Art vs Fine Arts

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  • July 11, 2011 at 4:56 pm
    SueinMN
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    I notice that there are two Art categories in the Organizer. I haven’t read Charlotte Mason lately so I was wondering, do most people assign hands on art or studio art in the Art category and then Art History in the Fine Arts category?

    July 11, 2011 at 6:21 pm
    Misty
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    I try to simplify the categorys so for me I put the artist we studied in the Fine arts.  Any handicrafts/projects I put in handicrafts as that way I only had 2 categories.  But you can do it any way you wish!  It’s your Orgainzer

    July 11, 2011 at 7:48 pm
    suzukimom
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    I always figuered that art was things like painting/drawing etc… and fine arts were performance arts, like dance, playing instruments, etc.   (but I put our playing instruments in the music category)

    July 11, 2011 at 8:13 pm
    LindseyD
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    suzukimom is correct, in my opinion. I classify Art as picture study, going to an art museum, painting, drawing, or reading about an artist. Fine Arts, to me, is dance, theatre, photography, music, calligraphy, etc. 

    I would also put playing an instrument in the Music category, but we haven’t gotten there yet.

     

    July 15, 2011 at 3:13 pm
    SueinMN
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    Thanks for the suggestions, ladies. This is what I’ve done so far: I already had all of our picture study/artist study books scheduled in the Fine Arts category so I left that there.

    I’m returning to college in the fall and taking a Design class. My college calls all the Art whether it is studio or history as Art so I put stuff for myself in the Art category. Interesting that I am attending a Liberal Arts school. When I graduate I will have a Bachelor of Arts degree unless I do a lot of Art classes which would give me a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. If I went to the University I could get a Bachelor of Science degree if I didn’t take Foreign Language, otherwise it is BA or BFA. I guess there are differing meanings for Art and Fine Arts.

    If I need to schedule some hands on stuff for the kiddos then I might put that in the Handicrafts section. I had forgotten about this section. See it always helps to ask!

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