At this time the new minister of public education was Jose Vasconcelos. He initiated a national program of popular education which included adding mural art to public buildings. In November of 1921, he offered Rivera an indoor wall at the National Preparatory School (Fabulous life Diego Rivera pg 133). Just before Rivera began working on his first mural, he and other artists traveled to the Yucatan to study Mayan ruins at Uxmal and Chichen Itza. Rivera took many of sketches of the landscape the huts and the underground rivers where he was amazed of such beauty he saw and he made numerous sketches of the indigenous people.
The story structure and progression of “Exit Through the Gift Shop” was genius. The story starts out from the view of Thierry Guetta. Thierry takes an observational approach to his filming, standing back watching the street artists he follows put up posters, stickers, and paintings. He does this for many months before deciding that he wants to follow around Banksy which he ends up doing. Still, up to this point, the footage being used was that that had been filmed through the lens of Thierry’s camera, leading us to believe that this film was really a documentary about purely street art and artists.
Bourgois chose to inhabit New York City’s impoverished East Harlem, also called “El Barrio,” for several years and in 2003 published his book, “In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio.” While both Allen and Bourgois lived in their respective communities in the late 1980s, the settings of their fieldwork allowed them to produce two very different bodies of work. Allen’s time in rural Sonqo allowed her to become close with the town’s residents and revealed the ways in which their cultural identity as Runakuna is shaped. In contrast, Bourgois spent his time in the inner city and sought out to study El Barrio’s underground economy. The underground economy is the way of gaining income through illegitimate means such as his main focus: dealing drugs. He displaced his family an spent years forging relationships with individuals who many would describe as the underbelly of society in order to produce his unprecedented ethnography.
Due his dedication and originality, he could study in School of Art while still undergraduate. In 1989 he finished his studies, moved to New York, and exhibited his senior thesis in the Althea Viafora gallery. After he exhibited his artwork in the Regen Projects gallery, in May 1991, when he attracted the
Ansel became interested in photography on this trip and took his first photos on his first camera. With his first camera, a Kodak Box Brownie, Ansel's life as a photographer began an interest which was to endure for started the beginnings of an immense talent which was to make him a world-class photographer. Ansel was persuaded by his parents to attend school again and he went to Mrs. Kate Wilkins' private school. He graduated from the eighth grade at Mrs. Wilkins' school. His graduation marked the end of Ansel's Academic Career.
Frank Shepard Fairey a contemporary artist whose art is currently on an exhibition at the ICA, in Boston and is gaining a great amount of attention due to his art and other media issues surrounding him. Shepard Fairey was born February on 15, 1970, in Charleston, South Carolina. (“Shepard Fairey: Bio...”, par.1) Mr. Fairey is the son of a physician; he fell in love with making art at age 14(Essaak, par.5). Fairey attended Rhode Island School Design; he majored in illustration during his years in RISD. During his time there he created the original ‘Andre the Giant posses’ sticker (“Shepard Fairey: Bio...”,par.5).
He suffered a rare neurological disorder from an early age and as a young boy, finding solace and escape in popular celebrity magazines and DC comic books which clearly influenced his later works. Warhol majored in Pictorial Design while Commercial Art at the Carnegie Mellon University from 1945 to 1949, then moved to New York in order to establish a career in illustration and advertising. Heavily influenced by advertising pop culture and design and his obsession with the ambition to become famous and wealthy, Warhol mass produced portraits of famous celebrities, images of
As a child he drew cartoons for his father's friends, sold pencil portraits and designed t-shirts and marketing posters for local businesses. After high school, Danny served in the U.S. Navy, first as a photographer's mate and then as a Navy artist. He then pursued his education at Cooper Union School of Fine Art in New York City.
Kanye would learn through visits to No I.D.’s house, where he would hold studio sessions with artists. After high school, West enrolled at CSU, and continued to work at understanding the music industry. In 1998, West got his big break when producer Jermaine Dupri bought one of his musical beats. West was very fortunate that a highly respected producer like Dupri was interested in him. With his foot in the door, West dropped out of college to fully pursue this opportunity.
HineLewis Wickes Hine was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1874. After graduating from High School, he worked at various jobs before enrolling at the University of Chicago in 1900. While at the University of Chicago, Hine met Frank E. Manny, Professor of Education at the State Normal School who had recently been appointed superintendent of the Ethical Culture School in New York. In 1901, at the invitation of Manning, Hine moved to New York City and accepted a position as an assistant teacher at the ECS. Hine began at this time to use a camera as an educational tool and to photograph school events.