Wednesday, April 21, 2010

who is John Keats







Short bio on Keats, load 2 picturs, and links remember interesting facts, where he is from, literary works, how he died,

John Keats: (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821)

Born- 31 October 1795(1795-10-31) London
Died- 23 February 1821 (aged 25) Rome
Occupation- Poet, surgeon's apprentice, medical student
Language- English
Nationality- English
Alma mater- Guy's Hospital
Literary movement- Romanticism
Spouse(s)- Frances "Fanny" Brawne (betrothed, never married)
Influenced-Alfred Tennyson, Wilfred Owen, Longfellow, Oscar Wilde, Ernest Hemingway and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Known best for- His series of odes which was and is the most popular poems in English literature.





Died of- tuberculosis













Friday, April 9, 2010

summary of the history of the Arabian nights








Who wrote this book originally? The book that we have today "was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars across the Middle East and North Africa. The tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Indian, Egyptian and Mesopotamian folklore and literature." So there is not really a really author to the stories within the book but who ever did really write them was amazing writer.
- wikipedia


What country do you think the author was from? Persia


What can you tell me about the book? It is mainly about a king or a Sultan how marries young women and kills them after their wedding day, but there one night the girl was clever and had her younger sister sneak into her bed room before the king saw her when the sister was found.His wife bag to tell her sister a story before she went to bed, the king allowed it, interested himself in what the story was going to be about.His wife began her story and for 1,001 nights she told her story and therefore lived longer then any other wife of the king's.



How many versions are there? more than 200 versions.

What version are you reading? I am reading the version by Andrew Lang, and illustrated by William Dumpster, written in 1968.
Find Perisain writing.
What is the legend of sherharzade

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Lemar, a very socialable primate















Up load photo of lemur-






Up load video-


Find picture of tamarind-



What is the policy on owning or buying and selling them in the US?
It is aloud in the U.S to sell and own them.

What were your observations of the lemarsLemar's and their babies, what did you discover about their socailsocial behaviour? Some observations I made at the place I went, was the lemurs were very socaiablesociable, and as I could tell sorta liked us. They showed off their cute babies by putting them on their back. At one time the mother tried carringcarrying both of her two babbiesbabies, the father seeing she was haveinghaving trouble came and took one of the babies on his back. This little family I found out was going to be departed because in septemberSeptember the two little lemurs were going to be sold! This made me so sad :( This adorable family was going to be separated, the toughtthought that this family was almost more of a family then a human family,baffled me. When I left their home I couldnt help but feel bad for the mother and father.
Why might owning an exotic pet be good or bad-
GOOD-It's good because the pet lives longer and may like human companushipcompanionship.

BAD- It's bad because the animal is not in its natural habitatehabitat and its a wild animal and at any moment could do something violent.
I think it should become harder to get exotic animals and someone should come to the place where the animal is going to stay to make sure the animal is safe and happier.

Where are they from? Lemurs are primates found only on the African island of Madagascar and some tiny neighboring islands.

What do they eat? Eating fruits and leaves, particularly those of the tamarind tree (Tamarindus indica), known natively as kily.

Are they indangeredendangered? Near threatened



What Primate? The Ring-tailed Lemur (Lemur catta) is a large strepsirrhine primate and the most vocal primates.

What is a primate?A primate is a member of the biological order PrimatesthePrimates The group that contains prosimians (including lemurs, lorises, galagos and tarsiers ) and simians (monkeys and apes).With the exception of humans, who inhabit every continent on Earth, most primates live in tropical or subtropical regions of the Americas, Africa and Asia.

What is there genus? It is the only member of the Lemur genus

What is there social attiatudattitude? The Ring-tailed Lemur is highly social, living in groups of up to 30 individuals. live 16 ytoto 19 years but uypup to 26 in capitivitycaptivity.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010



Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)


Fast Facts:

Born- 16 October 1854(1854-10-16)Dublin, Ireland
Died- 30 November 1900 (aged 46) Paris, France
Occupation- Playwright, short story writer, poet, journalist
Nationality- Irish
Period- Victorian era

Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Grey

High school: Portora Royal School
College: Trinity College, Magdalen College
Occupation: Playwright, novelist, poet, editor

Parents: Sir William Wilde and Jane Francesca Elgee
Siblings: Henry, Emily, Mary, William, Isola
Spouse: Constance Lloyd
Children: Cyril and Vyvyan

LITERARY WORKS

1878- Ravenna
1881- Poems
1888- The Happy Prince and Other Tales
1889- The Decay of Lying
1891- The Picture of Dorian Gray
1891- Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories
1891- Intentions
1891- Salome
1892- The House of Pomegranates
1892- Lady Windermere’s Fan
1893- A Woman of No Importance
1893- The Duchess of Padua
1894- The Sphinx
1895- An Ideal Husband
1895- The Importance of Being Earnest
1898- The Ballad of Reading Gaol

He also wrote a book called The Picture Dorian Gray. Which I have read.Oscar is a Meager literary is society.He is probably most famous for writing Dorian Gray.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Goya





Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828)

What genera is he from?
Romantic

Where was he born, show a map?
Goya was born in Fuendetodos, Aragón, Spain, in 1746.







Find a youtube video on how to make an etching?





What is an aquatint?

"A form of etching with acid on a plate partially covered with varnish that produces a print somewhat resembling a watercolour; An etching or print made using this method; To make such etchings'
(wiktionary,aquatint)

Up load saturn devouring his son.
"Perhaps the best known of the Black Paintings is Saturn Devouring His Son. The image portrays the Roman god Saturn eating one of his children. Fearing a prophecy that one of his children would overthrow him, Saturn ate each of his children upon their birth. Goya depicts this act of cannibalism with startling savagery"
(Wikipedia,The Black painting)








What are the BLACK PAINTINGS?

"He had a first hand and acute awareness of panic, terror, fear and hysteria. He had survived two near-fatal illnesses, and grew increasingly anxious and impatient in fear of relapse. These factors combined are thought to have led to his production of 14 works known collectively as the Black Paintings.

Using oil paints and working directly onto the walls of his dining and sitting rooms, Goya created intense, haunting works with dark themes. The paintings were not commissioned and were not meant to leave his home; it is likely that the artist never intended the works for public exhibition: "...these paintings are as close to being hermetically private as any that have ever been produced in the history of Western art." Goya did not title the paintings, or if he did, he never revealed those titles; the names have been usually by provided art historians."(Wikipedia,The Black painting)

Two of Goya's best known paintings are The Nude Maja (La maja desnuda) and The Clothed Maja find them upload comment on each.




It looks almost the same as the picture blow except for some diferences which are she is wearing clothes which is the mane differnce between the pictures.Another is the backround it is almost commpetly black and the one blow spot lights Duchess of Alba. Another thing I have noticed is both pictures are in the same poshion, it looks like you chould put both painting together and the bodies would be alined.








I think this picture shows that Goya did have a romantic relationship with Duchess of Alba, "with whom Goya is thought to have had an affair, and the mistress of Manuel de Godoy, who subsequently owned the paintings. Neither theory has been verified, and it remains as likely that the paintings represent an idealized composite."(wikipedia,Goya)



"In the 1810s, Goya created a set of aquatint prints titled The Disasters of War which depict scenes from the Peninsular War. The scenes are singularly disturbing, sometimes macabre in their depiction of battlefield horror, and represent an outraged conscience in the face of death and destruction. The prints were not published until 1863, 35 years after Goya's death." Find as many images as you want and upload.


















I think these four drawings are very macob and horrifing and down right scary. I think there was a good reason for the drawing not to be published untill after his death cause if the people of his time saw these they would have been out raged. As horried as these pictures are they are true to the events.

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.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Asian studies

Define Ti-chi: t'ai chi: "a Chinese system of slow meditative physical exercise designed for relaxation and balance and health"
(wordnetweb)

Find a video showing a beautiful example of this art:







Where did it begin:China

Who created it: Chan San Feng invented the art of Tai Chi Chuan.


Give information on it that you find interesting:





  • It's like Kong fu


  • It's a unsweat exersize


  • It's heathy


  • It's relexing


Define Yoga:

Find an image of a tibetain bowl, define its use and find a video showing monks using it.

Where is Tibet, find a map:












Define tao:

what is tao te ching?

Find an image of confucius:


Find an image of Budda;



What religions have these two men been resonpible for.


What do you at this point think of Asian studies: I think at this piont I do like the Asain studies