Henry Moore was born 1898 in a small coal-mining town of Castleford near Leeds in the north of England. Henry Moore’s father, a coal miner, a self-educated man, a socialist, and a trade unionist. “England in the early 1930s were interested in abstract art at a time when this was considered the ultimate in artistic extremism. In his own work from 1931 onward, Moore moved tentatively away from the human figure to experiment with abstract shapes and also to combine abstract shapes with references to the figure.” - Alan Bowness “A major shortage of materials in the early years of the war forced Henry Moore to concentrate on small sculptures and then at a later date, exclusively on drawings. Seeing the effects on the people seeking shelter in the stations of the London Underground during the German air raids led Moore to begin his series of shelter drawings, Moore would spend the nights observing and making small sketch notes; then, in the next days at the studio, he would work his ideas up into large coloured drawings that expressed in permanent form. “Alan Bowness …show more content…
These drawings started in 1939 and were completed in 1942 and were done in the form of ‘resist’, Moore would do his sketches in pencil, ink, wax and watercolour. The combination of the wax and watercolour would create the ‘resist’ effect, which made the colours bleed around the wax’s pattern. The drawings are small, roughly 323 x 652 mm (slightly bigger than A2). These drawings are illuminated with the miners’ lamp, the essence of these drawings express the darkness and the constricted environments what the miners’ experienced within their everyday
The Other Wes Moore is a book talking about two different men with the same name,Wes Moore. They were both raised up by a single mother and live in the same decaying city, Baltimore, where there are surrounded by drug and alcohol. However, the author Wes Moore’s parents completed their education and have a good job while his grandparents also were well-educated. But the other Wes Moore’s parents didn’t graduate from college, his mother tried to get the scholarship but failed, and his father left high school and don’t have a job either. This two Wes Moores both grew up with their mother. The author Wes’s father died for disease while the other Wes’s father left his family. With this situation, they went to the same direction, being absent from
Despite the belief that people can achieve extraordinary things regardless of their circumstances, One’s environment plays a monumental part in the chances of their success. An example of how environment influences fate is through two men named Wes Moore in the novel “The Other Wes Moore” by author Wes Moore. Author Wes reflects on his and the Other Wes’ life journey and their difficult lives through constant struggle in their neighborhood, school, and family issues. In many ways, Author Wes and Other Wes shared very similar characteristics regarding their personality and environment, but what astronomically differed was their upbringings. Author Wes was given the gift of a supporting background in the form of his mother while Other Wes had
To be able to influence a positive or negative light in someone’s life is what means to be a role model. Both the author and convict were born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. The two controversially named Wes Moore, were like each other until role models were introduced into their lives. There were many people that influence the author and convict to make their life choices. People like Captain T.Y Hilton, as a influence for the author and Tony for the convict. Role models and their capabilities to influence others actions are the reason that both Wes’ lives are different. I'll be explaining how these people influence their situations, starting by talking about the author role models first.
During World War II many places and artworks came to be of historical and artistic significance. Lots of ...
In the book The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, Author Wes Moore, explains the story of two men named Wes Moore, born blocks apart in the same city of Baltimore. Meanwhile, one serving was a life sentence for an armed jewellery store robbery in which an off-duty officer was killed and the other was a Rhodes Scholar. The Author Wes Moore had read the story of Wes imprisonment in the same newspaper which highlighted the success of the author. The lead to the Author Wes Moore becoming with fixated on the story of Wes, a person he had never met, so much that he decided to write him a letter, asking the questions, Who are you? Where did it go wrong for you? How did this happen? Wes wrote back, and so began a correspondence which deepened their relationship. The author Wes Moore discovered, during his communication with Wes that “generation of young men, boys who came of age during a historically chaotic and violent time and emerged to succeed and fail in unprecedented ways.” Here is how my mother influenced me to become a determined lady.
In a century that equated the evolution of modern art with the will toward abstraction, Lawrence's early success and his sustained visibility are remarkable. He has walked a careful line between abstract and figurative art, using aesthetic values for social ends. His success at balancing such seemingly irreconcilable aspects of art is a fundamental characteristic of his long and distinguished career. In Lawrence's work social themes, often detailing the African-American experience, are expressed in colorfully lanky, simplified, expressive, and richly decorative figurative effects.
In my opinion, people should take the blame for our own mistakes. Our parents raised us but we make our own choices. Our parents may have raised us but it’s our responsibility to make the right choice. As we come into adulthood, we must learn to take responsibility for our actions and accept the consequences that follow. We must deal with our consequences and avoid putting the blame on others. In the book, The Other Wes Moore, Inmate Wes’s mother tried several different things to keep him away from drugs and drug dealing. She worked and moved her residence several times in order to keep him out of the drug path. Unfortunately, he always found his way toward drug involvement.
On May 29, 1736 Patrick Henry was born in Hanover County, Virginia. He grew up on a plantation where almost all of his schooling came from his father, who attended a university in Scotland, but some of it also came
Wes Moore Paper Richelle Goodrich once said, “To encourage me is to believe in me, which gives me the power to defeat dragons.” In a world submerged in diversity, racism and prejudice it is hard for minorities to get ahead. The novel “The Other Wes Moore” is a depiction of the differences that encouragement and support can make in the life of a child. This novel is about two men, with the same name, from the same neighborhood, that endured very similar adversities in their lives, but their paths were vastly different. In the following paragraphs, their lives will be compared, and analyzed from a sociological perspective.
Abstract Expressionism refers to a post-World War II art movement that flourished in New York City in the mid-1940s. The climate of Cold War politics and sociocultural conservatism led many artists to start the movement fitted to a post-war mood of anxiety and trauma. These artists resisted being defined by a cohesive, binding style; instead, they shared an interest in using abstraction to convey strong emotional or expressive content. Much of their work was non-representational and was more focused on the usage of color, technique and form. Cy Twombly, an American artist whose work emerged in 1950s Europe, was one such abstractionist. Many of his works were reflections on, responses to, and re-workings of the ancient Greco-Roman histories that surrounded him. In 1962, he created a cycle of paintings based on the Greek myth Leda and the Swan. The most renowned and intense of these paintings is on view in New York’s The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Unlike other artistic renditions of the myth- such as W.B. Yeats’ Leda and the Swan- the painting bypasses representation. It instead relies on Twombly’s unique artistic form and content to suggest to viewers the underlying narratives of the
Henry Ford was born on the 30 of July 1863 in what is now known as Dearborn, Michigan. He would organise boys to build water wheels and steam engines (indicating leadership and ability characteristics, characteristics that would still have to develop fully). He learned about fully sized steam engines by making friends with the men that worked on them, he taught himself to fix watches through trial and error and used the watches as textbooks to learn the basics of machine design. By the age of 13 he left the ...
The nonfiction narrative, The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore is about two African American men who both go by the name Wes Moore. These young men have a very similar background, which caused Moore to be fascinated about both of their lives. Despite having a similar background, one man had more success than the other. Moore created this narrative and started to examine his life in juxtapose to the other Moore’s life. This narrative demonstrates what life is like when dealt with struggle and shows how humans are able to overcome the adversity.
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Born July 30, 1863 in Dearborn, Michigan, Henry Ford was the first child of William and Mary Ford. As a young man he became an excellent self-taught mechanic and machinist. At age 16 he left the farm and went to nearby Detroit, a city that was becoming an industrial giant. There he worked as an apprentice at a machine shop, while months later he would begin work with steam engines at the Detroit Dry Dock Co., where he first saw the internal combustion engine, the kind of engine he would later use to make his automobiles.
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