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Rhetoric
Stage Art: Grades 10-12
I am still looking for that “just right” rhetoric stage art
curriculum. When I find it, I will post it here.
Option 1: Artistic
Pursuits’ Sequential Art Curriculum
The Artistic Pursuits curriculum teaches the principles of art using art masterworks,
while providing practice in observation, drawing, color theory, and composition. It
approaches art from a secular viewpoint.
Option 2: Worldviews in
Art
Art communicates a message visually, just as books communicate a message in writing. What
is the Biblical basis and standard for art? How are worldviews other than the Biblical one
communicated through art? These books provide a fascinating and necessary introduction to
that topic.
Option 1: Artistic
Pursuits’ Sequential Art Curriculum
Elements of Art and Composition
Brenda Ellis
Artistic Pursuits is a
new curriculum written by a husband-wife team, both working artists, who are also
homeschooling parents. This working text and sketchbook for 10th-12th graders provides
instruction and practice in the elements of art: line, texture, shape, form, value,
contrast and unity; and the elements of composition: balance, rhythm, depth, and
proportion; with additional lessons in observation. There are 16 lessons altogether, each
lesson utilizing art masterworks and several projects to teach the principles involved.
The explanations are clear and simple to understand, and the reproduction prints used with
each text are included. The senior high curriculum uses European (Western Civilization)
art masterworks.
Color and Composition
Brenda Ellis
The Color and
Composition text and sketchbook teaches prinicples of color theory, and additional lessons
in composition, using the masterworks of European art. There are 16 lessons altogether,
each lesson utilizing several projects to teach the principles involved. The explanations
are clear and simple to understand, and the reproduction prints used with each text are
included. The European (Western Civilization) art masterworks used in this text are
different from the ones used in Elements of Art.
Option 2: Worldviews
in Art
Adventures in Art
David Quine
See the worldviews of western
culture unfold before your very eyes. “Do you wish you and your children could
visualize the significant changes in ideas throughout history, and then relate those
changes to their cultural meaning? Adventures in Art features those artists recognized by
Dr. Francis Schaeffer in How Should We Then Live?” as having made the most
significant impact on the development of art. The program includes 51 quality
reproductions highlighting the major art periods. Instruction focuses on the differences
between the periods and the shifts in ideas and worldviews. A dramatic, well-organized
program.
How Should We Then Live?
Francis Schaeffer
Subtitled: The Rise and Decline of
Western Thought and Culture. “This book is a personal analysis of the key moments in
history which have formed our present culture, and the thinking of the men who brought
those moments to pass.” Art throughout history has served as a permanent expression
of that culture and thinking, and Dr. Schaeffer discusses the impact of worldviews on art
as part of his overall study in this book, and is the complement, or rather the
inspiration, for the Adventures in Art curriculum.
Modern Art and the Death of a Culture
H. R. Rockmaaker
Hans Rockmaaker worked
with Francis Schaeffer at L’Abri. Unlike Francis Schaeffer’s How Should We Then
Live, which looks at the whole of western civilization and its art, in this book he takes
the art of one period, the modern and post-modern period, and takes us on a tour of
society’s worldview as its art reflects it. He provides a brilliant analysis that
will prove to be eye-opening.
Art and the Bible
Francis Schaeffer
Part of the late Dr. Schaeffer’s legacy
to modern Christians is the return of the knowledge we once had that all truth is
God’s truth, and God and His truth permeate all aspects of our lives. Therefore,
Christians have no buisness abandoning what we have thought of as “secular”
activities, such as the governance of human affairs, for example. Philosophy, literature,
government, and every aspect of human endeavor should not be properly divided into their
“secular” and “sacred” compartments, but are rather expressions of
worldviews such as humanist and Christian. The arts are no exception. In this book Dr.
Schaeffer turns his attention to the arts and provides a detailed examination with
Biblical underpinnings of what art is and does, and how and why.
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