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As of today, I have assigned the APAH students their works to report on in NYC spring 2011. I already had to replace one piece: Fabri's "Painting" by Francis Bacon has been replaced with Caravaggio's "Denial of Saint Peter." ... quite a different painting, but Caravaggio's work should be on display.
 
 
The site just got a facelift! we are now called www.sculpturetecture.com (sculpture combined with architecture)... hope you enjoy it!

ALSO: The Forum is up and running, so please!!! go use it... ok! back to finishing some Powerpoints...
 
 
Hello again everyone, I would like to say welcome to my new APAH students and hello and welcome to any students checking this out for the first time.

My summer was great! I had the pleasure of going to Greece for 2 mths, courtesy of the Fulbright Foundation and  the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. After visiting over 100 sites and museums, I have an entirely new perspective on the country, and cannot wait to share what I have learned with my new class...

P.S. I believe the website will be finished by the end of the year... not bad... finished in a litle under a year!
 
Some good news! 03/26/2009
 

Ok everyone, just got back from 2 week Italy vacation. Got a lot of video of some art pieces, from Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan.

Also just found out i got a Fulbright grant to go to Greece this summer for 6 weeks (and visit art/archaeological sites), so expect some Greece video and photos fall, 09.

ALSO: while all chapters are finished, I am now adding ppts additionally to each chapter, which I am averaging 1 a week (5 down, only 31 more to go!)



 
 

Ok, good news. Site is nearing the very minimum of what I would consider "finished and ready for mass consumption." Overall inital reaction from students and teachers has been "nice/good... this is helpful and something we have been looking for." ...Which is exactly what I was aiming for with this site.  

I find I have to juggle a mix of "too much overwhelming information that students won't ever read" with "so little information that no one will use the site" (I don't want to have the site just be eye candy or completely useless)... To be honest, nothing replaces reading the text and worksheets... The biggest positive is that a student will be able to see the relationships between culture, art, and why art looks the way it does (or what influences it).

Ok, Im off to post pix.

 
 

Okay.... It has now been 2 (or 3...hmm, cannot remember) weeks since I started working on this site. My obsessive compulsive behavior is starting to pay off. I think I just have one chapter of western art to post the works to, and then I have to do the non western pieces.

Things I am thinking of doing:

1. adding a "major players" category to each chapter, to outline who the main people of the time were (example: Napoleon, Popes, etc...)

2. adding a "main events" category....maybe a timeline of what is happening in relevance to artwork.

3. the YouTube account is set up, and about to post some video of Pompeii there... Since I am going to Italy next month, I am thinking of adding new video of: The Colosseum/Roman Forum, Pantheon, St.Peter's, Santa Maria Del Fiore, and some of the other churches in Milan and Venice.

..well, back to posting pix! Later.

 
First Post! 01/30/2009
 

Okay...I have been working at this website thing for a week now...

Home page: done

I am done up through Greece...

Next, going to try and get through the Byzantine stuff by next weekend. Anything after that is just a bonus. Maybe I will get done with this thing by May. Or maybe not... I dont think anyone will read this for awhile, anyway.

 

    J.M. Cook

    Born in Wisconsin, and an art teacher in Houston, Texas. Married with 2 dogs (Belladonna and Delphi). Member of the Fulbright Alumni Association and the American Association of Archaeology. I especially enjoy Classical Greco-Roman art and art from the Renaissance. 

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