Painting Archives : Professor Carol

Messy Drawers and the Sea

November 4, 2014November 2, 2014 by Professor Carol

It’s hard for me to clean out drawers, especially in the kitchen. Everything there once had a raison d’être, whether a Walmart receipt or an unidentified key. Yet most of it should be thrown away. Except . . . when it shouldn’t. Today, sifting through … Read more

German Romanticism: Meet the Texas Moon

February 5, 2015July 14, 2011 by Professor Carol

If only Caspar David Friedrich could have seen our Texas moon last night. It wasn’t quite full, but it was a bossy-bold moon, so bossy, in fact, that it would have inspired Friedrich to rethink his already revolutionary style of painting. Oh, those Friedrich paintings—the … Read more

And Then There's This . . .

Vince Bielski, When Classical Learning Meets Public Education the Dialogue Isn’t Always Socratic. “Classical education, whose name gained traction in the 1980s to evoke the movement’s focus on liberal arts and the Western canon, is struggling to overcome local political opposition.”

Peter Wood, After College: The Coming Cultural Collapse of Higher Education. “Students graduate with a veneer of knowledge rather than a core. An increasingly obsolescent institution has wedded itself to an increasingly noisome cultural stance.”

Anthony Esolen, Heap Songs Upon Their Heads. “We are the most beauty-starved people, I am persuaded, who have ever trod the earth.”

Gregory Wolfe, The Wound of Beauty. “The time has come to bring beauty back, to give it the glass slipper and invite it to the prom.”