Art History & Harvest: Potato Harvest & History
We got talking potatoes... Next thing I knew, I was diving head first into the Irish Potato Famine and art created depicting that period in history. Art encompasses so many subjects: math (scale, dimensions, angles, size, depth) history, geography, social studies, politics, agriculture... Crop failure created catastrophe and so we took a closer look at what the art behind the history was telling us: Van Goghs Potato Eaters Bridget O'Donnell Bronze Coffin Ships Never underestimate lessons in art.
