EDUCATORS’ PERSPECTIVE
the stereotype of an outstanding artist devoted to his craft but ignorant of financial affairs.”
The examples of Joyce and Turner give credence to the belief that practical personal financial education can make a difference regardless of one’ s personal bent towards the arts or the sciences.
Brian Grinder is a professor at Eastern Washington University and a member of Financial History’ s editorial board. Dr. Dan Cooper is the president of Active Learning Technologies.
Notes
1. The most stolen artist in history is Picasso.
2. Alison M. Kettering agrees, concluding her essay“ After Life: Rembrandt’ s‘ Slaughtered Ox,’” by noting that,“ This brilliantly executed ox makes a powerful statement while posing an unavoidable question: did the artist see in his creation a metaphor for its creator?”
3. Schama describes the facility as“ a piteous place, smelling of lye and pease porridge and occupied mostly by whores and vagabond women, imposing a regime of ferocious austerity in which the fallen souls were morally and physically chastised and set to work spinning until their fingers were numb.” Biographer Charles Mee describes the place as an insane asylum.
4. Rubens( 1557 – 1640) was a huge influence on Rembrandt’ s art, and Rembrandt was often referred to as the Protestant Rubens.
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