Emily

**__Tosca (Puccini):__**  __Setting and Historical Context:__ __Characters:__ __Act 1:__ __Act 2:__ __Act 3: __
 * June 17 and 18, 1800
 * Rome, Italy
 * Following the French Revolution, Napolean leads a French army into Rome almost unopposed and set up a Republic there.The city spent the next fourteen years under French Rule
 * Floria Tosca- a singer
 * Mario Cavaradossi- a Painter
 * Baron Scarpia- Chief of Police
 * Cesare Angelotti
 * A Sacristan (an official in charge of sacred things objects)
 * Spoletta- Police Agent
 * <span style="color: #131111; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Sciarrone- a gendarme (a french police officer)
 * <span style="color: #131111; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A Gaoler (Jailer)
 * <span style="color: #131111; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A Shepard Boy
 * <span style="color: #131111; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The first person to enter is Angelotti. He has escaped from prison and is looking for a place to hide in the Attavanti Chapel
 * <span style="color: #131111; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">As he hides, a Sacristan comes in
 * <span style="color: #131111; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Mario, a painter, comes in and works on a painting inspired by Angelotti's sister.
 * <span style="color: #131111; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The sacristan leaves and Angelotti comes out of hiding. Mario and Angelotti are old friends. Mario gives Angelotti food and hides him again as they hear Floria Tosca, a singer, calling to Mario outside.
 * <span style="color: #131111; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">She is jealous and suspicious. She comes in to remind Mario about their "rendezvous" later that night. She sees the painting of Angelotti's sister and becomes extremely angry. She leaves.
 * <span style="color: #131111; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Angelotti leaves his hiding again as they hear a cannon that signals the escape has been discovered. They go to Mario's villa.
 * <span style="color: #131111; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The sacristan returns with choirboys to practice for a performance the next day, but are cut short when Baron Scarpia, the police chief, comes in looking for Angelotti.
 * <span style="color: #131111; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">When Tosca returns for Mario, Baron Scarpia shows her a fan that belongs to Angelotti's sister. She believes Mario to be faithless and leaves the church vowing vengeance. Scarpia has her followed hoping she will lead him to Angelotti.
 * <span style="color: #131111; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Spoletta, another police agent was not able to locate Angelotti, so he brings in Mario instead. He is interrogated on the floor above where Tosca is singing.
 * <span style="color: #131111; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">She enters as Mario is taken from the room. Scarpia decides to break Mario's silence through torture. Because of Scarpia's questions and the sound of Marios screams, Tosca reveals Angelotti's location. Mario learns of this and turns on Tosca
 * <span style="color: #131111; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">As this is happening, Sciarrone, a french police officer, comes in and announces Napolean's victory in the Battle of Morengo. This is bad for Scarpia, but as Mario hears this he shouts "victory!" and is dragged to prison.
 * <span style="color: #131111; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Scarpia tells Tosca that she must be with him if she wants to save Mario's life. She refuses and says she "has given her life to art and love". Scarpia starts to insist again but Spoletta, a police agent, comes in and announces that Angelotti has killed himself, because he was faced with capture.
 * <span style="color: #131111; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Tosca gives in to Scarpia's demand to save Mario. Spoletta leaves. After he leaves, Scarpia writes the document for a fake execution of Mario, after which he will be freed. Tosca then takes a knife from the table. She kills him and takes the document, leaving a crucifix in the room.
 * <span style="color: #131111; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">As Mario awaits his execution, he bribes the jailor to write a farewell note to Tosca.
 * <span style="color: #131111; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Tosca runs in and tells him the story of her adventure. The two talk about their future together. As the firing squad appears, Tosca coaches Mario on how to fake his death.
 * <span style="color: #131111; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The soldiers fire and depart.
 * <span style="color: #131111; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Tosca tells Mario to hurry, but when he fails to move, she discovers Scarpias treachery and that the bullets were real.
 * <span style="color: #131111; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Spoletta comes in to arrest her for Scarpias death, but she leaps out of the tower to her death.

THE END

This is the opening sing, performed by Mario, he is comparing Tosca to the woman he is painting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMtOtRed6Fs

Sources: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=25 http://www.musicwithease.com/puccini-la-tosca-synopsis.html


 * <span style="color: #615a7c; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 130%;">__James Van Der Zee:__ **
 * <span style="color: #14c87c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Born June 29, 1886. Died May 15, 1983
 * <span style="color: #6817ee; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">He was the second person in Lenox, Massachusetts (his hometown) to own a camera
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">He got his first camera when he was 14 years old
 * <span style="color: #002aff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">He used props, architectural elements, and costumes in many of his pictures
 * <span style="color: #00805b; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">His photos often took so long to take he could only do an average of 3 sittings a day




 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 130%;">__Ansel Adams:__ **
 * <span style="color: #ff6500; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Born February 20, 1902. Died April 22, 1984
 * <span style="color: #92920c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Along with Fred Archer, Ansel Adams helped develope the "Zone System", which is a way to find the right amount of exposure and to be able to adjust the contrast in the final print
 * <span style="color: #ed5454; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">His First photographs were published in 1921
 * <span style="color: #b57d7d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">He had his first solo exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution in 1931

__-Iconic Image:__ I would vote for this picture to be in the top 5 most important pictures because it shows that even though one group (the KKK) will hate on another group of people, there can still be some compassion from the people that have been hurt.

__World Press:__ http://www.worldpressphoto.org/photo/2012paolowoodsdl-3?gallery=2634&category=52 Photographed by Paolo Woods "Radio Haiti"

In the photo, Sister Melianise Gabreus is doing her daily advice program. In Haiti, where more than 50 percent of people are illiterate, and around 25 percent of people have electricity, radio is the main communication. In this picture the mood seemed like a kind of simple hope. What strikes me about this picture is that, in America, our radio stations have so much more than this one, and compared to this setup, it seems kind of superfluous and unnecessary.

__A Day in The Life:__

__Savion Glover:__

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 120%;">Savion Glover is a tap dancer, choreographer, and actor. He was born on November 19, 1973. He is 38 years old now. His grandmother, Anna Lundy Lewis, was the first person to notice Savions musical talents. Savion says his style is young and funk, which he says just means that “it is the bass line, and it is anything that gets your head on the beat”. Savion was taught tap by Gregory Hines, who is a tap legend. He likes to start his pieces out with classic moves from other famous dancers before slowly working his way into his own original moves. <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 120%;">Savion has said that he wants to bring back the original type of tap dance that was created in times of slavery. Because slaves were forbidden to use drums, they instead moved the rhythm to their feet in the form of tap. Because of the connection of tap dancing and drumming, many tap dancers have played the drums on their lifetime. When he was 7 years old, Savion played the drums for a group called Three Plus One. While he was drumming, he insisted that he would dance while he played the drums. <span style="color: #ed5454; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 120%;">It has been explained that you can creates many different tones with different parts of your feet. The heel of the foot is like the bass drum, the ball as the snare drum, and the side of the foot as a rim shot. All tap dancers know about the typical ball and heel movement, but most don’t realize the arch or the inside parts of the foot are just as important. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 120%;">Savion has taught tap since he was fourteen years old. He started the HooFeRzCLuB School for Tap in Newark, New Jersey. At this school, he teaches students all about the historical and theoretical aspects of tap. He also wants to help each of his students be able to create their own style of tap. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 120%;">One of Savions most recent work was the choreography for Mumbles in happy feet and Happy Feet 2. He has also made multiple appearances on Sesame Street. Currently, he and his company are touring schools across the country, hoping to increase the younger generation’s interest in tap dance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ40aKtPlXc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa24EuPgmIo&feature=related

__Twyla Tharp:__ <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Twyla Tharp was born on July 1, 1941 in Portland, Indiana. She is 70 years old and lives and works in New York City. In High School, Twyla studied at the Vera Lynn School of Dance. She later attended Bernard College in New York City, where she studied with Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham, who were both modern dancers. In 1963, she joined the Paul Taylor Dance Company. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> In 1969, Twyla formed her own company. Her dances often incorporated classical music, jazz and contemporary pop music. She often combines different types of movement, such as ballet, boxing, and even her own inventions. Her dances are also both very precise and casual. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> In 1973 Tharp choreographed the ballet, Deuce Coup, using the music of the Beach Boys. This was said to be the first crossover ballet. Later, in 1976, Tharp choreographed Push Comes to Shove, which critics say is the best example of crossover ballet. In 1988, Twyla Tharp Dance combined with American Ballet Theatre. Since they’ve combined, the American Ballet Theatre has done sixteen world premieres of different works by Tharp. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Since then, Tharp has choreographed for many different dance companies and ballets including Paris Opera Ballet, The Royal Ballet, The New York City Ballet, Boston Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Miami City Ballet Hubbard Street Dance, and Martha Graham Dance Company. She has also recieved many different awards including a Tony Award, two Emmy Awards, and one of the 2008 Kennedy Center Awards. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Twyla’s most recent work is the Princess and the Goblin. It is the first work she has done with children. The ballet is based on a book that was written in 1872 by George MacDonald. It is a story that both adults and children can relate to. When Twyla choreographed the dance, she changed a few parts of the story, but the main elements are still there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRIESITHqDA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAomju3d4xs

__Pina Bausch:__ I watched "Walzer." In this piece she starts out moving a table, and then she lays on the floor. She takes bites of an apple, but then she spits them out and throw them across the stage. After, she sat down in a chair and started yelling about different body parts. After that she starts walking extremely loudly around the stage. At the end of the piece she just walks around stretching her feet. I think the mood is probably anger, because she throws her apple bites, and she yells a lot throughout the entire thing. When I watched it, I was confused throughout the entire thing, and there wasn't much room for anything else, because it just didn't make any sense to me. What struck me about "Walzer" was that she seemed like even though she was yelling, it seemed like it was more to get a point across, than any actual emotion. It didn't seem like she had much emotion. One way the article relates to this piece is that the article states that "physically, Bausch's dances are highly visual and textural." This is true because she has a lot of different things going on and she uses different props in the piece. She also does a lot of different activities while she's up there, like eating an apple, or stretching, or eating something off of different places on her body.

__Let's Go Dancing:__ One dancing memory I have is when I was younger, my friend got a karaoke machine. The only CD we ever used with it though was High School Musical. We liked to make up dance routines to it. We always got really intricate with it and got really into it. Our favorite song to make up a routine to was 'What I've Been Looking For".

__Dance Discovery:__ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLtSfYX8tJk

__New Play:__ If I were to see one of those plays it would be '4000 Miles' because it looks like it would be really funny. Its about a guy and his grandmother living together for a few weeks.

valentines day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5I3VnCHWsU&feature=relmfu

http://www.townofguilderland.org/Pages/GuilderlandNY_Recreation/010B55CC-000F8513.3/HPIM0711.jpg

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 140%;">**__Bhundu Boys:__**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">The Bhundu Boys are from Zimbabwe. Their music style is mainly chimuranga with influences of American Rock, Disco, Country and Pop. Chimuranga music is mainly played with modern instruments, and the lyrics are mostly about social and political struggle. The name comes from "Bhundu" having the meaning of "jungle" or "bush". This name is based on the boys that would help the nationalist Guerilla fighters in the 1970s, who were fighting the government, which happened to be a white minority. The lead singer of the band, Biggie Tembo, was one of the Bhundu boys in the war. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> In the original Bhundu Boys, there was Biggie Tembo, who was a guitarist and lead vocalist. There was Kenny Chitsvatsva, who did drums and backing vocals. There was also David Mankaba, who did bass guitar and backing vocals. Rise Kagona also played guitar and did backing vocals. The fifth and final member of the original group was Shakespeare "Shakie" Kengwena. He played the keyboard and did backing vocals as well. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> In 1983, the Bhundu Boys Created their first Vinyl Record single at Shed Studios. The Bhundu Boys reached the top of Zimbabwe music charts under Shed Studio's Regare Label. They had four number one hits between 1981 and 1984. The names of which are "Baba Munini Francis", "Wenhamo Haaneti", "Hatisitose", and "Tsvimbodzemoto". Because of this success, they attracted the attention of Owen Elias and his colleague, musician Champion Doug Veitch, who was a Scottish singer and Songwriter. The two released an EP, which is basically an album with only a few songs, by the band in the UK under license from Shed Studios in 1985. media type="youtube" key="bTFC_z-YTfo" height="315" width="420" <span style="color: #808000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> Afterwards, this attracted the attention of the two DJs, John Peel and Andy Kershaw who promoted the band. Under further license from Shed Studios, their first UK album "Shabhini" was released on the Discafrique label in 1986. It was one of the major independent sellers of the year. The band then traveled to the UK in 1986 for a live tour and the Scottish graphic artist, Gordon Muir, became their manager. After they toured the UK for a year, they were asked by Madonna to be her opening act at Wembley Stadium, where they played for three nights to over 240,000 people. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> Just as their album, "Tsvimbodzemoto", was released in 1987, the Bhundu Boys broke their contract with Shed Studios and signed on with Warner Brothers International. Their first album with Warner Brothers International, "True Jit", was not very successful, because it was said to be too far from the original style of the Bhundu Boys. For the next few years, the bands released independent CDs and made many live appearances, but they were starting to fall apart. Biggie Tembo, the lead singer, became somewhat of a celebrity on TV and in the press. It annoyed the band and he was asked to leave in 1990. <span style="color: #ff6500; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> An interesting thing about this group is that there seems to have been somewhat of a curse on them. After Biggie Tembo was kicked out of the band, he went back to Zimbabwe. He tried to do a comeback on his own, by joining a band called "Startled Insects, but had very little success. In 1995, he hung himself. Throughout the 1990s, David Mankaba and Shakie both died of AIDS. David's replacement, Shepard Munyama, also died of AIDS. Shepards replacement, Washington Kavhai, was put in jail in 2000 for assault charges. After Washington was convicted, the band finally decided to throw in the towel.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">**__BEST OF 2011:__**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Best Music I Listened to in 2011:**

Won't Turn Back by NeedtoBreathe media type="youtube" key="jzmOtWGS0Ro" height="315" width="560"


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Best TV Show I Watched in 2011: **

Bones


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Best Movie I Watched in 2011: **

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2 media type="youtube" key="mObK5XD8udk" height="315" width="560"


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Best Book I Read in 2011: **

Inheritance by Christopher Paolini

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Best YouTube Video I Watched in 2011:**

"Old People Are Awesome! : VVFS" media type="youtube" key="pJeBO9c-hKw" height="315" width="560"

**__Country Artists:__** Loretta Lynn: When she was 18, she got her first guitar and taught herself to play. A year later, she made her first record. She pushed the boundaries of country music by singing about topics such as birth control or being widowed by the Vietnam War. Although a lot of Country radio stations refused to play her songs, she still became widely known as "The First Lady Of Country Music". media type="youtube" key="yMzSYyjNb74" height="315" width="420"

Dixie Chicks: 10 days before the Iraq invasion in 2003, at a concert in London, the lead singer, Maines, said, "We don't want this war, this violence, and we're ashamed that the president is from Texas." This statement cost them half of their audience at their concerts in America, because this statement was viewed as rude and unpatriotic. media type="youtube" key="pojL_35QlSI" height="315" width="420"

<span style="color: #002aff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">**Hello,** <span style="color: #002aff; display: block; font-family: 'courier new',courier,monospace; text-align: justify;">**I'm looking forward to a brand new year of school as a Senior. This past summer, I worked in Long Beach Island, New Jersey. I worked at Harvey Cedars Bible Conference as a housekeeper, where I cleaned guests rooms'. While I was there I would work at least 4 hours a day, except for my day off. Some days I worked 8 hours. When I wasn't working, I would go to the beach. I spent about 10 hours a week at the beach. Another thing I would do when I wasn't working was I would go bike somewhere, usually to go out to eat or get ice cream, or just look around at the shops. Because it was a small Island, we could bike to places easily. Most places we wanted to get to were only 20 minute bike rides, and the island was flat so it was an easy ride. This past summer was the third time I had worked on LBI, but it was the first time I had gone for the entire summer. The other two years I had worked for only half a summer.** <span style="color: #3e8e47; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I have 2 sisters named Laura and Casey. Laura was married this past January to a guy named Dan. They actually met at Harvey Cedars. They live in West Grove, Pennsylvania. Dan works at his family's Real Estate Agency. Laura works at the YMCA day care. Casey is currently going to SUNY Plattsburgh. She is studying Nutrition there. I also have a brother named Caleb. He graduated from Guilderland last year. Currently he is working full-time at McDonalds. My dad works at Altamont Elementary School as a 3rd grade teacher. My mom works at my church as an assistant. Going from left to right in the picture is Casey, my dad, my mom, Laura, Dan, Me, and Caleb. I also have a hermit crab named Barone. I got him over the summer with one of my best friends, when her fish died. We decided to replace it with Barone, but then she decided to let me take him home. During the school year, I work at the Dunkin Donuts in Star Plaza. In my free time, I love to read. A good book that I've read recently was What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen, who is my favorite author. I also love to paint, although I don't get to do it often. Besides painting and reading, I really enjoy going to go see movies. The most recent movie I've seen in theaters was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. I am also a huge a Harry Potter Fan. My favorite music to listen to is probably Disney music. Particularly the music from Hercules or The Lion King. I also like the Bands Underoath and Write This Down. When I am not doing any of those things, then you can usually find me hanging out with my best friend, Sam Aldrich. I met her 9 years ago, but I didn't like her very much. I thought she was really weird, but our parents made us go over to each others house anyway. We didn't really start to actually be really good friends until 9th grade. When we hang out together we love to watch movies. Our favorites to watch together are Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings, and Bugs Life. We don't always watch movies. We love to cook food and we are always up for making dinner if her mom doesn't feel like it. We also love to explore the woods in her backyard. My favorite subject is Math only because I love everything about numbers. I want to go to Grove City College in Pennsylvania, and study to be a High School Math Teacher. I'm super excited about being a senior and getting to graduate. I hope it's a good year. Emily Doak

**//__Artistic Response To 9/11:__//**

Shortly after 9/11, the Steel Quilters of the United States Steel Corporation began the project to create a Quilt that illustrated the New York City Skyline. It had 3,466 quilts of Fabric, where each one had the name of someone who had been killed on 9/11.

**//__Favorite Artistic Things:__//**

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<span style="color: #002aff; font-family: 'courier new',courier,monospace;"> <span style="color: #151414; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.The colors of paint before its mixed <span style="color: #151414; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4.the sound of a book spine <span style="color: #151414; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5.the color of just baked cookies <span style="color: #151414; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #151414; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6.listening to a brand new song I've never heard before <span style="color: #151414; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7. seeing hip-hop dancing

<span style="color: #151414; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8. Piano Slides <span style="color: #151414; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 9. Painting with brand new paint 10.feeling the contours of just dried stucco

**//__The Hunger Artist Response__//**

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__**Art Questions**__
 * 9/22/11**

//**1. When does art become disturbing?**//

I find that art seems to become disturbing when the human form gets all twisted unnaturally. I don't mind when its showing a deformity that actually happens, but when it it just showing something unnaturally grotesque, that is when I get disturbed.

//**2. Who is an artist?**//

An artist is someone who creates art, or what they find to be art, even if others don't. So by that definition, everyone is an artist, whether or not it is a professional career.

//**3. What is art for?**//

I think art is there for people to admire. But also for an artist to interpret some part of the world with every piece they make.

//**4. What is art? Is there a difference between art and Art?**//

I think Art is just what everyone agrees to be art, like a Van Gogh painting. I think art is what the onlooker deems to be art, like someone could find a pile of garbage to be art, and the next person could consider to just be exactly what it is, a pile of garbage.

//**5. What should be considered a "work of art?" Who gets to decide this?**//

A work of art is where the piece becomes a timeless classic that everyone knows, like the Mona Lisa. The general public decides this, when you mention it to anybody, and the idea and the name spreads.

**__Constantin Brancusi's "Bird in Space"__** In 1926-27, a trial occurred when the US customs officials refused to believe the sculpture was art, so they taxed it the tariff for metal objects, which is 40% of the sale price, or $230. US Customs was pressed to reconsider by the artists, since they were set to appear at various art galleries. Meanwhile the sculptures were under the bond of "Kitchen Utensils and Houseware Supplies". In November 1928, they artists were found in favor of the court.



__**Installation Art**__

Installation art can either be temporary or permanent and is created only the space it is built in. It uses both natural and everyday materials.

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**__New Media Art__**

New Media Art is where you create art using new technologies such as digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, and virtual art.



**__//Caravaggio//__**

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, the Italian artist, was born on September 29, 1571. His paintings combine both physical and emotional human states, while having a dramatic use of lighting. he trained in Milan and then moved to Rome in the late 16th and early 17th century. Various Catholic Churches were impressed with his art, which became known as Tenebrism. He didn't handle his success well, he was jailed several times and had vandalized his own apartment. In 1606, he even killed a guy in Rome and fled, with having a price on his head. He died at the age of 38 from a fever in Port Ercole.



//__**Artists Who Shook The World**__//

__**Pablo Picasso:**__
 * Spanish Painter
 * co-founded the Cubist (style of painting) movement
 * Lived from October 25, 1881 to April 8, 1973






 * __Claude Monet:__**
 * His Parents call him Oscar
 * He was an Impressionist
 * Lived from November 14, 1840 to December 5, 1926




 * __Mark Rothko:__**
 * He is an Abstract Expressionist
 * He emigrated from Russia to the U.S.
 * Lived from September 25, 1903 to February 25, 1970




 * __Jackson Pollock:__**
 * Lived from January 28, 1912 to August 11, 1956
 * He was an Abstract Expressionist
 * Most famous paintings were made during the "Drip Period"



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ted.com http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/terry_moore_how_to_tie_your_shoes.html

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**__//Robert Motherwell//__**


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">January 24,1915 - July 16, 1991
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">He loved bright colors and broad spaces. He also had developed a theme of morality, which some thought might be because of having bad health as a child.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">He was in the abstract expressionist movement
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">He went to Harvard under the agreement with his father that he would get his PhD so that he would at least have the means to financial security, and he wouldn't become a starving artist.



<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">**__//Jasper Johns//__**


 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">May 15, 1930- Present (age 81)
 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">He began drawing when he was 3 and has continued since then
 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Most of his best known paintings use the American Flag
 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">He is both in the pop art and Neo-Dadaism movements




 * __//A Painting for our Classroom Wall//__**

-JMW Turner (1775-1851) English Romantic landscape paint, watercolourist, printmaker



-Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) American Painter and Printmaker

-Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) American Abstract Artist



-Edouard Manet (1832- 1883) A French Painter

-Rene Magritte (1898-1967) Belgian Surrealist Artist



-Henri Matisse (1869-1954) French sculptor, print maker, and draughts man (which is drawing two dimensional figures)



-Jacob Lawrence (1917- 2000) American painter (referred to his art as "dynamic cubism"), often depicted important times in African-American History



-Romare Bearden (1911-1988) American Artist and writer, who worked with cartoons, oils, and collages among other things



-Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) Russian painter and art theorist



-Edward Hopper (1882-1967) American Realist Painter and Printmaker



-Georges Braque (1882-1963) French Painter and Sculptor, Developed cubism with Picasso



-Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) French Post-Impressionist painter



--Winslow Homer (1836-1910) American Landscape Painter and Printmaker



-Aaron Douglas (1899- 1979) American Painter, He was big part of the Harlem Renaissance



-John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) American artist, made oil painting, watercolors, and charcoal drawings among other things



-Edvard Munch (1863-1944) Norwegian symbolist painter, printmaker, and expressionist artsit



-James Whistler (1834-1903) American Painter, Founder of Tonalism



-Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) American realist painter



-Georges Seurat (1859-1891) French Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman






 * __//Urban Artist Work//__**

Banksy- He is from England, and is a graffiti artist, political activist, film director and painter.

Jerry Rosembert Moise-

Tom Christopher-

he does expressionist urban paintings, mostly of new york city.



Underbelly Project NYT Article- I really like this project. The main reason i liked it was because i love how it was so obviously not created just to be viewed, but it was created to bring graffiti art back to where it came from, where it was unknown, and only found when stumbled upon.



Art from Trash- I loved how with some of his pieces, the shadows created something that actually looked real. It was so cool how you could look at a pile of trash and not realize that its shadow created a motorcycle.

Blu-

swoon-

Tuesday November 8th-

__Werst:__



<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">**__//Style Wars-//__**

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">I really liked this movie because it showed the artists opinions behind what they do and it showed that graffiti didn't start as a way for people to rebel, it just started as using your name and getting yourself known, which is a lot more reasonable than destroying public property just for the heck of it.

Tuesday, Nov 15: Vik Muniz- __Pictures of Pigment__: http://www.vikmuniz.net/

Barry McGee- Princess Hijab-

Orgiami: http://www.boredpanda.com/cool-dollar-bill-origami/

__//**I absolutely love origami. I love the idea of taking a normal piece of paper and turning it into something completely different only by folding, without and glue or scissors or tape.**//__

Shepard Fairey-

Thanksgiving- http://globetwisting.blogspot.com/2007/11/thanksgiving-turkey.html http://www.best-norman-rockwell-art.com/norman-rockwell-thanksgiving.html http://www.brillianticesculpture.com/tday.html

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__"Old Time" Musicians__-

Buddy Holly-
 * He was inducted into the the rock and roll Hall of Fame in 1986
 * Opened for Elvis Presley on October 15, 1955 in Lubbock, Texas



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Chuck Berry-

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Motown is a record label that was originally created by Berry Gordon Jr. Motown is a blend of the words motor and town, with is the nickname for Detroit, Michigan.

Hitsville, USA- Nickname given to Motown's first headquarters.

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Some of Marvin Gayes best known songs are "How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You" and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" with Tammy Terrell. In 2008, he was was number 6 in the Rolling Stones magazine for best Singer Of All Time.

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**__British Invasion:__** -Formed in 1963 -The Band did not not like the song "Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter" and it was never released as a single in Britian. media type="custom" key="11756774"
 * __Herman's Hermits:__**

-"Let's Go Trippin" is considered the first surf rock song. -Nicknamed King of the Surf Guitar
 * __Dick Dale:__**

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**__Folk Singers:__** Something that stuck with me from the video was when Bob Dylan when on stage with an electric guitar and he got booed at by his own fans.

**__NYT Best of 2011:__** The show that I would want to go see is "Follies", because it looks really interesting, and after I read the description, it looks like something that you could get really into because it seems so complicated.

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