...FINDER I love the idea of using the Greek word for Finder as the main character’s name… maybe that could even work into the title? The headlines are talking. They say that there are only an estimated 6000 Followers left worldwide and about 10 percent of them may be found in North America. China claims to have wiped them out altogether, while India believes that they can be rehabilitated. Those headlines were from two days ago blaring through my Blue Tooth and YAHWEH alone knows how many of us are left. But after 80 - 100 years of persecution, since the Government’s war on the Followers, we’ve learned how to hide in plain sight. It takes a lot more money living in The Cities than in the communes where I was raised. But after they found our camp, about forty people strong, maybe 34 of us all told were BORNAGAINSAVED. The others were people we’d find on the road hungry, alone, broken; designated appointments from YAHWEH – well after they found our camp . . . well, I’ve been living in cities since then. They called us something else then, but the name has been lost. Now they just call us walking dead or religious trash. Either way it’s all the same. If they catch us, then it’s the Big Show: no ifs, ands, or but’s. Even on the news feeds, we’re “they,” or “suspects,” or “fanatics” and never our names. We’re the nameless ones. That’s how we can tell true Followers from the government plants they keep sending us. You can tell by the scars we carry. Many of us grow our hairs...
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...A quick look at how artist thru the ages have portrayed shoes. A quick look at how artist thru the ages have portrayed shoes. Look at your feet, you are probable using some kind of foot wear and if not you must definitely own at least three different shoes. Some artist found that this common piece of clothing that we take for granted is a master piece on its own. From Vincent Van Gogh to Andy Warhol, they all painted shoes in different forms and environments. Take for example Van Gogh “A pair of shoes”, they seemed kind of depressing, yet heavily use, the viewer can create the character that used these boots by simply looking at this picture. A worker perhaps or even the artist himself, they must feel comfortable with them, even love them since they look as if they had been used quite frequently. Then we have Dali´s painting of shoes, I know you were expecting a crazy painting this one is very tame. Once again we see a pair of shoes that are very worn out, it even looks as if they are melting, this time however the views sees the feet and since its Dali we have a nice reference of the snake; that could either a symbolism of the evil forms that we are enslave to or the sin that chases us all through life. With or without surrealism Dali´s paintings are exquisite, it is a known fats that feet and hands are some of the hardest things to paint, yet here Dali´s foot looks breathtaking, and as for the shoes they also tell a story. When going back to the renascence shoes were...
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...offer to meet his admirers but also popularised his book. Although a lot of stars use twitter only to stay famous, many have spread awareness and asked for help for many charities and causes that they believe in. Demi Moore’s tweet that helped thwart a distraught Californian woman’s suicide attempt is a thing to applaud. But some stars still burn bright long after their talent has faded. Courtney Love recent claim to fame is not her music but her seemingly alcohol/substance-induced tweets. Lindsey Lohan is in the news for tweeting a topless picture of herself. The entire concept seems circular because it is – prominent people stay popular for a longer time. The reason for Kim Kardashian’s inexplicable fame is simply that she’s famous. Andy Warhol once prophesised that everyone will be famous for 15 minutes and with...
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...Andy Warhol’s Subject Matter of the 1960s During the 1960s, Andy Warhol decided to experiment with pop art, a style of art that developed in England during the mid-1950s and produced realistic variations of well-known, everyday objects. He moved away from his technique of the blotted line and instead used canvas and paint. At first he had difficulty choosing what he was going to paint, but throughout the course of his pop art era he focused on four main subjects: product paintings, cartoon paintings, movie stars, and death. His first versions of pop art were called product paintings. These paintings showed popular consumer items that were familiar to the average American person, such as Brillo soap pads, Coca-Cola bottles, and the most famous of all, Campbell’s soup cans. He chose products such as these because they were top-selling products in the United States and they were considered important, useful, and economical by consumers. He drew his inspiration from the leftover Campbell’s soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles that he used at lunch. Andy Warhol’s second type of paintings was drawn from comic strips and comic books. Examples of these cartoon paintings include Dick Tracy (1961) and Superman (1960). Although he had begun to produce these before the product paintings, this phase lasted only a short period of time – once he discovered that Roy Lichtenstein was also painting characters from comic strips (seen in Castelli’s Gallery), he decided that he needed to find a different...
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...Foreign Ground The themes expressed in this chapter are those of crime and the struggle of single mothers. Author Wes gets into big trouble when he gets caught by the police tagging a wall. He was getting involved with the wrong crowd and being heavily influenced by them. His mother is very worried about him and even threatens to send him to military school, a threat which will prove to be true. Meanwhile, Other Wes digs himself deeper and deeper into the drug game. He runs into some roadblocks, but he is able to continue down this path by lying to his mother who is oblivious to what he is doing. Other Wes Wes started selling drugs to receive money; he told his mother he earned it from being a DJ. But Tony becomes suspicious, and thee two fight over whether Wes was lying or not. Tony couldn't believe Mary bought his story. He's been trying to make Wes a different person, nothing like himself. Then Tony gave up. Mary had began to wonder about what Tony had said. So she went into Wes's room and found a Nike box under his bed filled with drugs. When Wes came home, he found his shoe box on his bed, empty. He confronted his mother and she said she flushed his material down they toilet. He became furious with her and left to his girlfriend's house, which became the new quarters for his stach. Author Wes Wes and his friend, Shea, were caught by the police for graffiti. While Shea denied what he had done, Wes...
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...paintings include Dick Tracy (1961) and Superman (1960). * began doing productions of Hollywood movie stars, the most well-known being those of Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and Elizabeth Taylor * Politics and newsworthy events and imagery were also captured in his art., The Birmingham riots were captured along with several other images of the civil rights movement. Mushroom clouds, electric chairs and police dogs were also depicted. His signature art style was silkscreened, mass-produced canvas art in variations of color in multiple editions. Andy Warhol used commercial silkscreening to create multiple copies of his art pieces. Based on close-up portraits of his subject material, silkscreen techniques enabled him to produce the same image in multiple color variations. He commonly used bright, upbeat colors to portray the images in the silkscreen art work. While silkscreening was his predominant style later in his career, Andy Warhol also made films, sculptures, album covers and...
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...Andy Warhol was one of the most popular visual artist in the 1960’s. His art had always suggested something about his life. He was a leading figure in art known as pop art. Andy was known for his printmaking,painting,cinema, and photography. Also he was known for his ¨campbell soup can ¨ and ¨Gold Marilyn Monroe ¨ . When Andy was little his grandma would reward him chocolate when he was done with every drawing he created. As he grew up he began an obsession with Shirley Temple. At nine years old he was enrolled in an art class. The art gallery was his exposure to art there he knew was fine art was. As a child his father had died and his body wasn´t found for 3 years....
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...Ralph Lauren was the youngest of four children; Ralph Lifshitz was born in New York on October 14, 1941. His father was a house painter. Ralph became interested in clothes when he was in seventh grade. While attending DeWitt Clinton High School in New York, he worked part-time for New York department stores, saving his money to buy clothes. He changed his name to Lauren in the mid 1950. After graduating from high school he worked as a salesman and began studying business at night. He dropped out of school after a few months, spent time in the army, and then went shopping for a fashion job. In 1970, Lauren was awarded many Awards...
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...Both Axel in "The Soul of Capitalism" written by Robert Collins and Andy Warhol in "When Canada Met Andy" written by Nancy Tousley are artists who focus on artistic innovation. Artistic innovation always alone with disputes and it is too perplexing for some people to understand it. Besides, some stereotyped people are mean to new art, because they do not want to make any changes. Andy Warhol is "one of the 20th century's major artistic innovators and most influential artistic". He innovates new arts about printing paintings on soup cans and producing artworks of "icons in American pop culture". However, Canadians dispute his art when he first shows in Canada. No one shows up at his first solo show and his art is not recognized as art. What...
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...Andy Warhol Looking back over the past century or so, there were few artists that really stood out and became household names. One of these people was Andy Warhol— “the soup can guy.” To set the tone let me give you a quote to chew on: “What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.” –Andy Warhol Now, right off the bat, you can tell what kind of guy Warhol is, and his attitude toward life. Yes he took his art seriously but if you read his book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) you will see that’s pretty much the only thing he really took seriously. Warhol, born Andrew Warhola on Aug. 6, 1928 , to Slovakian parents didn’t come from a well off family. His parents were working class immigrants in Pittsburgh. When Warhol was in third grade, he came down with St. Vitus’ Disease, a nerve disorder that causes involuntary movements and thought to be a complication of scarlet fever, which “changed his appearance and his life forever.” Despite this complication...
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...Quoc Tran HUM 122 FALL 2009 Andy Warhol - Life and Legends Before taking the Humanities course in the Fall 2009 semester, I didn’t know anything about Andy Warhol. This is a good chance for me to make study about one of our best well-known 20th century American artists whose work is very broad. The Andy Warhol exhibit is located in the new Bank of America Gallery located on the Station's lowest level of the Union Station of Kansas City from October 2, 2009 until January 10, 2010. There are about eighty pieces by Andy Warhol from the Bank of America Collection such as Endangered Species, Flowers, Jews of the Twentieth Century, Myths, Muhammad Ali and Space Fruits spanning his career from the 1950's through 1986. These portfolios provide the viewer a brilliant mirror of postwar America, as well as insight into Warhol’s forms and ideas that continue to influence artists today. According to Christopher Leitch, director of the Kansas City Museum at Corinthian Hall, "this is the largest number of Warhol’s works ever gathered together in one place.” Obviously, Warhol made art to become "commonism" due to taking everyday objects and later newspaper and celebrity photographs and turning them into art such as the Coca-Cola bottles and the Campbell soup cans. I’m interested in the silk-screen process, created by Andy Warhol, in which paint was forced onto canvas through a high-contrast negative stencil attached to the fabric after striking color were added to selected areas, so images...
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...Abstract This essay employs a visual analysis to compare and contrast Andy Warhol’s ‘Blue Marilyn’ with Roy Lichtenstein’s ‘In the Car’ in association to the postmodernist theme of Consumer Culture and more explicitly, the introduction of Pop Art, born from post-war consumerist societies. The argument refers to eight scholarly research sources, three of which are scholarly journal articles. POSTMODERNITY AND CONSUMERISM: WIT, INVENTION AND THE AFTERMATH OF WAR Research Statement: Using a visual analysis, compare and contrast Andy Warhol’s Blue Marilyn with Roy Lichtenstein’s In the Car in association to the postmodernist theme of Consumer culture and more explicitly the introduction of Pop Art; born through post-war materialisation. The Postmodernist Cannon of the latter twentieth and twenty-first Century Art is a crucial anthology, signifying radical and innovative movements that differentiated from Modernist art practices. It signifies a period of time whereby practitioners sought to contradict the rebellious experimentational aspects of Modernist art through re-visioning and revitalising media to fit the metamorphosing culture. Incorporated within the Cannon were several movements that were heavily influenced by the rise of Consumer cultures, dictated by the post-war explosion of advertisement in the 1950’s, compelling practitioners to manipulate and transform their style in either awe of the perpetually adapting society or in rebellion towards the mass produced...
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...The Courage of Jennifer Wright Courage is when you do something even though you are afraid to do it. Jennifer showed courage because even though she was afraid she put her life on the line to save a fellow coworker. When faced with the decision to either be safely secure outside, Jennifer went out of her way putting herself in the line of danger to help. Jennifer and my Sandy (My wife) were coworkers at a convenience store. In December right before Christmas a gentleman came into the store and proceeded to rob it. The gentlemen was acting weird when asking if he could use the restroom, so Sandy decided to call 911 because the robber was acting suspicious and was wearing a big hoddie. It was December and cold so that was not so much out of place. When the gentleman came out of the restroom he wanted a pack of cigarettes and Jennifer was up at the register at the time because sandy was on phone with 911. But the guy pulled out the knife and demanded money. When Jennifer told him that Sandy was the cashier he came running at her with the knife. He chased her into the back room and demanded money; she told him that if he wanted the money then they would have to go back out to the cash register. Jennifer had made it out of the store almost out of the parking lot when she looked back and saw that Sandy was faced with a knife at her throat. Jennifer noticed that Sandy could not get away from the robber so she came back inside and attacked the robber. The police arrived in time to...
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...very interested in street art. Through the networking of his cousin, he meets other street artists and starts filming them and following them wherever they go. Guetta eventually meets Banksy and Banksy agrees to let Guetta film him. Guetta takes thousands of hours of tape before anyone realizes that hes not actually making a film. They urge him to make a film, and what he produced was 90 minutes of unwatchable clips that were edited together as if someone was channel surfing. Banksy urged Guetta to work on an art exhibit so that he could take the tapes and try to make a watchable film out of it. Guetta’s resulting exhibition was not what I would call art, they were copies of other artists work that he changed to make his own. Mostly Andy Warhol images. He mass produced the images over a short period of time and was able to use Banksys name to promote. Guetta adopted the moniker Mr. Brainwash, and a new street artist was born. Even though it was a guerilla art show, with hardly any promotion, Guetta was able to sell out the venue and profit...
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...Paper Carnival (Lights come up on the interior of an old office space. Papers clatter the one solitary desk in the Corner of the room a man sits behind it typing away. The tile floors are a dirty shade of lime green and, the walls have yellowed from age. A Delivery man with a low brow expression enters UR. Packages in hand) Delivery man: I have a delivery here for A Mr. Haven can you sign for this? (The delivery man hastily hands the clipboard to an older Gentleman well dressed in all white sits behind the only desk.) Man in white: Ah. No, sorry. I’m afraid there’s been bit of a mistake (The man in white folds his arms an smiles in an eerily, but warm fashion) Delivery man: No there’s been no mistake it’s printed right here on the door and here it is again on my delivery route. (The man in white gets up from his desk he gently takes the clipboard and crosses USR towards the door) Man in white: Ah I see the mistake this is the law office of Heaven (The man in white walks back downstage and hands the clipboard back to the delivery man then sits back down behind his desk.) Delivery Man: Oh I’m terribly sorry I’d…I’d better be off now. (The man’s resolves softens as he begins to walk away. The man in white looks up) Man in white: I take it grammar wasn’t your strong suit in school Mr. Glover (The delivery man sets his packages down and turned his attention to the man in white) Delivery man: How did you know my...
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