive art era timeline.
As Nadene writes in her introduction, these follow the Charlotte Mason method of study:
“Children should learn pictures, line by line, group by group, reading, not books, but pictures themselves … After a short story of the artist’s life … the pictures are studied one at a time. Children learn not merely to see a picture but to look at it, taking in every detail.”
These are excellent art history/appreciation tools for all ages!
CLICK HERE to go to the download page
The National Gallery of Art has a great interactive art site called THE ART ZONE – an amazing array of art project activities for kids to create their own works of art online. Create portraits, animated scenes and landscape paintings in the style of American primitive artists… and much, much more! Loads of mind-boggling computer art fun here.
Stories Pictures Tell (Book One) by Flora L. Carpenter