musee des beaux arts; time and materials

The Fall of Icarus by Pieter Brueghel (c. 1525-1569)

     

Gerhard Richter: Abstrakt Bilden
See this useful web site for more Richter images.

learning to love you more

I did assignment #5, which was to re-create an object from someone’s past using only cardboard, paper, and tape. It’s a soccer ball in case you can’t tell.
The other assignment I did was #35, where I asked three members of my family to write a description of what they think I do. I was [...]

Learning to Love You More

The picture on the top is of the deep-dark-abyss under my bed gloomily illuminated for a fraction of a second.  The other picture of me tuning my guitar as I prepared to play a cover of the song “Don’t Dream it’s Over.”  This didn’t workout so I did #61, my ideal government, as follows:
My ideal government?  Well [...]

Learning to love you more

 

Learning to Love You More

 #27-Take a Picture of the Sun and #6-Make a Poster of Shadows

Learning to Love You More: #30 and #50

learning to love YOU more

assignments #56 and #63  

Learning to Love You More

Assignments: #20 &#27

Learning to Love You More Assignment

Assignments #27 and #50

learning to love you more

Please add your responses to Assignment #53: Give advice to yourself in the past, as a comment to this post. Due by midnight Tuesday, 2/19

tirtza even

Here is a link to more information and video clips of Tirtza Even’s work.
Please don’t forget to bring at least two discussion questions to class on Monday.
Questions, comments? Add them to this post…

keats & decidedly not keats

The British Museum reports: “It was once believed that the vase was one of the main inspirations for the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) when he wrote the famous ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ (1819), though it is now generally accepted that there were many different influences, not only the vase.”

You saw a version of [...]

updike and strand pictures

Choki: Catching Fireflies
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Artist unknown: Baz Bahadur and Rupmati Riding by Moonlight

Roy De Forest: Canoe of Fate
This was the best reproduction I could find online, unfortunately. The original is not in black and white.

Edward Hopper: House by the Railroad