My topic for my paper is on the major art movements that emerged from the early 1900s up until the late 1950s in western Europe and how one or more of the movements might have impacted the making of another one and how they are, if they are, connected. I like this topic because I like art and how people can express themselves in so many different ways and I thought it would be cool to learn about some of the different ways people did and why they did. I have found a good amount of information for my paper so far and hope it all turns out well. I have found a few movements that have developed with influence from some of the movements before it and how later movements did the same. Pretty cool stuff sometimes but I wont be able to even think about art history of almost any kind after this...
Many different art movements emerged in western Europe from the early 1900s up until the late 1950s and some of them were influenced by others and were the ones later movements weer influenced by. First came Cubism and Abstractionism around 1908-1910 and they were really new ways that people could express themselves, although they were very color and shape oriented and different in a few ways, the whole abstract subject/hidden subject thing was the same. Expressionism was really a combination of a few of the movements but had a big desire for expressing emotion making it kind of different. Modernism was a movement in which people simplified a lot and were trying not to look back on the past and paint up to date, but a little bit Cubist with their straight line choices and color choices. Futurism is similar although it was more of what's alter than what's in the future. Art Deco was a movement that was popular in the mid 1920s to late 1930s, when it ended up at the worlds fair in New York and became overshadowed be other movements and such. It was really a mix of all the past modernist/cubist/etc. movements and the last development was Pop art. This was mainly used for ads depicting movies and like coca cola and stuff the younger people of the generation were drawn to, having a bunch of young artists in it as well.
Well, ya, that's my research...
Monday, January 28, 2013
Reading and Researching Times
Well, this week I am reading Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. This book is, well for lack of better words, out of the ordinary. I'm pretty sure this is a manifesto, if not maybe an autobiography although I don't think Sedaris is that old... maybe a work of fiction-- that is, if he didn't do all the messed up stuff (drugs and some kind of art that I have no idea about...) but I think he did, well whatever it is it's interesting. Definitely interesting.
It's about this guy- David- and is in 1st person and so far I have gotten to him talking about his job at a moving company and he has already gone through his artist stage and drug stage and artist-on-drug stage as well as some other stuff from his childhood and I find it a pretty cool read. Although I am not sure what the point of this book is or what it is even about, I like it, so yep:)
My research this weekend has involved me making some note cards and some more information from sources on my topics for my paper.
Times:
Reading--
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris--
Tuesday-- 40 minutes, 45 pages
Wednesday-- 30 minutes, 29 pages
Friday-- 35 minutes, 35 pages
Researching--
Making note cards-- 30 minutes (cutting and pasting and then paraphrasing...)
finding all the new information and sources-- 20 minutes
Total time spent: 150 minutes (I was so scared that I would come up short...:)
It's about this guy- David- and is in 1st person and so far I have gotten to him talking about his job at a moving company and he has already gone through his artist stage and drug stage and artist-on-drug stage as well as some other stuff from his childhood and I find it a pretty cool read. Although I am not sure what the point of this book is or what it is even about, I like it, so yep:)
My research this weekend has involved me making some note cards and some more information from sources on my topics for my paper.
Times:
Reading--
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris--
Tuesday-- 40 minutes, 45 pages
Wednesday-- 30 minutes, 29 pages
Friday-- 35 minutes, 35 pages
Researching--
Making note cards-- 30 minutes (cutting and pasting and then paraphrasing...)
finding all the new information and sources-- 20 minutes
Total time spent: 150 minutes (I was so scared that I would come up short...:)
Monday, January 21, 2013
Reading and Researching
The word choice was amazing, the main characters well developed, and over all a really great book. This week, after I finished The Firm- finally- I read Every Day by David Leviathan. It was so good! It is about a boy who wakes up each day in a different body in a different place, and, after he meets this girl, how he stays in touch and explains his situation to her. It was emotional and funny and deep and serious all at once and it genuinely one of the best books I have ever read.
Leviathan's description of all the main characters (all the people the boy "occupies" for a day) was really good and it isn't too much so that the book got really boring but just enough throughout the whole chapter to get you to know them well enough to picture them in your head.
Back to The Firm: the end was amazing:) The first 150 or so pages of this were really boring to me because of all the background info and description Grisham puts into his work. I mean, it really helped me get to know the characters, and, by the end, be very animated in the actions performed by them- I was trying to tell them to turn back and to not do something that could get them killed and so on. I was pleased with the last 275 or so pages of the book because it started moving and turning into, well a page turner that you just HAD to see if Mitch would do this or that. I really liked it.
My research, well I am working on that still. Ha ha I have some more to do, but have gotten a good bit done.
Times:
Monday- 10 minutes- The Firm by John Grisham, 12 pages
Tuesday- 110 minutes- The Firm by John Grisham, 120 pages (finished it!)
Wednesday- 10 minutes-Every Day by David Leviathan, 15 pages
Thursday- 10 minutes- Every Day by David Leviathan, 13 pages
Friday- 280 minutes (includes in class reading times)- Every Day by David Leviathan, 294 pages (finished it!)
Research times:
Tuesday- found 3 books for sources and wrote the bibliography, going to annotate later, 30 minutes
Wednesday- annotated and got note cards for a book, 30 minutes
Saturday- Monday: went to library and found 2 new sources, going to annotate either Tuesday or Wednesday- 20 minutes
Total: 500 minutes, 454 pages, and 5 new sources
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Leviathan's description of all the main characters (all the people the boy "occupies" for a day) was really good and it isn't too much so that the book got really boring but just enough throughout the whole chapter to get you to know them well enough to picture them in your head.
Back to The Firm: the end was amazing:) The first 150 or so pages of this were really boring to me because of all the background info and description Grisham puts into his work. I mean, it really helped me get to know the characters, and, by the end, be very animated in the actions performed by them- I was trying to tell them to turn back and to not do something that could get them killed and so on. I was pleased with the last 275 or so pages of the book because it started moving and turning into, well a page turner that you just HAD to see if Mitch would do this or that. I really liked it.
My research, well I am working on that still. Ha ha I have some more to do, but have gotten a good bit done.
Times:
Monday- 10 minutes- The Firm by John Grisham, 12 pages
Tuesday- 110 minutes- The Firm by John Grisham, 120 pages (finished it!)
Wednesday- 10 minutes-Every Day by David Leviathan, 15 pages
Thursday- 10 minutes- Every Day by David Leviathan, 13 pages
Friday- 280 minutes (includes in class reading times)- Every Day by David Leviathan, 294 pages (finished it!)
Research times:
Tuesday- found 3 books for sources and wrote the bibliography, going to annotate later, 30 minutes
Wednesday- annotated and got note cards for a book, 30 minutes
Saturday- Monday: went to library and found 2 new sources, going to annotate either Tuesday or Wednesday- 20 minutes
Total: 500 minutes, 454 pages, and 5 new sources
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Saturday, January 19, 2013
Free Post with a Twist
So I will try to use as many of these words as I can...
Alrighty, so an avocation of mine has always been art, and ever since Thanksgiving break I was somewhat inducted into the staff position at an art camp that, until I turned 15, was a volunteer at, which was really awesome as well. It was not any less work there or any less fun to be had there, the exact opposite really.
So earlier today I got to work at the Arts Council for a couple hours while 30 or so kids came to paint canvases for Zoes restaurant so that they can be viewed and sold later this month. It was tacit that I wear clothes that I didn't mind getting paint on, which I did, and subsequently got paint all over my hands. The children, about half of them I knew from camp, were surprisingly not as raucous as I at first thought they were going to be. Sure they were noisy, but well behaved- they didn't mess with the work on the gallery walls- this work looks amazing- and they were quiet enough that you could hear yourself think and have a conversation with one while the others carried on talking. Their demeanor was very nice for being a weekend and paint and a room with that as well as candy and cookies to eat.
No children made another one feel like a pariah and all of their work turned out looking nicely, although not the work of an artistic prodigy to my knowledge, and will look nice hanging on the walls of the restaurant. Some of the kids there were proteges and protegees of some of the erudite artists helping there, having been taking some lessons from them and what not. Another staff member was here helping me with pouring all the paint colors on the plates and refilling the water and washing the brushes and such and, i must say, we are pretty adroit at dealing with acrylic paint in an art gallery full of children from the ages of 5 to around 10.
The two hours lapsed quite fast and after the definitive "Thanks for coming and hope you come to our holiday camp..." speeches, we picked up all the trash and paint and brushes and put them all back downstairs in the museum. After this, the other staff member and I talked about how she would be crusading to try and get all the paint off her nails for her date( did I use this right??) and then went to go do some paperwork. Finally, we talked about the themes for this summers camp which go from mermaids to tiaras and from monsters to pirates. It will be exciting and we are both excited for that.
Well thats all the words I can use...
I would really like to know if I used any of these words wrong, so if I did please tell me! OK, well time to go wash all the paint off my hands...
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Alrighty, so an avocation of mine has always been art, and ever since Thanksgiving break I was somewhat inducted into the staff position at an art camp that, until I turned 15, was a volunteer at, which was really awesome as well. It was not any less work there or any less fun to be had there, the exact opposite really.
So earlier today I got to work at the Arts Council for a couple hours while 30 or so kids came to paint canvases for Zoes restaurant so that they can be viewed and sold later this month. It was tacit that I wear clothes that I didn't mind getting paint on, which I did, and subsequently got paint all over my hands. The children, about half of them I knew from camp, were surprisingly not as raucous as I at first thought they were going to be. Sure they were noisy, but well behaved- they didn't mess with the work on the gallery walls- this work looks amazing- and they were quiet enough that you could hear yourself think and have a conversation with one while the others carried on talking. Their demeanor was very nice for being a weekend and paint and a room with that as well as candy and cookies to eat.
No children made another one feel like a pariah and all of their work turned out looking nicely, although not the work of an artistic prodigy to my knowledge, and will look nice hanging on the walls of the restaurant. Some of the kids there were proteges and protegees of some of the erudite artists helping there, having been taking some lessons from them and what not. Another staff member was here helping me with pouring all the paint colors on the plates and refilling the water and washing the brushes and such and, i must say, we are pretty adroit at dealing with acrylic paint in an art gallery full of children from the ages of 5 to around 10.
The two hours lapsed quite fast and after the definitive "Thanks for coming and hope you come to our holiday camp..." speeches, we picked up all the trash and paint and brushes and put them all back downstairs in the museum. After this, the other staff member and I talked about how she would be crusading to try and get all the paint off her nails for her date( did I use this right??) and then went to go do some paperwork. Finally, we talked about the themes for this summers camp which go from mermaids to tiaras and from monsters to pirates. It will be exciting and we are both excited for that.
Well thats all the words I can use...
I would really like to know if I used any of these words wrong, so if I did please tell me! OK, well time to go wash all the paint off my hands...
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Project Update 1
My project is coming along I think. I will be going to the library this afternoon to get some books that I found at school as sources so that I can do some research over the long weekend. I have found some useful and some not as useful information on my topic, but it's really all about what words you search with. I am kind of concerned that the starting dates if two of the developments I am researching, abstractionism and cubism, may have switched dates because at first I thought the order was as stated but, from my readings, the order is switched with Cubism having been there a little earlier c. 1907/8. I will have to read a little more but that's what I've gotten right now.
All of the helpful sources I have gotten have been books. Websites from databases have ended up to be on either just the pictures themselves or the development connected with something else that doesnt pertains to my topic. Either that or there isnt much background information on the development at all, which stinks.
All in all, my project is coming along at an OK rate, and, after I get the books I want, I'll be all set to finish the research and all that fun stuff.
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All of the helpful sources I have gotten have been books. Websites from databases have ended up to be on either just the pictures themselves or the development connected with something else that doesnt pertains to my topic. Either that or there isnt much background information on the development at all, which stinks.
All in all, my project is coming along at an OK rate, and, after I get the books I want, I'll be all set to finish the research and all that fun stuff.
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Monday, January 14, 2013
Free Post #2 (I think:)
Hey! OK so I have no idea what to write for this free post so I guess I can just write about my weekend, um... ya:)
So on Friday I went to the basketball games at Runnels- we won all 3!!! I read during most of them but I was still there so that has to count for something, right? So then we got home and it was all dark and ya, so now let's just skip to Saturday. I saw Gangster Squad-- you know? the movie? (how do I write that: italics, ...?) It was sooooo good! I liked it and Jim says I only liked it because of Ryan Gosling and my mom says it's only because of the fashion in it-- but those were just added perks:):) SO ya, movie movie movie and it's over.
Not much happened after that- I don't even remember most of it- weird- but I remember falling asleep on the kitchen floor for a few hours at like 4 in the afternoon and I found that strange. Not me falling asleep on the floor- I find the floor to be comfortable surface in most rooms of my house but I never fall asleep on the floor. I mean I just walked up and layed (correct grammar???) on the floor and fell asleep and my mom let me which I was surprised to learn- I thought she would've gotten mad at me-- but that isn't the point... I've been really tired lately and I don't know why and it wasn't just after school started back up which is why I find that so weird and yep! So anyways, back to Saturday...
So then I watched the last episode of Sherlock, season 2, which I was very into and was about to yell at the screen which I hardly ever ever do, and then (sun down, sun up-- details in your imagination:) it's not Sunday!
So I woke up and Jim had basketball and then I actually got pencils that have erasers!!! I am so excited!! Ha ha so then I had a cotillion dance and it was a masquerade ball and I got to dress up all pretty and I couldn't wear my glasses so I felt like I was going to fall down the stairs or something silly like that but I made it through alive! Then I did homework and I wont bore you with the details... So yep:)
So on Friday I went to the basketball games at Runnels- we won all 3!!! I read during most of them but I was still there so that has to count for something, right? So then we got home and it was all dark and ya, so now let's just skip to Saturday. I saw Gangster Squad-- you know? the movie? (how do I write that: italics, ...?) It was sooooo good! I liked it and Jim says I only liked it because of Ryan Gosling and my mom says it's only because of the fashion in it-- but those were just added perks:):) SO ya, movie movie movie and it's over.
Not much happened after that- I don't even remember most of it- weird- but I remember falling asleep on the kitchen floor for a few hours at like 4 in the afternoon and I found that strange. Not me falling asleep on the floor- I find the floor to be comfortable surface in most rooms of my house but I never fall asleep on the floor. I mean I just walked up and layed (correct grammar???) on the floor and fell asleep and my mom let me which I was surprised to learn- I thought she would've gotten mad at me-- but that isn't the point... I've been really tired lately and I don't know why and it wasn't just after school started back up which is why I find that so weird and yep! So anyways, back to Saturday...
So then I watched the last episode of Sherlock, season 2, which I was very into and was about to yell at the screen which I hardly ever ever do, and then (sun down, sun up-- details in your imagination:) it's not Sunday!
So I woke up and Jim had basketball and then I actually got pencils that have erasers!!! I am so excited!! Ha ha so then I had a cotillion dance and it was a masquerade ball and I got to dress up all pretty and I couldn't wear my glasses so I felt like I was going to fall down the stairs or something silly like that but I made it through alive! Then I did homework and I wont bore you with the details... So yep:)
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Reading Times!
OK so over the break I read:
If I Stay and Where She Went by Gale Foreman and The Selection by Kiera Cass, not too much, I know.
Ha ha so this week I read The Firm by John Grisham- more like continued to read and I read:
Monday- 10 minutes, 10 pages
Tuesday- 10 minutes, 12 pages
Wednesday- 10 minute, 11 pages
Friday- 2 hours, 132 pages
total: 150 minutes, 165 pages
Well, at first I really liked the book, but then I got kind of bored with it, and I don't know, this past week I have gotten really into it and it is getting really good and interesting:) This book was recommended to me by a friend and I am glad she picked it or I probably wouldn't have.
What I really have turned out to like about this book is how Grisham jumps from mainly talking about Mitch McDeere, the main character, and his interactions with people who help him realize that the firm he works for is run by the mob and he cant get out lest he be killed or go into witness protection with the FBI, who are offering to help him for a price to the firm and how they start to realize McDeere knows and how they plan on stopping him or figuring out what to do.
The plot line is very interesting and as you read you realize how realistic it all is, even when you don't really think of the US as having major mob families and such anymore. I am close to finishing it and hope the ending is as climactic as I hope it will be.
If I Stay and Where She Went by Gale Foreman and The Selection by Kiera Cass, not too much, I know.
Ha ha so this week I read The Firm by John Grisham- more like continued to read and I read:
Monday- 10 minutes, 10 pages
Tuesday- 10 minutes, 12 pages
Wednesday- 10 minute, 11 pages
Friday- 2 hours, 132 pages
total: 150 minutes, 165 pages
Well, at first I really liked the book, but then I got kind of bored with it, and I don't know, this past week I have gotten really into it and it is getting really good and interesting:) This book was recommended to me by a friend and I am glad she picked it or I probably wouldn't have.
What I really have turned out to like about this book is how Grisham jumps from mainly talking about Mitch McDeere, the main character, and his interactions with people who help him realize that the firm he works for is run by the mob and he cant get out lest he be killed or go into witness protection with the FBI, who are offering to help him for a price to the firm and how they start to realize McDeere knows and how they plan on stopping him or figuring out what to do.
The plot line is very interesting and as you read you realize how realistic it all is, even when you don't really think of the US as having major mob families and such anymore. I am close to finishing it and hope the ending is as climactic as I hope it will be.
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