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31 comments:
I created my story about the goat. Roberta Crasto 112000052
The questions about the description of the picture are rather elementary. Instead it is an original question to image the story of the protagonists.
Fabrizia Cocozza
Matr. 112000301
Dear Ms. Pickens:
Here is my comment about our exercise.
1) For that, I chose Rivera's work, depicting Emiliano Zapata and his followers. We can see a group of people carrying different agrarian tools, such as Zapata with a sickle. By the cloths, we can imagine they're peasants, and by their hats, that we are in Mexico. Moreover, the similarity between them, can let us think they've some kind of close social status, in terms of equality.
2) They've just bumped into the knight, now on the ground, and took the control of his horse. The knight seems to be died after a fight, because his sword is also showed. Anyway, there's no blood.
3) The man in white on first line is the agrarian leader Emiliano Zapata. The knocked knight seems to be a local agrarian owner. It's interesting how does he like, like a XVII c. Spanish nobleman, with a sword (by the end of XIX c.!).
4) The horse belongs obviously to knocked man, because is under the animal. And it's clear it was a symbol of economical power in former times to ride a horse, special in Early modern colonial context.
5) The scene is happening in some kind of agrarian field, not only because of men's tools, but also because of the sheets behind the horse.
6) There was a fight between protesters, leading by Zapata, and the land owner/official. Perhaps, within some kind of strike or social riot.
I guess it's quite large, but it should be needed to use loads of words to describe such a scene. By the way, sorry for not coming today, I was attending another lesson.
Kind regards.
Jesus
Dear Ms. Pickens:
Here is my comment about our exercise.
I chose The Sleeping Gypsy of Henri Rousseau.
In the picture there is a gypsy who sleeps in the moonlight, while a lion, a gigantic and beautiful, is approaching. The setting is surreal, the lion does not attack the gypsy, and the moonlight makes the magical and dreamlike environment. It may already be the stars at night because they mention their luster, but it could be the dawn, the dawn of a day to come, perhaps the landscape of another world, where the mountains in the distance draw the outline of a lunar chain, unreal. Among the figures and the background is a holy river divides the two floors, the real and the unreal. It is not clear whether the animal is drinking, or if it is smelling the sleeping woman. it is a very complex picture, difficult to interpret. A gypsy, who plays the mandolin, with the jar at his side, asleep. A lion passing by chance, it sniffs her, but it doesn't consumes her. There is a very poetic effect of the moon. The scene takes place in a completely arid desert. The gypsy woman wearing Eastern dress.
In this context, the Gypsy is an artist as a musician, but he has no social position as a traveler. Dreaming is lost, dangerously vulnerable, but the lion is quiet and fascinated.
Ferraro Daniela
112000260
Dear Ms. Pickens
Here is my comment about our exercise.
1. This animal is a goat, It was created by Pablo Picasso, about in 1950. The goat was made with waste materials. It is dark in color, It is represented in feet and It has a very swollen belly.
2. The face of this goat is almost as anxious all the works of Pablo Picasso. It has the look that sets the viewer, as if to scan the surrounding environment. Its mouth is half open is you would give almost a bleat. I think it is an excellent work.
3. I think this goat is troubled, because this is staring the viewer that is before. The goat has a position of attack, with the hind legs that stretch almost to seek strength for the shot, almost as if something made its nervous. All this I think because of the dark color of this animal.
4. The mid-forties Picasso had established a new way of making sculpture. A variety of objects to each other and heterogeneous are assembled to produce works. The goat was built in 1950, It was modeled with objects and discarded materials, recovered in the waste of Vallauris: a palm leaf serves as the back of the animal, the abdomen is made up of a basket of wicker, wood and iron limbs are old, tin cans and jars of clay sternum breasts. All objects are hidden by plaster cast made later. Bronze version in the assembly loses the charm that keeps the original plaster.
5. I’d call this animal Lara. I chose this name because I like and why is the same name of my cat.
• There was once a goat, mother of 7 kids lively. The family lived happily in a beautiful house surrounded by lawn. Mom had to go away one day to go into the woods to find food. But before going she called all the children around her and told them to be very careful that the wolf was very bad. Mom then advised her children to lock themselves in the house and not open to anyone. Kids promised to follow the advice of them mother, and the goat, took the basket, and walked in the woods. Kinds were quick to return home and bolted the door. The wolf had seen them mother away he thought well that was the right time to surprise the kids and went to knock on the door, but having the kids do not know who had opened the door. But the wolf hungry and very smart he thinks of a way how to circumvent the 7 kids. The wolf thought to provide a disguise. He appeared to be a baker, and he asked for a loaf of dough to be placed on one leg, then went to a miller, and he asked for some flour from jumping on him. Disguised as a goat stood before the house and knocked the 7 kids pretending to be their mom and showing her paw floured. Gullible kids opened the wolf and he ate them, though one of brothers managed to escape the wolf hiding. Mom came back, he’ll explain everything and the goat came up with a plan to save her children. The goat army of scissors went in search of the wolf and found him that sleep at the foot of a tree. The goat began to cut his belly and kinds still alive began to jump out. The goat, so he sewed his belly and ran away with her children safely.
Dear Ms. Pickens
I chose the "Sleeping Gypsy" picture. This is my story:
It was almost dawn, the moon and stars were still visible but not for long… A gypsy, with long brown hair and a colorful dress, was sleeping on a rock with a rod in her hand. She had a guitar and a jar that contained an important potion for her race. The curious lion came near her. Suddenly, the gypsy woke up and the lion began to roar. The gypsy was in trouble and she thought to play a soft music with her guitar. In this way, she charmed the lion that after that decided to follow and protect her in her trip back home.
Mirella Marzano
112000253
Dear Ms. Pickens..
This is my comment about our exercise.
The Sleeping Gypsy is a painting of 1897 and is located at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is an oil on canvas.In this painting, a gypsy sleeping on the ground and a lion passes through the case, the smell, but not the devouring.The lion is huge and beautiful. The gipsy is wearing Eastern dress. She is an artist as a musician.She plays mandolin. Dreaming is lost, dangerously vulnerable, but the lion is quiet and fascinated.There is a very poetic effect of the moon. The scene takes place in a completely arid desert.I think the lion is asleep next to the gypsy and together they wake up the next day.
Best regards...
Melany Ferrandino 112000261
Dear Ms. Pickens
Pablo Picasso, She-Goat
The picture shows a sculputure, it represents a goat.
Its body is made of materials of recycle, its belly has been made with a wicker basket and it is bloated.
The animal's face is thin and long.
I think that the personality of the goat is lonely because its eyes look in empty.
The objects used to create the animal are a wicker basket, two pitchers and leaves of palm.
Story: The name of goat is Stacy the Crazy. She loved jumping and climbing on the laws. One day Stacy the Crazy jumped in a bucket full of quick drying cement.
She became a statue and was carried in a museum, Stacy thanks to its madness became famous.
Roberta Crasto 112000052
Dear Ms Pickens
Here is my comment abouth our exercise
This particular self-portrait, for example, recalls Renaissance paintings of the Madonna and child. Instead of presenting the customary cherubic infant, however, she offers an unlikely protagonist: Fulang-Chang, one of several spider monkeys that she kept as pets. The pet monkeys that frequently appear in her paintings are often interpreted as surrogates for the children she and her husband, the artist Diego Rivera, were unable to conceive. While personal hardship may have played a role in prompting Kahlo’s unconventional decision to include her monkey in this self-portrait, I think her sense of humor is equally evident in the choice. What other artist would draw our attention to the way her facial features resemble an animal’s? This painting is, among many other things, an irreverent ode to hair—the hairy body of the monkey and the wooly, white-haired cacti surrounding Kahlo accentuate her famous monobrow and faint mustache. If you look closely at her neck, loose strands of hair add to the chorus. In early Christian and Mayan art, monkeys are also associated with promiscuity and sin, adding yet another layer of possible meaning to the painting. One of the things I have always admired about Kahlo’s art is the way contradictory notions cohabitate in her work: in this single painting, Kahlo managed to allude to licentious behavior and fidelity.
Aldo Natale
Matricola: 112000266
Dear Ms Pickens
Here is my comment about our exercise
This particular self-portrait, for example, recalls Renaissance paintings of the Madonna and child. Instead of presenting the customary cherubic infant, however, she offers an unlikely protagonist: Fulang-Chang, one of several spider monkeys that she kept as pets. The pet monkeys that frequently appear in her paintings are often interpreted as surrogates for the children she and her husband, the artist Diego Rivera, were unable to conceive. While personal hardship may have played a role in prompting Kahlo’s unconventional decision to include her monkey in this self-portrait, I think her sense of humor is equally evident in the choice. What other artist would draw our attention to the way her facial features resemble an animal’s? This painting is, among many other things, an irreverent ode to hair—the hairy body of the monkey and the wooly, white-haired cacti surrounding Kahlo accentuate her famous monobrow and faint mustache. If you look closely at her neck, loose strands of hair add to the chorus. In early Christian and Mayan art, monkeys are also associated with promiscuity and sin, adding yet another layer of possible meaning to the painting. One of the things I have always admired about Kahlo’s art is the way contradictory notions cohabitate in her work: in this single painting, Kahlo managed to allude to licentious behavior and fidelity.
Aldo Natale
Matricola: 112000266
Dear Mrs Pickens,
I chose The Sleeping Gypsy in my Art Safari.
In the picture two items: a lion and a gypsy. The lion, quiet, approaches to the gypsy, who in spite to the massive presence does not seem to awaken from sleep. The painting transmits tranquility, due also to the landscape as a backdrop to the two figures. I think that the lion did not have bad intentions, but is only curiosly towards the gypsy, who as him live for the day. Our life is a constant adventure. Even the location of the painting is very special. I think they are the last hours of the night, a beautiful and peaceful night on the edge of a puddle, I think. I think nothing will happen after that. The lion will go away before she could wake up.
Francesca De Bonis 112000393
Dear Mrs Pickens,
I chose The Sleeping Gypsy in my Art Safari.
In the picture two items: a lion and a gypsy. The lion, quiet, approaches to the gypsy, who in spite to the massive presence does not seem to awaken from sleep. The painting transmits tranquility, due also to the landscape as a backdrop to the two figures. I think that the lion did not have bad intentions, but is only curiosly towards the gypsy, who as him live for the day. Our life is a constant adventure. Even the location of the painting is very special. I think they are the last hours of the night, a beautiful and peaceful night on the edge of a puddle, I think. I think nothing will happen after that. The lion will go away before she could wake up.
Francesca De Bonis 112000393
Dear Mrs Pickens,
I decided to describe the work of Henri Rousseau The Sleeping Gypsy.
The picture shows a young gypsy woman sleeping in the moonlight. She is dressed in gaudy colored oriental clothes. Beside the woman there is a lion that approaches her mysteriously, as to sniff her. The animal is giant and powerful, with a thick mane, but does not seem to have any bad intention.
Probably the scene would show a stereotype about the gipsies, thought as travelers with jar and guitar, and with magical powers.
The scene takes place in a barren desert, probably a few hours before dawn. In fact, the color of the sky is slightly clear on the horizon, accompanied by the moon almost smiling. The atmosphere is very quiet, too quiet, almost as if time had stopped at that moment. The only element that contrasts with this situation is the eye of the lion, that is totally open, almost as if it was keeping watch over the gipsy . Furthermore, if we observe closely the woman’s face, it seems the gipsy is fully aware of this situation. In fact the gipsy seems to be very calm despite the contest is gloomy and hostile to the human life. So I suppose that it is a magic situation in witch a lion and a gypsy are fellow friends travelling together for the discovery of the world.
Margherita Iovieno
Matr. 112000311
Dear Ms Pickens,
this is my comment about the exercise.
I choose the Sleeping Gypsy of Henry Rosseau.
This picture reprensents a gypsy who seeps and a lion that approches her. The lion, very big and charming, smells the girl but don't devours her. The gypsy is probably a nomad musician: she sleeps near a mandolin and a jar, she is dressed with an eastern dress. Her black face looks like an Africans ceremonial mask. The scene happens in the desert at midnight, because there are stars and a full moon. The moonlight is very suggestive. I think that the lion go to sleep near the gypsy, because she is a magician and bewitches the lion with her magic power. After that, the lion follows the gypsy in her travels around the world.
Francesco Balestriere 112000324
Agrarian Leader Zapata painted by Diego rivera
this persons are peasant rebels arms armed with provisional weapons. Emiliano Zapata is the protagonist of the mexican revolution , he is the men in white dress
Zapata stands triumphantly beside the dead body , Peasants have supported him
the man that holding the reins is Emiliano zapata,Zapata stands triumphantly beside the dead body of a owner .
the white horse is a important symbol in this picture . the horse is a victory versus the rich land owner
this scene is taking place in mexico.
so Rivera’s vision of Zapata as a humble peasant offers a sympathetic portrait of a folk hero tirelessly devoted to agrarian reform.
Damiano Falanga 112000087
Dear Ms. Pickens
I chose the "Sleeping Gypsy" picture, by Henri Rousseau.
In a far away land there is lion. It is elegant and majestic, but everybody are afraid of its. Live there also a beautiful gipsy; she plays a little guitar, the only thing that she has . The lion is in love with the gipsy, but she don't know it, because the lion look her from afar, because fears that she is afraid. But when she sleeps at the night, the animal oversees the girl and protects her from dangers.
Marialuisa Migliore 112000338
Dear Ms. Pickens
I chose the "Sleeping Gypsy" picture, by Henri Rousseau.
In a far away land there is lion. It is elegant and majestic, but everybody are afraid of its. Live there also a beautiful gipsy; she plays a little guitar, the only thing that she has . The lion is in love with the gipsy, but she don't know it, because the lion look her from afar, because fears that she is afraid. But when she sleeps at the night, the animal oversees the girl and protects her from dangers.
Marialuisa Migliore 112000338
I chose Diego Rivera picture, Agrarian Leader Zapata.
In this picture is painted the revolutionary mexican people with their chef Emiliano Zapata. They are carrying their agricultural tools as weapons to show the power of people againt the power of governament. To show the power of poor workers with their tools againt the power of Army and Aristocracy with their dangerous weapons.
In this picture Rivera painted the people with tired faces and worn skin caused by strong work. They are fighting to change the current low order and to have a land reform to improve their social condition.
Emiliano Zapata was the leader of this people. He has fight to have a land reform until his dead. In this picture Zapata has a lifeless figure lies at his feet: this is the victory of agricultural people against aristocratic people therefore his left hand clutches the reins of a white horse, symbol of anciet powerful.
The Zapatista faction remained dissatisfied with Governament’s reform efforts, and continued to fight until government supporters ambushed and then killed Zapata.
In this paint the group is framed on the right by tipical tropical foliage. But we can see the Mexico ground for the tipical mexican hat: the sombrero.
Niola Maria Rosa 012000305
25 Marzo 2012
Dear Ms Pickens,
I decided to describe the picture of Frida Kahlo: Fulang -Chan and Me.
The picture shows a woman and a monkey, the monkey is before her, and behind them there are a trees and a plants.
I think that they love each other, and there is a true friendship.
The face of the woman says the the humans can hurt the animals,she is thinking about the "badness human".
I suppose that the woman and the monkey are together because the woman saved her from certain death.
The pink ribbon means the link between the animals and the humans ..... humans that love the animals! In the picture it seems that the pink ribbon hug the monkey!
Sveva Capuozzo 112000493
Dear Ms. Pickens
I chose the "Sleeping Gypsy" picture by Henri Rousseau
In this picture there are a musician overcome by fatigue in a deep sleep, and a lion that is passing behind her. The scene is set in a desert, it's night and there is a full moon. The lion seems to be only curious.
Paola Massa 112000250
Dear Ms. Pickens
I chose the Sleeping Gypsy by Rousseau.
In this picture there are a man and a a lion in a desert.The man sleeps and the lion is sniffing at man.The lion is big and has a brown skin with thick mane.The man might be a gypsy.He is sleeping.They are in the desert.It is night and there is a big moon in the sky-The gypsy walked so far so he decided to stop and he began to play his guitar.The lion listened the sound of the guitar and approached to the gypsy
Giada Sammarco 112000091
Dear Ms Pickens,
I chose Diego Rivera's picture, Agrarian leader Zapata
In this picture, we can observe a gang of armed farmers; they're leaded by Zapata, dressed in white. Below the Zapata's feet there is a dead body: it seems to be the owner of the white horse and farm, where the the picture characters worked. Zapata led a rebellion on the farm and later a revolution in Mexico.
Massimiliano Lanzillo 012000206
Dear Ms. Pickens,
I chose the "Sleeping Gypsy" painted by Henri Rousseau.
The scene is set in a desert where a pensive lion stays over a woman who sleeps on a moonlight night.
The setting is surreal and the sleeping gypsy is represented with a guitar and a jar, probably symbols of her dark magic powers.
Lorenza Longobardi 112000313
Dear Ms. Pickens,
I chose the "Sleeping Gypsy" painted by Henri Rousseau.
The scene is set in a desert where a pensive lion stays over a woman who sleeps on a moonlight night.
The setting is surreal and the sleeping gypsy is represented with a guitar and a jar, probably symbols of her dark magic powers.
Lorenza Longobardi 112000313
Dear Ms. Pickens,
I chose the "Sleeping Gypsy" painted by Henri Rousseau.
The scene is set in a desert where a pensive lion stays over a woman who sleeps on a moonlight night.
The setting is surreal and the sleeping gypsy is represented with a guitar and a jar, probably symbols of her dark magic powers.
Lorenza Longobardi 112000313
Dear Ms. Pickens
I chose "Frida Kahlo and the Monkey" 1940.
Frida Kahlo was an important Mexican painter, she lived a very short life and she was plagued by aches and extreme deblitating.
She has left 200 paintings and most are self-portaits and often phisical suffering is represented dramatically.In his pictures we can see the sensuaility of plants which seem almost foreign living and the stylization of the animals reminiscent the pre-Columbian cultures. Frida at 22 years old married Diego Rivera who was 20 years her senior, he wasan ugly and fat man but by irresistible charm and when for a period they were separated Frida cut his beautiful hair ,began to drink,with serious consequence for their precarious phisical condition. Diego and Frida, costitued an important intellectual partenership and the "Blue House", where they lived for periods, became an attraction for many artists and intellectuals.
The "Blue House" is a stucco buildings with one floor with the walls painted blue. At the time the house was full of Frida's plants and animals, in fact the domestic monkey that we can see rolated Frida's hair with a ribbon pink. In Mexico, the monkeys rapresents "the clown" a symbol of vitality and protection against loneliness.
Alessia Marino 012002578
Dear Ms. Pickens,
I chosed Henry Rousseau's "The Sleeping Gypsy".
In this picture from a landscape surreal and dreamlike, we see represented in a deserted area, a dark-skinned gypsy with oriental clothes who sleeps during the night, as you can tell by the presence of the stars and moon. Behind her there is a lion, strong and majestic, that doesn’t seem to have bad intentions in fact it sniffs without assaulting the woman. To me, the scene could continue with the awakening of the woman who, at the sight of the lion, initially is afraid, but then manages to create an understanding with the animal by the sound of her instrument.
Rosanna Coppola
112000398
This painting is a self-portrait of Frida Kahlo with a monkey, which recalls the paintings of the Renaissance Madonna with child, in fact she uses in most of her paintings Fulang-Chang, a spider monkey as a pet, interpreted by many people as a substitute for babies because she and her husband, artist Diego Rivera, could not conceive.
Moreover, the woman's face is similar to the animal for the presence of hair. I think the pink ribbon that starts from the woman's hair and binds the neck of the monkey wants to represent the bond that exists between them and the love that this woman feels for its.
Rosaria Reale 112000288
Dear Ms.Pickens
I speak of the paintings of Frida Kahlo.
Frida Kahlo was an important Mexican painter, most of her works are self portraits. Frida married Diego Rivera to 22 years. This painting is a portrait of Frida Kahlo with a monkey. The woman's face is similar to that of animals for the presence of hair. I think that the pink ribbon indicates the relationship between animals and humans, in this case between the monkey and Frida.
Rosa Fico 112000354
May 13, 2012
I chose The Sleeping Gypsy of Henri Rousseau.
In the picture there is a gypsy who sleeps in the moonlight, while a lion, a gigantic and beautiful, is approaching. The setting is surreal, the lion does not attack the gypsy, and the moonlight makes the magical and dreamlike environment. It may already be the stars at night because they mention their luster. It is not clear whether the animal is drinking, or if it is smelling the sleeping woman. it is a very complex picture, difficult to interpret. A gypsy, who plays the mandolin, with the jar at his side, asleep. A lion passing by chance, it sniffs her, but it doesn't consumes her . The gypsy woman wearing Eastern dress.
Filomena Testa 112000373
May 14, 2012
Dear Ms. Pickens
I decided to describe Frida Kahlo: Fulang -Chan and Me.
The picture shows a woman and a monkey, the monkey is before her, and behind them there are a trees and a plants. The light is diffused and the colors are bright.
Frida Kahlo is a mexican artist with a very troubled life, marked by a divorce and various diseases. On this self-portrait with monkey, on his face is static and emotionless.
I think the monkey is his pet, the atmosphere is reminiscent of a garden, but also to the jungle.
The pink ribbon part haired Frida and interwoven into the neck of the monkey, but gently, as if to signify a bond.
I suppose the monkey is an effective substitute for loneliness, a real need for affection.
Simonetta Gaudino
272000103
Conservazione e restauro dei beni culturali
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