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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

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