STORIES & ART
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While schools and museums around the country were closed during the Covid-19 Pandemic I created a series of videos exploring connections between artworks and stories, using some of my favorite paintings. Click on any of the links to watch the videos and learn more!
“Master of All Masters” / Peeling Potatoes
A quick witted servant girl saves her peculiar employer from disaster.
“The Three Perfect Peaches” / Still Life with Peaches
A folktale from France, in which words have serious consequences and things are sometimes not what they seem.
“The Boy in the Peanut” / Stratford Mill
A silly story about a game of “Hide and Seek” that goes awry, using Constable’s masterpiece as an imaginary setting.
“Taliesin” / The Bard
An exciting story of magic spells and transformations from Medieval Wales.
“Boots and His Brothers” / The Charter Oak
An old Norwegian folktale, paired with a masterpiece of American painting.
“Apollo and Daphne”
This story from Ancient Greece was retold by the Roman poet Ovid in about the year 1 AD.
“The Little Old Woman and Her Pig” / A Lane Near Dedham
An old English “chain” folktale, where one problems leads to a long series of problems.
“The Seven Ravens” / The Tree of Crows
A haunting, beautiful story from the Brothers Grimm.
“Hanuman Moves the Mountain” / A Page from the Mewar Ramayana
One episode from the great Indian epic.
“The Myth of Phaeton” / Phaeton with a Pair of Cream Ponies and a Stable Lad
A classical Greek myth has an unusual link to a tranquil English painting from the 18th century.
