At Heritage Classical Academy, students encounter art instruction every other day to, “learn to love what is beautiful to the eye.” To study art is not first to cultivate skill, but rather to cultivate knowledge of and appreciation for skill, especially as observed in the best examples of it.

 

Put simply, the purpose of art class is the apprehension of beauty, specifically as it is found in great works of art. We want our students to see things that are beautiful, to understand them (at least in part), and to be appropriately moved by them.