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Re: Oxymoron list?

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From: Judie (judiej50_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 22:21:25 PST

Mark, here's what I have. Judie J

Oxymorons would also be good source of ideas---those seemingly incongruous
                words that are used together like 'jumbo shrimp,' 'working
vacation,' and 'pretty ugly.' The following web sites that have
gobs of oxymorons .
                www.oxymorons.com
                http://www.ethanwiner.com/oxymoron.html
                http://www.jokesoup.com/oxymoronswo.htm
                http://www.specsci.com/donspage/htmldocs/oxymoron.htm
                http://www.topskills.com/oxymorons.htm
                                        Anne C-H in Illinois

From Judy Decker's list:

Additional Visual Pun links:

                Surrealists' Puns
                        http://www.eril.net/gallery/intro.asp?exb=1011

                Graphic Visual Puns
                        http://www.rwmarketing.com/News/VisPun.html

                Polymer Clay sculptures:
                        http://polymerjungle.com/oth04.htm

                Lesson plan for Robert Arneson (ceramic sculptor - noted
for his visualpuns)
                        http://www.utah.edu/umfa/arnesonplan.html
                        http://www.utah.edu/umfa/contemporary.html (more
info on Arneson)
                Paper Mache Visual Puns
                        http://216.23.1.73/west/aca/art/lwh_art3dmache.html
                M.C. Escher (interesting - Still life to city scape)
                        http://www.gandanet.com.hk/roygrubb/sl&strt3.html

        http://www.insite.com.br/bio/rodrigo/text/escher.html
                Lots of Pun links:

        http://dmoz.org/Recreation/Humor/Wordplay/Puns/

                Camouflage Visual Puns
                        Bev Doolittle's camouflage paintings were the first
                                                use of this term. The image
of another entity, such as a horse and rider, lies
within a natural landscape. Seeing pictures in clouds is
                the kind of visual play that spawns this kind of pun.
                                "The Forest has Eyes"

        http://www.powersource.com/gallery/bev/feyes.html
                Canned Food Drive by Vivian Nguyen
                        http://www.collegeboard.org/ap/students/studioart/
                                gallery/works/art98-09.html
                Don Stuart's Art
                        http://www.dsart.com/
                        http://www.dsart.com/art.htm about the art)
                        http://www.dsart.com/Gallery/gallery.htm (gallery)
                        http://store6.yimg.com/I/americancraftsonline_
                                1655_35850617 (Rock Lobster)
                Reading an image (important for visual literacy):
                        http://www.englishcompanion.com/room82/readimages.html

                Thomas Nast - political cartoon (often visual puns)
                        http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/
                                harp/1112.html

        http://edsitement.neh.gov/lessonplans/portraits_reveal.html
                                (lesson plan for political cartoons)

>Help! Does anyone know the url to the oxymorons list that was on posted
>ArtsEdNet about 4 weeks ago? Is it Judy's? I wanted to begin introducing
>an 8th grade ceramics project this morning. I thought I'd bookmarked it,
>but I guess not.
>
>Thanks, Mark 

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