Growing up in the country, spending a large amount of my time out of doors in the fields and woods allowed me thorough immersion in the sights, sounds and smells of nature. The natural world, down to the most insignificant seeming grain of dirt, has always seemed alive, mysterious and full of wonder. Therefore being outside, experiencing the endless richness, variety and beauty of earth and the natural world first hand becomes a deeply spiritual experience. My wish is to absorb, understand and share this marvel thoroughly as possible through painting. Painting, which makes thought and feeling visible, rendering the invisible visible, is also a meditation on nature closer to poetry than description. In retrospect, embarking on a life devoted to painting it seems only natural that the landscape would become my primary choice of subject matter.
The spiritual realm aside there were more pragmatic reasons to turn to landscape. The natural world offers countless choices of creative elements; rocks, water, trees and the sky are some of them. These are universal images containing infinite varieties of possibilities for mixing and reinterpreting while serving as a springboard for the imagination. Choosing to explore the elements of the landscape presented challenging and engaging opportunities to create and explore abstract relationships of color and form.
This wasn 't apparent from the beginning. Painting has been a journey where the final destination wasn 't always apparent or
Throughout history the unique and changeable Australian landscape has inspired a diverse array of artistic responses. Impressios of its power and beauty, expressions of individuals' responses, symbolic religious orientation, the range of landscape art works extends onwards. A great example of the vast variations of styles can be seen in the artworks of Glover, Drysdale, Berkowitz and Reid.
The up to date dying of Rosa Parks refocused countrywide attention on one of the crucial beloved figures of the civil rights movement. However without the heroism of hundreds of unsung grass-roots activists, the action would not ever have complete what it did. In "Freedom Riders," Raymond Arsenault, a professor of history at the university of South Florida, rescues from obscurity the guys and women who, at high-quality individual threat, rode public buses into the South as a way to venture segregation in interstate travel. Drawing on individual papers, F.B.I. Documents and interviews with more than 200 contributors within the rides, Arsenault brings vividly to life a defining moment in modern American history.
Understanding the beauty in nature has always been a struggle of mine. In this world of iPhones, laptops, and television at our fingertips, one can become trapped in the black hole of becoming disconnected with nature. I have always planted a flower garden and watching each color try to outshine the other showed me the purest of joys in life; everyone has a pull inside their natural being to be one with nature. Looking at all the awesome creatures God has made for this Earth made me realize that He wants us to enjoy our time on this physical land while we can.
In The Joy of Painting, Bob Ross painted landscapes, describing how to paint them like he did. He was always encouraging to the people who watched him. Ross insisted that anyone could make a beautiful painting, guiding his viewers along as he dotted leaves, carved mountains and cleared out forest paths. Ross taught that it was
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).
The author conveys a simple calm as she paints a gorgeous picturesque parallel between earth from her physical point on the map and the makings of our individuality. To demonstrate, the prairie of South Dakota represents the macrocosm for the spiritual self. Free of dogma, it is a beautifully written spiritual guide for self-exploration, the images and lessons are brilliantly simple, yet complex in their representation.
In this painting we see an infant that is in a boat. Behind the infant there is an angel that is guiding the child out of a cave into a beautiful landscape. Thomas Cole paints the landscape very rich; you get o a sense of warmth and calmness. There is beautiful green land, big mountains, and different types of flowers.
“Antarctic penguins detect the precise call of their chicks among the 150,000 families in the nesting site” (Christin 96). If only it were this easy to know who you were talking to online. This leads me to Peter Singer’s “Visible Man: Ethics in a World Without Secrets” which he explains that being watched through surveillance increases our morals. And Brian Christians “Authenticating” discusses the importance of artificial intelligence and what makes us human. Both of the articles listed describes how technology continues to transform into a more modern web and gives the citizens, who use it, less security, which results in chaos within the government and society. Consequently, new technology does not make it harder to be
The beautiful blossoms that bloom in Californian spring, the summer daisies alongside the cooling lake, long after the summer the trees have lost their leaves entering autumn to fresh white snow out in the mountains. Nature is able to show us its true beauty without any falseness and modifications. After all, is it not ironic how people go to museums to look at paintings of colorful flowers, green hills, and clear water streams; those are beauties that can easily be observed in real life outside of the urban environment which are surrounded by them, or how people buy recordings of the calming sounds of nature, similar to what you would listen to at night in the woods or smell nature aromas of the candles. What we are doing is trying to mislead our minds and pretend to think that we are in the woods but are instead cornered inside our small, well-furnished, and full -with-technology apartment.
effects of World War II. In countless cases, Japanese-American internees and American POW’s were physically and mentally dehumanized, isolated and peeled from their dignity. This caused them to feel invisible. Louie Zamperini, the main character in Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand, was just like the other POW’s. He was beaten, humiliated, and was not getting treated like a human being that he was. Louie was put in many POW camps throughout Japan. A young lady named Miné Okubo was a U.S. citizen. She was removed from her humble home and thrown into internment camp for simply being Japanese-American. During World War II, the Japanese-
On September 9, 1993 a seventeen year old boy, Christopher Simmons, and his a few of his friends met up to discuss and devise a plan to commit a robbery and maybe even a murder, just for fun. Simmons’ plan was not complicated: find someone to burglarize, tie up the victim and either leave the victim tied to a tree or push them off a bridge. Simmons and his accomplice went through a window that was slightly cracked and proceeded into the bedroom of Mrs. Crook. The two teenagers tried the woman up and loaded her into the back of her minivan. They drove to the state park at the edge of town where they had planned to dispose of the body and that is exactly what they did. The boys were caught later on that month put on trial for murder in
As an individual who’s been drawing and painting since before she could even hold a pen – apparently, I used to spill my grandma’s tea and make shapes with it – art has always been my favorite pastime. It’s tranquil and relaxing, and mixing paints is the most satisfying experience. Thus, it’s no wonder that the activity that I’m most invested in is art.
People are constantly scared of one of nature’s most feared storms, the tornado. This storm can happen anywhere and anytime if the conditions are right. Some people are willing to risk their lives to see this! It is a thing of beauty in their eyes.
In this primary document, Cotton Mather, a Puritan theologian, writes about his fears of losing the entire country to the devil and his minions as the Christian religion, in his mind, is being slowly eradicated from the entire country due to witchcraft. In 1693 Cotton Mather wrote a literary piece called The Wonders of the Invisible World a year after questionable events in defense of the persecutions of those accused and convicted in Salem for witchcraft.
Have you ever wondered what the actual meaning of life is and why we are here? Evidently, there is a reason for the existence of things and we are no exception. Every day we observe people struggle to survive in the world, but no one seems to be interested in creating an exceptional and safer world. But, what if we could procreate a difference? What if we were offered the opportunity to have the abilities that we only observe in movies, the ability only super heroes are forenamed to have? What would you do with a superpower? The privilege of having any kind of super power contains its responsibilities and can easily be used for either exceptional or unpleasant deeds. Having a super power, such as invisibility would not just be astonishing, but it would increase your ability to perform activities and help people.