Lux Spring 2022

  The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger   Art Study This week we learned about the thought-provoking painting by Hans Holbein the Younger. Here is an excellent video that goes into detail about the painting . Highly recommend watching , about six minutes long. Before painting The Ambassadors , Holbein had made a name for himself for illustrating a popular book by Erasmus (which we will learn about next week), and for his Dance with Death Renaissance woodblock prints. Here is a page with all the images and information about it. Highly recommend , but preview if you think it is too morbid for your students. He did each one on tiny woodcuts. (My boys were very interested in these woodblock prints. It was interesting to look at the different types of people, and how Death comes for them all. My kids were inspired and were making their own drawings after looking at these. Also, we listened to a reading of the Challenge Poem---see below---for the Form II class, and we took a...

  Morning, An Overcast Day, Rouen, by Camille Pissarro   Scripture: Alma 34:9-10. This week we had the students practice memory of the scripture together.   Gethsemane, by Liz Lemon Swindle    Pissarro and his wife Julie Vellay, 1877 Art Study: Pissarro's industrial cityscape series of Pont Boieldieu in Rouen. We mentioned how the French army destroyed the bridge in 1940 at the start of WWII, to delay the Germans from crossing the River Seine. Some students made up stories about the paintings. In this video one can see remnants of a destroyed bridge at Rouen in 1940; it is assumed to be Pont Boieldieu.  Hymn: Rock of Ages . For fun we tried to learn the alto and soprano parts separately. We get an A for effort. Composer Study: Giacomo Puccini is our composer. His operas are the most famous. We listened to the story behind his most famous aria, Nessun Dorma . Here are wonderful performances by the great Pavarotti here , and a younger Pavarotti here .  ...

Boulevard Montmartre, Morning, Cloudy Weather, by Camille Pissarro   Scripture: Alma 34:9-10 This week we mentioned how one way we can be more like Jesus Christ is through sacrifice. We offer a sacrifice whenever we give of our time, money, or possessions. We also mentioned the story of the widow's mite.    James C. Christensen's, The Widow's Mite Art Study: Camille Pissarro. Students observed different prints of the Pissarro cityscape series.  A video about one of the paintings from the series that was stolen from a Jewish art collector by the Nazis; it was then put on auction for $31 million (US). A video about the painting at the top of this blog post. It talks about how it remains in perfect condition, which is apparently unusual for Impressionist paintings.  A video of a conversation about Pissarro's cityscape series. Very "high brow."    A link to a search page for an art print store that has the cityscape paintings to view .  Hymn: Rock o...

  Route Enneigée avec maison, environs d'Éragny, or Snowy road with house, near Éragny, by Camille Pissarro   (Note: I wanted to plug supplemental videos right here on the blog, and/or try using ViewPure to block out comments, etc. But many videos disabled their embedding features. If you don't use an adblocker I suggest you add one to block ads from the videos if you use YouTube. The ViewPure works with some videos and might be worth trying as well.)    Kami's Spotify List .    Here is a playlist for the next four weeks . It is incomplete, and I will add videos as needed (I screen all videos to make sure they are appropriate for students).    If you just want to watch videos that supplement what we did in Lux this week , here they are broken down below: Scripture: Alma 34:9-10 (I find it effective to have anyone leading the scripture at home to state the reference, everyone repeats the reference, the scripture is read, then everyone repeats th...