“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Fine Arts Friday: “All things seem possible in May.”
This post contains affiliated links. May is upon us, and for Texans, that really means summer — bearable and mild summer — but summer nonetheless. Yes, I realize the calendar says “spring,” but 90 degree days says “grab a glass of ice tea, it’s summer.” I wish our local pool would acquiesce to that reality […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Phoning it in
A little art: A little music. (Mark O’Connor is our composer this term. I like him a lot. Sorry, that’s all you’re going to get on him.) Infrequent occurrence of erectile dysfunction is common in men of all ages. appalachianmagazine.com viagra on line purchase The manufacture has to be sure that they take the generic […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Telling THE story
One of the purposes of art is to tell a story. The story of Jesus, particularly his death and resurrection, has been told in art again and again. In painting, drama, song, and literature, we tell over and over again the gospel — that Christ died for our sins and rose again that we […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Too much of a good thing
Our artist for this term is Edouard Manet. Here’s a good short kid’s bio of Manet and the list of suggested works from Ambleside. (We flipped terms two and three to accompany our history topics.) I’m not going to talk a lot about Manet, except to say I like him a lot and because he […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Wrapping up the Hudson River School
We finish up studying the Hudson River School with two works by different painters. From the Ambleside schedule, we’re looking at Jasper Francis Cropsey. I also chose a painting by Robert Duncanson. We didn’t study Thomas Cole, the founder and most famous of the Hudson River painters because we’ve studied his work previously. Jasper Francis Cropsey […]
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We’re doing it wrong
Listen, I know only a couple of weeks ago I wrote some hard things about when we shouldn’t engage the culture. As Christians, we have to be careful not to be mindless consumers of whatever is served in the name of entertainment. But you know what’s not good? Hiding in our little Christian or conservative […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Frederic Edwin Church
Our next artist from the Hudson River School is Frederic Church. A pupil of Thomas Cole, he bucked the prevailing trend and did not go to Europe to study art. Instead, he went to South America and is one of the best-known painters of South American landscapes. He did eventually go to Europe, but only […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Free stuff!
The Getty Publications is offering over 250 art volumes as free downloads. A myriad of topics are covered, from Pieter de Hooch to Ancient Gems and Finger Rings. That got me thinking about other fine arts resources available for free. I feel rather strongly that while information may want to be free and whatnot, violating copyright […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Behold! Your country!
Sorry, I get a little excited about our next art adventure: the Hudson River school painters. I have loved Thomas Cole’s Voyage of Life series sent I first set eyes on it, and I enjoy the other artists in this school just as well. The Hudson River School of artists depicted the American landscape through […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Busy Day
Today we had friends over for a craft day. It was a busy, full, crafty day. My friend and the kids made pipe cleaner penguin snow globes. And also pipe cleaner imposter penguins (AKA bunnies) and pipe cleaner Adam and Jamie of Mythbusters. A closer look at the Mythbusters. Adam is a little abstract. […]
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