Honors Study Guide 1.) Analyze the political climate, issues, and stakeholders in the Cobo/Edwards mayoral election campaign of 1949. Relate this election to the specific outcomes in the city of Detroit over the next decade and detail what you see as the lasting effects today. Edwards backed by auto union, supposed to win because he was black and pro public housing. Cobo won the election, even though he was white and for private housing. Edwards took side with the Brewster housing projects, declaring
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Duncan Tonatiuh is a Mexican-American author, who has written many children books such as Dear Primo, Separate Is Never Equal, Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote and Diego Rivera. His work is mostly influenced by Pre-Columbian art, specifically that of Mixtec codex. He is inspired by the culture and artwork of Mixtec and other Mexican cultures. In his work, he talks about complex topics such as social justice, history of Latinos and Americans, art and immigration. He was born in Mexico and was raised in
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The Surrealism movement is not for the conservative or close-minded. It drives beyond the unspeakable and dives deeper into the untapped imagination. Both Djuna Barnes and Frida Kahlo have different personal experiences that shaped their work individually, but also have similar incidents that make them fit so well into the Surrealist movement. Nightwood was extremely over my head as I’m sure it was for numerous others when the book came out. The overall tone of the book was depressing and extremely
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Oil Painting Intro Terminology: For each term or phrase below answer both what it is and why it would be used. -Direct Painting A style of painting where layers of wet paint are applied to more layers of wet paint (wet on wet painting) -Indirect Painting Indirect painting involves procedures in which the final effects in a picture are built up gradually by placing several layers of paint, one over the other. -Toning a Canvas Toning your canvas before beginning to paint can help make
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I choose to find the art work that best symbolizes symmetrical balance first because I know it would be the easiest to find. After flipping through the book I landed on Diego Rivera, Man, Controller of the Universe, or Man in the Time Machine, 1934. Symmetrical balance is defined by taking a piece of art and cutting it in half and having both cut pieces be the same or near perfect. With this piece there are some differences with the objects on each side of the man but I believe if you cut it
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Magsalin comes back to the Philippines after a 7-year absence. In his honor, Don Santiago delos Santos "Captain Tiago" a family friend, threw a get-together party, which was attended by friars and other prominent figures. One of the guests, former San Diego curate Fray Dámaso Vardolagas belittled and slandered Ibarra. The next day, Ibarra visits María Clara, his betrothed, the beautiful daughter of Captain Tiago and affluent resident of Binondo. Their long-standing love was clearly manifested
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because it was my first time to attend a formal theater in my new American life, and I also watched the promo on YouTube before I went there. On March 11, which is Sunday, I watched John Wilk’s Oresteia Fractum at City College of San Francisco Diego Rivera Theatre, which is directed by John Wilk. It presents an original experimental adaptation of Aeschylus' Greek trilogy based on the end of the Trojan War and the murder of Agamemnon entitled Oresteia Fractum. The piece is a collaboration exploring
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musical spaces the nude immensity of the sky, it impressed me as the shrine containing all the efforts of the new civilization of AMRICA." Secondly, I want to share the second one with you. It was an artwork which called “The Flower Carrier” by Diego Rivera. For me, the Flower Carrier is a rhythmic, powerful image
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my quest to study the life of the ancient California inhabitants, I visited the San Diego Museum of Man which is an anthropological museum situated in Balboa Park, San Diego, California. The museum was established in the year 1915 as a result of the Panama-California Exposition where several exhibits were displayed with ‘The Story of Man through Ages’ being the first. At the culmination of the exposition, San Diego Museum Association sought to retain the available collection and start a permanent
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