For the purpose of this response essay, the event I chose to go was the Paint Night at the Student Union here at UAA. It was on Friday, February 2, 2018 and it started from 7 P.M. to 9 P.M. It was hosted by the Arctic Crown Canvas. Paint night was an opportunity for the community (from UAA students to parents with kids) to come together and tune in their creativity while listening to the instructor with a step-by-step guide of painting the themed painting. For this event, the audience was copying the painting called “Datz Amore.” The painting consisted of a moon with the moonlight shining on the mountains and trees with colored leaves (the color of the leaves varied as we got to decide what colors we wanted). With the instructor guiding how to paint each layer of the painting, the audience made their own “Datz Amore,” being able to paint in a hint of their personality especially in the shape of the trees, the size of the moon as well as the color of the leaves. Throughout the …show more content…
At the first half hour, I was able to think about what I wanted to paint on my canvas while listening to the instructor. However, that soon change somewhere during the painting process. When we were doing each layer of the painting step by step, I thought the whole timing for each step was a bit constraining on the creative part of the event. For example, I was more focused in making it right; wanting my painting to somehow resemble the real painting from the real artist in front of me. With a time-limit for each step, I would start rushing, wanting to keep up with the instructor. While preparing to move on to the next step of the painting, I noticed how stressful it was for myself and others. Truthfully, it was frustrating to be drying my painting with a hairdryer while knowing of the likely chance for the instructor to continue without warning. From what was once relaxing, the atmosphere changed to a whole new level of
When people lose their dignity, they also lose a part of the very thing that makes them human. Despair, hopelessness, fear and apathy are all ways a human can lose their humanity. The eyes provide a window onto the soul, and thus a view on the person’s mental state. The eyes also function in reverse, as a symbolic gesture of control over someone. All of this is present in Night, by Elie Wiesel, an account of human tragedy, human cruelty, human dignity, and the loss thereof.
The film, Life is Beautiful, and the memoir, Night, were both composed to tell about events in the same time period. Although many aspects of these are the same, the memoir and film differ in a numerous amount of ways.
...e light and shadows. The room the boy is in is very dark, and a strong beam of light shines on the boy. Space is illustrated in how Murillo places the objects in the painting. The boy appears to be far back against the wall, while a water jug is towards the front. Texture is seen on the walls, the boy’s skin, the jug, and the basket of apples. Shape is displayed by the light and shadows in the picture. Without the light, everything would blend together. The light shines and casts shadows off of the objects and boy, giving him and the objects form. The color scheme Murillo uses are dull earthly colors, adding to the dull, sad mood of the painting. I like the emotion portrayed in this work. Looking at the boy and his surroundings, you can almost feel his sadness and emotion. I like paintings that display strong expression and emotion. The painting is pictured below.
The use of space, color, and line, create a painting that is able to be emotional yet available, intimate yet comfortable. The painting shows the human spirit in the way that is should be, without fear of judgement. Decorative Figure on an Ornamental Background depicts a woman, her lower body wrapped in a white sheet, sitting on the floor. The walls are covered in a very ornate floral pattern. The flowers are red and white, and there is a blue and brown pattern
Van Gogh, Vincent. Webexhibits , " Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Saint-Rémy, c. 2 June 1889." Accessed March 29, 2014. http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/20/593.htm.
I found that when admiring a piece of art work, I take that time to imagine myself going back in to the past and seeing what the artist intentions were when forming their own idea and expressing it onto a canvas. We obviously cannot go back in time, but I feel as if my goal is to put together their life in just this one piece of artwork. There is always this feeling I get when I’m captured by painting or drawing, I want to stretch my hand out and get sucked right into the painting and see the world through that artist eyes.
Some say a picture is worth a thousand words, others say that language has power. When Elie Wiesel wrote his memoirs regarding his experience with his Holocaust, he had to “conjure up other verbs, other images, other silent cries” (Wiesel, pg. ix). Throughout this book, the imagery used leaves no question in the reader’s mind about the horrors that this man experienced. He did not have to create a new language, but he did combine aspects of our current language that are not often combined. His word choice and use of subtle description made his message in this book clearer than any picture ever could.
Emotional stimulation is a key part of the arts. Before and during adolescence students go through many emotional changes and experiences. It is important that they find a healthy and natural way to release their concerns and feelings. Art is a considerable alternative to bottling up their emotions or other things a young person may do to release their emotions. For example, when a student creates a piece of art, his or her thoughts, dreams, goals and experiences are put into it “often reflecting an event of significance in their recent past or some element on the canvas that reminds them of a favored person or object or color” (Gardener 16). Likewise, when a student looks at a piece of art, they try to determine the emotion that the artist is trying to convey. This, in affect increases his or her emotional awareness. By putting themselves in another persons position, students develop a greater understanding of the emotions of their peers. The arts also helps students to think critically and view things in a different perspective:
About 6 million Jews died during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust, wrote a book called Night that captures his experience in the concentration camps. Elie Wiesel, an Israelite boy, captures the horrifying realities of the Holocaust with his memoir called Night. The third reich was taking over, conquering countries and wanted to exterminate the race of the Israelites. They were looked down upon and ruthlessly murdered with no pity whatsoever. Auschwitz was the most infamous camp of the Holocaust and Elie Wiesel was transported there.
Frieda Kahlo was born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon in Coyoacan, Mexico, July 6th, 1907. She did not in the first place plan to become a creator; she entered a pre-Master of Education system in Mexico City. She endured more than large integer dealing in her brio time and during her convalescence she began to discomfit. Her beaux-arts, mostly self-portraits and still life, filled with the colors and forms of Mexican folk art. Frieda created some 200 spacing’s, artistic production and sketches germane to her education in life, physical and aroused pain and her churning relationship with her ex husband Diego. She produced 143 beaux arts, lv of which are self-portraits. At the time of her exhibition first step, Frieda’s health was such that her Doctor told her that she was not to leave her patch. She insisted that she was going to wait on her opening, and, in Frieda style, she did. She arrived in an ambulance and her bed in the backward of a transport. She was placed in her bed and four men carried her in to the waiting guests.
Color can be a semiotic resource. It has many uses in the cultural association of signs. Some features that contribute as a signifier are saturation, purity, modulation, value and hue. Red can signify danger, green can stand for hope. In most countries black is a sign of mourning. However, in some parts of Europe, brides wear black for their wedding. In China and some other Eastern Asian countries, white is considered the color for mourning. While in America and most of Europe, white is a sign of purity and warn by brides. These contrasts of cultural semiotics make color partly unpredictable. In order for the color to function as a sign, there must be a consensus of meaning. In most cases there is not a consensus that is shared by all societies. There are some regularities and this is what makes color function as a semiotic resource. The challenge is understanding the motivations and interests of different groups. Some colors translate well and some do not. Finding these regularities within groups and applying them as semiotic resources is a challenge (Kress, 2002). Some associations to color are universal and these connections could spread as communication becomes more global (Eiseman, 2000).
In the poem “Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost, the Romantic poet explores the idea of humanity through nature. This sonnet holds a conversational tone with a depressing mood as the man walks in the dark city trying to gain knowledge about his “inner self”. The narrator takes a stroll at night to embrace the natural world but ignores the society around him. His walk allows him to explore his relationship with nature and civilization. In “Acquainted with the Night”, the narrator emphasizes his isolation from the society by stating his connectivity with the natural world.
The faded artwork depicts a tree between two Egyptian men standing barefoot on a black, gray, and white floor. The background is a mix of light gray with white in the painting. A fig tree is in the middle of the painting it’s trunk is mostly a faded light brown with brush strokes of white through the tree’s trunk and branches. There are also two stripes of the white within the trunk towards its sides that separates the tree trunk into various branches. These branches have many unique curves throughout the tree which gives the tree a popsicle form. The faded mint color leaves on the fig tree are spread throughout the branches. The flesh colored figs are dispersed throughout the tree.
Fly By Night included six different pieces of photography that documented the flight of pigeons with illuminating led light imbedded leg bands. Duke Riley and his team photographed this art in Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York from May 7th through June 19th in 2016. The art was in the University of South Florida at the Contemporary Art Museum, the art center focused primarily in pigeons. The center displayed the six medium-large pictures documented by Duke Riley around the museum and even furthered featured other art work about pigeons and had live pigeons displayed in the center with information about specific traveling pigeons over several years. The Contemporary Art Museum dedicated the art to the ever-changing, diverse and interesting history
Art classes throughout kindergarten and up to my junior year in college have taught me so much about expression, performance and making a statement. Learning and practicing art introduces a new way of processing information, and approaching problems. In my