Freida Kahlo

What gener is she from: Mexican artist

Give a breif bio. (include where she was born, what happened to her in her life that shaped her art, how she died, who was she married to) minimal citation!!!!Do not cut and paste in your own words

"Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in the house of her parents, known as La Casa Azul (The Blue House), in Coyoacán. At the time, this was a small town on the outskirts of Mexico City.On September 17, 1925, Kahlo was riding in a bus when the vehicle collided with a trolley car. She suffered serious injuries in the accident, including a broken spinal column, a broken collarbone, broken ribs, a broken pelvis, eleven fractures in her right leg, a crushed and dislocated right foot, and a dislocated shoulder. An iron handrail pierced her abdomen and her uterus, which seriously damaged her reproductive ability.She had thirty-five operations as a result of the accident."( wikipedia,Frida)After the accident,Frida turned her attention away from the pain and became a full-time painter. The accident left her in a great deal of pain while she recovered in a full body cast; she painted to keep her intertained.Although she recovered from her injuries and eventually regained her ability to walk, she was plagued by relapses of extreme pain for the remainder of her life.One day, she approached the painter, Diego Rivera, whose work she like alot, asking him for advice about continuing her art career. He recognized her talent.They began an intimate relationship with Frida. "They were married in 1929, despite the disapproval of Frida's mother.

Their marriage was often tumultuous. Kahlo and Rivera had fiery temperaments and had numerous extramarital affairs. Kahlo had affairs with both men and women, Rivera knew and tolerated her relationships with women, but her relationships with men made him jealous. For her part, Kahlo was furious when she learned that Rivera had an affair with her younger sister, Cristina. The couple eventually divorced, but remarried in 1940."(Wikipedia,frida)

The year before her death she had her left leg amputated at the knee, because of gangrene.The cause of death is pulmonary embolism, some say that it could of been an over dose it may or may not of been accidental. It has not been proven.After her death her husband said "The day Kahlo died was the most tragic day of my life,I have realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for her.

Up load your favorite work, and tell why you like it.


I like this picture because i couls look at it for a long time just trying to find all the little thing hinden in the painting.

Find three self portairts




Find the work that you think is her darkest work explane why you picked it.

I picked this one cause i beleive it is the most bloody one of her paintings and the picture frame scares me a little and the gree carpet it just makes the picture look more gruesom.

Art History- Toulouse Lautrec

Review


The Post impressionists-Toulouse Lautrec (51 Min's)

Give a brief summary of how he lived and died , in your own words.(ex. what artists influenced him, his childhood his lifestyle, were he liked to go etc.) Remember be thoughtful, like the art historian you art Miranda.
Toulouse Lautrec was born in 1864 on Christmas eve.He was born very rich, in Paris. When he was a child his legs were cripple. Toulouse Lautrec in his teen years, broke his left leg and soon after he broke his right.His legs never healed right, this stunted the growth of his legs.His legs were as a child but his body was of a grown man.As an adult he went to Moulin Roung almost every day painting all the women he loved and adored looking at.Gauguin and Van Gogh influenced him a lot.He continued painting through out his life, including when he was in a asylum, to stop him from drink, when he got out soon after he die, at the age 36.
Did he live a bohemian lifestyle and why?
Yes because he believed in the Bohemian lifestyle and also believed in Truth ,Beauty,Freedom, and Love, which is the Bohemian mod-do.He also owned no land and drank a lot which is a lot like a Bohemian.
Define Lithograph: is a method for printing using a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a completely smooth surface. Lithography originally used oil or fat.
Find a you tube video on stone lithograph




Moulin Rouge means what?Red windmill
Describe what it was? Moulin Rouge (French for Red Windmill) is a cabaret built in 1889 by Joseph Oller, who also owned the Paris Olympia. Close to Montmartre in the Paris red-light district of Pigalle on Boulevard de Clichy in the 18th arrondissement, it is marked by the facsimile of a red windmill on its roof.(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moulin_Rouge) When the Moulin Rouge opened on October 5, 1889, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec had already gained much popularity within the bohemian community and was one of the invite-only guests at the opening night party. The Moulin Rouge, which means "red mill," was just that: a huge windmill painted red. It became a landmark, and a symbol of the joie de vivre — the joy of life — in Paris at the time.
The Moulin Rouge was the "rendezvous du high life." It was a theater, a concert hall, and a dance hall — all at the same time.
People came from all over to dance, to watch the dancers, and to watch each other watching the dancers. And Lautrec was there, at the same table every night, drinking and sketching everything which caught his fancy, particularly the dancers.
Try to find a picture of the Moulin Rouge in his time.
























TRADITIONAL CAN CAN DANCERS

Define hedonist:Hedonism is a school of philosophy which argues that pleasure has an ultimate importance and is the most important pursuit of humanity.
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Define decadent :decadency - Degeneracy: the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
decadence - A state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration; decay
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See if you can use these words in describing his life.
Toulouse Lautrec believed in Hedonism because he thought everything should be fun,easy and beautiful.He was also Decadent because he was artistic.
lithograph posters , what one(title) made him famous. hint: can can girl what did her name mean, try to find an image of this work and post
The Poster La Goulue for Moulin Rouge, her name means "The Glutton" Here is a video of her during her time.

He is known as father of what?
Modern Posters
Define brothel:A brothel, also known as a bordello, cat house, whorehouse, sporting house and various other euphemisms, is an establishment specifically dedicated to prostitution, providing the prostitutes a place to meet and to have sexual intercourse with clients. ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothel
Define Delirium Tremors:
The main symptoms are confusion, diarrhoea, disorientation and agitation and other signs of severe autonomic instability (fever, tachycardia, hypertension). Other common symptoms include intense perceptual disturbance such as visions of insects, snakes or rats (or stereotypically, pink elephants or tiny figures). These may be hallucinations, or illusions related to the environment, e.g., patterns on the wallpaper that the patient perceives as giant spiders attacking him or her. Unlike hallucinations associated with schizophrenia, delirium tremens hallucinations are primarily visual, but are also associated with tactile hallucinations such as sensations of something crawling on the subject - a phenomenon known as formication.Delirium tremens (colloquially, the DTs, "the horrors", "the fear", "the abdabs", "the jimjams" or "the rats"; afflicted individuals referred to as "jitterbugs" in 1930s Harlem slang; literally, "shaking delirium" or "'trembling madness" in Latin) is an acute episode of delirium that is usually caused by withdrawal from alcohol, first described in 1813. Benzodiazepines are the treatment of choice for delirium tremens.
Find three works from his circus drawings, when and where did he create these?


At what age and how did he die?
36 because of syphilis and mostly alcoholism. He also had a stroke, he could not quite his drinking he suffered the DT's, his body gave out.

Load a link to a nice site on Lautrec
http://www.lautrec.info/

Art History-Van Gogh

Review of
THE POST IMPRESSIONISTS-VAN GOGH (50 MIN)

Here is a picture of his work of his famous painting
Starry Night


How did Van Gogh die and at what age?
Van Gogh's depression, (one he had for quite sometime) deepened, and on July 27, 1890, at the age of 37, he walked into the fields and shot himself in the chest with a revolver. Without realising that he was fatally wounded, he returned to the Ravoux Inn, where he died in his bed two days later. Theo hastened to be at his side and reported his last words as "La tristesse durera toujours", (French for "the sadness will last forever"). He was buried at the cemetery of Auvers-sur-Oise.
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What color did he use a lot?
Yellow
Where is he from and where did he move to to continue his painting?
Birth Year : 1853 Death Year : 1890 Country : Netherlands then he moved to Paris.
Can you find a picture of Van Gogh with a candle in his hat?
I could not find one, but I remember seeeing a painting on the vedio.
What painting did he paint using this method?
Starry Night and other night scenes, he would put a candle in his hat so he could see at night when he would paint.
How many paintings did Van Gog sell in his life time?He sold one painting when he was alive but now he is famous and many paintings have sold and sell for millions of dollars.
Who supported him during his life ?
His brother Theo.
Van Gogh might have been mentally ill, he went to a mental hospital , it is reported that he hallucinated, how do you think this effected his art? Be descriptive and thoughtful like an art historian.
I think his depression and that he was hallucinating effected his art a lot because through out his painting nothing Is clear and I'm wondering is that what he thought his surroundings looked like.
Did Van Gogh have syphilis?
Yes, he did so did many other artist.
Van Gogh was inspired by what native or foreign countries work?
Japan
find an example of this influence and upload.


Define psychiatric illness:A mental disorder or mental illness is a psychological or behavioral pattern that occurs in an individual and is thought to cause distress.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatric_illness
define psychotic: "Person afflicted with psychosis
characteristic of or suffering from psychosis."
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80 people signed a petition to have Van Gogh recommitted to a mental hospital , why do you think they did this? Because he was a little crazy and because he wasn't like every one else.
Can you find a work of art that Van Gogh painted during this period, while he was in the asylum? Yes it is titled The assylum Garden
(see below)

Art History- Munch

The Scream

Review of
THE POST IMPRESSIONISTS

-Munch (50 MIN)

Describe Munich s childhood and how did it effect his painting?
"1868 Munch's mother dies of tuberculosis at the age of 30. Her sister, Karen Bjolstad, takes over household.
1877 Sister, Sophie, dies of tuberculosis at age of 15. "(edvardmunch.com)
This effected him a lot in his art, it made his art more gloomy because he was so very little when he lost his mother and sister.
define Bohemians, Munch consider himself one -A group of artists and writers with real or pretended artistic or intellectual aspirations and usually an unconventional life style
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or A nonconformist writer or artist who lives an unconventional life.
define Kierkegaard- Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (; ) (5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a prolific 19th century Danish philosopher and theologian. What is the Philosphy?
Define Angst:In German, an emotional state of anxiety without a specific cause. In existentialism, the term refers to general human anxiety at having free will. www.bigcityart.com

Define Melancholy: a feeling of thoughtful sadness
a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the ...
black bile: a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
somber: grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood" wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Munch liked pointillism define this style and try to find an example: "Pointillism is a style of painting in which small distinct dots of color create the impression of a wide selection of other colors and blending. or a school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye." (wikipedia.com)

What artist influenced him the most, Van Gogh, Pizarro, Cezanne, Monet or Gauguin.
Munch was not known for his landscapes, what was his subject matter?
He was known for his death, love and anxiety paintings.
How did he die? "1944 Shortly after his 80th birthday, on January 23, Edvard Munch dies peacefully at home in Ekely. Bequeaths 1,000 paintings, 15,400 prints, 4,500 drawings and watercolors, and 6 sculptures to the city of Oslo." (Edvardmunch.com)
For more info. on Munch go here!

Definition of Comedy: A Shakespearean comedy is one that has a happy ending, usually involving marriages between the unmarried characters,and a tone and style that is more light-hearted than Shakespeare's other plays.(wikipedia.org)

Definition of Tragedy:A play,that portrays or depicts calamitous events and has an unhappy but meaningful ending. A disastrous event, especially one involving distressing loss or injury to life: an expedition that ended in tragedy, with all hands lost at sea. A tragic aspect or element. (Answers.com)

I prefer to watch Shakespeare's comedy's, more than tragedy's because I dislike the endings of his tragedy's, I always end up wishing I didn't watch the tragedy. Therefore, I like comedy's more, plus most of them are funny and more enjoyable. Today I watched As you like It, a comedy play, this BBC movie lasted 150 minutes. I enjoyed it, but did not find it funny. Four couples got married at the end! This is typical shakespere comedy.


Today I found out that Shakespeare wrote three genre History, Comedy, and Tragedy.


List of tragedies by William Shakespeare

Antony and Cleopatra Tragedy
Othello Tragedy
Troilus and Cressida Tragedy
Hamlet Tragedy
Coriolanu Tragedy
King Lear Tragedy
Romeo and Juliet Tragedy
Julius Caesar Tragedy
Timon of Athens Tragedy
Macbeth Tragedy
Titus Andronicus Tragedy

List of comdeies by William Shakespeare

Merry Wives of Windsor Comedy
Love's Labour's Lost Comedy
Much Ado about Nothing Comedy
All's Well That Ends Well Comedy
Twelfth Night Comedy
Taming of the Shrew Comedy
Measure for Measure Comedy
Two Gentlemen of Verona Comedy
As You Like It Comedy
Winter's Tale Comedy
Merchant of Venice Comedy
Merchant of Venice Comedy
Tempest Comedy
Midsummer Night's Dream Comedy

List of history play by William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part II History
Richard III History
Henry IV, Part IIHistory
Cymbeline History
Henry VI, Part III History
Henry IV, Part I History
Henry V History
Henry VIII History
Henry VI, Part I History
Pericles History
Richard II History
King John History


THE END

WHO WAS JOHN DONNE?

"... any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee."

21. January 1572 – 31 March 1631

John Donne was born in London. He was Poet, Priest,and a Lawyer. He got married to Anne More. Anne gave him 12 children in 16 years of marriage. After his third child his dad died and soon after his mother. His wife died on 15 August 1617, five days after giving birth to their twelfth child, a still-born baby. John Donne mourning his loss, wrote his 17Th holy sonnet about her. He never remarried; this was really unusual for his time, especially as he had such a large family to raise.

Early years

His work consisted many of satire ( to ridicule or be sarcastic and meant to be funny) with often involved politics or the law. He also wrote erotic poetry, such as is found in The Flea.

Later years

After experiencing much death around him his work turned to writings about death and were much more somber in tone. He died of stomach cancer and had a picture made of him in what he would look like when he rose from the dead.Then he died a few months later.

Poems

He was Influenced by William Shakespeare in his poetry. He was a Jacobean poet which is an era after Shakespeare. In his writing he wrote mainly about love, sex, religion, and death. In his time influenced a lot of people like W. B. Yeats, Ernest Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas,and W. H. Auden . He was considered a metapyhsical poet. he was considered anti-romantic.