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    Amy Tan Culture

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    How does your culture, religion, and life experience change the way you see the world? There is so many amazing things about culture. The different holidays we celebrate, the way we view situations, and religions we turn to in need are all things that only happen because of culture and life experiences. Your culture effects the way you see the world because of how you were raised, religion you follow, and over all the different types of people you have had the pleasure, or displeasure, of…

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    Genetic Identity

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    character of a particular person or thing that distinguishes them from others of the same kind.” Professional sociologists have long debated the power of environment in shaping identity, thus playing a role in the individual’s world view and responses. Frida Kahlo visually represented the influence of the environment on the individual in her painting, Self Portrait Between the Borderline of Mexico and the United States, 1932, depicting the vast differences between Mexico and the United States,…

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    I Am Too Far North Essay

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    my life. Fortunately, I have been blessed with two loving parents who taught me to love my roots and not to be ashamed of whom I am. My parents have taught me about cultural icons such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes & Frida Kahlo. However, during these passed two years police brutality, racial tension, and gender issues have been hot topics in the media. Being a Massachusetts resident, I have always been taught that I am “too far north” for racism or sexism to…

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    did the best you can. It might look like nothing special to others but its special to you. That is why you should other peoples work because they try to their best as well. (Frida Kahlo) When you put your heart into your work you feel happy because it’s something you created and that is means something special to you. Frida Kahlo was a famous painter who loved her work because she painted many self-portraits to express the way she…

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    The oil on canvas painting “Over the Rainbow” created by Alfredo Arreguin serves as a commentary on the visible and the hidden elements of one’s identity. Alfredo Arreguin’s painting “Over the Rainbow” greets you to your right as you enter the Mexican Museum of Art, located in San Francisco’s Fort Mason. The building of the museum is gargantuan, minimalistic and intimidating in its military presence. When you walk into the museum the room is suddenly very tiny and as you turn the corner of the…

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    ‘I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best’; This quote by Mexican surrealist Frida Kahlo expresses the importance of the ‘self portrait’ and how critical they are to understanding an artist. They are the form in which many artists have come to be remembered, offering insights into their lives, surroundings, and even their state of mind. Self portraits have been used throughout time to advertise artistic skills, to practise craft, to explore their inner…

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    A Christmas Carol Essay

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    A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol is a wonderful play. It was worth doing, because it had amazing characters that made the play real. A Christmas Carol play was directed by Henry Wishcamper. The directed had worked hard to make this play so perfect and interesting to watch. I understood everything that director wanted to say. This play is old, but every new director wants to make it classical, and also add something unique to it. This director didn’t change the play, but he made it so…

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    Clement Greenberg Essay

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    ‘If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.’ (Example of Rothko’s artwork: Untitled (Rothko Number 5086.49), 1949. Oil on canvas. 2.1 x 1.7 m) 9. Frida Kahlo was a Mexican artist married to Diego Rivera in 1929. While her art has been described as surreal, a title which helped her to get her artwork shown in New York in 1939, Kahlo rejected the surrealist title. She is well known for her…

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    accurate interpretation with full respect of creator’s mind rather expands, explores the art. It explores the footnote the artist leaves behind in form of signs and symbols even when the painting do not carry any idea, subject or concept (for instance, Frida Kahlo’s…

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    Women In Art

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    Race has been a big issue in the art community as well as the rest of the world. Statistically it is very unlikely for a person of color to enter into the museum system over white curators, engineers, directors, etc. Even artists of color struggle to get their works into museums, completely unrelated to their quality of work. Usually the works of art that are put up are the ones that are stereotypical; the savagely barbaric African art or the ethnically fetishized Orientalism. The works of art…

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