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BMCC Ashley Chaparro Policing Research Paper On March 2, 1991, a brutal beating of a 26 year old man by the Los Angeles Police department, set tensions high between the black community and the police department, not only in Los Angeles but all across the country. This is not only considered an extremely controversial incident, but also a contradicting case. Is it a coincidence, or has the justice system failed to charge and imprison police officers who use excessive force on black members of society

March 3rd, 1991. A day that has lived on in infamy for more than 20 years. Rodney King was just a normal 25-year old guy who had a family, a job, people who loved him. He had work the next day, so he decided to pop open some beers with one of his friends. According to King, around the time of 20th anniversary of the LA riots, “I know drinking and driving is not OK, and I shouldn't have been back then, and there's no excuse for it. But I had a job to go to that Monday, and so I went over to a friend's

screen and Koons Inside all adults are their 10 year old self’s, contained but there. For Jeff Koons, his profession has thus far been based on his love for the pure joy of childhood. Coming from a loving family, art and design was been present in his life from the start. His parents careers effected how he views the world and what he has done with the opportunities they gave to him. After attending Maryland Institute of College of Art and School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Jeff Koons career rapidly

twenty-four distinctive paintings. Koons utilized many images from magazines, combined with his compelling backgrounds and varying curves. His paintings includes everyday objects, female clothing, and many desserts to communicate with any culture or society. Koons’s Easyfun-Ethereal series bridges the gap between sensualism, fun, and art by disguising each painting with delicious foods, everyday objects, and women’s body parts to create sexual references. Koons makes his statement regarding his upcoming

Art History 3.6 Values such as personal, symbolic, religious and iconic can be shown in these three major artworks, Christian Boltanski’s 2010’s artwork ‘Personnes’, Damien Hirst’s 2007’s artwork ‘For the Love of God’ and Jeff Koons’s 1994 – 2010’s artwork ‘Balloon Dog/Balloon Rabbit’. Christian Boltanski’s “Personnes” reflects personal values as he believed that art raises many questions and fulfilling emotions but there’s no answer to neither of them. He assumes that death is unpredictable, chance

Research Assignment: Jeff Koons Jeff Koons was born in 1955 in York, Pennsylvania. When Koons was 7 years old, his parents put him in art lessons. In 1972 to 1975, he enrolled at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1975, he went to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois where he studied there for only 1 year. Then in 1976, he went back to Maryland College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland where he received his B.F.A. Jeff Koons has 4 sons with his wife

When it comes to artist’s muses there is a fine line between inspiration and plagiarism. If one tries to define the areas where art starts plagiarizing a body of work, they will most likely end up fighting in circles. It is difficult to constitute where plagiarizing begins and inspiration ends. Artists have been including copyrighted or trademarked work into their own pieces and then calling it their own for decades, possibly even longer. Nowadays artists from all ends of the world are basing their

was surprised when I walked into the room was because the dog balloon sculpture was extremely different than the ceiling above it and everything surrounding it making it seem out of place. The Balloon Dog sculpture was created by a man named Jeff Koons in 1994. The dog is an optimistic piece, it’s similar to a balloon a clown would make for a child at a

Traditional Art then and now When thinking of traditional art I tend to imagine the grandiose oil paintings or gestural sculptures of figures displayed in the various national galleries I have visited, this to me, is what I think of being 'traditional' in terms of art. A more general description of traditional art is; “Art that is a part of the culture of a group of people, skills and knowledge of which are passed down through generations from master craftsmen to apprentices.” (www.yourdictonary

The material artists use for their artwork can influence the overall message of the piece. Jeff Koon works with a few different types of mediums which influence the image of the work. His piece Puppy, is a large sculpture of a dog in front of a building. The skeleton of this piece is made of stainless steel and is filled worth soil. The entire sculpture is covered with live flowering plants. I really liked this piece because the artist is using a living medium to create his work. This gives the dog