Function of Art Art seems to be the life force driving Andy Goldsworthy. In “Rivers and Tides”, he begins, “Art to me is a form of nourishment. I need the land, I need it”. After viewing Rivers and Tides, I can see why this is the case for him. Goldsworthy has a passion for art and the elements. He travels to various places in the world and utilizes his imagination and natural elements to create extraordinary works of art! Some of the natural materials he makes use of are leaves, sticks, icicles, rocks, and stones to name a few. Goldsworthy creates time limits for completing the art projects based on factors of nature such as, snow, the tide, sunlight, sunrise, sunset, weather, wind, movement, etc. What I found most intriguing about his art other than the use of natural elements is that they are not designed to last. He takes natures creations, in turn creates art, and then allows nature to take his art. Goldsworthy determines the location which in the films I viewed always relate to rivers and tides or other bodies of water. Once he has determined the location he puts his imagination and creative skills to work against time. Upon completion of his work it appears that what he enjoys most is gifting his work to nature. For example after completing a stone work, Goldsworthy waited for the tide to cover the work. …show more content…
Eventually rap became my life and I was often spotted walking, writing and rapping. I met and began to socialize with others who possessed the same passion and began recording my raps. I later developed a friendship with Kendal Gordy (now known as a member of the group LMFAO) and worked with him on a few projects because he liked my accent and my voice. From then on for several years the art of rap was my driving force and main function in my
He is best known for his oil paints, but he is also considered one of the founders of English landscape painting with watercolor. Within his travels of Europe he found his own style, known as “Painter of Light”, which created scenes of luminous imagery using brilliant colors and had only been 17 years old when he received the Great Silver Pallet for landscape drawing from the Royal Society of Arts (2015).
Body: All i wanted to do when I was younger was rap. I would love to write, so rapping was a second nature to me. It was how I got my feelings out of my system. When got a chance to write nothing else in the entire world mattered. It was like no one could hurt me and nothing else existed. I never cared about how the music
Andy Goldsworthy is an artist that creates pleasing sculptures entirely out of things he finds in nature such
Have you ever needed easier access to the essential items to stay alive? This is specifically what the residents of the North-East thought around the year 1817. Carol Sheriff argues in her book, “The Artificial River” that the residents of the canal corridor actively sought after long-distance trade and therefore consumer goods that markets brought to their homes. The fact that people supported the Erie Canal at all "suggests that at least some aspired to engage in broader market exchange" (p. 11). The transformation of this region because of the Erie Canal is organized around six topics, each of which is covered by a chapter. They include the; Visions of Progress, the Triumph of Art over Nature, Reducing Distance and Time, the Politics of Land and Water, the Politics of Business, and the Perils of Progress.
Andrew had quite a vivid memory and a fantastic imagination that led to a great fascination for art. His father recognized an obvious raw talent that had to be nurtured. While his father was teaching him the basics of traditional academic drawing Andrew began painting watercolor studies of the rocky coast and the sea in Port Clyde Maine.
Set in a rural Australian town in the 1960s, Steven Herrick’s novel by the river is portrayed through the eyes of protagonist Harry Hodby. This novel explores the interconnected themes of loss and leaving. Harry Hodby loses three significant people in his life; his mother, Linda Mahony and Eve Spencer. As we peer into the perspective of the principle character, we understand how he deals with each of his losses in an individual way, and how he finally finds closure and acceptance of the people in his life that have departed.
When the Canal was built towns all along the route from Buffalo to Albany prospered from the revenue and the attraction the Canal brought with it. Whether the Canal was being used for business people, immigrants, settlers of the region, or tourists, the border-towns all had some appeal to these persons. After some time the state was continually asked to expand the Canal from the original route to include connecting canal routes. However, the same towns along the route from Buffalo to Albany had already been established along the lines of the original canal. These towns would need to be relocated in order to obey these new requests. This presented a major problem because the people in these towns had formed a life around the Canal and many of them made their income based of the Canal. The inhabitants of the towns changed their mentality from not wanting the Canal to invade on their lives, to it being an essential part of their lives they depended upon.
As rap music spread throughout the urban community of New York, many people began to use it as a form of expression that offered unlimited boundaries. There were no set rules, except to be original and to rhyme to the beat of the music. One could rap about the issues pertaining to his or her life or something as simple as a day at school.
At age 12 his cousin introduced him to freestyling and he followed that inspiration and became one of the best hip hop rappers of this generation. At his young age he fell in love with storytelling rappers such as Nas, Eminem, and Canibus. By the age of 17 he would post his raps online
The beginnings of rap are believed to based on African rhythms which were used as a form of communication by the native peoples. The lyrical component of rap music is thought to have been greatly influenced by Cab Calloway with his repetitive chants and scats, along with his call-and-response technique with the audience.
When thinking of the Hip-Hop industry, one of the first names that comes to mind is Tupac Shakur. Shakur was born in the Bronx on June 16, 1971. He was reared by his mother Afeni Shakur who was an active member of the Black Panthers. Tupac's family later relocated to Oakland, California, where he spent much of his time on the street. As a kid, he was always getting himself into trouble, and he was very lonely. He started writing songs to keep himself out of trouble. An article from VIBE magazine "Troubled Times for Tupac Shakur" quotes Tupac. "'I was lonely, I didn't have no big brothers, no big cousins until later. I could remember writing songs.... I remember writing poetry.' " 1 Tupac was talented in the areas of
Artistry can be interpreted in many ways. The meaning of artistry is not just a showcase of visual or physical pieces but rather encompasses a skill of the mind to think individually, creatively and intellectually. Winston Smith is not an artist in the literal sense, he is not a painter or musician, but rather he appreciates the art, beauty and culture in an uninspiring world making him an artist nevertheless. This can be seen through the many people and objects he holds significant during his period of defiance. The first being the singing prole woman whom Winston encounters while hiding in Mr. Charrington’ s secret room. He described her singing as “…so tunefully as to turn the dreadful rubbish into an almost pleasant sound” (Orwell 145). Winston is surprised that a machine generated song could sound so beautiful through the voice of the woman. This is when we are first introduced to Winston’s appreciation of musical art and beauty. He does not see the plump labouring woman of anything more than an impoverished prole but once she creates art with her voice and song, eventually “it struck him . . . that she was beautiful” (Orwell 228). The second object he appreciates is the glass paperweight he purchases at Mr. Charrington’s shop. And “What appealed to him about [the glass paperweight] was … the air it seemed to possess of
The rap genre originated from some of the most underprivileged areas of New York in the 1970’s. What was once DJ’s talking over a beat they were playing to encourage more activity on the dance floor, turned in to a new genre of music called rap. The majority of earlier rap songs were fun inducing tracks, but in the 1980’s, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five introduced social consciousness to the genre. They sparked a long lasting impact on rap as it started to evolve rapidly as time went on. The 90’s was home to “gangsta rap,” followed by a softer side of song writing pioneered by the likes of Outkast and Kanye West in the 2000’s. Today, rap music is very diverse and more accepting of different styles than it was before. However, throughout the entire history of rap music, the one thing that has stayed
Throughout history, music has been used to express the feelings of people or groups whom may have no other outlet to express themselves. The best example of this occurrence would be the lower class of America’s use of rap music. Rap music started out as a fun variation of disco with the purpose to make people dance and enjoy themselves, but it later transformed into one of the best outlets to express the struggles of poverty in the United States. The genre gained popularity when the song “Rapper 's Delight” hit the charts in the early eighties; rap evolved into a plethora of different styles from there, Gangster Rap formed with NWA in the late eighties, and rap really hit it’s zenith in the mid nineties. Modern rap began in the early starts of the twentieth century. Because of the storytelling that rappers do in the music, it gained notice in the inner city where the demographic could relate. Many young teen in the inner city environment built dream to be famous rappers just like their own favorite artists . Rap connects to me by its style, its purpose, and its political incorrectness.
I changed my mind about rap music. Growing up, I never really liked it, the quick beats, the vast usage of inappropriate words not equipped for my adolescent ears disgusted me. I associated rap music as being "dirty," only discussing explicit topics and having no real meaning. While everyone else in high school was blaring Drake and Lil Wayne in the parking lots, I was perfectly okay with listening to Demi Lovato or John Legend. During my sophomore year of high school, my friend kept pestering me to listen to the Hamilton soundtrack, and even though the songs were raps, I realized I loved it. Eventually, I started to not associate all rap music as detrimental and discovered that some rappers rapped about important messages of adversity, conflict, and pain. This lead me to listen to Chance the Rapper's "Coloring Book, " Childish Gambino's "Red Bone and J Cole's "4 Your Eyez Only." I realized that rap is just poetry with accompaniment, poetry that has the rhythm and style to bring generations of people together.