Articles tagged painting

Painting the Apple on the Table

by Marc
Friday, 15 March, 2019
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
Friday, 15 March, 2019
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
I am the son of an artist. As is the case for many artists, creating artifacts rarely pays the bills, but teaching art does, hence, I am the son of an art teacher: an artist who taught his skills instead of plying his wares.
Being the art teacher at our local public...

Beauty and the Feast
by Elizabeth
Tuesday, 07 March, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Tuesday, 07 March, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
“He has made everything beautiful in its time…he has put eternity into man’s heart…” Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV
A taste for brussels sprouts or fine wines is seldom a gift of nature. For classically-minded parents, such lofty and nebulous aims as the pursuit of beauty and...

Fra Angelico: Art “As unto the Lord”
I walked into our Classical Conversations assembly wearing a long, brown Jedi Knight cloak. (Having boys with big imaginations means our house is full of cloaks, capes, swords, and light sabers.) I asked the group of eager Classical Conversations students whom I looked...

The Core Chapter 10: The Core of a Classical Education: Fine Arts
by Jennifer
Tuesday, 14 September, 2010
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life
Tuesday, 14 September, 2010
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life
The Core Chapter 10: The Core of a Classical Education: Fine Arts
by Jennifer Courtney
“Why should my children learn about painting and music when they are really not interested?” You may have had a friend ask you this question about homeschooling, or perhaps you have...