A Brief Look at Jasper Johns

William H. Johnson was a successful painter who was born on March 18, 1901 in Florence, South Carolina. Johnson began exploring his level of creativity as a child, and it only amplified from there because he discovered that he wanted to be an artist. After making this discovery he attended the National Academy of Design in New York which is where he met his mentor Charles Webster Hawthorne who had a strong influential impact on Johnson. Once Johnson graduated he moved to Paris where he was exposed to different artists, various artistic abilities, and evolutionary creations. Throughout Johnson’s time in Paris he grew as an artist, and adapted a “folk” style where he used lively colors and flat figures. Johnson used the “folk” style to express the experience of most African-Americans during the years of the 1930s and 1940s.

Australian author, Craig Silvey successfully portrays hero's and anti-heroes through the use of multiple themes in Jasper Jones. This is manipulated through his use of different language conventions and features. Charlie Bucktin the protagonist in the novel is perceived as a hero through the novel with his innocent nature. He is a boy with great intelligence and humour in which he found the strength to defeat hurdles which intricate his fear. Silvey proves Charlie to be a hero through his heartfelt and mysterious novel within the themes of fear and innocence, understanding and sympathy.

Mood is referred to as the atmosphere of a literary piece, as it creates an emotional setting that surrounds the reader's. Craig Silvey uses several types of language in his novel, Jasper Jones to achieve an effect in the readers mind. The mood is moulded and changed to shape the audience response to the ideas and perspective he is trying to reveal. The construction of mood can be from several different techniques: description, author’s attitude, character’s thoughts and/or feels, syntax, etc. A mood that is often repeated in Japer Jones is suspense and intrigue. The narrative is based around the idea that Charlie and Jasper at any moment could be caught by the authorities because they know where Laura Wishart’s body is. This mood brings the

Craig Silvey‘s 2009 novel ‘Jasper Jones’ is established in the fictional town of Corrigan, Australia during the Vietnam War in 1965. The story follows the journey of a 13-year-old boy named Charles, or Charlie, Bucktin as he encounters various challenges and obstacles. His struggle initiates as soon as he encounters Jasper Jones, the mixed-race outcast of the small mining town, knocking on Charlie’s window in the midst of his sleep in request for his help to uncover the mystery murder of his secret supposed girlfriend, Laura Wishart. Following this discovery, Charlie endeavours to survive his town as it gradually closes in on itself in fear and suspicion. As he clashes with his mother, falls nervously in love and desperately holds back on

One the most distinguished artists of the twentieth century, Jacob Lawrence was born in Atlantic City and spnt part of his child hood in Pennsylvania. After his parents split up in 1924, he went with his mother and siblings to New York, settling in Harlem. "He trained as a painter at the Harlem Art Workshop, inside the New York Public Library's 113 5th Street branch. Younger than the artists and writers who took part in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, Lawrence was also at an angle to them: he was not interested in the kind of idealized, fake-primitive images of blacks - the Noble Negroes in Art Deco guise - that tended to be produced as an antidote to the toxic racist stereotypes with which white popular culture had flooded

Lawrence himself was raised in New York after his parents moved there from South Carolina, which personally tied him to The Great Migration as his parents were part of the movement. While a young man in New York Lawrence fell in love with art produced by the Harlem Renaissance and began studying African art at the 135th Street Public Library, where he then became interested in the history behind Harlem and The Great Migration. After extensive research on the topic Lawrence learned of the depths of Southern racism as well as the hardships the migrants faced during their lives and “by drawing upon his emotional responses to them” he began planning The Migration of the Negro (The Phillips Collection 1). Once started the series became the center of Lawrence's focus and all his time poured into the project as Lawrence was devoted to his “ethnic pride and his desire to reveal events” that took place in so many African-Americans lives including his own parents (The Phillips Collection 1). Through these panels he was able to illustrate the corrupt social climate that resulted in the suffering of countless migrants. For example in Panel 22, named “Another of the social causes of the migrants’ leaving was that at times they did not feel safe,

Charlie’s life was relatively easy until one night changed everything. While reading, Jasper Jones , the town outcast, finds Charlie and leads him to a discovery. Someone in town has been murdered. After Charlie reluctantly agrees to help hide the body so that the blame isn’t unfairly placed on Jasper, he realizes he is involved, and that if he and Jasper don’t find out who the murderer is quickly, they will both be going to jail.

It is a natural part of human nature to long for the feeling of belonging and fitting into what people consider “normal.” Craig Silvey brings this idea into the novel Jasper Jones through the use of the historical setting of the 1960s as a platform to demonstrate realistic examples of racial discrimination and its consequences; the historical context also plays an important role in the setting of Corrigan, Western Australia, as the small fictitious town represents how the whole of Australia was following a corrupt social regime obsessed with appearances. The use of setting, first person narration and characters in the novel educates the reader of the reality of the “White Australia” movement and the impact it had on those of Australian Aboriginal

The novel Jasper Jones written by Craig Silvey has many connections and similarities to the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee. The novel Jasper Jones leaves the reader wondering whether Silvey intentionally wrote his novel to have so many connections to the classic, and if so what was the purpose? The novels share connections between characters, key ideas/themes and orientation of the novel.

Ted Harrison was born in England in 1926, into a dreary coal mining town. He took an early interest in art, and after high-school entered the West Hartlepool School of Art for a degree in design. Partially through his degree, Harrison found himself conscripted for the army, and began a lifelong fascination with other cultures as he spent 2 years stationed in India and various African countries. In 1950, Harrison completed his art degree, and moved on to the

Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey is a coming of age story that filled with suspense and mystery keeping us captivated till the end. Set in the 1960’s in an old mining town if Corrigan, where everyone knows one another. I certainly agree with weartholdcoat’s opinions on the novel, it’s a great thrilling read that keeps you completely hooked. Silvey uses various techniques like narrative and language conventions, theme and Australian context to achieve such a captivating finish.

Jacob Lawrence, an African American artist, produces two best-known collections like the Migration Series and War Series. Showing in the website, fourteen over sixteen panels are the War Series. Jacob’s War Series described his experiences that he joined the gallery during World War II. Jacob Lawrence painted the War Series when he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1964. Drawing the outline of an object and filling in some uniform color, he was exposing the signified of situation and people’s feeling. War Series: The Letter is an art works I like the best. The picture shows a letter on a black table and a man who presses the black table by his hands. The man is lower his head. I can feel that after he reads the letter, he is very sad. Perhaps,

In America, there was a painter named Kehinde Wiley, who was born in Los Angeles, California in 1977. As a little boy, his parents knew that he wanted to become an artist. His family supported him to achieve his dream, and he went to an art school in Russia at the age of 12. He went to both San Francisco Art Institute and Yale University to pursue art. Wiley has received numerous awards such as the “Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant Recipient”, "Americans for the Arts, Young Artist Award for Artistic Excellence", "USA Network, Character Approved Award", "Canteen Magazine, Artist of the Year Award; New York City Art Teachers Association/United Federation of Teachers, Artist of the Year Award" and the “Pratt Legend Award”. His arts and studies

Jasper Johns was born on May 15, 1930 in Augusta ,Georgia. In the middle of the Great Depression and parents names are Jean Riley Johns and Jasper Johns.Jasper grew up in Rual South Carolina and died at the age 86.

Joseph Stella is regarded is one of America’s great artist of today. “With his unique cultural and personal characteristics he not only enriched the American heritage but made a significant and lasting