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Charlotte Mason Picture Study Aid Johannes Vermeer

!e children greatly appreciated Dr. Primrose’s good sense, and his good-humoured way of rebuking his
daughters, and were delighted when they came to the account of the next morning’s scene, illustrated by
the picture. In conclusion, the children narrated the story.

For older students, she outlined the following in Volume 3 (pg 353):

A PICTURE TALK.

Group: Art.

Class III.

Age: 13.

Time: 25 minutes.

OBJECTS.

1. To give the girls some idea of composition, based on the work of the artist Jean Francois Millet.

2. To inspire them with a desire to study the works of other artists, with a similar object in view.

3. To help them with their original illustrations, by giving them ideas, carried out in Millet’s work, as
to simplicity of treatment, breadth of tone, and use of lines.

MATERIALS NEEDED.

See that the girls are provided with paint-boxes, brushes, water, pencils, rulers, india-rubber, and paper.

Photographs of some of Millet’s pictures.

A picture-book by R. Caldecott.

LESSON.

Step 1. Introduce the subject by talking with the children about their original illustrations. Tell them
how our great artists have drawn ideas and inspiration from the work of other artists; have studied
their pictures, copied them, and tried to get at the spirit of them.

Tell them that to-day we are going to study some of the pictures of the great French artist, Millet, some

of whose works Mr. Yates has drawn for us on the walls of our Millet Room, considering them to be
models of true art.

Step 2.-Tell the children a little about the life of Millet (giving them one or two pictures to look at
meanwhile); give only a brief sketch, so that they will feel that he is not a stranger to them. Just talk to
them a little about his early childhood, how he worked in the fields; how he had two great books––the

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