Blue eyes

orange complements the revealing stoke of teal blue. The texture portrayed appears to be smooth due to the soft swerved lines as compared to the rough appearance of the sea. The sea is created using analogous colours, which include deep greens, earthy greens, navy blue and sky blue that slightly contrasts with the hint of orange and beige. The sea is portrayed rough in texture, due to its scratchy appearance of the sky blue colour onto the navy blue underlay. Munch paints an androgynous figure,…

only drum solo in the set, as well as a trumpet solo, and a melodic saxophone solo. The arrangement, done by Mark Taylor, differed from the original as it was very inspired by Latin jazz. In addition the band played the Benny Carter ballad Who’s Blue which featured one of many unorthodox but well done trombone solos. The group's last piece, Shake It But Don’t Break It, featured a heavy swing beat and ended the entire set with a short piano solo before the brass blasted…

many but also possessed the capability of bridging racial differences. If a listener was able to seep into the core of jazz, they would recognize that its improvisation and swing feeling was derived from the popular genres of ragtime and blues. Ragtime and blues share several similarities as well as differences, though each…

“Sonny’s Blues”, written by James Baldwin, was first published in 1957 in Partisan Review and was later published again by Baldwin in a collection of short stories called Going to Meet the Man. “Sonny’s Blues” is the story of two brothers, one an Algebra teacher in Harlem and the other a jazz musician tuned heroin addict and drug dealer both suffering from the inequalities faced by African Americans before and during the Civil Rights Movement. The story does not begin with background information…

portrays a horse, named Blue, trapped in a small, fenced in area with only five acres to explore. After some time, another horse shows up and brings a light in the horse’s, Blue’s, life. The two spent hours together, never leaving each others side. But soon after, the second horse is taken away for an unknown reason, which leaves Blue feeling angry and depressed. It can be inferred that the speaker of the short story is Alice Walker herself. Walker saw her own life in Blue, the reason as to why…

Singing out their pain and suffering, or just to make the time fly by, blues was said to have been created by early slavery. Deep south in the mid to late 1800’s, blues is known to be deeply rooted with African American culture and history originating from 19th century while in the southern plantations (Kopp). As Ed Kobb explains in the…

Naturally the past seems to fade from the forefront of our minds as new times encroach. All that remain are brief fragments of a previous time. Langston Hughes’ “The Weary Blues”, and Robert Frost’s “Directive”, offer a limbo between the past and the present. Modernity is inevitable, yet the past still lingers in the shadows. While their styles may differ, both poems provide a vague depiction of times lost. By doing so, they provide no sufficient solution to issue, but merely offer a momentary…

The white snow is falling, one by one, layering the quiet grounds of my neighborhood. In the distance, I can see the useless sun, shining bright in the sky. However, the atmosphere I’m a part of is filled with darkness. One day, as I sat on my on my porch. I notice the khaki color of my door frame chips away more, every year it lives, similar to the way I flake away. I tell myself, when I walk through this gateway, I’m suppose to feel protected from all harms, I’m suppose to feel…

far background and is not noticed with a first glance at the artwork. The odd thing about these windows in the piece is that you cannot see anything outside through them. The entire piece of artwork looks to be different tints and shades of the color blue. The three elements of art that are most noticeable in this piece of artwork are color, value, and line. Of all of the elements of art, color is the most powerful. It attracts a viewer’s attention, and that is what happens in this piece of…

“Mermaids Hate Plastic” by Benjamin Von Wong features a vibrant color scheme. The extremely bright blue and green colors help to lead the viewer's eyes to the mermaid laying on the floor. On a first glance the clash of the blue and green against the neutral tan color create an elegant background for the mermaid laying on the floor. The mermaid is colored with a very bright orange and violet to draw the eye of the viewer to the mermaid. Bottles create a illusion of an ocean, but upon closer…