On March 11, 2009, I visited the Carl Schwartz Retrospective gallery located within the Florida Gulf Coast University Arts Complex. While there, I was able to see the life’s work of Carl Schwartz. Schwartz has lived in many different parts of the United States. Throughout his travels, he kept records of the scenes and people that inspired him by turning them into works of art. Thus, the vast majority of the pieces at the exhibit were portraits and landscapes. The Colorful Gathering was the first piece of art that really grabbed my attention while I was browsing around. It is a very large and colorful painting. Schwartz using acrylics on canvass in 2001 painted it. The very first thing that I noticed about the painting was the brush strokes used to paint it. The brush strokes on the painting are large, broad, and in combination with the acrylic paint give the surface of the painting a unique look. The CG is a depiction of koi in Schwartz’s garden pond having an afternoon meal. The CG is a simple looking painting; however, it represents the competitive struggle for survival faced by all creatures by using setting and color.
First, the setting of the piece the CG is incredibly important to the message of the painting. The scene takes place within Schwartz’s koi pond. Ponds normally represent beauty, peace, and calm. However, Schwartz’s pond represents none of these and instead it projects urgency, competition, and aggression. It is not relaxing to the viewer at all. There are over twenty different koi depicted in the painting and all of them are fighting for the food that has just been thrown in the water. The koi are all located in the center of the picture where the largest of the fish can be seen pushing the smaller fish out o...
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...ainting that represents the fight for survival that all creatures face in this world. The pond represents the planet Earth, the food is its resources, and the fish are its creatures. Using setting, color, and texture Schwartz shows us this struggle in the koi pond. His painting shows that that the best and most successful competitors fight the hardest for food and resources. These become the biggest and most colorful fish in the pond. In the real world, the most successful people may not actually physically grow bigger than anyone else, but they do work the hardest to do their best. They grow and become the biggest fish in the pond with jobs like CEO, President, Senator, and Nobel prize winner. Schwartz tells the viewer one thing in the CG and that is that if you want to be a big fish then you are going to have to fight for it and earn your place in the pond/world.
What is dada or dadaism. Dadaism was a form of art. Dadaism was an art movement starting in Europe in the 20th century. Dadaism art is very unique and very strange. The art is made up of random objects and sometimes they have hidden messages in them. Dadaism started to come to Paris in the 1920’s. Some people think that dadaism started because of world war one. Dadaism artists rejected the logic and aestheticism of modern capitalist society. They rather express nonsense, irrationality and anti-bourgeois
are you ready to experience of fun and colorful festivals? Below are some of festivals from Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. Let’s start in Europe. Europeans have a lot of festivals that attract thousands. During July 6th to 14th of every year, the Spanish town of Pamplona celebrates Festival of San Fermin for a week. It is a week of riotous celebration, bullfighting and the world famous Running of the Bulls. From 5am every day, people are gathering to witness the big and exciting event.
it wasn’t just his gray and black feathers. Oh no it was that he spent all his time in a cave. Yes like a bear in a cave; for Percy knew if any of the other peacocks in the forest saw him he would be made fun of or worse. Percy spent his time gathering food and talking to his only friend the rain cloud. He thought the rain cloud could never find him ugly for he too was gray and black as the night. Often the rain cloud asked Percy why he spent all his time in the cave and not in the forest with
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lovely home and make magic created. Every family has a dream to go after each Christmas especially when December comes. How to set up this Year for Christmas and which theme are you going to plan and go through...A question that starts after the big gathering Thanksgiving Day? Christmas decorations should create a feeling of magic. The desire to create a magic home and bringing the spirit of Christmas can seem heavy these days. It becomes heavy and hard to carry, that parents now feel over the need