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Showing posts with label art history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art history. Show all posts

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Bruce's new website has been Wordle-ed

In next week's Art History discussion sections, we are going over a lot of terminology from sculpture and architecture (relief, pediment, peristyle, doric, ionic, triglyph, metope, etc.).

In a moment of true art history geekdom, I wanted to make the point that we are going to "vocabulary land" and thus searched out sites that created word clouds. I stumbled across wordle.net and proceeded to input all of the classical architecture terms from wikipedia.

Excited, I then took all of the text from Bruce's new website under the news section (be sure to check it out) and inputted them into wordle. Above is what it came up with. Bruce astutely pointed out that it looks vaguely like a map of the US. This site is a blast! You can change the orientation, font, colors, etc. I encourage you to visit wordle.net and create your own!

Monday, April 23, 2007

When in doubt, post links

Taking a cue from Modern Kick's post of the same title, here is an attempt at what I have dubbed a "mystery list post":
As for the latter, I want to stand up and shout proudly, I am a card carrying art historian and I blog! (more thoughts on this later...)