I was born on February 28th, 2004 in Cedar Rapids, IA. My little brother was born two years after me, so I was the middle child. I had two older siblings, a mom, and a dad. I first walked when I was 11 months old. My first word was “mom”.…
The film depends on the genuine story of the late Maria Altmann, an elderly Jewish exile living in Cheviot Slopes, Los Angeles, who, together with her young legal counselor, Randy Schoenberg, battled the legislature of Austria for very nearly 10 years to recover Gustav Klimt's famous painting of her auntie, Representation of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, which was stolen from her relatives by the Nazis in Vienna simply earlier to World War II. This dramatization around a Jewish exile who winds up in an undeniable fight in court with the Austrian government to recuperate a bit of craftsmanship she trusts has a place with her family after it was stolen by the Nazis 60 years former. First, Maria Altmann, an exquisite elderly Viennese woman, to recoup five Klimt artworks stolen from her family by the Nazis in 1938. The five Klimts were exchanged to the Austrian National Display where they hung for a considerable length of time after the War. The canvases incorporated the famous "Lady in Gold", the representation of Maria's close relative, Adele Bloch-Bauer, which got to be known as the "Mona Lisa of Austria".…
Significant personal events in one’s life can act to influence an individual’s artmaking practice. This is evident through Frida Kahlo’s artwork ‘The Broken Column’ 1944, Jenny Sages ‘After Jack’ 2012 and Christian Thompson ‘King Billy’ 2010. Frida Kahlo, is the first example of such an individual as she experienced a horrible accident causing permanent damage to her spine. As a result of the accident, Kahlo became influenced to paint through using her emotion as a driving force to paint where Kahlo states “I am broken, but I am happy as long as I can paint”. This is depicted in Kahlo’s artwork ‘The Broken Column’ in plate 4 which depicts a figure namely Kahlo herself being pricked by nails with the presence of a broken pillar.…
“Richter's paintings, one might say, are timely only insofar as they are untimely” (Osbourne 110). This quotes perfectly exemplifies the meaning of artist Gerhard Richard work. The Art Gallery of Ontario possess Gerhard Richter’s painting Helga Matura as a gift from the volunteer committee fund in 1986, though the piece was painted twenty years earlier in 1966 (“Helga Matura”). In the AGO’s Philip B. Lind Gallery Helga Matura is on display for the public to see. Gerhard Richter painted many pieces that preserve public memory, as he was “interested in the relevance of painting in an age of mass-media bombardment” (“Helga Matura”).…
The artwork I chose is, The Scream by Edvard Munch, which was created in 1893. This artwork has been described, as a “Mona Lisa for our time.” The composition of The Scream is an oil painting on cardboard. Furthermore, the style of this painting is Expressionism. To emphasize, Edvard Munch used lines, and colors to depict human emotions.…
“It was like there was two Ed Gein's. One during the day, and one at night digging up the graves.” Ed Gein was known for grave robbing and the murder of two women. I chose to research Ed Gein because, for some reason I find forensic related things interesting. I like researching murders, mysteries, urban legends, etcetera.…
My grandmother Leola was born October 1, 1941 and is from Cleveland as well while my grandfather John was born March 12, 1936 in Salem, Alabama. Leola’s parents are William and Margery Burks. William was from Mount Rose, Arkansas and Margery of McDonald, Georgia. Now, I know people can meet almost anywhere from all over the world and my grandparents from my father’s side of the family are a great representation of just that.…
As part of my studies for my art work I looked at different artists such as Samuel Peploe, Mark Preston and Horatio McCulloch. After looking at some of the artists’ work. I chose Horatio McCulloch as the artist I would base my studies on as comparing my style to these artists work I believe my style is the closest to his and therefore would be the easiest to link my work to. Horatio McCulloch was born November 1805 in Glasgow and died June 1867 in…
Chapter 8, The age of suspicion, Portrait of an American:. Edward Roscoe Murrow Murrow has become the nation's hottest radio reporter and announcer. In 1951, CBS launched its first television documentary program "See It Now" moderated by Murrow its producer Fred W.Friendly. Murrow began to board the TV screen. Murrow's high reputation and the "See It Now" wonderful story, creating a television news era.…
Although there has been other genocides, the Holocaust has been the worst event that took place in history. Two million Jews and other minorities were targeted and killed. The Holocaust was successful in carrying out all the atrocities they did under the regime of Hitler, because Hitler and his followers were organize and tactical when caring out their reign of terror. Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic memoir, Maus, written by Art Speigelman’s (1991). The author writes about his father experience in the concentration camp.…
Dr. Seuss’s life started out like many others of his time. He was born Theodor “Ted” Seuss Geisel on May 2, 1904 in the city of Springfield Massachusetts, which is where he would grow up. His father, Theodor Robert Geisel, was the son of a German immigrant and owned a brewery before prohibition. After losing his job at the brewery, Theodor Robert took a job as commissioner of parks in Springfield. Seuss’s mother, Henrietta Seuss Geisel, was also the child of a German immigrant, but she worked as a home designer.…
In this theory I can relate and say that Van Gogh's parents highly praised his works of art and creations he immediately destroyed them. Later in his life, we see a comparative example of feeling shame when commended for his works of art (Wallace, 1969). Plainly Van Gogh took activity, behaved in a manner considered to be out of the ordinary for the time, took risks, and invented games, yet, when praised he seemed to have displayed some form of guilt which caused him to destroy his creations. His could once again indicate more of an introverted personality as it seems he did not create art for recognition from others but rather as something which brought him pleasure. On the off chance that a kid is not given opportunity, he may create blame…
In March 1990, two men disguised as Boston police officers gained entrance to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum located in Boston, Massachusetts and successfully stole five hundred million dollars worth of art. Among the thirteen priceless works stolen were Rembrandt’s The Sea of Galilee and Vermeer’s The Concert, which was one of only thirty-five of the artist’s surviving works. The Gardner museum offered a reward of five million dollars. However, as the years passed, not a single work of art has been recovered.…
Edgar Allan Poe is often referred as the father of Gothic and horror stories. He has wrote many works of mysterious characters and very bizarre plots lines. Of all his morbid works, they all have a commonality in setting, characters, and Gothic elements in The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Masque of the Red Death. Moreover, Poe has written work with similarities in settings. They all compose of a dark, mysterious atmosphere usually during the night and consisting of a natural event happening.…
The supernatural compared to the third world countries are both misunderstood by the society. Therefore they are being mistreated economically and socially. The super naturals are being expressed by magical realism. Both stories include magical elements to express treatment conveyed to the real world and the third world economy. Magical realism is the style of painting literature in which fantastic or imaginary are often unsettling images depicted to express the brutality.…