Poem Project Ideas

For our latest project, we were to try and find a poem for the class to work with. The assignment is to all agree on a Poem, than do a price of artwork that YOU believe represents the poem. 

I was looking at some of my favorite poetry accounts on Tumblr, and came across a few of these lovely poems for ideas.

Series Ideas

For this project, we were asked to create a series of artwork that all were mentally or emotionally connected in some way.

at first I struggled while trying to come up with different ideas for this. 

My first idea was to create a pottery bowl, Draw a sketch of a bowl than paint a bowl. Once I realized that it kinda wasn't a very interesting or clever type of way to take this project. 

Last night I decided that I was going to find a beautiful maple Leaf outside on the ground. I'm going to put it in a book so it stays the same and doesn't curl up, than I'm going to Paint a picture of the leaf itself in water color, with some different designs of course, and for the third, I hadn't really made up my mind but I was thinking I would draw the maple leaf and fill it with a bunch of little designs.

I still havnt decided if this is the idea I'm going with, but it's a start to my project. 

The Artist JR

For those who don't know who JR is, JR is a artist/ photographer who was born in Paris, France. 

JR has done many projects, but the most known one would be " Face 2 Face ", back in 2007. It was the biggest illegal exhibition. 

Face 2 Face was portraits of Israelis and Palestinians face to face in eight of Israelis and Palestinians Cities. Although he was told he couldn't do it, and it wasn't possible JR continued to prove them all wrong. 

I personally really enjoy his art work and the way he believes in himself  and his artwork. I think that, that's one of the main reason he is where he is now, believing in him self and what he does.

JR's artwork is really amazing and he is a wonderful artist. My favorite project of his work would have to be the one he titles "Unframed". 

Here are some of the photos in this project that he took: 

The reason why I like this particular project of JRS is because I think it has a lot of meaning behind it. Each one is unique and tells a little story. I like how he takes normal places and scenery and makes them into art and makes them his own new masterpieces. 

I think that after researching JR and getting to know more about him and his style, and life has made me the most connected to him than any other artist. He puts so much of himself in his art and I really admire that about him. 

response to Grade 9 Refugee Crisis

After seeing the grade 9 response to the Refugee Crisis, I was able to get a better understanding of what it was about and what was the meaning of it. 

I found the grade 9 responses to be very touching and intelligent/ interesting. 

Since there were thousands of people that had been forced to escape their land where they live and try to refuge in another country from the war in Syria. 

I think that this is very wrong and sad to whiteness and I think that it is important for people to understand the pain that they are going threw since we have life so good here. I believe the grade 9s reposes captured the pain that was caused in This crisis and made it their own art work which is really neat