Mystic Power of Asian Animal Images Extracts from a lecture presented by the author at Lorien Novalis School’s Seminar of the Orient, January 1983 All photos by the author. THE ELEPHANT China Shiva, Lord of the Dance, once conquered an elephant demon by making him dance. However, most elephant divinities in the east are certainly […]
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Birth of Venus: 12th Grade Art History
LOVE OF THE LAND LOVE OF ART *** Art History – Class 12 Australian Art Ahhh, across the atrium into the last of five 23-hour Art History units in high school: Class 12 students are experiencing, in the Educational Zodiac, the inspirational power of Taurus. How apt this is for the teaching of this oh-so-astral […]
Birth of Venus: 11th Grade Art History
SUNRISE OF THE NEW AGE *** Art History – Class 11 Post-Impressionism to Today Wally was on the way to catch a plane to Melbourne to present the season’s advertising campaign to the bigwigs of our women’s underwear client, Hickory. Other agencies spend thousands mounting their sales pitch, but Wally did it on an airline […]
Birth of Venus: 10th Grade Art History
DUSK OF THE SPIRIT DAWN OF THE SOUL *** Art History – Class 10 Baroque to Impressionism An education in Art History is an ‘Aesthetics Education’ – in the best Schiller tradition. Or the ‘picture’ aspect of aesthetics at least. This is particularly so with 16-year-olds, who are in this year of seven, from 14 […]
Birth of Venus: 9th Grade Art History
A VOYAGE ON THE OCEAN OF WILL *** Art History – Class 9 Rome to Renaissance True art never lies, true art never dies. But what is true art? Well by the above definition, or the latter half at least, any art, particularly painting, sculpture, and drawing, that still elicits admiration, gasps of awe – […]
Birth of Venus: 8th Grade Art History
FIRE OF THE WILL LIGHT OF THE HEART RAINBOW OF THE MIND *** Art History – Class 8 Paleolithic to Greece Art history was the first lesson I ever taught – I had hung around Australia’s first Steiner School, Glenaeon, like a stray cat. Until one day they generously allowed me in to replace the […]