| Home > Fifth Grade > Always Ancient, Ever New: Fine art History, Appreciation, Theory, and Practice | | | | | | | | |  Ever Ancient, Ever New: Art History, Appreciation, Theory, and Practice |  Bethany Pedersen, M.A. |  "Tardily have I loved You, O Beauty e'er ancient, ever new!" —St. Augustine There are many art programs available for homeschoolers, but none combines art history, art appreciation, art theory, and hands-on art activities like this i! Ever Ancient Ever New, Level 1 tells the "story of fine art" from the cavern artists to the High Renaissance masters, paying special attention to the spiritual significance of art equally an expression of "the human need to surpass the visible" (Benedict XVI). As each artistic period is discussed, detailed Moving-picture show Studies teach students the "language of fine art" equally they engage with masterpieces such equally the Ancient Greek Artemision Jockey, the Medieval Book of Kells, and Titian'south Assumption from the Renaissance. Each affiliate besides includes a lesson in Art Theory, with a focus on the seven elements of art (line, shape, texture, form, value, space, and color). The non-consumable textbook may be used over and over again! 35 chapters, 366 pgs. Lavishly illustrated in total color! Softcover. 8½"x11"  Fine art Pad 1 provides homeschool-friendly art projects that teach fine arts skills while reinforcing the lessons in art theory and art history from the text. For case, the art history lesson on how Renaissance artists employed linear perspective is complemented past an Fine art Pad projection in which the student makes his own perspective drawing. Art Pad 1 has 35 weeks of project instructions and templates. Black and white text with special templates on colored cardstock and artist's paper. Pages are not reproducible; each pupil will need his ain Art Pad. 147-page tear-off pad, shrink-wrapped. eight½"x11" Historic period Level and Scheduling: This first level of Ever Aboriginal Ever New is designed for fifth- and sixth-grade students, merely tin can likewise be used by seventh to ninth graders. The program tin be completed in either ane or two years. Topics covered in Ever Aboriginal E'er New, Level one: Art History: Cavern Art, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Early Christian, Byzantine, Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Insular, Carolingian, Romanesque, Gothic, Early and High Renaissance Art Fine art Theory: This level focuses on the elements of art (line, shape, texture, form, value, infinite, and color) and also covers types of compositions (vertical, pyramidal, etc.); blueprint; symbolism; flick space; positive and negative space; bilateral and radial symmetry; implied space, form, and texture; color theory; foreground, middleground, groundwork; linear perspective; and atmospheric perspective. Art Appreciation: Over 60 film studies of masterpieces such as Andrei Rublev's Three Angels, the Purple Portal of Chartres Cathedral, Fra Angelico's Annunciation, and Leonardo da Vinci'south Last Supper. Art Practice: Fine art Pad projects teach fine art skills such as using lines with different qualities; simplified human figure drawing; drawing facial features; mixing paints; creating actual textures with tooling foil; working with watercolors to create implied texture; cartoon with linear perspective; painting with atmospheric perspective; sculpting and cartoon the human form in action; creating unsaid space through overlapping and shading; and more! The author of Ever Ancient Ever New is a practicing artist with an M.A. in theology and wrote her master's thesis on sacred art in the theology of Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI). She believes that all great fine art points across itself to God, the source of all beauty. The purpose of Ever Aboriginal Ever New is not merely to teach fine arts skills or develop a familiarity with famous artists, simply still more to cultivate a sensitivity to beauty and to the fashion God speaks through art. Always Aboriginal E'er New leads children to God past Bridegroom 16's "way of dazzler." | | | |  | |  |  |  |  | Ever Ancient Ever New: Art History, Appreciation, Theory, and Practice (Level ii) | Art Masterpieces: Nature Collection | Art Masterpieces: Rhyme-Fourth dimension Collection | Art Masterpieces: Childhood Collection | |  | |  |  |  |  | | | The Treasure Trove of Literature and the Art of Understanding It, Level 2 | | Growing in Grace & Wisdom: A Hands-On Religion Resource | | "I can't say plenty nigh your fantastic curriculum! ... Nosotros've especially enjoyed the E'er Aboriginal, E'er New fine art plan we ordered this previous school yr when it came out. I absolutely love it, and volition keep to incorporate it into our schoolhouse yr. "
- Kristine, WI | "The art courses by Bethany Pedersen are outstanding!!! I can non recommend them highly plenty! The artwork that the students produced is amazing and but by following the author's step by step instructions. I taught the grade and I am non an artist merely I never ran into whatsoever problems with the projects! That'south saying a lot! This is far and above any other homeschool art course."
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