Paris Crisis

“We are all part of something, even in war and in love, pray for those who were chosen at war and those who lost their war.”

On Friday the 13th, of November 2015,  the world stood still once again. While I was at home, laying in bed on my phone, my  phone began getting alerts from various news sources relating the worst news. There had been a terrorist attack in Paris. A  number of those critically injured continued to grow and the world held its breath. By midnight that night the amount of deaths was well over 100 and there were over 300 men and women badly injured. Throughout the night, people from around the world stood in respect and sorrow with the French, using hashtags like #PrayForParis and #SolidarityWithParis. Countries showed their respect with the French by lighting up famous locations such as the Empire State Building, the Statue of Christ the Redeemer, and the Sydney Opera House, in blue, white, and red  the colors of the French flag. In Toronto Ontario the CN tower was also lit up red blue and white in honor of Paris. The attack on Paris was heartbreaking to everyone. Paris and the family's who lost loved ones, and who had been affected by this tragedy will continue to be in my prayers.

 

 

 



Experimenting

A couple days ago in art, I was thinking of more ideas and experimenting with different stragaties and tools that could be used for my three series Art assignment. 

I made a little canvas and just started to paint and try new things, instead of what I usually Do, which is think about it for a long time and try and have a image in my head of what I'm going to do. 

in the end this is what I came up with; 

I practiced blending different colors together, (blue, purple, pink). 

And tried to use different techniques to crate the more alive look to the flower.

Salvador Dali

After watching Dalis video on YouTube, i realized how fascinating he was as an artist and a person! 

Salvador Dali was a Spanish painter who was born on May 11/1904 and passed January 23/ 1989.

So, the assignment was to read this quote/ saying, that Dali said. We are suppose to say what we think he meant by this, and to analyze it. This is what he said; 

"Because I am too intelligent to be a good painter, to be a good painter you've got to be a bit stupid"

I think that what he meant by this was that when most people are trying to paint or create a price of art work, they think and think on what kind they should do, and what is a really clever idea that hasn't been done. And by doing that, they overthink the whole assignment and are left with no ideas. Where as other people who just don't think about it too much, and paint what they first think about or just start to paint and end up with a beautiful painting. I Believe that his saying has a very strong meaning and is very true.

I really enjoy a lot of his art work that I seen on YouTube and Google. Some of his art works include: 

I think that his art work is very interesting and I Believe  that every painting he does has a meaning behind them. 

I like the way that he takes simple objects and everyday things we see, and turn them into beautiful peices of Art. For example, the scisors turned into dancers, the clocks and the telephones in the first and last painting I posted are also made into a different meaning and to me they have different expectations rather than just telling the time, or just painting a telephone, they all tell a story and I think that's what art is about, is telling a story.