Category: Art

Analects of the Core: Rembrandt’s self-portrait at age 34

November 29, 2010 at 4:42 pm

Tomorrow afternoon, the students of CC201 will attend a lecture by Prof. Michael Zell on the art of Dutch master Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. In acknowledgment of this artful inclusion of painting in the second-year Humanities, today’s Analect — suggested by Tom Farndon (Core ’10, CAS ’12) — is an image rather than a text […]

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CC101 at the MFA

November 16, 2010 at 4:52 pm

Each fall for the past few years, students in CC101 have been trekking over to the Museum of Fine Arts to see works of art associated with the texts we read in Core. This year, the tour guide devised by the faculty directs students to the themes of power and grief as visual points of […]

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Analects of the Core: Sophocles on pondering the enemy’s lot

October 4, 2010 at 4:07 pm

As autumn descends upon us, we consider an analect for today which reflects our longing for the diminishing sun—and how we should consider our lives in the grand scheme, not necessarily just on our proximity to warmth: I know no one. But nevertheless I pity the poor wretch even though he is my enemy, because […]

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A new dimension in Van Gogh’s paintings

September 23, 2010 at 4:16 pm

Over at the Artcyclopedia, edited by John Malyon, a new slideshow has appeared, showcasing versions of 12 paintings by Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh which have been digitally manipulated to look like photos of three-dimensional models. In tilt-shift photography, a special lens is used which lends the illusion that a photo is of a […]

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