Pencil In Mexican Art

The murals depicted what we have been talking in class since the beginning of the first week. They were just a graphic representation of the struggle of the Chicano Movement and the Chicana Feminism. The painting on the wall showed that the Chicano History was more that a simple fact it was alive and it is still alive. I think that all the painting there was an expression of what Moraga call re-membering. Even though, I am not part of the chicano community, throughout those painting, I feel like I was re-membering the struggle that they faced at this time. I understood where the story started from and where it is going.

Old school conquers new school: A personal response to “An Ode to the User-Friendly Pencil”

Henry David Thoreau was one of the most famous philosophical writers of the nineteenth century. His piece entitled Walden, dated 1910, is one of his most well-known works. In it, Thoreau exalts the human privilege of life through a number of literary techniques such as metaphor.

“It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do.” (Line 4-6). Walden, an excerpt by Henry David Thoreau in 1854, expresses his experience in discovering a rich, full, and meaningful life at Walden Pond. He talks about the empty and worthless life he leaves in his past to grasp a new and spiritual life. He is influenced by his surroundings in making choices about his future path in life. The text defines why its important to pursue your passions and what can happen if you let others change your decisions. This essay will explore the ideas

There are people all over the world that work hard not to waste scarce resources. The producers produce the things that people want in life, as said by Professor Kendall. During the process of the pencil being created there are many components that must come together. There has to be someone that is locating

I, Pencil is an essay about how a pencil came to be, his family tree and what he thinks about the mysterious life he lives. The essay begins with the pencil talking about his mysterious genealogy

Mexican muralism offers us one of the most politically charged and expressive art forms of the 20th century. David Alfaro Siqueiros and Jose Clemente Orozco are two of the three so called triumvirate of Mexican Muralists, the third being Diego Rivera. Both of the artists have a unique style and a strong sense of morals and political ideals. Their styles are similar in the sense of the amount of expression and movement in their pieces They also share a common ideology that shows up often in their work. Siqueiros’ Portrait of the Bourgeoisie and New Democracy along with Orozco’s American Civilization and Catharsis show you a great cross section of Mexican Muralism, revealing the passions and beliefs of the time period.

Mexican artists, more than most other artists in the Americas, exemplify the political and social obligations of artists. According to Soltes (2011), several Mexican artists of the early twentieth century were inspired by the revolutions and political unrest occurring in Mexico, which was reflected in their work. Diego Rivera (1886-1957) considered one of Mexico’s Renaissance artists, influenced by European avant-garde style, painted Zapatista Landscape (1915). This work was done as Rivera’s tribute to the Mexican revolutionary “Emiliano Zapata who had played a key role in the 1910 Mexican Revolution that had overthrown the then President Porfirio Diaz” (Soltes, L43, 4:42). Soltes (2011) describes this work: “very clearly we see a rifle; we see it's a sarape, together with a very stylized backdrop of water, mountains and sky, punctuated by a work that seems largely to emulate the synthetic cubist style of Picasso and Braque that we've earlier discussed. One has the allusion indeed, that we are looking at a collage of geometric forms made of diverse materials imposed against that background of vague sea and sky”(L43, 4:13).

When one says “pencil,” a image of a long, round object appears in everyone’s mind that is blunt on one end and sharp on the other. The structure of this pencil can be also used for many different things including pressing small buttons such as reset buttons, getting things out of reach, and pointing things out to someone. A significant part of the pencil is, for example, the point of the pencil. Using this point, I can stab holes in something, or use it as a huge substitute needle, provided that the pencil is sharp enough. As long as one has creativity, there can be infinite possibilities when using the structure of a

country of Mexico showcasing what Mexico has to offer. Showing how the art of the ancient people are expressed. Being taken over by the Spanish colonial towns are seen in Mexico’s capital Mexico City. Located in Mexico City a lot can be find influencing their art, shops, renowned museums and very good tasty restaurants to modern life, as well showing their ancient art of the ancient civilizations, and ancient culture. The earliest real civilization in Mexico was the Olmec culture which came from of the Gulf Coast from around 1500 BCE.

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately…to suck the marrow out of life…and not when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.” Thoreau, Walden. Thoreau was not just a radical yet respected thinker for his time, but now as well. Thoreau has a very important lesson and idea to teach through the workings of a pen. Thoreau’s works have greatly influenced our culture for over a hundred years. Thoreau’s ideas have definitely influenced contemporary ideas, but we have also developed our own separate ideas in the past century and a half.

As an artist, I exemplify innovation and continuous improvement because it is absolutely essential to my work. Drawing materials are often pricy and I cannot afford to pay for such specialized items, so I must form an alternate solution from what I have. My innovation can be seen when I create makeshift graphite blenders from copy paper and pallet knives from plastic utensils. Moreover, I like to experiment art with different mediums. I have drawn on cardboard with only white and black markers, splashed charcoal sketches with water, formed giant feathered wings sculptures from paper scraps, and even pieced together a sculpture out of battered metal eating utensils. By blending my imagination and these unique materials I form innovative original works. Moreover, I continuously seek improvement in myself as I draw and sketch.

The embracement of imagination was also one of the three transcendentalist ideas that are outlined by the thinkers Thoreau and Emerson. All great people such as writers from different periods who didn’t have the many things that we had now had to use their imaginations to think of things to write about, however; this was still within the borderlines of the ideas that transcendentalists had while they looked at this broad spectrum. Both Emerson and Thoreau are good with imagination, but it’s time to shed some light on the writer that we know as Henry David Thoreau. He is most famous for his piece of work that is titled Walden, a truly brilliant piece of work, written by the transcendentalist himself. Theodore Raddin in his study of Thoreau states, “The

A person does not need extravagant supplies to become a great artist. They could use household supplies to be great. Critics may claim to become a great artist you should begin with an inexpensive sketchbook with lots of pages, and a sketching set that includes kneaded putty eraser and different grades of graphite pencils. It may also include charcoal pencils, charcoal sticks, graphite sticks and brown, gray, or reddish sketching sticks. In the story it states, “ We are going to make paper into faces and garbage into people.” This shows that in the process of making good art you should not need the all these things. To become a great artist A person does not need to have the best and most expensive supplies.

The art of painting dates back to pre-historic times, the finger used as a paintbrush on the canvas of cave walls. When it comes to painting, artists have many mediums to choose from: acrylics, oils, gouache, fresco, and watercolors. Watercolors is one of the toughest mediums to achieve, its transparent streaks almost impossible to cover up and its various techniques prestigous and precise, but satisfying when accomplished. The incentive a watercolor artist has to get a taste of perfecting their talents is impecable; therefore, striving for perfection can only be accomplished with the understanding of the watercolor history, the use of the tools of the trade, the practice of techniques, and observation of former artists’ approaches.