Richard Hunt Influence

Originally the thirteen colonies were a port of the British Empire. However, certain events inspired some men to challenge British authority. One man who did so was Samuel Adams. Samuel Adams was born on September 27, 1722. He Died on Octorber 2 1803. Samuel Adams was known for signing the declaration of Independence. Befor I was in this class I did not hear about him.

John Chamberlain is best known for junk art and assemblage artist. He was born in 1927 in Rochester, Indiana and died in 2011. He grew up in Chicago and he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and Black Mountain College. Since 1955, he began working in metals and remained many works using wrecked automobiles.

Richard Allen founded the first African Methodist Episcopal Church, the AME Church, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1816. Richard Allen was born into slavery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1760. At the age of 17, he bought his freedom. Allen made significant contributions to both the religious culture and African American culture in Pennsylvania. Allen founded the AME church when African Americans were discriminated against in Methodist churches. Allen served as the first bishop. Today, the AME church has more than 2.5 million members.

Richard Fairbanks, although many times overlooked, was an important American ceramist. He was known as a "loner" and because of this he was never really appreciated for his talent. Fairbanks was greatly influence by his professors. Professor Paul Bonifas, who taught at the University of Washington, was one who left a huge impact on Fairbanks work. Fairbanks created a system of sketching pottery profiles, which stemmed from Bonifas’ teachings, as a mean of "thinking on paper." This approach to pottery through sketching was a crucial element that separated Fairbanks from many other Asian-inspired American peers. Although, Fairbanks was a wheel thrown expert, he continued to "think on

The true testament of a man is found in his resiliency. It is found in his enterprising spirit; his dogged resolve to overcome in the face of adversity. My grandfather, Richard E. Robinson Sr., exemplified this maxim. Young Richard was born in 1932 and raised on a farm in rural Black Horse, Maryland. There he lived with his parents, three sisters, and five brothers. Henry S. Robinson worked the fields as a sharecropper. As a little boy, Henry yearned for higher education. He desired to read books that would arouse his mind and awaken his soul. Unfortunately, Henry spent most of his days working in the fields. He grew up in an environment that valued labor over education. In turn, manual labor left Henry without an education past the sixth-grade.

“Robert Smalls was an enslaved African American who, during and after the American Civil War, gained freedom and became a ship’s pilot, sea-captain, and politician.” (Wikipedia). People wonder whether Wikipedia is actually a reliable source or not. Others just assume it is because there is a lot of information about the topic they looked up. The Wikipedia article on Robert Smalls is one example of explaining whether it is a reliable source of information or not, and why. Also, this research helps understand what exactly is a reliable source of information.

Richard Hunt is a sculptor whose work largely draws on abstraction, crafting organic shapes with industrial materials. His approach to his art is one that is based on compulsion, as he combines various curvilinear and angular forms to form an ambiguous hybrid that captures the African American experience. By crafting an unconventional layering of different shapes, Hunt is able to create a conceptual piece that is open to interpretation. Similarly, Betye Saar aims to promote thought-provoking reflection. By carefully utilizing racial stereotypes into her artistic vision, Saar is able to manipulate racist devices into a more positive message. Her exaggeration of certain caricatures of African American life served as a new symbol for

Dalton Trumbo boiled down his interpretation of the results of the First World War into the barest essentials; that there are the living and the dead, and the true sacrifice and experience of the dead can only be written about by the living, and as a result, cannot ever be truly expressed or comprehended. Thus, those most effected by war cannot speak out against it. To apply the anti-war litmus test, Trumbo gave a name, a face, and a heartbreaking story to one of the millions of soldiers, creating an incredible bond with the reader. Joe’s inner monologue fulfils the remaining qualifications, starting with the aforementioned rant over the futility of dying for ideals, and for someone else’s chance to live “free”, and concluding with his overwhelming frustration at the massive communication gap between himself and the rest of the world, due to both his physical incapacitation and mental anguish about surviving when so many others were killed. Having published Johnny in 1939, on the eve of war, Trumbo had the added benefit of twenty years of hindsight. The War to End All Wars had not

An author’s influence is always conspicuous in their writing. Their work is swayed by major events and little things that deeply affected their lives. Historical content during that time period also inspires their writing. The fantasy and science fiction writer of the mid-1900’s, Ray Bradbury, admitted about the magician, Mr. Electrico, “I could run to him, embrace him, and thank him for changing my life and helping me become a writer” (In His Words 2). Ray Bradbury was a leading contributor to fantasy fiction during the 20th century became stirred by the influences of the effects of his personal life, magic, the speedy scientific inventions during his life, and the worldwide fear of the atomic bomb of WWII.

After serving in World War II, Richard enrolled in the University of New Mexico where he painted the Albuquerque series, his master thesis. He was taking a flight above the clouds where he saw farm lands and farm roads. Albuquerque is an oil based paint on muslin that follows the idea of abstract thought. Richard is on of the greatest artist ofd the postwar era and many look up to him and his art abilities. I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around the abstract thoughts paintings. However, they are absolutely stunning paintings. They can be seen in all modern places throughout the world. Abstract paintings are taking over the art world for their unique looks. For such an odd painting, art like this make you appreciate the thought behind

“Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.” - Frank Zappa. Frank Vincent Zappa was born December 21, 1940. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland and famously known for being a Music Producer, Director, Songwriter and most importantly, a Guitarist. His father was a mathematician and a chemist which cause the family to always be moving into new homes frequently, Zappa was all over the place as a child. His father always inspired him to get into the same work and when Zappa was young he always attempted to make new gadgets and become an inventor, but that shortly turned into the build up of his music. When Zappa was in this phase of invention he and his father we’re always exposed to chemicals that may have affected his health, the

In Richard Powers’ novel, Gain, he intertwines two fictional stories to analyze the growth of large corporation in America and the deterioration of the individual as a potential result. He tells the story of the rise of a family soap making business, J. Clare and Sons, into a large-scale corporation over a span of 150 years. As a second story line, he incorporates the end of the life of Laura Bodey, a divorced real estate agent with ovarian cancer living in Lacewood, a town centered around the corporation’s headquarters. He makes a unique statement about the increasingly detrimental nature of business as it grows in scale. He never condemns Clare International nor does he overly-victimize any

Texts are shaped by their compositional context and thus offer new insights about the composer’s era. However, as there are ongoing concerns of humanity, key ideologies resonate over time and are affirmed between texts as shown in William Shakespeare’s play ‘King Richard III’ (1591) and Al Pacino’s docudrama ‘Looking For Richard’ (1996). King Richard III examines the irrational behaviours and moral ramifications of a power lust Richard to explore ideas of the relentless pursuit of power, betrayal and deceit, reflective of the theocentric context of the Elizabethan society. Centuries later, Looking For Richard explores Pacino’s journey to reshape a Shakespearean text that is representative of the changing contextual norms and values of a contemporary American audience who are confused and sceptical about the relevance of Shakespeare’s plays. Both texts provide an image of Richard’s deceit reflective of their distinctive contexts. However, despite the disparity of time, both texts display how key ideas such as deceit, endure and resonate over time.

I never really knew my grandpa as well as I would have liked. He was already an old, old man by the time I started high school, and my own memories of him are mostly of a man confined by age and ailing health. So I'm not really going to talk about my memories of him. Instead, I'm going to try to share his memories and the memories of those that knew him.

    Al Pacino's "Looking for Richard" is an unusual film. It is a documentary about the complexities of Shakespeare, the performing of the play Richard III, and the ignorance of the average American regarding Shakespeare. The unusual nature of the film - it's similar to a filmed Cliff-notes version of the text - provokes wildly different reactions from film buffs, critics, and Shakespeare purists. A perusal of five different reviews of the film show such variant descriptors that range from Mary Brennan's comment that the documentary is "decidedly narcissistic" to Edwin Jahiel's comment that the film is an "original, mesmerizing exploration." The rather wide incongruity between the reviews