Monthly Archives: December 2022

As promised, I am linking here to your final task of the semester – the End of Semester Reflection and Grade Proposal. Once you have submitted your Final Exam, please take some time to reflect on your work in English … Continue reading →

FINAL EXAM Instructions:  Please compose your response to this final as a Word Document or Google Doc, give the file a name with the format:  Your Name, ENG2850 Final Exam, and share it with me at [email protected] by midnight (11:59 … Continue reading →

Welcome to the Home Stretch of the semester. A few reminders about our course-end schedule: I have started to read and comment on your Final Essays. I hope to finish with them before your Final Exam. Feel free to reach … Continue reading →

Conferences – if you’ve signed up to meet with me on Monday, December 12th, I encourage you to send me whatever material you have created for your final essay in advance of our meeting. This could be an outline, a … Continue reading →

This is an oil painting that was created in 1931 by Salvador Dali named “The Persistence of Memory”. This oil painting measures 9 ½ x 13 inches and it is displayed at the Museum of Modern Art right here in … Continue reading →

René Magritte was one of the major surrealist artists of all time, but “it was not until he reached [his] 50s, when he was finally able to reach some form of fame and recognition for his work” (www.renemagritte.org). Magritte was … Continue reading →

The art piece I encountered that stood out to me the most was Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”. Van Gogh was an artist whose stylistic choices in the piece contrasted from those seen prior to modernism. Although his work became … Continue reading →

The painting I chose was Pablo Picasso’s “Seated Female Nude”. Born Pablo Ruiz Picasso (his full name is rather long) in Spain, he’s a prominent figure in the art world, being a painter, sculptor, and ceramicist and is considered one … Continue reading →

“Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” by Pablo Picasso. Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, and printmaker. He was born on october 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain, and died april 8, 1973 in Mounguis, France. Picaso was … Continue reading →