The Truck Driver and the Artist.
Marilyn (Vanitas) 1977 , 96”x 96.” “I HAD to take this class” Kim said. "No offense," Like many, Kim was enrolled in Art Appreciation only because an arts class was required at this Community College. None taken . This was my favorite class to teach and those reluctant students were my favorite challenge. And my favorite semester icebreaker artwork was the groundbreaking Audrey Flack painting, Marilyn (Vanitas) . Students who thought they “knew nothing about Art,”found plenty to say about this luminous, super realism painting and readily speculated on its meaning and message.The painting offered a safe place to vocalize as we slowly developed a language for looking at Art. "You want us to do what??" Later in the semester, some would jump at the idea of a creative assignment—others broke out in a cold sweat at this unwieldy 2-part project: 1- Write a letter in the voice of an artist we have studied. The recipient was a person place or time which