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- Rousseau

The Post impressionists-Henri Rousseau


Define

Intellectuals:An intellectual is a person who uses intelligence (thought and reason) and analytical thinking, either in a professional or a personal capacity.(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectuals)
avaunt guard:Avant-garde ( in French) means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics.
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Naivete:lack of sophistication or worldliness
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colorist: colorists - Artists, usually painters who give more importance to color believing that form may be differentiated using only color.
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A painter able to achieve special effects with color (wordnetweb.com)

Define and find an image of a pantograph: Mechanical device used to copy a figure or change the scale.
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TB or the illness of tuberculous:
1888-Rousseau's wife, Clémence, dies of tuberculosis.

Definition:"Infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions usually in the lungs."(wordnetweb.com)

What does it mean to be a self taught artist:Educated or trained by oneself.
(en.wiktionary.org/wiki/self-taught)




Find the paintings and upload the following

War or Discord on Horseback:

The sleeping gypsy:

The Dream:

Portrait with landscape:





Which painting do you like the most, and why, give your overall impression of his work. I like The Dream the most out of the four because the colors are bold and I like the fact that he put in many different animals in the picture, it makes you look deeper in the picture.I like most of his art.The colors he used how he arranged them,he might be my favorite Post impressionist.

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Find a link to the Paris world fair, explain a little about it, up load an image, Remember that the Eiffel tower was made for this exhibition. How did Rousseau use the fair for inspiration.

Link: HERE
Old Photos of the World Fair:

A LITTLE ABOUT THE FAIR: The Fair opened April 15, 1900 and Closed November 12 1900.The 1900 World Fair, held in Paris, was a celebration for the turn of the century, and attracted over 50 million visitors.

ROUSSEAU and the FAIR:
"1889
• He visits the 1889 Paris World's Fair and is inspired to write a play on the subject, a light comedy entitled A Visit to the 1889 Exhibition.
• He also paints Myself, Portrait-Landscape in which he features the Eiffel Tower, the famous Paris landmark built for the 1889 Exhibition."
From:(http://www.tate.org/)

The fair inspired him to do all of his jungle paintings because at the fair they had a Safari exhibit. That's were he got most of his ideas for his animals and the plants.

The Moon

From the Bill Nye DVD (26 minutes)


Research:

What year did man first walk on the moon?
1972

Find an article about finding water on the moon and give its link, why do the scientists think this is so important?
Cick here to hear verything about water on the moon!

Who said " One small step for man, one giant leap for man kind."
Find a picture of the first spaceship to land on the moon, or a picture of a man on the moon. Neil Armstrong

What are linguistic origins of Luna?
Roman mythology) the goddess of the Moon; counterpart of Greek Selene (wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn)


What is a lunatic, do you think that the moon can influence behavior and why?

DEFINITION:A lunatic is a commonly used term for a person who is mentally ill, dangerous, foolish or unpredictable: a condition once called lunacy.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunatic)
or/and
an insane person
daredevil: a reckless impetuous irresponsible person
insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon
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MOON INFLUENCE: Yes, I do because The moon affects the level of the ocean tides, This occurs by the gravitational pull of the Moon.Now if people are made up of mostly water then wouldn't the moon have some affect on us as it dose on the ocean?Well I do believe that it dose affect us in some way. Maybe the affect is bigger for some people and maybe others dont even reallis the change.
But I want you to pick for your self for NO I dont think the moon effects people click HERE.
for YES I do think that the mooon effects people click HERE.


True and false
over 100 men have walked on the moon False
the moon rotates in its own orbit True
The moon is tilted True
A new moon is when it is clearly seen in the sky False
Ancients saw a round shadow on earth which influenced there thoughts on the shape of the moon True
The earth goes around the sun True
The moon goes around the earth True

Definitions
Describe how the the moon cycles the earth, load an image:A lunar phase or phase of the moon refers to the appearance of the illuminated portion of the Moon as seen by an observer, usually on Earth. The lunar phases vary cyclically as the Moon orbits the Earth, according to the changing relative positions of the Earth, Moon and Sun. One half of the lunar surface is always illuminated by the Sun (except during lunar eclipses), and hence is bright, but the portion of the illuminated hemisphere that is visible to an observer can vary from 100% (full moon) to 0% (new moon). The boundary between the illuminated and unilluminated hemispheres is called the terminator.
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Phase Of the Moon:
New moon
Waxing Crescent moon
First Quarter Moon
Waxing gibbous moon
Full Moon
Waning gibbous Moon
Last Quarter Moon
Waning Crescent Moon
Darkened moon


Define Geology :a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks
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Describe how tides work:Tides are the rising of Earth's ocean surface caused by the tidal forces of the Moon and the Sun acting on the oceans.
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Astromony-Fingerprints of Atoms,

From DVD Lecture UNDERSTANDING THE UNIVERSE: AN INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONOMY (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELY) and teacher instruction (3 1/2 hours)















Show an image and define radiation in terms of electric charge:
In physics, radiation describes any process in which energy emitted by one body travels through a medium or through space, ultimately to be absorbed by another body. ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation

All matter is composed of atoms and many atoms are unstable. In fact, over half of the elements in the periodic table including uranium, are in a constant process of rearranging themselves. This is not something that humanity can control.
When the nucleus of an atom attempts to become more stable, it releases energy, known as radiation. Once this happens the original atom changes into a new atom. In some instances, a new element is formed and in other cases, a new form of the original element, called an isotope, appears. The spontaneous change in the nucleus of an unstable atom that results in the emission of radiation is called radioactivity and this process of change is often referred to as the decay of atoms. (google.com)

Show an image and define Magnetic energyThe potential energy of a magnetic field
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Define an Isotope (image if available):one of two or more atoms with the same atomic number but with different numbers of neutrons
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Define an Ion:a particle that is electrically charged (positive or negative); an atom or molecule or group that has lost or gained one or more electrons
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Define Ionization:Ionization is the physical process of converting an atom or molecule into an ion by adding or removing charged particles such as electrons or other ions. This is often confused with dissociation (chemistry).
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Define Plank's equation E= hv
This equation shows the property of light. The equation above is a fundamental equation to spectroscopists. Energy is equal to Planck's constant times nu (the Greek letter). Where E=energy in J or calories, h=Planks constant [6.022 x 10^-34 J·s, and v is the frequency of the photon (light) in Hz (or reciprocal seconds). Note also that another fundament equation is c=v·lambda (c=speed of light, lambda is wavelength of light).You could use the above equation, for example, to find out how much energy (in kilojoules) is carried by one einstein (one mole of photons) of red light with wavelength of 650nm. Some conversions need to take place, it you do the right maths you get 184 kJ/mol. Similarly blue light of wavelength 400 nm is 299 kJ/mol.
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Define Ultra violet light and upload an image:Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than that of visible light, but longer than x-rays, in the range 10.
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Define Infra red light and up load an image:A color of light redder than the human eye can see. Infrared light has wavelengths that are at least twice as long as green light. Besides visible light and infrared light there are many more types of light. These differ from each other by their wavelength. ... (isc.astro.cornell.edu/~spoon/crashcourse/glossary.html)
Define an upload an image of Continuous Spectrum:Continuum of emited wave lengths.
" Bright line spectrum" and Continuous spectrum with dark lines


How can Astronomers know with absolute certainty that a particular star has Helium or any other element in it?
Because they use spectrum's. Each element has their own pattern within a spectrum. Therefore scientists recognize each elements pattern when they view light spectrum coming from a star. They analyze either the emission, absorption or continuous spectrum patterns.This is an image that shows how each element has a different line pattern.

Are all elements that are on the periodic table also found in the Universe, how do we know this?
yes,because they have not found any new elements in the universe at this time.They know this by using spectrum's.

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
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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!

Art History - Gaugin

Research after viewing
THE POST-IMPRESSIONISTS: GAUGUIN ( 51 min)

What did Gauguin do before he decided to become an artist?
Stock broker
He had enough money at one time to do what, what did he later do with his purchases and what artist did he favor above all else?
He had an art collection, he favored Cezanne.Later he had to sell his collection to pay for his sick son.
How many children did he have? How many wives? What do you think of how he treated his "loved ones"?
5 children. 2 wives and 2 girlfriends. I think how he treated his loved ones was "barbaric" and cruel because he just left his wife and childen, so he could go live on an island. Another reason is not only did he remarry when his wife was still alive, but he remarried a 13 year old girl.
Find a picture of Martinique and were it is ( it was french) is it an island?
Martinique is off a Cuba and this little island is owned by the French.

Find out where Brittany is, is it Brittan or some place else(optional to add map)Brittany and Brittan is the same place just a different name.

Find an image of his first masterpiece " Vision after the sermon"

Give your thoughts on it.
I dislike most of his work but this one I really dislike.I don't like the plain red parts in it and the tree right in the middle. I don't like the colors, the position he put the people and plus I don't understand the meaning of this painting.

Define primitivism in art:

Crudeness: a wild or unrefined state and a style inspired by early or tribal cultures, or children’s art.

Define Symbolism in art:

A system of symbols and symbolic representations, the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning,or an artistic movement in the late 19Th century that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images

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Find the "Yellow Christ" and add image

Find Tahiti (load a map ) It is the the aright of America in the Pacific Ocean.

Define syphilis and what happens to someone who does not get treatment.
A sexually transmitted disease that, left untreated, can cause damage to the nervous system, heart, or brain and ultimately death.Gaugin died of this disease and so did many other artist.

Define barbarian, do you think Gauguin was one?savage: a member of an uncivilized people and yes I think he is very barbaric.
Fine his last masterpiece "Where do we come from..."

Over all give your thoughts on his work and your feelings about it and the life he led.
Most of his work I did not like, but some I did like, for example his landscapes. The picture up above I do like it because of the dark, scary features of it.
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Review of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew

The movie I watched was about William Shakespeare's play the Taming of the Shrew, it starred Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. It was about a scolding nagging bad-tempered women or 'shrew', named Kate or Katharina. This Kate, had a little sister named Bianca that every one in the town loved, and her father loved her more than Kate. However, her father would not allow anyone to marry his younger daughter until his elder daughter, Kate was married first. Therefore, Bianca's suitors try to find some one to marry this horrible shrew.

Then they found a man that was willing to marry Katharina, because of her money or dowry. He was a poverty-stricken gentleman, looking for a wealthy wife, his name was Petruchio. When he gets to her house, she is tearing apart her room. Throwing chairs, lamps tables and more. Yet, when he walks into the room she stops, for just a moment and then, continues to scream and yell. Petruchio finally gets her to calm down and to agree to marry him.

On their wedding day , Petruchio dressed like a joker,which completely embarrassed Katharina. After that, she was furious and when the Priest asked her "Will you take Petruchio as your husband?" She said "I WILL ....." but Petruchio kissed her right before she could say "NEVER!"and they were married.


After they were married and he got his money from her father, Petruchio wanted to leave her behind at the wedding banquet. But she followed him and he put her on a donkey in the rain. They did not go to eat at the wedding banquet. Petruchio rides off on a horse, thinking that Katharina would not follow but she followed in the rain and the snow. When she gets to his house it is despicable and dusty. The next day she cleans and fixes his gross house.

That same day she finds out that her little sister was to be married. The next day Petruchio said " Wake up, lets go to your sister's." Katharina said " But my lord its two in the morning" He replied "No it is seven in the morning, if you want to go to your sisters wedding "She said " No it's, seven" in the sweetest voice she could. So they went on their way to Bianca's wedding. Petruchio said" Isn't the sun so beautiful" Kate exclaimed " That is not the sun, that is the moon" He said " That is the sun, if I say it's the sun."

So Katharina and Petruchio went to Bianca's wedding. During the wedding banquet all the men made a bet to see who had the most obedient wife. The winner got 4,000 crowns or money. The first man which was the husband of Kate's sister says to his servant " Tell my wife to come to me". His servant came and told him that" Your wife said, she was busy".The second man told his servant to "Have my wife come to me right away". His servant came running back and said "Your wife said if you want me, then you come to me".Petruchio told this servant "Tell my wife that I demand her to come here".

His servant came back running. He looked behind him and there was Katharina, in one arm was her sister and in the other arm was the other man's wife. She let go of them and she said to her sister and the other wife " Women are soft and fragile and God made us this way. Men are Strong and brave and God made them that way to protect us and shelter us. We should thank them since we are unable to do this for are ourselves. So us women should obey and honor our husbands." She makes the other two girls kneel and her self as well, she puts her hand out and Petruchio helps her up. This was a very touching part in the movie, it showed that Katharina was tamed and was now a good obedient wife. She left the room and Petruchio ran after her. He no longer just loved her for her money but now loved her for her.

THE END

I liked this movie a lot it was funny and very moving. At the begin you hate Kate, in the middle you feel sorry for her and at the end you love her! Most of the movie you dislike Petruchio but at the end he was the one who made Kate who she was at the end, so you have to end up liking him.