Teen pop

Claes Oldenburg Who is Claes Oldenburg? Claes Thure Oldenburg is an American sculptor, painter, and pop artist, known as the, “reigning king of Pop sculpture since the early 1960’s.” Claes Oldenburg was born on January 28, 1929 in Stockholm, Sweden. Son of Gösta Oldenburg and Sigrid Elisabeth; due to his father being a member of the Swedish foreign service, Claes and his family moved quite often. Brother of Richard Oldenburg a well-known art historian whom of which was director of the Museum of…

Paul Rand: Graphic Design Paul Rand was a graphic designer, born as Peretz Rosenbaum in Brooklyn, New York. He showed artistic talent from the time he was just a child. He was raised as an Orthodox Jew and so he did not have the approval of his father with his art as drawing the human figure was looked down upon. He used newspaper cartoon strips as his early inspiration for his sketches. He decided he wanted to be a painter and studied art at Pratt Institute. He began to have doubts about…

The genre I have chosen is Rock. Common instruments used in Rock music are mostly amplified instruments, like the electric guitar and electric bass. Rock also uses strong baseline and driving rhythms. Rock music, which was developed from rock ‘n’ roll, originated from the late 1940’s in the United States. It was influenced by country and blues music that started making a new sound using electric guitars and a balanced drum beat, which was a faster beat and rhythm instead of a slow one. Rock…

Pierce the Veil is an emo;post hardcore band from San Diego, California. There are 4 members in the band including Vic Fuentes, Mike Fuentes, Jaime Preciado, and Tony Perry. Pierce The Veil is the best Emo band in today's generation. In 2007 they came out with their first album A flair for the dramatic and in 2010 their album Selfish Machines came out. Despite this, their biggest breakthrough was in 2012 with the release of their album Collide with The Sky. It had reached number one on the Top…

promulgating and spreading far and wide during those times. This dynamic of what would be the favored form of music is perhaps the only constant thing in changing times. For the present, the tides in the music industry have never been so diverse. While pop is still dominating the charts, other genres, which were previously churning under the water, are now breaking through the surface - slowly introduced into the masses of mainstream listeners. One such example is 'deep house', a branch of…

Susan Derges was born in London in the year of 1955. All of her work is mostly visual metaphors. She captures the relationship between nature and self. In one article it said the, “she endeavors to capture both visible and invisible scientific and natural processes. The physical appearance of sound, the evolution of frogspawn or the reflection of the moon and start on water.” Most of her famous work is her capturing water that goes into river and shorelines. Lately she works on photographs that…

Roy Lichtenstein was a famous artist. So in this biography I shall teach you about about Roy Lichtenstein. Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York in the year of 1970s. His father was Milton Lichtenstein, who was a successful real estate and he had a passion for comics and science. When he entered his teenage years he became interested in art. He then graduated from Franklin school and was drafted in ww2. After ww2 he went back to college and finished up his college career. After college, he went…

The Ultimate Confrontation: The Flower and the Bayonet photographed by the French photojournalist Marc Riboud was captured on October 21, 1967. The location was an anti- Vietnam war protest that took place in the American capital at the Pentagon. The girl in the photo is 17 year old Jan Rose Kasmir. The protest involved 100,000 participants’ vs 2,500 soldiers. Riboud captured a fleeting moment, that of a girl offering a flower to the soldiers and the spirit of…

Takashi Murakami, born on February 1, 1962 is a well-known contemporary Japanese artist based in Tokyo. Murakami’s style of art is based on popular culture using a Nihonga-style of modern Japanese painting. He uses colorful graphics and manga style cartoon to show a darker subject material. He uses “hopelessness”, as his main subject with all of his art work. He shows this through the use of sculptures, paintings, drawings, and animations. The “Hustle ‘n’ Punch by Kaikai And Kiki”, was made in…

Riding his biked down the dirt road, Justin stopped on the grass near Ernest’s house. Walking over he peeked through a small crack in the fence and watched as Ernest dug in the backyard. I should stop and help him, wonder what is going to bury. Justin wondered. Recalling the trouble he would be in with his parents if he went near Ernest again. “What is he going to bury?” Justin asked as he watched the Ernest through the crack in the fence where a board was missing. “Hey you, what…