My Experience

After taking this class I have realized some of the things that are going on around me, and with this new knowledge I will now be more apart of my community and help just about anyone that is in need. Sometimes life isn't as bad as people say it is, because life is what a person makes it. In my life I have heard the saying "When life gives you lemons make lemonade", but if the words "and share them with your family and friends" were added I think that would better suit my personality now after taking this class. I have noticed after taking this class I am more open to going to museums, just because now I have a better since of the paintings that I am looking at and can actually see what is in front of me. Certainly I thought that I knew what art was, but taking this class has shown me that I really only know the basics of it all. I know that I will learn so much more about art on the path that I am leading now, because now I am following my dream instead of letting it go in the wind. 

Einstein on the Beach

The performance art that caught my attention while I was looking around for the perfect one for me was Einstein on the Beach. When first taking a look at this it doesn't have the feel of an opera, but it is an opera which has 4 acts to it. Einstein on the Beach was composed by Philip Glass and the theater producer for this magical performance is Robert Wilson. The whole idea of this opera is it doesn't really need to make any since and no one has to understand it, just need to sit back and relax and watch what is going on in front of the crowd. The premiere of this show was on July 25, 1976 in Avignon, France at the Avignon Festival. It was the first and longest score that Philip Glass had created at the time. The whole performance took about five hours with no intermission. Some of the main props that were used in this were Symbols from Albert Einsteins life. This piece spoke to me while I was watching a few clips of it because I have been getting more into Albert's life and the things that he did, also I wanted to see what they did and how they incorporated it into the show. 

51st Annual Student Art Show

As I was walking into the art show I first noticed the H-51 which seems as if it is a close up to a type of a flower. The medium that was used for this type of art was film. The subject of this photo is trying to capture life as it happens and to catch the beautiful colors that came from this life. This appealed to me because this photo is sort of a optical illusion, Its a picture of the inside of a flower and the center of it forms another flower on the inside. The next piece of art that I took a look at was DL-10 which seemed as if it were a type of hanna but on a large piece of canvas. The medium that was used for this artwork was a lead pencil. When I first looked at this art work it looked as if it were a titan holding a castle on his back, but as I looked closer I saw that it was actually a hermit crab with a castle on the back of it. It appealed to me because I feel as if everything was on my back all at once. 

Suprematism

Suprematism was founded by the Russian artist
Kazimir Malevich. It was said that this form of art was one of the earliest creation of abstract art. The name came from his belief that Suprematism art would be superior to all the art in the past. Malevich's art had also influenced another form of art which was named Unism. It seemed as if the communist power did not like the kind of art that Malevich was producing and attacked the movement. This form of art work is a small number of geometric shapes in solid colours on a white background.

Pillars Of Creation

This is a photograph that was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on April 1, 1995. Nasa named it Pillars Of Creation because of its pillar like structures and it was the clearest image of the universe at that time. The colors really pop out at me on this one, the white mixed with the brown to make the clouds of interstellar dust, the dark background which makes the interstellar dust stand out, and the purple stars are just a perfect touch to this photograph. This is only a half-length shot, it actually forms an eagle when able to see the full picture. The light coming from the pillars gives them an aura feel. This is actually a star-forming patch of space which is 6,500 light-years from earth. The pillars themselves are 5 light-years long, which are shown in this picture. This was a spontaneous photograph, because nothing in the galaxy could be planned. When I first saw this photo it reminded me of a time that I Astral Traveled. 

"Pillars Of Creation"

Faith Ringgold

The painting God Bless America was created by the artist Faith Ringgold. She grew up in Harlem during the Great Depression. She didn't feel as if her and her family was affected by it because of her loving family. Ringgold's art work was effected by the people, poetry, and music that she experienced while she was younger, also the racism, sexism, and segregation that she dealt with in her everyday life. This painting was created during the civil rights movement in 1964.It is a descriptive painting about the US government at those times. The symbols that she uses in this painting is a person that is stuck in a prison by living in America, the stripes symbolise the bars which they live behind. 
            
                                                                 God Bless America

My point of view on existentialism

I do believe what Sartre says does exist, especially in today's society.There are many people today that live by that but I choose to believe in what I want to not what other people want me to believe in. When a person is born they do have a purpose, it is up to them on what they want to do not anyone else. Sartre had a purpose when he started to question everything around him. In my personal life I carry my self to accept people as they are not what they believe in. We, as in the world, are just giving every person in the world something to do with having money and the need to please people. Its something to pass the time, but at the same time while we go to work and enslave our self's we are making a better world for the next generation of humans. Yes, we are just existing, its up to the human to give its self a purpose. I can not see my self as a existential hero because I am content with being a regular human.