Stones of Erasmus — for Teachers, Writers, & Philosophy Sprinkles Makers!

Hi, I’m Greig — welcome! Here you’ll find sharp writing, creative ideas, and standout resources for teaching, thinking, making, and dreaming in the middle and high school ELA and Humanities classroom (Grades 6–12).

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Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts

Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts

27.2.21

Paint Night: We Did Van Gogh's Sunflowers

I’m no Van Gogh. I have both 👂. But I love a good communal 🎨. With my collegial krewe, we paint and pass the time.

28.10.14

Art Motif: "The Sitting Pose"

Homme noir nu assis recroquevillé (2007) I think I fell in love with the nude sitting pose in art when first I saw Hypolite Flandrin...

4.10.12

Aesthetic Thursday: Edvard Munch's "The Scream"

Edvard Munch "The Scream". Pastel on board, 1895. Moma will display one of four versions of Edvard Munch's expression...

29.7.11

Aesthetic Thursday: Max Beckmann, Beginning

"Beginning" Max Beckmann, 1949, oil on canvas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Triptychs The piece "Beginning" is a ...

16.6.11

Aesthetic Thursday: Boy in a Striped Sweater

Amedeo Modigliani, Boy in a Striped Sweater , 1918, Metropolitan Museum of Art Visually Similar Images Generated by Google Image Searc...

6.1.11

Aesthetic Thursdays: Oedipus and the Sphinx

In this blog post, I compare Gustav Moreau and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's two very different paintings of Oedipus solving the rid...

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