Visual Arts and Poetry The Girl Powdering Her Neck by Cathy Song Portrait by Kitagawa Utamaro The poem Girl Powdering Her Neck was written by Hawaiian native Cathy Song. Cathy Song’s first piece of work The Picture Bride won her the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 1983. Song’s father was Korean American and her mother Chinese American. Her interest in writing began very young, when she would journal her families’ experiences. Her first work was actually about her father and mother, her mother was a picture bride.
When she graduated, she began teaching art in the New York City public schools. Later on she married and had two children. When her teachings ended she traveled to Europe with her mother and two daughters to study the masters – Picasso, Matisse, Monet, and others. Once she returned to the states she began to paint seriously. In the early 1960’s the civil rights movement began growing in American society, affecting Ringgold and her artwork greatly.
Rosa Bonhuer was born in Bordeaux, France, March 16, 1822 and died in Thomery, France, May, 1899. She was a French animalier and realist artists, one of few female scultors. Paulus Potter was born on November 20th 1625 and baptised in Enkhuizen, Dutch Republic and died in January 1654. In this essay i will explain how artists evolve during time and improve by influence through other work by other artists. I am going to discuss how Rosa Bonhuer has made a impact in history through work of one of many artists in this case i will be comparing her with Paulus Potter i will discuss the similaritys of how both artists become painters the life backgrounds and how there work had progressed into works of art to be known throughout history.
The painting I found on “The Metropolitan Museum of Art” named “Madame Georges Charpentier (née Marguérite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Émile-Charles (1875–1895)” (Met museum 2012) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. He was a famous French artist and also he was the leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. (Artble2012). This painting is the most representative for his impressionist style. I choose this painting because when the first time I saw this painting I was feel so warm and peace, also from this painting I seems to vision my mother and let me feel at home.
Sonia Delaunay Delaunay-trek, Sonia (born November 14, 1885, Gradizhsk, Ukraine, Russian empire [now Ukraine]-died December 5, 1979, Paris, France. Russian painter, illustrator, and textile designer who was a pioneer of abstract art in the years before World War I. Delaunay grew up in St. Petersburg. She studied drawing in Karlsruhe, Germany, and in 1905 moved to Paris, where she was influence by the postimpressionists and fauvists (a loose group of early twentieth century modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and it is a French word for the wild beasts). She married the artist Robert Delaunay by which time she was painting the style known as Orphism, which involved the melodious combinations of pure colors. She used different kind of materials in her artwork for example unique gouache, tracing paper, unique colored crayon and pencil on paper, original woven wool, original gouache and pochoir on paper and some other materials I didn’t mention.
children risked their lives in dangerous play” (4). Here in the ethnic neighborhoods of New York in 1928 we meet an Italian family as we begin to follow their story where it was common that “all the people sitting on the sidewalk” for a block or two nearby your home were family and friends (4). Lucia Santa rules her family with a heavy hand and a loving heart. She was proud of the fact that her family “lived in the best tenement on Tenth Avenue” (22). Lucia’s oldest child is her daughter Octavia, and as much as her mother is a product of her country, Italy, Octavia strives to be American.
The school was known for their romantic depictions of the American landscape. After traveling to Paris to continue his still life painting studies, his instructors encouraged him to develop his exceptional talent for landscape painting. In 1870, Hill settled in California while spending the winters in
Her initial influences were artists Arthur Wesley Dow, Alon Bennet, Auguste Rodin and Wassily Kandinsky, friends Charles Sheeter, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and Arthur Dove, and was influenced by movements like precisionism, Asian art, Art Nouveau, and modernism. She influenced early American modernists and artists such as Judy Chicago, Miriam Shapiro, who saw feminine imagery in her flower paintings, and Andy Warhol, her friends and husband, and influenced movements like American Modernist Painting and Feminist Art. The Georgia O’Keeffe museum, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is the first museum in the United States dedicated to a female artist. “Nothing is less real that realism. Details are confusing.
Julia Child was born Julia McWillams in Pasadena, California, on August 15, 1912, one of John and Julia McWilliams's three children. The children were raised in comfort: they were all sent to private schools, and the family had servants, including a cook. The children, all of whom were unusually tall, loved outdoor sports. In 1930 Julia went to Smith College in Massachusetts, where she majored in history. After graduation she took a job as a copywriter for a furniture company in New York City and enjoyed an active social life.
About a year later, she became a drama critic for a Pittsburgh newspaper called the Leader. Beginning in 1901, Cather did a five-year stint as a high school English teacher, a job she hoped would give her plenty of time for her own writing. In 1903, she published a book of poetry called April Twilights. After she met S. S. McClure, editor of McClure’s Magazine, McClure offered her a job as an editor at the magazine, which was famous for its muckraking journalism. She accepted and moved to New York.