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I've been following with interest the thread about teaching one aspect
of an artist's work and then forever worrying that the kids
might...gasp.... do some research of their own. I pretty much straddle
the fence on this one, but I do have an amusing (and for a few moments,
terrifying) story. I have just this year been putting a lot of my
"lectures" and even studio directions onto PowerPoint and then using a
scan converter so I can show the class on my large screen TV. I was
doing a bio of Michelangelo for my middle school kids. If you remember,
on the Last Judgment, he painted in a detractor of his work (a church
official, I believe) and showed him being strangled by a very large
serpent. Below the waist, this snake had the gentleman's genitalia very
firmly gripped in its mouth. I knew enough not to show that half of the
slide, but as only the slide portion shows in a "show" I didn't crop.
The "show" was fine. But I went back to that slide at their request,
because they thought the snake was cool. I used my close up remote
and... you guessed it. An enormous image of our snake friend. I got so
flustered I couldn't get the image off, and instead of cutting it off, I
enlarged it even more, so it was by then the entire screen. My class
fell apart. I about died, and finally pulled the plug. I apologized,
explained what had happened, and told them it was there for all to see
in Rome! And I waited for the phone calls. Thank God, there weren't
any! The moral of the story: always crop our anything you don't care
to show!

Jen B in Tallahassee

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