Friends, Waffles, Baroque Art

In the exhilarating world of Humanities today, we introduced Baroque Art to you in all its fanciful glory. We will go more into depth with specific artists and works next week, but make sure you are familiar with the characteristics we discussed today in class (emotionalism, illusionism, splendor, light and shade, movement, religious fervor, and domestic intimacy). Maybe you can make up some fun acronym as a memory device...Edward Is Selfishly Littering Magnificent Red Donuts?? Get creative and come up with one of your own! 

We're so excited to be able to start talking about artsy stuff with you; we hope that today you were able to get a good sense of what kind of content is important when you read through the Humanities book. If you felt totally scattered with the practice questions in class, talk to your teacher about more effective strategies for reading the HUM textbook. In the meantime, distract yourself with this awesome video. We LOL'ed. 

ALSO, don't forget to pick up a copy of Tartuffe from a bookstore if you want your own copy to write in!

Today is the lovely Amy Poehler's birthday! In honor of dearest Amy, aka Leslie Knope, I will leave you with some of Leslie's words of wisdom that sum up how I feel about life...

Now go eat some waffles! (Or pancakes, because they're better...you know it's true).