Post #28

Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

Post #27

I always go to Google. I feel like it is the best place to start a web search. I usually go on the computer to just look up info. This time, I went from Google to Yahoo to reset the password for my Blogger account. I have the habit of going to google first because you can find anything there. I don't know what it says about my identity.

The artist used warm colors in this painting of the French Quarters in New Orleans. Oranges, Reds, yellows. But the artist used cool colors for contrast like blue and green. It makes the cool colors used in the vegitation stand out.

post 22

I have picked Yoko Ono as a performance artist. Yoko is famously known as John Lennon's widow. But she was an artist from a young age. She was considered a Fluxus. She was a friend of Fluxus founder George Maciunas. She did a few pieces of Performing art. She performed an act called "Cut Piece" which is considered as "happening". Ono executed the performance in Tokyo by walking on stage and casually kneeling on the floor in a draped garment. Audience members were requested to come on stage and begin cutting until she was naked. This showed her suffering and wanted her audience to complete her art works. She first met John Lennon in one of her art exhibitions. John Lennon once described her as "the world's most famous unknown artist: everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does."

Post 17

This portrait is a self-portrait of Diego Rivera. Socially, it shows people in the background working by harvesting flowers. Politicaly, it might be an imature governemnt because the economy is based on hand labor. Religously, knowing that Diego Rivera is Mexican, most people in Mexico are Roman Catholic. Intellectually, the population might not be that intellectually smart because the people are too busy working. Technological, the country might not be advanced because the workers are still hand picking the flowers. Educationally, the people might not be educated because it looks like the scene takes place in a rural towb.

post 23

I have not received any of my artworks back but i have made a green monochromatic portrait of Daniel Tosh. It is based on this picture. I have also made a Red Riding hood version of the Mona Lisa. I put trees in the background as well as a ferocious wolf creeping up on Little Red Riding Hood.

post 16

 This photograph by Carrie Mae Weems is Untitled. But i really like it and can relate to it. The women and man are just chilling, drinking, smoking, and playing some type of card game with money. I do that often, chill and play poker. I dont smoke or drink, but I still just chill. I do it with more people, but it is the same concept. there is a picture of Malcolm X in the background, my picture in the backgrounf is a FatHead of Brian Urlacher.

post 21

I think it looks like two twin babies in a mother's womb thumb wrestling. I hope that is not bad. Im usually as one with my subconscience.

post 16

I picked this painting by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge called A Friend In Need. I can relate to it because I regularly play poker with friends and family. I am not the best, but I am not the worst either, iIstill end up with profits. I think this is a cool painting. It'd be cool if dogs could play poker. Poker is a "dog eat dog world"

Post 15

The Dada artist I chose to write about is Man Ray. I chose him because the name sounds cool and like a super hero. He is famouse for being a photogropher. I think that that is one of the hardest ways to  be a Dadaist because they did not have most of the technology like photoshop to make the photos resemble Dadaist ways. I picked this photo of his because I think that it is cool how put together two photos and made one piece without modern technology. And it defered much from contemporary photographs.

post 19

    Finding someone to base my portrait was easy. I knew from the start that I wanted it to be on Daniel Tosh. Once I get my brain juices flowing, almost nothing can stop me. And from the beggining i knew that I was going to make my portrait green, because Daniel Tosh works in front of a green screen. It just took some patience of the mind and hand to make the portrait how I wanted.

post #9

Shepard Fairey is famously known for his HOPE Obama campaign poster and his OBEY with Andre the Giant sticker. He takes photos and sketches them differently. This has led to controversy and has led to various lawsuits. His designs have been sold on t-shirts. He has been arrested multiple times for graffiti.

post #13

 The item that I made was a baseball and a bat. I was fond to a baseball a few years ago, but I don't think it is really nostalgic because when I see a baseball it brings back both good and bad memories. I got the baseball which was I was fond off after my little league team in Berwyn won the World Series. I started the comeback in the 9th inning with a double to bring in 2 runs. But I almost lost something else that Im fond with with a line drive. Luckily I was wearing a cup, but I also messed up my ankle and it sometimes hurts to this day. Baseball is one of my favorite sports along with football.

Post 14

I picked this photo because it cracks me up when I find a bill that has been written on. I received a 20 dollar bill from a person. I bet them $20 that the Giants would win super bowl 42 against the Patriots. The guy wrote a bunch of trash talk on it. It is illegal to write on currency though. I have receiced a fake $1 bill in california, I tried using it in another place and they noticed. Luckly it was only a buck or else I might have had to gone to the police station and answered some questions. When i read this note, I was like "what, did he like write on the bill then made it into a plane and thrown it to the other person?" couldn't the person just speak?

post #13 dan g

My nasthalgic item is a baseball similar to this one, except with dirt on it. It is nastalgic because it felt right, i liked how the cow hide felt, the skin was ripped up. I received it from my little league a few years ago when we won the world series because I started the hitting streak in the team with a double and was the tying run. The one who scored the winning run got a Game ball as well.

My Accordian Bokk

This is my accordian book. The theme is Pac-Man. I think its ok. It shows movement, contrast, rhythym, emphasise, color, shape, line, and pattern.

I liked this picture that i found on google images. It looks cool because it is in the form of a shoe. I would never be able to do this. The other book is in the shape of people. The heart book has ribon but other than that it is simple. I would put more color into the books. I wonder if you are able to read the shoe? Dan 3rd period

I picked this art because it looked nice. It shows color, a bit of texture, shape, and value. I think it is a bit too colorful for me. This artwork was done by an unknown 4th grader, the name of it is Geometric Shape Composition.

I put this photo because it kept me thinking for some time. I did not know if they were pandas or elephants. But FYI, they are elephants.

"Race and Gender Criticism" in Art

I really think that every body's voice and point of view should be equally heard. But what ticks me off is when a group discriminates, but when a different group does something similar, it is not okay and they get upset or sue. Things should be equal, I agree but it should ALLWAYS be equal. In the art exhibit mentioned in the passage, there was only a few woman in a group of artists while most were white males, however, there shouldn't be any an all women exhibit or an all colored exhibit either.

My "First" Real Art Experience

My very first art experience was probably the first day in kindergarden where the teacher probably gave us a sheet to color. But what really stands out as my first complex art was in kindergarden where we were forced to write a short story. It is a  school wide competition in my elementary school called the Young Authors. My story was about a day with some imaginary friends. I still have the book somewhere buried in my bookshelf. I won that year, and the next year, and the next year, and the next year with a similar story until the school noticed I was using the same outline for my book and did not pick me as a winner in 5th grade. Probably because my 5th grade teacher hated me, I wouldn't be surprised if she was the one that told on me.