Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival: Knowledge of Man - Art & Music

This summer, I had the opportunity to go to the Art Institute of Chicago with all 4 of my children, a wonderful friend & her daughter who were visiting from Australia, and another wonderful friend & her husband from Indiana. We had a wonderful time (well....except when the little ones had had enough... ;) ).. But, the best part was being able to see the paintings of the masters up close - not just a small print on the bulletin board by the dining room table. 

There was a special exhibit called Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity going on during the time of our visit. They had taken the masterpieces and recreated the clothing shown in the paintings. For my oldest, it was pure bliss. Our children participate in historical reenactments several times a year with some dear friends. Those friends also have made the clothes for them to wear and taught my oldest daughter about what makes a dress (or guys outfit as well) appropriate to their time period and what things changed as time went on. As we walked through the exhibit she went from dress to dress explaining the time periods and why. It was so fun. Then for her to see them so beautifully done on canvas was such fun for her. The outfits themselves were truly works of art.

So, with that, on to the Carnival!

This edition of the Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival's topic is...

Knowledge of Man: Art & Music

• From Harmony Fine Arts, we have a free art unit about Renaissance Art.

• From All Things Bright and Beautiful, we have selections of Art, Music and Poetry: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot - Hagar in the Wilderness, John Philip Sousa - The Belle of Chicago, John Milton - Samson Agonistes, Robert Louis Stevenson - Bed in Summer

•  From The Winding Ascent, we have some wonderful ideas of how to expose your family to Music to Soothe the Weary Soul.

• From Our Journey Westward, we have Cindy’s Top Ten Nature Study Supplies - what a fantastic list!

• From Windy Hill Home School we have a visit into their week and see the results of trying a new art curriculum:AO Year 3, Week 8

• From In The Magpie's Nest, we have a look at how they do art, art history, and some of their projects at How Art We Doing?

• From Letters From Nebby, we have some thoughts on Teaching Art

• From Fisher Academy we have a look at Nature Study through September's Nature Study Monday'.

• From Snowfall Academy, we have a look at how using Charlotte Mason's ideas help the children to make their own Connections.

• From Journey and Destination, we have a look at how they are doing Ambleside Year 6 with a 13 year old

• From Archipelago,  "Stick with me, class...who can tell what educational principles Miss Perkins violated?"  Let's find out How to be a better teacher than Miss Perkins (it's not hard) 

• From Sage Parnassus we have St. Luke's Little Summer - a lovely experience through Miss Read of the last vestiges of warm weather before winter comes to visit 

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