Analysis Of California's Wild Edge By Tom Killion

This work of art is titled, Monterey Bay from Santa Cruz Pogonip. The artist who created this piece is Tom Killion, and its creation came to be in 2002. The piece is a wood stamp press, these presses are hand carved into wood and linoleum blocks. Each variety of color that is present in the piece, a new block has to be created to ensure that the color doesn’t blend in ways the artist would not want it too. In the framed final piece, the stamp is separated into two different frames to gives focus to the the, Monterey Bay and then Santa Cruz. In this piece, Killion uses this chance to portray Santa Cruz in a landscape narrative, he uses depth to enable the landscape. The piece’s foreground is the mountain in Pogonip, a hiking area in the northern part of Santa Cruz County; then it starts spreading out to a horizontal view of the ocean, and at the bottom of the mountain, Santa Cruz is located. In the depiction of the town you see the shadows of the Big Dipper, an amusement park attraction and the historic Holy Cross Catholic Church.

There are many historical sites today in California that share many similarities and differences to the book “Major Problems in California History” in the way of how both present the historical information they provide. One historical site in California that draws my attention and I found interesting was Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park. Sutter’s Fort was built in 1839 by a Swiss immigrant named John Sutter, who created the land into a flourishing agricultural empire, and a destination for early immigrants to California. However, Sutter’s Fort was abandoned less than a decade after it was established, as the discovery of gold on the land caused it to be overrun by gold seekers. The historical site Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park has been

As part of the commemoration of the International Museum of Art & Science’s 50th anniversary, this exhibition honors the major contribution made by this artist to the artistic culture of the Rio Grande Valley. Works from family and local collections encompass 53 years of his life in art including Abstraction Expressionist paintings, grovescapes, and works inspired by his travels in Mexico where he collected folk art and absorbed its culture.

In his book, Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Marc Reisner’s main thesis is to show the inefficiency, greed, and inherent difficulty in the American West’s never-ending struggle to turn its unwelcoming desert into a lush garden. One of his main sub-points is that the West is not meant to support millions of people. It has a wide range of geographic challenges throughout the entire region. Its inconsistency and diversity is a primary cause of its water problems. For example, Reisner notes that the West consists of “plains so arid that they could barely support bunchgrass; deserts that were fiercely hot and fiercely cold; streams that flooded a few weeks each year and went dry the rest; forests with trees so large it might take days to bring one down; . . . hail followed by drought followed by hail;” (23).

by 90 in, or approximately 5 ½ ft. high by 7 ½ ft. wide. The artwork is imposing and takes up much of the wall, necessitating that the viewer stand in multiple places to view the panting from multiple angles. The painting is in a relatively thin frame, with no glass. The media is oil and acrylic on canvas. The lighting in this gallery space is dim, and the painting is illuminated with two dim spot lights, in such a way that middle of the painting is illuminated more so than the sides. The subject matter of the painting is a view of the San Francisco bay, with San Quentin State Prison visible on the opposite side of the bay. The prison composes the background and is placed in the center right of the painting, the water in the bay and a small sailboat compose the middle ground, and the coastline composes the foreground and is placed on the left side of the painting. The prison is very small in scale compared to the coastline, to create the illusion of distance between the two, and the viewer’s perspective is that of standing on the coastline opposite the prison. The prison and the sailboat are the only two man-made objects in the painting. The coastline depicted is a small and rounded beach. Large tan and brown boulders with sage green and brown plant-life growing on them are placed on the opposite side of the small beach from the viewer’s perspective, and partially obstruct the view of

Have you ever been forced to leave and explore the world? Well that's relatable, it's the only option left for the immigrants trying to blaze a trail to travel on safety. But people don't wanna risk getting hurt or trespassing into someone's land.

It is important to learn about our histories regions so that we can understand their Culture, Economic Growth, Tribes,where they lived, and how they survived. Three regions are located in North America are California, Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains. Along with the three regions are also three indigenous tribes, The Shoshones from California, The Iroquois from Eastern Woodlands and the Mandans from Great Plains California is Along the Pacific Coast of North America and It extends down to baja California. California’s Climate depends on the elevation, the Southern part of California is hot, dry, more droughts type of climate and in the Northern part is more wet, moist, and rainy. The South were hunters and gatherers who hunted for fish like salmon, and meat like deer.

The California Gold Rush was not as good as people thought. It was very rough on people's bodies. Being there in the mines hurt their health. Some people even died. Some challenges in the California Gold Rush individuals face were giving up many things at home, rough traveling, and issues while in California.

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The Central Valley of California, United States, is a notable structural depression which covers around 32,187km2 (Figure 1), and is bounded by the Cascade Range in the north, the Sierra Nevada in the east, the Tehachapi Mountains to the South, and the Coast Ranges and San Francisco Bay to the west (Planert 1995).

During the 1870s to 1930, California agriculture had become a most diverse region of the United States. Its wheat, meat, and crop farming, such as grapes, walnuts, almonds, tomatoes, potatoes, watermelons, plums, etc., became the California’s major export industry, as well as nation’s leading producer. According to The Elusive Eden by Richard B. Rice, William A. Bullough, and Richard J. Orsi, the number of farm in 1925 had grown to more than 136,400 farms, worth than $708 million. Besides the enormous development of the agriculture, California had become the one of the best manufacturing and trading states in America. It dominated the manufacturing industry and trading companies for aircraft factories, lumber factories, steel plants, mining companies, petroleum companies, etc., According to Eric Foner in Give Me Liberty - volume 2, by 1945, California had received one-tenth of all federal spending, and Los Angeles had become the nation’s second largest manufacturing center (863). Paralleled with the economic development were a numerous of organization have been found in California in order to control, regulate, and support the commercial and trading activities, such as the California Fruit Growers’ Exchange, the Representative Assembly of Trade and Labor Unions, the Coast Seamen’s Association, the Federated Iron Trade Council, etc., Although the political reforms in the early 20th century could not address the most of the economic problems and social changes in America, the

The future of California is pretty good, for the state is projected to see growth in almost every sector of the economy as well as the population, but there are many concerns that must be addressed first in order to see California’s growth come to fruition. International trade and business is one of California’s largest industries and it’s expected to continue increasing, for many emerging economies are also located off of the Pacific Ocean. Growth in the economy is good, but requires resources that California has a limited supply of. The main resource California always needs is water, since most of the state’s population resides in the southern regions, which are arid and receive minimal precipitation annually. The state is planning on improving efficiency and the aqueduct system to increase the water supply while decrease the environmental effects California’s aqueduct’s have on regions like the San Joaquin River Delta. For many years California has been considered a very liberal and left state, which is due to the fact that the state has the toughest environmental legislation in the country. With such strong legislation ensuring the protection of the environment California has become a model state in the fight against climate change, and must remain vigilant for there are numerous species endemic to the state that are found nowhere else on the planet. Though there are numerous other factors’ affecting California’s future these are some of the most interesting areas to

Many still tell the stories about the old west. These tales of the gold rush with gold nuggets the size of boulders, visions of the railroad cutting across the continent with civilization nipping at it heels, epic battles between settlers, soldiers, and Indians, or tales of cowboys, bandits and shootouts continue to capture the imagination of the young and old alike. Most of these fantasies boast of the riches any man could accrue, and of boundless opportunity for anyone willing to leave everything behind to seek their destiny. Sadly many of these stories could not be further from the truth. The real story of the west is one of misrepresentation, greed, exploitation, and racism.

last week i traveled for california, over there i found justin bieber, qhen he saw me i was eating sausage near from beach, he came until me, he presented, i started laughing.

When I thought of california I thought of sun, palm trees and warm weather. This is not one of those places. When I found out I was going to California, I packed a bunch of shorts. When I got to Petrolia I realized what a mistake I had made. Petrolia was not sunny and warm. For it was cold and dark where the hippies go to die and grow their weed.