{"id":161,"date":"2009-01-01T21:33:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T02:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/?page_id=161"},"modified":"2022-04-16T17:59:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T21:59:45","slug":"picture-study","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/subjects\/picture-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture Study"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Angelus-by-Millet\"<\/a>

The Angelus by Millet<\/p><\/div>\n

How to Approach Picture Study<\/span><\/h4>\n

For an overview of the artists studied at each level, see Picture Study – All Levels.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Picture study is art appreciation. Charlotte Mason taught that the training in styles and schools of painting and various techniques are important, but the first and most important thing is to know the pictures themselves. As in a worthy book we leave the author to tell his own tale, so do we trust a picture to tell its tale through the medium the artist gave it.<\/p>\n

The poet Robert Browning said that we really learn to see things when we see them painted, things we have passed perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see. \u009d<\/p>\n

The following procedure is not the only way to approach art appreciation, but practiced regularly, it can give children a lasting memory of pictures and reinforce their habit of observation. (Art books for picture study are listed in each level’s syllabus. See overview<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n