When he was two, Wilbur moved with his family to rural New Jersey. They rented a pre-Revolutionary War stone house on a four-hundred-acre estate owned by an English millionaire. Growing up in this environment, Wilbur developed his awareness of and appreciation for nature, which is evident in many of his poems.
The story focuses on ideals of Cherokee society such as nature, respect for the land, spirit, love and mountain life. “ “ The story also prominently displays a strong mentoring relationship between Little Tree and his Granpa. His Granpa uses everyday lessons and hardships to teach Little Tree about independence and being a proper man. ” ” You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been. This coming of age story has a lot of sadness juxtaposed by excitement and enthusiasm about what the future brings.
He spent the rest of his childhood in Glendale, where Wayne worked paper routes and other jobs to help out his family. Wayne was also in clubs like YMCA and the Boy Scouts of America. He was a top student in his class at Glendale high school. (“John Wayne an American Icon” 83). John Wayne was offered a full two year scholarship at the University of Southern California (“John Wayne an American Icon” 84) , as the starting left
His first series of technical articles was published in Camera Craft in 1934, and his first widely distributed book, Making a Photograph, appeared in 1935. Ansel Adams died on April 22, 1984 from heart failure aggravated by cancer. When he died he left behind his wife, two children (Michael born August 1933, Anne born 1935) and five grandchildren. As John Swarkowski states in the introduction to Adams's Classic Images (1985), "The love that Americans poured out for the work and person of Ansel Adams during his old age, and that they have continued to express with undiminished enthusiasm since his death, is an extraordinary phenomenon, perhaps even unparalleled in our country's response to a visual
At the Seattle-Tacoma Airport, in Tacoma, Washington, he released thirty-six passengers and two crew members once his demands were met (Pasternak). After taking off again Cooper ordered the plane to fly at a low altitude towards Mexico. At 8:13pm pressure gauges recorded his jump over the Lewis River from 10,000ft into a thunderstorm with over a hundred mile per hour winds and negative temperatures wearing only a thin suit, wrap-around sunglasses, and a rain coat (Brad Meltzer's Decoded). Many people believe that this was a suicidal jump and that Cooper died that night (Mysterious Disappearances in U.S. History). A reporting error in this high interest case mixed up his name forever immortalizing him as D.B.
Adams was born near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California on February 20, 1902. “His earliest goal was to become a concert pianist, but he turned to photography in the late teens of the century; a trip to Yosemite National Park in 1916, where he made his first unprofessional photos, is said to have determined his direction in life.” Ansel Adams loved wildlife, and decided to make the scenery of Yosemite National Park some of his main subject matter for his infamous landscape photos. “Ansel Adams' work is an broad documentation of what is still left of the wilderness, the dwindling untouched piece of the natural environment (“Ansel Adams”).” In about 1927, Ansel Adams decided to become a professional photographer. He made this decision about the same time multiple copies of his work were being published in magazines and museums. “Photographs, he believed, are not taken from the environment but are made into something greater than themselves (“Ansel Adams”).” Also adding publicity to photography during the early 1900’s was photographer, artist, painter, and sculptor, Emanuel Rabinovitch, or more commonly known as Man Ray.
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) Norman Rockwell was best known for his paintings that depicted stories of America and its cultural values through a series of people and small town life in the early to mid 20th century. At the age of 14, Rockwell dropped out of high school to go study art at Arts Students League. By the age of 19, Rockwell attained the chief illustrator for Boys Life magazine position and would hold that position for the next fifty years. Rockwell also worked for The Saturday Evening Post and about 150 other companies producing over 4000 works of art. Rockwell did travel to Paris in 1923 to study modern art but it was his root original style that everyone appreciated the most.
Even as a 10-year-old boy, he experienced bouts of depression (Slater, 5). He began to draw free-handedly whenever he could, making strange yet beautiful creatures (Slater, 6). As he grew older, his creativity did not cease. He studied under a man that would start the influence of his experiments. Harry did his graduate work at Stanford where he studied with Lewis Terman.
(Black Pioneers of Science & Inventions, Haber, pg 13-15) Rillieux at a young age asked a lot of questions about the machines around the plantations and how they worked. His father as an engineer and inventor of the steam-operation cotton-bailing press, was really proud of his son and wanted to send him to receive the best education he could get. Because of the color difference the best school in New Orleans did not accept him,but that didn't stop Rillieux father. First because Rillieux was baptize as a catholic he went to catholic schools and study for his early age. Then, Rillieux father send him to Paris best school (L'Ecole) were there were no racial restrictions, to study engineering.
Robert Arneson is an American sculpture during the late 20th century and one of hiswork I think is fascinating is the awesome Global Death and Destruction (1982-3). I would say this sculpture is the most chilling and dark sculpture in the museum. The medium of the art piece is stoneware with glazes. "WAR MEMORIAL" is inscribed on the front and the Engravings of a mushroom cloud, a head and a missile decorate the sides of the base could suggest a future nuclear catastrophe. A painting that caught my interest was The Accident (1899) by the Belgian painter Williem Geets.