Friday/Saturday/Sunday, June 5-7, 2020 | B4 Weekend Daily News WEEKEND Photos provided (Above): Beloit Memorial High School sophomore Karen Martinez chose the “Saint Cecilia” painting by Guido Reni to recreate. She had a violin and always had liked the Saint. (Below, left): Ashlynnn Stenroos recreated the painting “Girl with a Pearl Earring.” (Below, center): Student Gabriel Gonzalez recreated the paint- ing “Saint with a Fortress and Banner” attributed to Girolamo da Santacroce. (Below, right): Beloit Memorial High School senior Arabel Gibson recreated Charles Amable Lenoir’s “Pandora” from 1902. She said she had a floral dress and a good outdoor area to take the picture. Modern A rt Beloit Memorial students recreate famous works at home By HILLARY GAVAN painting by Guido Reni. Martinez, who is Senior staff writer Catholic, said she’s always been drawn to her as Cecilia is the patroness of music. The his- toric painting of 1606 showed the Saint with a hen Beloit Memorial High violin, which called to Martinez as she played School (BMHS) teacher violin as well. The piece depicted the St. with Elizabeth Carpenter chal- a veil, red dress looking up to the heavens. lenged her students to “I didn’t know how I was going to make recreate famous artwork at the dress. I used my mom’s shirt, dad’s shirt home,W she was surprised with the results. and a shoelace,” Martinez said. “I had to put Students made lifelike recreations of a T-shirt on my head to look like a veil.” famous paintings in their living rooms and Because part of the Saint’s face is illumi- backyards. Carpenter was inspired after nated Martinez knew she had to get the per- learning of the idea from a museum in fect lighting. She hauled out a light and taped California. People were supposed to use items her phone to the wall to take the picture from at home to remake masterpieces. Carpenter the correct angle. thought the exercise would build family and “I pay a lot of attention to details,” she community within the household. Even if stu- said. “I like how I kind of look like her a lit- dents only places themselves in the picture, tle bit.” someone would have to take the photos. “It was a good basic project to review the See Artistic, B6 elements of art and principles of design. They were able to choose their work from the 1300s to 1900s,” Carpenter said. Students also had to do a formal analysis on the painting, how the artist used color, texture and value. Sophomore Karen Martinez chose the “Saint Cecilia” Weekend Daily News Friday/Saturday/Sunday, June 5-7, 2020 | B5 ENTERTAINMENT Famed museums reopen in Europe AMSTERDAM (AP)— In the Netherlands, the intimate gaze of the Girl with the Pearl Earring can once again startle and entice vis- itors. Down in Spain, the rusty maze of steel Associated Press sheets by Richard Serra This image released by PBS Kids shows characters is a wonderland anew from the TV series “Hero Elementary,” from left, Lucita for art lovers. And at Sky, Benny Bubbles, Sara Snap and AJ Gadgets, a the Vatican’s Sistine superhero who has the ability to make super gadgets— Chapel, Michelangelo’s and who also happens to be on the Autism spectrum. Creation of Adam can The series premiered June 1 on PBS stations. drop jaws like it has done for ages. As Europe slowly Superhero kid with autism emerges from the coro- navirus pandemic that has killed well over shines in new PBS series 150,000 in the continent and crippled some of the NEW YORK (AP)— the idea of portraying a world’s biggest econo- There’s a new crop of kid on the spectrum as mies, Monday let a bril- Associate Press superheroes coming to just one of the kids and liant ray shine through Visitors wearing masks to prevent the spread of coronavirus admire “The School our TV this summer but not making a huge deal the gloom as several of of Athens” fresco by Italian Renaissance artist Raphael inside the Vatican Museum they may need a little about his autism,” said the top museums glob- after it reopened, in Rome on June 1, 2020. seasoning. After all, Christine Ferraro, who ally reopened to flaunt they’re only in elementa- co-created the series with their riches. as the first visitors filed re-opening. a great hope that we can ry school. Carol-Lynn Parente. The Netherlands into the vast museum in Across the conti- return to the normali- The PBS Kids’ ani- The U.S. Centers for rejoiced in a relaxing of central Amsterdam nent, museum officials ty.” mated series “ Hero Disease Control and the lockdown measures At the adjacent Van rejoiced as visitors were Some 1,600 people Elementary ” is set Prevention has reported that have kept people Gogh Museum the wel- let in again. reserved tickets in inside a grade school that one in 54 kids were away from bars, restau- come came with—what “Today is a day advance to see the where a diverse group of diagnosed with Autism rants, cinemas—as well else?—sunflowers. Any to celebrate, a day of Sistine Chapel and its four superhero students Spectrum Disorder by as some of the greatest visitor leaving the great joy, said direc- sublime walls and ceil- are learning to master age 8 in 2016, a nearly cultural institutions in museum was given one tor Barbara Jatta, as ings on the first day their special powers. 10% increase over 2014 the world. of the yellow flowers her Vatican Museums the Vatican Museums There’s a kid who when the estimate was 1 “Welcome back,” said famously depicted by reopened on Monday. opened to the public can fly but is afraid in 59. Rijksmuseum General the Dutch painter’s “The significance of this after a three-month of heights. There’s a The series leans into Director Taco Dibbits brush to celebrate the reopening is hope. It is coronavirus shutdown. girl with the power to scientific principles as teleport and a boy who the characters confront creates forcefields of various missions, like bubbles. Plus there’s a dealing with a huge ball boy with an array of cool rolling through the city, gadgets who is on the or taking care of a just- autism spectrum. hatched baby swan. A The creators have helpful teacher encourag- been subtle about how es them to keep finding they’ve portrayed the solutions even if they character of AJ Gadgets, don’t succeed at first, who is on the high-func- teaching such skills as tioning end of the observing, investigating, spectrum. AJ doesn’t testing and predicting. like loud noises or wet “You don’t come into clothes or to be apart this world knowing how from his beloved back- to do everything. And pack. But he’s part of the so these kids struggle team and always comes to learn in school, just to the rescue. like our kids struggle to “We feel like there learn how to do things,” is so much strength in said Ferraro. 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