Blogging one assignment at a time. Chrysanthemums and Bamboos by Xu Wei, created during Ming Dynasty. Dancing in Columbia by Fernando Botero, 1983.

Taking time to learn and appreciate art.

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This painting was created in 1907. In this year, Rivera traveled from Mexico to Spain and I am unsure in which country this work was painted. I love this because I think that he looks very clever and sexy. I imagine that he thought very highly of himself. What makes this painting even better is that years later in 1941, he painted another self portrait and captures his own aging process which to me seems a brave move.

The story is written and Directed by Peter Doctor and Bob Peterson. Also written by Tom McCarthy. Around the World in 80 Days. The theme finds perhaps its most surprising variations in the heroic action as when Carl and Russell escape fr.

8220;I paint self portraits because I am the person I know best. Kahlo does not seem to idealize how she sees herself when she looks in the mirror in her paintings. When I compare a photograph to Kahlo to. Self Portrait with a Monkey.

It was painted in 1939. The Need for Peace Through Diversity. It was painted in 2007. This piece shows a man ho.

For my second blog that deals with arts around the world I want to go back the Americas and look into the rhythmic music created by the steel drums of Trinidad. When steel talks everyone listens. The piece I choose is a rendition of a song preformed with steel drums I thought this was the easiest way to look to see how steel drums can change a song from something most everyone has heard.