Lux Spring 2022

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...