"Ne Plus Ultra", Eric Swenson (2010)A Facebook post I made sparked a small dialogue on beauty. As a teacher, I see it as my job not to just inundate with terms and vocabulary, but to get the student to use that information to question their own perceptions of beauty. I usually begin by asking students how do they measure beauty in art and the usual answer they give is the artist's ability to render the subject matter representationally. Then I show them this image of a sculpture by Eric Swenson, "Ne Plus Ultra"(2010). The preceding effect is the smell of hair burning and the creaking of long motionless gears.
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