Guernica was a piece done by Pablo Picasso on April 26, 1937. After the Nazis bombed a small town named Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, tang many innocent lives, Picasso used his contorted style of painting to convey how he felt about what happened and the horrors of war in general. 
In class, Melissa, Scarlett, Dia, and I worked on an anti-prejudice poster inspired by the message Guernica is sending.
Andrew Wyath painted a picture titled “Christina’s World” in 1948, inspired by his neighbor, Christina Olson. Christina had polio, a disease which eliminates almost all use of the lower body, and each day she would drag herself to and from her house using only her upper body. My picture takes place in the same field as Christina’s world, only colored differently. The characters standing in said field are Lydia the kangaroo and her joey, Carlos, who have just been evicted from their home. Lydia’s husband and Carlos’s father died of cancer ten years ago, and Lydia had been struggling to pay the bills with no prevail. Desperate and alone, she is now putting her boxing skills to use for the first time in ten years in a last ditch effort to earn some money.
The Russian artist Wassily Kandinski painted “Improvisation 31(Sea Battle)” in 1913 in the spur of the moment, afterwards deciding his work looked like a battle at sea, hence the name. In my tissue paper painting, I depicted a scene from Elie Wiesel’s Night, in which Wiesel’s village is being led away from their ghetto by Nazis to be transported to concentration camps.
Emily Dickinson was a very strange woman. She was something of a recluse and always wore white (Excepting the instance when she was posing for the only picture anyone seems to have of her, in which she is wearing all black). In my picture, I drew a model wearing an all-white-based outfit that Emily DIckinson might wear if she was alive today.
IT’S PI DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WAAHAAHAAHAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That’s right, folks! This is an actual holiday! And guess what? WE GOT TO CELEBRATE IT AT SCHOOL! AAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!! IT WAS FREAKING EPIC! WE LIKE FOUND PI AND ATE PIE AND FOUND PIE AND ATE PI AND, UM…uh…yeah. I brought in pumpkin pie, and Ms. Curry brought in a few pies, and a bunch of other people brought in pies. Then we drew stuff about pi/pie. My pie picture is kind of a play on words from the asdf videos on Youtube. If you haven’t seen them, you should look them up and see what I mean!
In the play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, Cyrano has dozens of attractive qualities-he is a poet, a philosopher, a romantic, etc.-but the love of his life, Roxane, looks right through him because of his shockingly long nose. In a one scene, a soldier tell Cyrano that his nose is “very big”. Cyrano then goes on a rant that takes up almost half a page–basically, if someone’s going to insult his nose, they had better do it right! My picture illustrates an example of a simile that could describe Cyrano’s nose.
In Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dr. Jekyll is a scientist who wants to remove all the evil from his personality. He concocts a potion to remove all his evil, but it backfires and he creates a completely evil personality that shares Jekyll’s body, named Mr. Hyde. In my picture, I imagine the girl’s name is Beth, and her alter ego’s name is Mallory. Beth has a boyfriend she loves, friends who are up for anything as long as it’s fun, and a supportive, loving family– but when Mallory takes over, Beth’s life spins wildly out of control…
Oil Pastel on blotter paper
Studio-Art History posts go here…
Paintings, drawings, sculptures (scan or photograph);
Art history Slide shows & timelines; Combined Art-History Projects (Timeline linking art genres with political and religious events, etc.)
Digital art, animation (illustrator, keynote, etc.).