Irán thru Persepolis

My view on Iran was partly influenced by Persepolis. In all honestly I don't really know much about Iran or its culture aside from what we see in TV or hear. Yes, there are extremist in Iran but there's also innocent people that have to live in those conditions. Sometime we forget about them because the media only portrayes one side of the story. Persepolis shows the other side of the coin and shows how a young girl has an internal struggle and is confused as in her identity. Makes me wonder how I would react to an environment where you are molded per say into thinking a certain way and then think of the young children that have to go through that everyday of they're life. Persepolis didn't really change my way of thinking it sort of just reminded me that there is more than what the media shows of Iran and its people.

Student art show

             In side the student union building the first picture I was that captured my focus was Charles Lamb's “ War is yellow” (65PH). It’s a photography that contains a biohazard sign, gas mask, a toy soldier, and what appears to be some sort of gas. This picture was medium size with a yellow mustard tint to it, hence the title war is yellow”. I think what intrigued me the most was how real it felt. We live in a society where we are constantly looking over our shoulders to whether other countries have nuclear weapons. The toy soldiers on both sides of the picture gives it a feel of reality of some sort. The second picture that called my attention was Chris Beaman's Music Room at Talieson (6DW). This sketch won 1st place at the art exhibit. This drawings was made by pencil marks of light and dark shading. Such detail and time was put into this sketch and can be seen by its clear straight lines and glossy look of the piano. Music has had such an impact in me that I feel attracted to anything music related such as the drawing.

Aspiration

Aaron Douglas was a famous American painter during the early 20th cencentury. He was famous for his murals depicting social issues at the time during the Harlem renaissance.  For my blog post I decided to examine a popular oil canvas painting called Aspiration. Aspiration is a four part mural collection, its composed mostly of dark shades of green,brown,and black. It can be classified as cubism because its 2 dimensional and the shillouests of the man and woman are abstract.