Tyree Guyon Research Paper

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Who is Tyree Guyton? What's so special about him? What did he do? How did he become so special? These are all questions that someone may ask if they don't know who Tyree Guyton is. Tyree Guyton is an artist. He was born on August 24, 1995, in Detroit Michigan. His parents were George Guyton, and Betty Solomon Guyton. Tyree and his grandfather loved to go to the Detroit Institute of Arts. In fact, they went there a lot! He attended Ralph J. Bunche Elementary School. Tyree Guyton attended Miller Junior High School, and Northern High School. Sadly, an accidental fatal shooting lead to Tyree to dropout of high school at Martin Luther King Jr. High School in 1972. After that, Tyree Guyton joined the army. He was in the army for a year before getting released in 1973. Once he returned, he said: "The place looks like a bomb has gone off while I was gone!" Tyree Guyton started working at Chrysler's Jefferson Assembly Plant and the Ford Motor Company. In 1980, He started taking art classes at Detroit's College for Creative Studies, and Marygrove College, …show more content…

He then had to go to the army. I have a feeling, that he was not comfortable with leaving Detroit to go into the army. Once he got back, he was behind on school and then went to college. In 1999, Judge Malcolm was not re-elected. The new judge started tearing down all of Guyton's work. This lead to 3 of Tyree Guyton's art, to become destroyed. One of the pieces of art, was "The Faces of Tyree Guyton." Tyree and his wife were then trying to battle through this, and try to keep the art. The only way for Guyton to fix this, was to make even more art. That is what he did. When Guyton's father died, Tyree made a special work of ar for him. Since Tyree knew that his grandfather loved polka dots, he painted a house a bunch of different colors that were shaped as polka dots. This piece of art is called "The Dotty-Wotty

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