Seurat Paintings Term 2 2013

The Rock Breakers Le Raincy 1882

Bathers at Asnieres 1883-1884

These pictures are of the paintings that our TBG Group has studied in the Winter Term 2013.  We have been studying Georges Seurat.  He is known for devising the technique of pointillism. Pointillism is when you use lots of tiny dots to create big pictures.  Many impressionists work we can understand better when we look at them far away.  I remember there was one time we went to a restaurant and when we first approached the booth there was a huge mural that you could tell was a car.  When I looked at it up close I saw millions of tiny dots.  This painting was the first time I really realized that impressionism is not just lots of colors on a canvas it is a really good picture you just have to look at it from far away.  Seurat used pointillism to fool the eye.  If he used the colors red and yellow right next to each other your brain brain would see orange.  When you look at his paintings closer you will see that there are a lot of tiny dots that are all different colors even though you only see one color from far away.  Look at The Rock Breakers Le Raincy to your right.  (If it is not big enough you can click on it)  See how many different colors you see in the woods behind the people.  I see purple, green, brown and lots of others.  Never assume that something is just one
color.  When I was drawing the in a garden I put some pink in the grass and orange in the tree trunks. The picture turne
d out to be one of the best in the class all because I used funny colors.  Its like my art teacher said, "You have to look at what colors are really in the leaf and not what you think it should be."  The leaf I was drawing ended up to have some shades of purple in it.  How funny is that?  One thing to remember is: Always Expect the Unexpected!

Sunday Afternoon at La Grande Jatte

The Circus 

The Eiffel Tower 1889

Johann Sebastian Bach - Term 2 2013

In Term 2 2013 we studied Johann Sebastian Bach.  Johann was born on March 31 1685 in Eisenach, Germany into a family of music.  He knew how to play the organ, harpsichord, the violin, and viola.  He served as director of music to Leopold Prince of Anhalt-Kothen and Royal Court Composer to August the third.  Many of Bach’s pieces are still well known today. Bach died July 28^th 1750.    The pieces that we listened to this term were 

• Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047
• St. Matthew Passion (for 4 weeks)
• Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565 (consists of one toccata and one fugue; do-able in 2 weeks)
• Well-Tempered Clavier (Prelude and Fugue in C minor, Book I)
• Goldberg Variations

To the right you will see a portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach.  If you click on the picture it will become bigger. 

Here is a 16 Week Bach Study Guide that you can use.  It has a biography of Bach
Click here for Grooveshark's Bach Playlist. 
    

Folksong for March - All Through the Night

The Folksong for March is All Through the Night by John Ceiriog Hughes.

All the stars' twinkles say

All through the night

"This is the way to the realm of glory,"

All through the night.

Darkness is another light

That exposes true beauty

The Heavenly family in peace

All through the night.

O, how cheerful smiles the star,

All through the night

To light its earthly sister

All through the night.

Old age is night when affliction comes

But to beautify man in his late days

We'll put our weak light together

All through the night.

OR

Sleep my child and peace attend thee,

All through the night

Guardian angels God will send thee,

All through the night

Soft the drowsy hours are creeping

Hill and vale in slumber steeping,

I my loving vigil keeping

All through the night.

While the moon her watch is keeping

All through the night

While the weary world is sleeping

All through the night

O'er thy spirit gently stealing

Visions of delight revealing

Breathes a pure and holy feeling

All through the night.

Hymn For March - Ah Holy Jesus

The Hymn for the month of March is Ah, Holy Jesus. The man who wrote this hymn was Johann Heerman (1630) the music is by Johann Crüger (1640).  Bach use this music as the basis for part of St. Matthew's Passion.  Click here to hear the music.

Ah, holy Jesus, how hast Thou offended,
That man to judge Thee hath in hate pretended?
By foes derided, by Thine own rejected,
O most afflicted.

Who was the guilty? Who brought this upon Thee?
Alas, my treason, Jesus, hath undone Thee.
’Twas I, Lord, Jesus, I it was denied Thee!
I crucified Thee.

Lo, the Good Shepherd for the sheep is offered;
The slave hath sinned, and the Son hath suffered;
For man’s atonement, while he nothing heedeth,
God intercedeth.

For me, kind Jesus, was Thy incarnation,
Thy mortal sorrow, and Thy life’s oblation;
Thy death of anguish and Thy bitter passion,
For my salvation.

Therefore, kind Jesus, since I cannot pay Thee,
I do adore Thee, and will ever pray Thee,
Think on Thy pity and Thy love unswerving,
Not my deserving.

A Calendar By Sara Coleridge

Sara Coleridge

A Calendar, by Sara Coleridge, 1802-1852

January brings the snow,
Makes our feet and fingers glow.

February brings the rain,
Thaws the frozen lake again.

March brings breezes, loud and shrill,
To stir the dancing daffodil.

April brings the primrose sweet,
Scatters daisies at our feet.

May brings flocks of pretty lambs
Skipping by their fleecy dams.

June brings tulips, lilies, roses,
Fills the children's hands with posies.

Hot July brings cooling showers,
Apricots and gillyflowers.

August brings the sheaves of corn,
Then the harvest home is borne.

Warm September brings the fruit; 
Sportsmen then begin to shoot.

Fresh October brings the pheasant;
Then to gather nuts is pleasant.

Dull November brings the blast;
Then the leaves are whirling fast.

Chill December brings the sleet,
Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.

February Folksong 2013

The Folksong for February is Maris Wedding by Hugh Robertson.

Chorus
Step we gaily on we go
Heel for heel and toe for toe
Arm in arm and row and row
All for Mairi' s wedding

Over hill-way up and down
Myrtle green and bracken brown
Past the shieling through the town
All for Mairi's wedding
Chorus

Plenty herring plenty meal
Plenty peat tae fill her creel
Plenty bonny bairns as weel
That's the toast for Mairi
Chorus

Cheeks as bright as rowans are
Brighter far than any star
Fairest of them all by far is my darling Mairi
Chorus

Over hill-ways up and down
Myrtle green and bracken brown
Past the sheiling through the town
All for sake of Mairi
Chorus

February Hymn 2013

Our Hymn for February is called This is My Fathers World.  

Verse 1

This is my Father's world,
and to my listening ears
all nature sings, and round me rings
the music of the spheres.

This is my Father's world:
I rest me in the thought
of rocks and trees, of skies and seas;
his hand the wonders wrought.

Verse 2

This is my Father's world,
the birds their carols raise,
the morning light, the lily white,
declare their maker's praise.

This is my Father's world:
he shines in all that's fair;
in the rustling grass I hear him pass;
he speaks to me everywhere.

Verse 3

This is my Father's world.
O let me ne'er forget
that though the wrong seems oft so strong,
God is the ruler yet.

This is my Father's world:
why should my heart be sad?
The Lord is King; let the heavens ring!
God reigns; let the earth be glad!

Hymn for January: Love Unknown

The Hymn this week is called Love Unknown. It was written by Samuel Crossman in 1664.  Here are the lyrics:

My song is love unknown,
My Savior’s love to me;
Love to the loveless shown,
That they might lovely be.
O who am I, that for my sake
My Lord should take frail flesh and die?

He came from His blest throne
Salvation to bestow;
But men made strange, and none
The longed for Christ would know:
But O! my friend, my friend indeed,
Who at my need His life did spend.

Sometimes they strew His way,
And His sweet praises sing;
Resounding all the day
Hosannas to their King:
Then Crucify! is all their breath,
And for His death they thirst and cry.

They rise and needs will have
My dear Lord made away;
A murderer they saved,
The Prince of Life they slay,
Yet cheerful He to suffering goes,
That He His foes from thence might free.

Here might I stay and sing,
No story so divine;
Never was love, dear King!
Never was grief like Thine.
This is my friend, in whose sweet praise
I all my days could gladly spend.

Folksong for January: Keys to Canturbury

The Folksong this week is the Keys to Canturbury.  We do not know when it was written and who it was by.  Here are the lyrics: 


O Madam, I will give to you
The keys of Canterbury,
And all the bells in Londontown
Will ring and make you merry.
If you will be my one, my sweet and only dear,
And you walk with me, anywhere.

O Sir, I won’t accept of you
The keys to Canterbury,
Nor all the bells in Londontown,
Will ring and make me merry.
I won’t be your one, your sweet and only dear,
And I’ll not walk with you, anywhere.

O Madam, I will give to you
A pair of shoes of cork,
The one was made in London,
And the other made in York,
If you’ll be my one, my sweet and only dear,
And you walk with me, anywhere.

O Sir, I won’t accept of you
Your pair of shoes of cork,
Though one was made in London,
And the other made in York.
And I’ll not be your one, your sweet and only dear,
And I’ll not walk with you, anywhere.

O Madam, I will give to you
A silken flowing gown,
With nine yards a-droping
And trailing on the ground,
If you will be my one, my sweet and only dear,
And you walk with me, anywhere.

O Sir, I won’t accept of you
A silken flowing gown,
With nine yards a-droping
And training on the ground,

I won’t be your one, your sweet and only dear,
And I’ll not walk with you, anywhere.

O Madam, I will give to you

The keys to me heart

And you will lock it up

and never more we’ll part.

And you will be my one, my sweet and only dear,
And you’ll walk with me, everywhere.

O Sir, I will accept of you

The keys to your heart

And I will lock it up, me love

And swear we’ll never part

And I’ll be your one, your sweet and only dear,
And I’ll walk with you, everywhere.

Color Wheel Project

You guys were all asking for an empty color wheel to paint.  Here it is!  Copy and Paste the pie chart into a Word, enlarge and print.  It may turn out a little foggy but should suffice for painting.  You can also print the color wheel too if you would like.
Don't forget your homework for this week!  If you don't remember what it was here is the assignment:
Paint a picture using only two complementary colors.  Remember complementary colors are opposite of each other on the color wheel.  If you would like to do different hues within a color go ahead.  Bring it to TBG next week and we will display it!

Our New TBG Blog!

Hi Guys!

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grand Jatte

Welcome to our newest blog ~ Truth, Beauty, Goodness.  On this blog we will have biographies of the artists, composers, and poets.  We will have displays of your artwork in the gallery and our hymns & folk songs in the vocal tab.
    This term we will be studying Georges Seurat and Johann Sebastian Bach.  To the right is one of Georges Seurat's most famous paintings, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grand Jatte.  It was painted between 1884 - 1886.



A Serenade for New Year's Eve, author unknown

The old year departed, how swiftly it flew,
'Tis gone, and with rapture we welcome the new;
 We trust a bright morning will dawn on your eyes,
And sun beams unclouded illumine the skies.
Then wake from your slumbers, our serenade hear,
We wish you a happy, a happy New Year!