I have chosen these works of art because in a way I enjoy their styles and I wanted to show how they do their artwork because their artwork is original in their own artistic talents, around the world.

“Walking with the Ancestors“

The traditional tattoo was done by the Traditional Hawaiian artist Keone Nunes. “We wear uhi (tattoo) so that our ancestors may walk with us.”

“Honored to be able to do the work“

The “Honored to be able to do the work” traditional tattoo was done by SULU’APE Keone Nunes. I like the pattern of the artwork done by the traditional Hawaiian artist.

“Hawaiian Flower Tattoo“

The “Hawaiian Flower Tattoo” caught my eye on a beautiful tattoo which is artwork done by Keone Nunes. I like the tattoo, because it is very beautiful and I would get this tattoo done on me if I could.

Keone Nunes

Keone Nunes was born on September 8, 1957 in Morioka, Japan. Keone Nunes is of Portuguese and Japanese descent. Keone is the child of James Joseph Nunes and Kuniko Yuzawa. He became a traditional tattoo artist in 1990.

Alhambra Nights

Lamp lights that were created by Anila Agha with Islamic geometric symmetry to display lights and shadows at an angle. I like the light art because it caught my eye in trying to imagine the light symmetry and how cool it would have been to see it in person.

Shimmering Mirage

Famous Quote from Anila Agha “It felt like just a place where I belonged in there. Nobody was chasing me out” 

Itinerant Shadows

Anila has created all these light fixtures in Islamic geometric patterns to create an array of light and shadow through them. Anila started to explore working with light and shadow in her light lamp pieces in 2013.

Anila Quayyum Agha

Anila Quayyum Agha was born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1965. She received her BFA from the National College of Arts in Lahore, and an MFA in Fiber Arts from the University of North Texas in 2001. She did solo arts in the United States, United Arab Emirates, and in Pakistan.

Digital Performance Art

Stunning digital art created with artistic expression using digital interaction for the performances. With Interaction art, I am imagining there would be music along with the digital display.

Digital Performance Art

The fairy light display of the digital interaction of these performances are cool! I like them and they are intriguing to the performances as to the interaction with light and shadow.

Drone Shadows

I like the digital art programmed and designed by Daito Manabe because it is very cool art. It makes the performances stunning!

Drone and Shadow performance

This video expands my imagination with Daito Manabe’s art with interaction expressionism and light and shadow digital art.

Daito Manabe

Daito Manabe was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1976. Daito Manabe is an artist, interaction designer and programmer of technical and artistic expression with a focus on R&D-intensive projects. His career started when he was just 10 years old, includes being a DJ, VJ, and composer based in Tokyo, Japan. He started his career in 2006.

Citations:

https://www.firstpeoplesfund.org/news/2019/5/24/walking-with-the-ancestors

https://www.wbur.org/artery/2016/03/21/anila-quayyum-agha

http://www.ricegallery.org/anila-agha

https://www.wired.com/?p=1752976

The Influence of Celebrities

“Marilyn Monroe”

Marilyn Monroe was a famous American actress, comedienne, iconic model and singer. She played in the comedic “Blonde Bombshell”. Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, and died on August 4, 1962 in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California. Marilyn Monroe’s full name is Norma Jeane Mortenson, and she was married three times.

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” -Marilyn Monroe.

“White Dress of Marilyn Monroe”

“Some Like It Hot”

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/61240

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol was born on August 6, 1928 at Pittsburg, PA, and died on February 22, 1987 at New York, NY. Andy did Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism, Modern Art, Contemporary Art, and Naive Art.

Andy Warhol started a printing-publishing business in 1967, and here is a print portfolio of Marilyn Monroe that he published in 1967.

“Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes”- Andy Warhol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol

“The Sunrise”

The Sunrise ‘C’ was artwork done by Roy Lichtenstein in 1965.

https://slabeeber.org/blog/sunrise-_roy_lichtenstein_recreation

“The Drowning Girl” was painted by Roy Lichtenstein in 1963 and is on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. It is known as the “masterpiece of melodrama”. It shows a teary-eyed woman on a turbulent sea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drowning_Girl

Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923 in Manhattan New York, and died on September 29, 1997 in Manhattan New York. Roy was an American artist who did Pop Art, Abstract Art, Cubism, Expressionism, Contemporary Art, Modern Art and Abstract Expressionism. Along with other Pop Artists, he became a leading figure in the art movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Lichtenstein

“Michael Jackson and Bubbles”

Michael Jackson and Bubbles was sculpted by Jeff Koons in 1988. It is a porcelain sculpture, and two of the porcelain sculptures are on display at the Broad Contemporary Art Museum in Downtown Los Angeles and at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson_and_Bubbles

The Iconic Blue Balloon Flower was sculpted by Jeff Koons from 1995-2000 with high chromium stainless steel, mirrored polish finish with transparent color coating.

Jeff Koons’ magnificent Balloon Flower was sold at Christie’s New York’s November 2010 during their Post-War and Contemporary Evening Sale.

http://www.moderndesign.org/2010/10/jeff-koons-balloon-flower.html

Jeff Koon

Jeffrey Koon is an American artist who was born on January 21, 1955 in York, PA. He is recognized for his work with popular culture and his sculptures. He works in both New York City, NY and his hometown of York, PA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Koons

Mona Lisa

The Mona Lisa painting was painted by the Italian artist Leonardo Da Vinci. The painting is considered archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance. It is a famous painting, most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 14th or 15th, 1452 in Florence, Italy, and died on May 2nd, 1519, in Clos Lucé, Amboise, Kingdom of France. Leonardo was known for painting, drawing, sculpting, science, engineering, architecture and anatomy. Many historians and scholars considered Leonardo as the prime exemplar of the “Renaissance Man”. He is widely considered one of the most diversely talented individuals to have ever lived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci

American Gothic during the Great Depression

The American Gothic painting was painted by Grant Wood in 1930. The couple were farmers during the “Great Depression”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gothic

Grant Wood

Grant DeVolson Wood was born on February 13, 1891 in Anamosa, Iowa and died on February 12, 1942 in Iowa City, Iowa. Grant Wood was an American painter who was known for painting the rural American Midwest and who painted the “American Gothic” painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Wood

Earth and Sky painting

The Earth and Sky during the Great Depression was painted by Paul Raphael Meltsner. This painting helps depict that Labor Day was founded during the Great Depression after World War I.

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https://www.unionplus.org/page/labor-day-history

Paul Raphael Meltsner

Paul Raphael Meltsner was born in 1905 in New York, NY and died in 1966 in Woodstock, NY. He was an American artist who was widely recognized for his Works Progress Administration (WPA) era paintings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Meltsner

Departure of the Joads

https://www.nga.gov/education/teachers/lessons-activities/uncovering-america/great-depression.html

Thomas Hart Benton

Thomas Hart Benton was born on April 15, 1889 in Neosho, MO and died on January 19, 1975 in Kansas City, MO. Thomas was an American painter and muralist. He was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hart_Benton_(painter)

Romantic Era

The waterfall of the Yellowstone National Park is located in the State of Wyoming. It displays the peaceful beauty of the landscape painting of the waterfall. It makes an individual feel awe in the beauty, even in solitude. It makes one want to explore and adventure more of the beauty at a different angle. It makes you feel astounded in your spirituality.

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-americas/us-art-19c/realism-us/a/brown-view-of-the-lower-falls-grand-canyon-of-the-yellowstone?modal=1

Grafton Tyler Brown

Grafton Tyler Brown was an American painter.

Brown was the first African American to create works depicting the Pacific Northwest and California. He was born on February 22, 1841 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and died in 1918 in St. Peter, Minnesota.

His accomplishments were to gain clients because he opened his own firm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafton_Tyler_Brown

Romantic Era

The “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog” was painted by Caspar David Friedrich. The painting displays a solitary figure, most of which were painted by the artist. The painting is kind of like an imaginary picture, because the wanderer is looking toward the landscape that had swirling clouds of fog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanderer_above_the_Sea_of_Fog

Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich was born on September 5, 1774 in Greifswald, Germany and died on May 7, 1840 in Dresden, Germany. Caspar was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, and he was considered the most important German artist of his generation.

His visual art accomplishments were to express new political intentions.

“The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.“

https://www.google.com/search?q=Caspar+David+Friedrich&source=lmns&bih=705&biw=1366&client=safari&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiSkt2Ds9vsAhVGZawKHXOKCpgQ_AUoAHoECAEQAA

Rococo Art

I liked the Art in the Classical Era called Rococo style art of the Interior Architecture. The work inspired me to do a blog on the Interior Architecture done by Mateus Vicente de Oliveira

Mateus Vicente de Oliveira was a Portuguese architect. He was born in1706 in Barcarena, Portugal and died in 1786 in Lisbon, Portugal. His accomplishment in this style of art was to make the interior architectural work beautiful to continue his work in the Rococo Art style.

Baroque Art

I liked the Baroque Art done on the interior of the cathedrals, but the Rococo Art is more fancier for the Interior Architecture.

The Festive Hall of Schaezlerpalais architecture was done by Carl (Also known as Karl) Albert von Lespilliez in Augsburg, Germany from 1765-1770. The art is an intriguing Rococo architectural piece as it is within the Baroque Palace. Rococo Art was after the Baroque Era of art, and so it is a fancy level of art to me. The Art Analysis is that it is architecture art that has a fancy design, lines an contours, pretty colors, intriguing display, and a reaction of beautiful.

Carl (AKA Karl) Albert von Lespilliez

Carl (Karl) Albert von Lespilliez (1723-1796) was an architect who worked for the Bavarian Court

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Albert_von_Lespilliez

The Palace of Queluz

The Palace of Queluz architecture was one of the last buildings designed in the Rococo style in Europe. The Palace was a summer retreat for Dom Pedro of Braganza. The Palace is located at Queluz, Portuguese Riviera. Work on the building began in 1747 by the Portuguese architect Mateus Vicente de Oliveira and it is referred to as the Portuguese Versailles. It is now a tourist attraction after it was restored after a fire that damaged one-third of the Palace. Architect Mateus Vicente de Oliveira trained under João Fredrico Ludovice of Ratisbon and Jean Baptiste Robillon.

Mateus Vicente de Oliveira

Mateus Vicente de Oliveira was born in 1706 at Barcarena, Portugal and died in1786 at Lisbon, Portugal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mateus_Vicente_de_Oliveira

João Frederico Ludovice

João Frederico Ludovice was born March 19, 1673 in Frankenhardt, Germany and died January 18, 1752 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was known as a German born architect and goldsmith.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/João_Frederico_Ludovice

Jean Baptiste Robillon

Jean Baptiste Robillon was was a French architect who was born in 1704 in Paris, France and died on September 30, 1782.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Robillon

My Inupiaq Language and culture

I am not sure if the Inupiaq Eskimo Language is a Non-Western art topic, but I am going to do a blog on my Inupiaq Eskimo Language.

Inupiaq Eskimos used their Native language, and dialect everyday. Nowadays, our generation has to learn our own Native language all over again.

I can understand the conversations that older Inupiaq Eskimos speak, but I cannot speak my Native Language.

I want to learn how to speak my Inupiaq Language, I have met a few people that still speak my Inupiaq Language, and I understand what they are saying or what they are talking about. When asked to try to speak, I cannot speak my language fluently. I can say short phrases, but they are not much of a conversation.

Iñupiaq font is what I like writing, but I still have yet to learn to write some words in my language also. Media areaDrag a media file, upload a new one or select a file from your library.

Elders speaking Iñupiaq

Iñupiaq Language

Eskimo Dancing

Salmon hanging to dry

Greens

Eskimo Salad

Salmonberries= Cloud Berries

Blackberries

It is hard labor picking berries, but it is worth it during the cold winter months.

Smoked Salmon

Wells Street Art

http://www.wellstreetart.com

Heart Shaped Islands

Heart Shaped Lakes around the World

Heart Shaped Waterfalls

Heart Shaped Clouds

Wells Street Art

http://www.wellstreetart.com

The Influence of WW1

Germany and Austria-Hungary are believed to have started World War 1 on July 28, 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918. WW1 was the first modern war, because they had airplanes, tanks, and submarines. The armies also had chemical warfare.

Gavrilo Princip was a Serbian teenager who is believed to have started World War 1 when he assassinated the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdidand and his wife Sophie on June 28th, 1914, and the Duchess of Hohenberg. Gavrilo Princip was a Bosnian Serb member of Young Bosnia.

Works cited from http://www.spiegel.de

Works cited from chroniclelive.co.uk

Works cited from http://www.history.com

Wells Street Art http://www.wellstreetart.com

Romantic Era Weddings and Music

In this photo, shown is a the Marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1840.

Queen Victoria acknowledged Sir George Hayter’s merit in painting, so she appointed him to paint a portrait of their wedding.

Works cited from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hayter

The saying “History of the Wedding Dress is shorter than the history of weddings, and even shorter still than the history of marriage” is what I have learned in the history of the wedding dress. As long as I have known, when a couple are getting married in a church, the bride has a wedding dress and the groom is dressed in formal dress suits or tuxedos. I have never seen a different color wedding dress than the color white, except for the brides’ maids and groomsmen with different color dresses and dress clothes.

The music of the Wedding March was composed by Felix Mendelssohn during the Romantic Era (1842) to accompany Shakespeare’s famous A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Works cited from https://www.chrislaich.com/…/history-of-here-comes-the-bride-and-the-wedding-march

Romantic Era dislike

Romanticism Slavery

I learned that there was a problem of Romanticism Era slaves on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean due to Imperialism. England eliminated slavery in the early 19th century.

Works cited from web.utk.edu

Theodore Géricault painted “The Raft of Medusa” during the Romanticism Era when the slaves

Works cited from radford.edu

The painting below is “The Death of Sardanapalus”

Wells Street Art http://www.wellstreetart.com