final projects

Here are the pictures I took of your wonderful final projects!

the art of gum-ball machines

Here are images to go along with “The Art of Gum-Ball Machines.” I’ve organized them very specifically, so check the text to see examples of the images as you read.
And here is the question: We come back around to still life, in the final lines of Kimmelman’s essay, and from Dutch painters and their lemons [...]

our introduction

Okay, y’all, here’s my first crack at stringing together the ideas we discussed in class this morning. Comment away–criticisms more that welcome!! What do you think?
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This is a collection of individual ekphrastic responses created by students in LHSP 130: Writing/Responding: Art and the Ekphrastic Impulse. The word ekphrasis simply means writing that respond to visual [...]

gallery info

Please post the information you want displayed next to your piece on Thursday. I will transfer it to a card exactly as you type it, with only a little formatting for space, so be precise.

research report

Please report on your research. Include two links to sites you find useful, or, if you’re not using the web, a link to the bookstore page of a book, or the library catalog page, you get the idea.
Here are two links from me:
BLDGBLOG is one of the coolest web sites ever. Here’s that story about [...]

bonnard

Please read Michael Kimmelman’s essay “The Art of Making a World” carefully and look at these reproductions of some of Pierre Bonnard’s paintings. On Wednesday we used Hass to start talking about some Big Themes at the end of this course–what do you think about Bonnard’s attempt to create a world through these paintings, through [...]

art and life (time and materials)

Hi Class,
For Wednesday, please look over these two Robert Hass poems (coursepack pp. 39-42) in addition to commenting on your peers’ essays. The Gerhard Richter paintings that Hass discusses are in a post farther down. Unfortunately, they don’t get bigger when you click them, so there is also a link to a website with more [...]

kathakali

god’s own country

Kerala’s advertising motto has been, for years, “Kerala: God’s Own Country”. It’s not exactly “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,” but you get the idea.
Please choose a passage from this section of reading (89-177) in which the writing, that is to say the language itself, does something interesting. I’ll let you decide and explain [...]

a pale daymoon hung hugely in the sky

Please answer this question and then RESPOND to at least one other person’s response. In other words, interact with each other.
Obviously Arundhati Roy is taking some liberties with syntax and grammar. Choose one instance where language corresponds with the tone of the story so far in an interesting way. You may like or dislike her [...]

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