Oh! I forgot! A shout-out to the coolness of Hockaday’s “History of Art and Music” class and my AP art class last year for making me Cultured and Intelligent.
Today, in Visual Communications, we were talking about ads that tapped into a desire for social status, so a large part of the discussion was the use of famous (and occasionally esoteric) works of art. A few kids and I were naming all of them, geekily rattling off icons like “Botticelli’s ‘Birth of Venus’!” and “Claes Oldenberg!” and “Botticelli’s ‘Allegory of Spring’!” and “Pointilism!”. And because of Mrs. McCullough, I will forever pronounce “pointilism” the French way, like “pwaahn-til-ism”, and sound like even more of a dork. At the end of class, Rob (who was sitting in front of me) asked me “How do you know all this stuff?” and I kinda shrugged.
THANK YOU, HAM!
Gravy, I love this class. It always makes me feel so intelligent! Especially today when Professor Messaris called one of my comments “very insightful” and got all glowy and impressed. Life is good. Life is very good.
P.S. I love how it’s become universally accepted that the huge, ugly, abstract red sculpture in the middle of the campus is called “Dueling Tampons.” Does anyone actually know its real name? I heard somewhere that it was supposed to be a representation of the sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham. Go figure.
