Hilaire German Edgar Degas was born in Paris, France on July 19, 1834. He was the son of Auguste de Gas, a banker, and Celestine Musson de Gas, an American from New Orleans. Edgar was the oldest of the five children Auguste and Celestine had. Their family was members of the middle class, however, for many years their family spelled their name “de Gas” which thanks to the preposition “de” suggested that their family was from a land-owning aristocratic background. It wasn’t until 1870 that Edgar changed his name to the less aristocratic sounding “Degas.”
You could say that Edgar Degas was born with artistic blood running through his veins after all his mother, Celestine, was an amateur opera singer and his father, Auguste, would arrange for
Oil on wood panel, “Honey is Sweeter than Blood” was one of the first studies and attempts by Salvador Dali to move from Cubism to Surrealism. (Pixtot, A. “Presentation of the latest”, 1). The painting has a disturbing meaning of portraying the female body in a state of decay, connected to the present prostitution in Paris at the time. The symmetrical perspective is simple but effective, by using the naked female body as a center of focus. Color is on a high hue rich in blues and limited to a high contrast chiaroscuro skin tones over the background washed out skies. Psychological obsessions and struggle with preoccupations of decadence, death, sexual obscenities and immoralities were present in his works.
Austin Villegas is a senior at Chino Hills High School. During his time at CHHS he participated in many programs. Austin played football for all four years of his high school career. He was the starting right tackle for the freshmen football team that went 9-1 and won the league title. After his freshmen football season Austin was promoted to the varsity football team where he earned his varsity letter as a sophomore. Once Austin’s junior season started he worked his way into the starting lineup as the right guard. During that year, Austin was a part of what many consider the best offensive line to ever come through Chino Hills High School. That offensive line would guide the Huskies to a Baseline League Title, and the CIF semifinals. When
Who is Jaime Escalante? Jaime Alfonso Escalante Gutiérrez, a Bolivian immigrant, lived from 1930 to 2010. During his life, he becomes famous for his work as a high school math teacher. He was notably, nationally recognized for transforming the math department at Garfield High School where he taught students who were believed to be troubled and unteachable in Los Angeles, California.
MONTREAL -- Tomas Fleischmann had two goals and an assist to help the Montreal Canadiens to a 5-1 win against the Winnipeg Jets at Bell Centre on Sunday.
The legendary boxer Oscar De La Hoya. De La Hoya a competitive, athletic Mexican-American born in Los Angeles, California. Oscar grew up in a family of boxing competitors. The nickname “The Golden Boy,” created by his classmates and fans during high school at James A. Garfield, gave De La Hoya worldwide recognition. He graduated from high school and the same year was selected as a 1992 Olympics competitor for boxing. The young boxer took home a gold medal in Barcelona at the Olympics. He has fought in a total of 20 world championships and won ten world titles. During his career in the year 2002, he opened up his own boxing firm called Golden Boy Promotions. The boxing firm located in Los Angeles; known as the first Mexican-American
As Pablo Picasso once said, “Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.” Picasso’s passion for art started at a young age, getting his passion for art from his father. Pablo Picasso is known for the innovative techniques he introduced to the art world. Each being influenced from his life around him, to modifications in the colors he utilized, or transitioning to an unorthodox style of painting, and even practicing printmaking.
David De Jeronimo Feels good because he always wakes up to a new day and he is thankful for that. David was born on April 3, 1998 in Panorama city. He then moves to Sylmar when he was three years old and since then he lives in Sylmar. Although David was born in the united states he feels he is Mexican because his parents are from Mexico his mother is from Jalisco and his Father is from Puebla. David and his sister have been raised with Mexicans traditions and he is being treated different from many Americans.
In ancient times, Deucalion was a king of Grease. His father was Prometheus, the god who had given the gift of fire to mankind. All though Deucalion was a virtuous king, their were many wicked people in the world, and they had committed many crimes.
Picasso is an abstract artist, and therefore is thought of as “unskilled,” by the way he accentuates parts of the human figure. Picasso’s art had the most impact on the twentieth century. Even though he suggests going against what he had learned academically, it is important to know that he had started at a very young age. His father was a drawing teacher and a conservator at a small museum. Soon after his father became a professor at the art academy in Barcelona, the young Picasso completed the entrance examinations and was accepted to the school’s upper-level program. Picasso went to Paris determined to work through the avant-gardes’ techniques and subjects to better understand such art.
Charles Deslondes was born in the year approximately 1780. He was born in Saint-Domingue where he experienced a good portion of his life (Charles Deslondes Revolt 1811). The decade which progressed with Charles Deslondes was one where society where slaves, Creoles, and mulattoes had an unequal dynamic. The dynamic of the three supposed that the French Creoles had absolute rights within Saint-Domingue while mulattoes enjoyed more comfort during slavery and the slaves just were there to work on the sugar fields for economic progression (Meltzer, 115). The Creoles were French and they were in charge primarily due to
During the seventh millennium BC Minoan civilization inhabited Knossos, the capital of Minoan Crete until 1375, which marked the end of Minoan civilization. After an earthquake destroyed the first palace in 1375, the palace was rebuilt to become something magnificent even in todays terms. It begins with Greek mythology when according to script, architect Dedalos designed something so extraordinary that King Minos who commissioned the palace held Dedalos captive to prevent the prisoner from introducing the palace plan to anyone else. However, Dedalos had built two sets of wings enabling himself and his son to fly off the island. After actually setting off, his son flew too close to the sun, melting the wings that supported him resulting in his
Descemer Bueno was born in Habana in 1971. He is a songwriter, musician, and singer who has worked in circles from Jazz, Hip Hop, Traditional Son, and Latin Pop. Nowadays he is recognized as one of the most important musicians of the 21st century in contemporary Latin music. He studied classical music and musical education at the musical school Amadeo Roldan where he received his degree. After finishing his musical school, he began teaching and completed his first professional work as the bassist for the Santiago Feliu’s Band.
Eduardo Manet is French painter born on January 23rd, 1832 in Paris, France. He was born into a very good family. Both of his parents were renowned in their hometowns, his father was a reputable judge and his mother was of royal ancestry. As a son of a reputable judge, his father expected him to pursue a career in law but, Manet wanted to be an artist and his uncle supported Manet through this journey. One time, they visited the Lourve Museum in Paris and Manet gained more motivation to improve his artistic skills. In 1845, Manet enrolled into a drawing course and later he met a fellow art enthusiast, Antonin Proust, who later became one of his closest friends. His father had other ideas, he forced Manet to sail to Rio de Janeiro to gain
Tristan Ayala took a computer science class last semester and it helped him become engaged and interactive because he was able to utilized art tools to create a masterpiece for one of his project. His favorite movies are Captain America: Civil War and Guardians of the Galaxy. Tony Stark from the movie Iron Man has become one of Tristan’s favorite idol because the character Tony Stark is a genius, a billionaire, a playboy, and a philanthropist. Tristan sees himself working on an independent project that involves with computer engineering in the next five years. He also likes to party and take camping trips with friends.
Degas discovered his true interest - Paris - when he moved there from Italy. He drew inspiration from Paris’ boulevards, cafés, shops, dance studios, drawing rooms, theaters and operas. He became well known for his close observations, capturing the close movements of people. Degas specialized in scenes of Parisian life. Viewers were often surprised by his images of popular entertainment or of a back-street squalor. Degas seemed to tease his viewers by showing images that did not feature perfect figures or pictures that showed very normal actions such as cleaning clothes. Degas was seen as the leader of a faction within the group of Impressionists, and his pictures were sought out by collectors. Critics approvingly pointed out that “his work