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    and he inspires children of all ages. Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. Walt was the fourth of five children of Elias and Flora Disney. Walt had four brothers and one sister. When Walt was five the family moved to a farm in Marceline, Missouri. Walt soon began to love to draw, Walt’s first few sketches were farm animals. Walt sold drawing to his family and friends, he also attended art classes. A few years later the family moved to Kansas City, Missouri. Walt…

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    the new wing of the Art Institute of Chicago. This piece of artwork is part of a gallery on display titled The New Contemporary. It features an extraordinary amount of art works ranging from the years of 1945 to today. Fahlstrom’s piece features ink and tempera on wood along with twenty cutouts on vinyl. In the early 1960’s he began to make what he called “variable” paintings, in which a figure’s limbs or other discrete objects were segmented and jointed. This made them into art that could be…

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    The piece was created in New York in 1919. The painting was created by using oil paint on a canvas. There was no texture added, so the piece seems to be quite smooth. The canvas is 35 x 29 inches. It is displayed at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The artist painted an abstract piece, and it does not contain a straightforward or well known subject. There are a variety of curved lines that create oval-like shapes that originate from the bottom right corner of the canvas. Your eyes tend to…

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    multiple children’s books and over a hundred poems. Have you heard of the book The Giving Tree or of the poetry books A Light in the Attic or Where the Sidewalk Ends? These are a few of his books and numerous poems by him. Shel Silverstein was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 25, 1930. He was born during the Great Depression, which made it hard when he was young. He and his family were Jewish and also immigrants. His parents, Nathan and Helen Silverstein, were both of European descent.…

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    The art 21 episode I watched was called “humor”. It really showcased some interesting and peculiar artists; the third artist that was shown in the episode was Raymond Pettibon. He was born in Tucson, Arizona on June 16th, 1957. Before he made a career for himself as a professional artist he was a high school teacher, but realized that art was his passion and thought choosing art was a better career choice. In Pettibon’s art it consists of drawing and writing, and he likes to have pieces that…

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    Citizen Kane Orson Welles

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    Wisconsin. Son of Richard Head Welles and Beatrice Ives Welles, growing up was hard on Orson his parents divorced and moved to Chicago in 1919. His father became an alcoholic after he made a ton of money inventing the bicycle lamp, after that he stopped working. Leaving his mother to try and support herself and her child working as a pianist during lectures at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her oldest son Dickie was institutionalized…

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    Art Museum Analysis

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    Analogy I As part of my Introduction to Art class, a visit to an art museum was required. I decided to visit the Art Institute of Chicago. This was my fist time in an art museum in the United States. Previously, I visited an art museum in Mexico, but my experience was completely different. In the Art Institute, I saw many different types and forms of art. Many of the pieces I saw during my visit to this museum were by authors mentioned during class including Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Jeff…

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    officials. He was assigned the duty of driving an ambulance and chauffeuring the Red Cross officials from one region to another. Walter’s ambulance had Disney cartoons all over instead of the stock camouflage. This implied that Disney was obsessed with arts. After driving an ambulance for a short period, he resigned and went to Kansas City in the year 1919. Here he worked as a commercial illustrator and formed crudely animated cartoons. In the year 1920, he had accomplished his mission of…

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    Dudley Weldon Woodard, was an African American Mathematics Professor. Dudley went to a College called Wilberforce University in Ohio (1903-1906) he worked at a University of Chicago (1907). Dudley Weldon was born October 3(1881,Galveston Texas). Dudley died on a Wednesday in a Jewish hospital of old age on July 1,1965 in Cleveland Ohio. Dudley was a smart curious child Dudley’s father had a great job he worked at postal office . There is little or no information about Dudley…

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    in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago (1905) and the Art Students League in New York City (1907-1908). O’Keeffe on April 3, 1917, had her first solo show. It was sponsored by John Singer Sargent, a artist Georgia admired very much and would later become her husband, featured charcoal sketches, which O'Keeffe had made in 1916. Stieglitz was captivated by them and begun also one of the most famous collaborations in art history. After her husband died in 1946, she…

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