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On Jamie Wyeth’s “Seven Deadly Sins”

--Introduction

+Exhibit: description

+Roots:

Book of Proverbs 6:16-19; Galatians 5:19-21

Evagrius Ponticus, or Evagrius the Solitary (345-399 A.D.)

Pope Gregory I, or Pope Gregory the Great (c. 540 – 604 A.D.)

+Inspired:

literary works:

- Dante, Divine Comedy

- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales,

- Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

movies: Bedazzled (1967), Se7en (1995)

[*Video games, graphic novels, TV shows, as well.]

Art: Paul Cadmus – Personally inspired Wyeth to undertake Sins project

+Wyeth’s recent work/exhibit:

- significance; critiques on each painting.

--Conclusion

Inventing the University

After reading Inventing the University, I found one of Bartholomae's points extremely useful: "When students are writing for a teacher, writing becomes more problematic than it is for the students who are describing baseball to a Martian." I cannot tell you how often, when writing, I would aim solely at writing to meet my instructor's wishes and be done with it. Honestly, it gave me a negative perception of writing papers and made the writing experience a very uncomfortable one. Last semester, one of my professors pointed out how I needed to take command and write as though I were the expert. Bartholomae's advice for students to "assume privilege without having any" effectively reinforces the professor's words to me: be the expert. Make learning a matter of invention and discovery, rather than imitation or parody. From within my major, we frequently must look at a piece of art and describe what we see. I must draw upon the knowledge of the principles and elements in design to stay within the dialogue of the art community and avoid, at all measures, shooting from the hip.