To conclude our journey through the Arts, tell me what you think after hearing Hemon and Ghosh discuss their life in literature. Writing is an art form. A novel constructs a reality outside the reader, all other forms of art communicate a moment, a thought, an emotion. The human imagination is able to construct a reality out of words, a feeling out of music, and color out of pigment and water or oil.
What is Art then?
Presentation dates
12/11
Public and Private
Impression and Knowledge
Creativity and Replication
12/12
Divide and Assimilate
Form and Content
Iconography and Symbolism
Check this out - the future of the opera?
Opera –modern take:
Daniel J. Wakin, “Techno-Alchemy at the Opera”
Shelia Melvin, “Multilayered Story, Multinational Opera”
Dave Izkoff, “Opera With Heart (Also Spleen, Liver and Entrails)”
Knowledge and Impression
This week you will look at Hassam impressions of New York City and then go to the field (i.e. New York City streets) and find the spot where the artist stood to paint the picture. You will take a photograph with your new camera, your phone, or your computer and post it on the web along side the original painting and explain to us why the two match. You may use what you learned about perspective such as the distance, size of the object, vanishing points, and also your forensic knowledge, in reconstructing the past in a new modern environment. If the paintings on this site do not appeal to you, you may go to the City museum of New York and take a picture of another painting you wanted to research.
The physical locations of the paintings by Hassam are:
At the Metropolitan museum: (There are 2 on the second floor in the America wing)
http://www.metmuseum.org/search/iquery.asp
At the City of New York Museum:
http://www.mcny.org/shop/76/202/7865/bethesda-fountain-central-park.html
At New York Historical society:
You can also consult a book
Hassam’s New York by Ilene Susan Fort (Attached are Jpeg files of some of the paintings.)
You have a week and a day until the 24th to complete this assignment.
Next week we meet on 35W 67th at 10:30, for a presentation by Liz Wolf. Please do not be late.
[Note from Brooks] Please post your responses under the category “Hassam’s New York.” Use the Flickr tool (red/blue circles next to “Visual” above the text box) to add your images (and save us space!).
Content and Form in Music
Why have I sent you to hear John Adams and Dvorak in the same week?
What do these composers have in comment?
What did the events have in commen?
How do they relate to our topic?
Please read and view.
Please check the reading/viewing for this week under the topic “Impressions and Knowledge”. It will offer some insight into the two events we are attanding. If you are missing any of them a review of an outside event will be expected of you. Post it for us on the website.
John Adams, composer
http://www.topologymusic.com/articles/adams.htm
Have a look at this article
DEAD-line October 18
These two weeks are reserved for your group project. Check the guidelines and logistics pages on the website. Send me an e-mail or Post on the blog your abstract. It should include: topic, title, format, tentative timeline and assigned jobs. All of it must be done by the 18th, so you can start working
Dance as an art form
Is Dance a Language?
What did you learn from meeting Dante Adela?
Public topics in private art and private moments in public art
One of the two photographs I have chosen to display for our topic on Private versus Public is “The Problem We All Live With”, 1964. (Look story illustration. Oil on canvas, 36 x 58 inches. Collection of The Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge. © 1964 The Norman Rockwell Estate Licensing Company. Photo Courtesy of The Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge).
Norman Rockwell, the American artist, is a master in capturing a momentary sentiment with powerful emotional overtones that draw the viewer in. The African American girl walks to school with her white male bodyguards, so that the new anti-segregation law could be upheld and put into practice. We participate in her view of a world, where headless white men over tower her. The closed fists of the men and their determined step contrast with her demeanor. Just a girl walking to school; nonthreatening, unremarkable. Her white dress and shoes portray her like a sacrificial lamb, with the blood of the tomato thrown at her in the backdrop.
We are watching her plight of having to walk the plank as a representation of her race, we are also aware of the absurdity of the situation. One can only refer to the historical writing of the time, and the references made by the critics to analyze this painting’s contribution to our social consciousness. Her private moment of fear is for all to scrutinize.
After reading and viewing the topic list, please choose something you find that will represent this topic and discuss it in a similar manner on the blog. You have time until the 24th of September to post. Please include a picture in your post (or a link to a picture).
Use the category “Public Topics/Private Moments.”
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Cultural Map
"The Original Topography of Manhattan Island from the Battery to 155th Street" From Report on the Social Statistics of Cities, Compiled by George E. Waring, Jr., United States. Census Office, Part I, 1886. (Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas-Austin)
