The film When the Season is Good: Artists of Artic Alaska follows four different artists as they create and sell their art to support themselves. Each artist has a particular medium that they like to work with and all of them use parts of the natural world within their art. Each artist is given a little over fifteen minutes of film, and suprsingly one learns a lot about their family, craft, and lifestyles in the short amount of time allotted. By talking about their art and how they came to be artists, all of the artists connected their art back to family tradition. The first artist is an ivory carver from St. Lawrence Island. The only way he has made money since 1992 is through selling his work. It has become his only source of income. He …show more content…
She has a master in Fine Arts from University of Arizona. After going away for school, she realized that she missed the land and her family too much to stay away from Alaska, which is why she stays even though she feels a bit removed from the “serious art world.” She is a painter and sculptor who incorporates natural items into her work. She feels like her work represents her as a holistic person, not just representative of her Alaskan native culture. She talks about how in the summer her family would go to their gold mine each summer to mine together. She believes that experiences like gold mining and other parts of her childhood and family life show up in her work. In her paintings she creates a skin like surface with layers of acrylic paint. She also uses items like hair and walrus stomach to add dimension. She is interested in different layers and creating a “physical history” in her …show more content…
He is from King Island, a primarily subsistence community but lives in Nome, Alaska now. He left the island in his early twenties. More and more people left the island and the Bureau of Indian Affairs closed down the school there. Sylvester is a sculptor who also uses ivory in his pieces. His whole family carved ivory and he is continuing the tradition by teaching his son. He also teaches the boy to fish and how to filet the fish after it has been caught. Once he got bored with carving ivory, he took a class at the university that led him to experiment with different materials, like hardwoods and aluminum. This caused his art to become more abstract. He started to make different types of masks from different regions of Alaska, even making mobiles out of some of them. By teaching his son both traditional ways and emphasizing having a good college education, Sylvester hopes to help his son, “function better in both
What kind of family lifestyle did he grow up in? He grew up in the sandy lake reserve in Ontario in 1943, because he was a native he attended residential schools to become a mainstream Canadian. He also dropped out of school at the age of 15 How did her/his Cultural and religious heritage affect him/her? He used his art Inspiration from his culture to affect his artwork in a few ways. For example i noticed that he used the Cree style of X Ray paintings/drawings in many of his works like in his woodland indian styled art of fox, Like other woodland artists he uses lines of movement, divided circle, and many other aspects of woodland artists in his work.
It seemed to amaze her how they could tell her how they did theirs, but wouldn’t teach her how it’s actually done. All her paintings came from her traveling experience. I remember her saying how the clouds looked solid as she looked up and just imagined. She lived until she was 90, she died of old age. I admired the fact where she talked about how early she would wake up and what time she would be back after being out working as an artist because it showed how dedicated she was to her craft. There was a time when her drawings were put up in a museum without her knowing and she found out from someone else and got down to the bottom of
Sonny Assu was raised by his grandparents in North Delta, British Columbia. He is an interdisciplinary artist known for painting, printmaking, installation art, and sculpture. It was not until he was eight years old that he found out about his Kwakawaka’waka heritage. Sonny Assustarted his education at Kwantlen College for
Down in the deep south, a talented Mississippi artist Walter Inglis Anderson was born to George Walter Anderson, a grain broker, and Annette McConnell, an artist, on September 29, 1903 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Annette McConnell, a daughter of a distinguished New Orleans family, attended the Newcomb School of Fine Arts in New Orleans where she studied the ideals of the American Arts and Crafts movement. She was artistic with a passion for ceramics, painting, music, and literature which strongly influenced her three sons (Walter, Peter, and Mac) to draw, paint, and write poetry. Soon after Walter’s birth, the Andersons moved to Ocean Springs, Mississippi, where they created their family business, Shearwater Pottery, which sold decorated pottery, carvings, and creative widgets for tourists.
Throughout the film Do the Right Thing, we continuously observe racial conflict that builds up to such an extreme point that it leads to a fight for power. This movie portrays the struggles and realities of a neighborhood with white and black African American people. This can be seen in many instances for example when Buggin ' Out, Radio Raheem, and Smiley march into Sal 's and demand that Sal change the Wall of Fame. Another vital instance shows the height of power struggle. It is when the huge fight starts in the street and results in Raheem being killed by a white police officer.
Heartbreaking and informative, One Week in April shines light on why gun control is such a popular issue in this country.
In this book Kiki Smith’s background is shared and broken down for the viewers to learn a different side of the artist. Allowing the readers to learn about her family and how both of her parents were also artist as well. The book also explains her work and why she chooses to reflect on the topics she created her art based
“Smooth” Move The title of the short story is “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” written by Joyce Carol Oates. The story takes place around the 1960’s in the suburbs; determined by the music the character Connie listens to. This short story is about a character named Connie who tries to act far above her age and also does stuff that is not acceptable to others. Towards the end of the story, Connie comes to find out that a man by the name Arnold Friend has been stalking her and is now trying to seduce her.
She attended Montana State University and later University of California, Los Angeles. At university she began her exploration into her culture through research of historical narratives and she uses that knowledge to better inform the public about the realities of life for Native people by giving an outsider an insider view. She also believes that her perspective as a Native woman brings a unique voice to both Native and contemporary art.
Emily Carr is one of the most recognizable and celebrated Canadian artists. Her art embodies the fusion of modernist European techniques with a uniquely Canadian subject matter. Although troubled as a woman, Emily Carr became a progressive Canadian artist because of her unprecedented use of modernist styles in a Canadian setting. To explore her painting style first I will examine her role as a woman in the art world. Secondly, I will analyze her artistic inspiration from modernist movements. Thirdly, I will explore how her consistent subject matter of landscapes and indigenous culture. Together, these elements combine to make Emily Carr a distinctive painter in Canada.
To my understanding, the movie Home for the Holidays not only reveals a lot of potential family conflicts, but also reflects a lot of different communication approaches of the various family members. As a foreigner, I have never experienced Thanksgiving homecoming dinner before, so I may cannot understand some of the holiday customs in the movie, but I found out that their family interactions are interesting indeed.
The artist I researched is Cindy Sherman. She is a American Photographer born on January 19, 1954 in Glen Ridge, New jersey. Her parents had five children and Cindy was the youngest of them all. Her parents were not quit interested in art. Her dad was a engineer and her mom was a teacher. In the early 1970s, Cindy enrolled at State University of New York to study art. There, Cindy discovered that painting was not her gift. Cindy stated, "I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without knowing about contemporary art. I wasn't thinking in terms of precious prints or archival quality; I didn't want the work to seem like a commodity." She could not express her artwork through panting. Instead, she began to take photos.
Alaskan Native American art is richly found in the State of Alaska and can range from beaded clothing and woven baskets to flintknapped arrow heads and metal ceremonial drums. The native American art culture found in the State of Alaska is rich in its depth for variety, renowned for its beauty, and praised for its originality. Artifacts that have been recovered from the native American culture of Alaska have been pronounced authentic works of art. The artifacts produced by the Alaskan cultures praised and sought by collectors and museum throughout the world. Cultures abilities to turn tools, weapons baskets, pots, figurines, and clothing into a beautiful art is amazing and interesting to the world.
The way I see is that Americans are truly the villain in The Host. Americans do illegal, dangerous actions in Korean, which causes the monster, so Koreans did not like and support how the US operates in their country. For example, in the opening scene, an American ordered his Korean subordinate to dump all the dusty bottle into Han river. It is so crazy and irresponsible. Through the rest of the movie, there is an American doctor with a cross-eyed. That character looks like an idiot, and by extension make the country he represents look idiotic too. Finally, when the US Military in the film decided to use Agent Yellow to cleansing the area and to kill the monster. Koreans organized demonstrations to against the release of Agent Yellow by the
"Split" is a rated PG-13 horror movie released on January 20, 2017 that was not only written, but also directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Shyamalan is renowned in the entertainment business for his movies filled with a great deal of twists and turns. An example of some of the movies that he has written and directed with such a style are "The Sixth Sense" as well as "The Village". Split is no different and bares M. Night Shyamalan's signature style of suspenseful movies accompanied by many twists and turns.