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Learning Has Been Pinned

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Pinterest is the new visual learning tool.

As a budding artist, you can search up painters and their works. Then, you can curate them with your own comments of edification. As soon as you've pinned Pablo's Guernica, you see related painting pins from the abstract and cubist master and his contemporaries. You pin some of his self-portraits. You come across some water colors from Miro, and you create a new Watercolour Gone Wrong board to capture these new pins. You see some strikingly coloured flowers by O'Keefe and you LIKE them with the little heart button. In fact, you like them so much, you travel to the board of the original pinned of the flowers to find an extensive O'Keefe collection. You make some pins and you decide to follow the board. Driven by curiousity, you check out the rest of her boards. She curates modern American art, romantic comedies and graphic novels. You don't have the time to check them all out right, but you decide to follow this fellow enthusiast and plan to return later. As you close your app, glowing with what you have discovered, you receive several likes and pins of your new acquisitions and boards from fellow pinners from across the Internet-verse. Poked, you check out which pins were tacked, and you check out the selections from your new found compatriots. It turns out watercolour is popular with elementary school teachers and hobby-seeking retirees. One of the boards has an infographic on how to mix paints for various watercolour effects.

At the end of all this pinning, you see the Visual Arts textbook. Somehow it no longer seems that exciting.

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