My aunt, who was sixty at her last birthday, teaches history of art to adults, as courses of lectures. She used to use slides to show paintings.
She now uses Powerpoint as if it were a high tech version of slides for showing paintings -- look, a painting. Look, this is a bit of the painting blown up. Look, I'll put another bit of a different painting next to it so you can see the influence. Here are the two paintings together. See how this blue is different from that blue. Let this Japanese print fade into this Monet so you can see the influence. Look at the way this figure is standing, and now this figure. Look at the hands.
This is clearly what Powerpoint was born for.
I used to feel exactly as you did, and think the thing was entirely misconceived and would be better replaced with a whiteboard and a handout, but I have changed my mind after seeing her programs. It clearly needs to get out of the office and into the art-room.
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Date: 2005-02-26 01:55 pm (UTC)She now uses Powerpoint as if it were a high tech version of slides for showing paintings -- look, a painting. Look, this is a bit of the painting blown up. Look, I'll put another bit of a different painting next to it so you can see the influence. Here are the two paintings together. See how this blue is different from that blue. Let this Japanese print fade into this Monet so you can see the influence. Look at the way this figure is standing, and now this figure. Look at the hands.
This is clearly what Powerpoint was born for.
I used to feel exactly as you did, and think the thing was entirely misconceived and would be better replaced with a whiteboard and a handout, but I have changed my mind after seeing her programs. It clearly needs to get out of the office and into the art-room.