ARTS: Expressionism

EXPRESSIONISM

·         Fauves – wild beasts

·         Fauvism – artists use intense, often wild color

·         Henri Matisse – former law student

-          Leader of Fauvism

EXPRESSIONISM

·         Germany

·         Expressionism – emphasized the expression of innermost feelings

·         Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Berlin Street

·         Kathe Kollwitz – painted in black and white

-          Painted the horrors of war

CUBISM

·         Cubism – objects and the space around them are broken up into different shapes and then put back together in new relationships

·         Pablo Picasso

·         Liubov Popova – inspired by a visit to Birsk

·         Jacques Lipchitz – cubist sculptor

NON-OBJECTIVE ART

·         Non-objective Art – artworks in which there is no recognizable subject matter

·         Wassily Kandinsky – leader

ARTS: Impressionism

IMPRESSIONISM

·         Salon – France’s official art exhibition

-          Held annually in Paris

·         Impression: Sunrise

·         Impressionism – attempts to capture the rapidly changing effect of sunlight on objects

·         Claude Monet

·         Pierre Auguste Renoir – paralyzed

·         Berthe Morisot – family members

-          Painted her daughter (Julie) and her niece (Jeannie)

·         Auguste Rondin – created sculptures

-          Started drawing when he was 10

-          14 y/o, he studied at Petite Ecole

-          Tried to gain admission at Ecole des Beaux-Arts and failed thrice

POST-IMPRESSIONISM

·         Post – Impressionism – various trends in painting that followed Impressionism

·         Paul Cezanne – revealed how color patches carefully angled in different directions mimicked solid forms

·         Vincent Van Gogh – twisted lines and forms, intense colors, and rich textures to express deep emotions

-          Suffered from mental illness

-          Drew the Cypress Trees

·         Paul Gauguin – successful banker in Paris

-          Felt that artists should be free to use color

-          More decorative than realistic

-          Composition and content

-          Tahitian Landscape

ARTS: Neoclassic and Romantic Art

NEOCLASSIC AND ROMANTIC ART

NEOCLASSIC AND ROMANTIC ART

·         French Revolution

·         Napoleon Bonaparte

NEOCLASSIC ART

·         Style that borrowed features from the works of Ancient Greek and Roman artists

·         Jacques-Louis David – painter of the revolution

ROMANTIC ART

·         Romanticisim – focused on dramatic and exotic subjects

FRANCE

·         Eugene Delacroix – Moroccan Horseman Crossing

-          Leader of the Romantic school

ARTS: Baroque Art

BAROQUE ART

BAROQUE PAINTING

·         Peter Paul Rubins – Life of Marie de Medicis

·         Nicolas Poussin – Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite

·         Rembrandt Hernandez – The Prodigal Son

·         Diego Velazquez – noblest and most commanding man among the artists of his country

-          Painter’s painter

-          Taught Bartolome Murillo

BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE

·         Gian Lorenzo Bernini – St. Peter’s Basilica

·         Francesco Borromini – Church of St. Agnese

·         Guarino Guarini – Church of San Lorenzo

·         Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Balthasar Neumann – designed churches

·         Churriqueresque – elaborate Spanish baroque style (Alberto, Joaquin, Jose Churriquera)

·         Versailles – greatest Franch Baroque Building

-          Louis Le Vau & Jules Hardon Mansart

·         Sir John Vanbrugh – Blenheim Palace (most extravagant English Baroque palace)

·         Sir Christopher Wren – St. Paul’s Cathedral

ROCOCO ARCHITECTURE – final phase of baroque style
- light and delicate
- more elaborate decorations

·         Dominikus Zimmermann – Die Wies Church

PALLADIAN REVIVAL

·         Andrea Palladio – Renaissance Architect

·         Most important in England

·         Colen Campbell – introduced the style

·         Lord Burlington – leader of the movement

·         William Kent – Chiswick House (first great Palladian Revival Building)

NEOCLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE

·         Inspired by Pompeii and Heculaneum cities

·         Sir William Chambers – Somerset House

·         Robert Adam – interior designer and furniture designer (Osterley Park House)

·         Pietro Bianchi – Church of San Francesco di Paola

·         Jacques Soufflot – Pantheon (church named after Sainte Genevieve)

·         Federal Style

·         Benjamin Latrobe – designs in Washington

·         Charles Bulfinch – statehouses of Maine and Massachusetts

BAROQUE SCULPTURE

·         The Ecstasy of St. Teresa (Bernini)

MUSIC: Music of Latin America

MUSIC OF LATIN AMERICA

THE CHARACTERISTICS

·         Latin beat – accented beat

·         Habanera – most stately of L. America Rhythm

-          Originated from Cuba

·         Gato – Argentina’s Latin Beat

-          Guitar and rapid footwork

·         Samba and Bassa Nova – Brazil’s Latin Beat

-          Gently swaying beat

LATIN AMERICA MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

·         Percussion – most interesting

-          Bongos

-          Conga Drum

-          Maraccas

-          Caloaca

-          Guiro

-          Claves

·         Stringed

-          Cuatro

-          Tiple

-          Tres

-          Charango

·         Woodwind

-          Antaras (Panpies)

-          Zamponas (Carinas)

MUSIC: Music of Africa

MUSIC OF AFRICA

THE CHARACTERISTICS

·         Work, game, dance

·         Functional and communal

·         Group performances

·         Steady tempo

·         Ostinato – repetition of rhythms

·         Syncopation and polyrhythm

·         Yodelling – vocal technique

·         Syllabic

·         Drum – associated with man

·         Coupled with poetry or dance

FACTORS THAT INFLUENCED

·         Spanish and Portuguese music

·         Calypso – influenced by African work song

·         Musical Forms

-          Cuban rumba

-          Caribbean Merengue

-          Calypso

-          American Soul and Jazz

-          Reggae

·         Indonesia – origin

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

·         Drum – king of African Musical Instruments

-          Djembe Drum

-          Goat Skin Stool Drum

-          Djun Djun Drum

-          Madinga Drum

-          Bowl Drum

-          Talking Drum

·         Kum Ba Yah – traditional song from South Africa

Mi essay: First impressions

First Impressions

“First impressions don’t last,” as an infamous saying goes. Yes, they don’t. Soon, as time passes, you get to know the person more and your impression about him/her definitely changes.  But first impressions definitely make an impact on two people’s relationship.

Look at it this way. On your right, you see a skinny black man with a big nose, disoriented teeth, and a hideous scar on his left cheek. He limps while he walks. Will you approach and talk to this person? Instinct says no. Who knows if this person was once part of the mafia or the bad guys gang in your neighbourhood, right? On your left, however, you see a tall white man with a radiant smile and beautiful eyes. He stands upright and has a very good posture. Of course, getting to know this person will be number one on anyone’s checklist.

On a plot twist, you learn that the skinny black man was actually a soldier who had received a lot of recognitions and awards during his career. He got his scar when a bullet scraped his face while fighting for his country. Also, his complexion was the result of years of military training under the scorching heat of the sun. It turns out though, that the beautiful man you see on your right was just a typical high school dropout. He doesn’t have a permanent job and he currently earns money by working as a cashier in McDonalds. Changing thoughts about these two? I’m sure you’re finally doing so.

First impressions are definitely the head start before one makes an acquaintance. It is impossible that we won’t have any first thoughts about the person when we first see him/her. The most important factor that affects our viewpoint towards another is the latter’s physical appearance. “Don’t judge a book by its cover” is now becoming a taboo. We need not deny the fact that no matter how good persons we are, we still judge people by the way they look, talk, and walk.

Undoubtedly, all of us already had bad first impressions about someone which changed after a while. It is impossible not to have some. It is part of our human nature that we observe and give opinions about the things and people we see. It is unstoppable. But we shouldn’t let these impressions hinder ourselves from making friends. After all, no one can tell a person’s whole story by just looking at his/her face. All of us have inside qualities way better than our physical ones. Why not step out of our comfort zone and, before actually starting to dislike them, get to know them more?