1a. Jane Addams and the Hull House- She was an american activist and reformer. The Hull house was founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.…
Although of colored heritage in an era of racial discrimination, Drew was able to create “blood banks’’ and his pioneering of plasma during World War II led him to save countless lives. Many of today’s blood-transfusion technology comes from his work. The legacy of this man is great; however, Drew is still greatly unknown. Charles Richard Drew was born on June 3, 1904, in Washington D.C. His mother, Nora Drew, and father, Richard Drew, were vey devoted and encouraged Charles and his younger siblings to aim high.…
José Clemente Orozco was born in Ciudad Guzmán, Mexico on Nov. 23, 1883, he was a Mexican painter. He specialized in political murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance. He was the most complex of the Mexican muralists. Orozco was influenced by symbolism, he was a genre painter and lithographer. He painted murals in Mexico City, Guadalajara, and states in the United States.…
Over history, numerous figures have been claimed to be the real Architect of Canadian Confederation. This article will explore the rationale behind the selection of Sir John A Macdonald, the first Prime Minister, as this role. Macdonald’s national appeal, political skill and ability to bring together various conflicting interests elevate him above all other contenders to become the true architect of Canadian Confederation. The argument will consist of three major parts: first, John A Macdonald’s achievements will be explored at length; second, two broad requirements that the real architect must fulfil are analysed; third, three of the final four candidates will be eliminated to show how Macdonald is worthy of this title. John Macdonald’s achievements…
The Changes of Architecture Architecture is not only a form of shelter but of culture. It is also a practice of expression and art. During the 1880s United States architecture was customary to be built of the current style and theme. Today’s architecture is more constructed of what is individual and authentic. Architecture today unlike 1880s is to be more unique and professional.…
Mo Willems was born on Feb 11, 1968 in Des Plaines Illinois. His parents were Dutch immigrants; his mother went on to be an attorney and his father became a potter making ceramic pieces. When Mo Willems was a child he doodled all the time. His childhood life long dream was to “take over Charles Schulz's job when he died. I wanted to do 'Peanuts.'…
The artist I picked was Diego Rivera. Rivera was born on December 8th, 1886 and died on November 24th, 1957. Born in Guanajuato, Mexico and deceased in Mexico city at the age of 71. Rivera was a Mexican Artist that made beautiful and inspiring murals.…
In the beginning, children are arguing that evolution is the way monkeys became humans. They believe this because it is what they are taught or what they grasp from school. This is what is being discussed in the documentary “The Revisionaries,” the conflicts that appear with the theory of evolution and the re-write of US history when Don McLeroy, a creationist, tries to get re-elected as chairman of America’s most influential board of education. The science debate focuses on evolution while the history debate focuses on conservatism and the exclusion of minorities. Once every ten years a group of people, the Texas Board of Education, decide what will be taught to the next generation of American children.…
In 1889 Andrew Carnegie recognized the divide in industrialized America between the rich and the poor, a divide he deemed natural in any economy yet not preferable. Consequently, Carnegie recommended to the wealthy of America a strategy, one that would endeavor to render the gap between the rich and poor smaller, therefore more manageable and beneficial to the state and its people. This strategy proffered the ideal that the wealthy in any society should perpetually be engaged in spending their wealth to the benefit of the society as a whole, as Carnegie viewed the wise men of the wealthy most fit to administrate wealth for the betterment of the masses, which would more times than not waste its wealth away on non-necessities deeming them unfit.…
Designer of the American Dream To fashion, to clothing, to furniture, Ralph Lauren is one the most well-known designers in the world. He was born in the Bronx of New York. Hired by Beau Brummell ties as a designer. He then continued into his own work. Due to his accomplishments as a designer, Ralph Lauren is one of the most well-known designers all around the world (“Lauren”).…
Charles Ives was an outstanding composer of the American Modernist Period. He made many types of music that a lot of people were inspired by. Ives combined church-music traditions with European art music, and was among the first composers to engage of experimental music. Charles Ives had a rough childhood. Ives was born on October 20, 1874 in Danbury, Connecticut.…
Marc Chagall was born in a small community in the suburbs of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His dad was a fish seller and his mom sold miscellaneous stuff. When Chagall was a child he attended a Jewish elementary school, he studied Hebrew and the bible there, later on he ended up attending a Russian public school. “He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work” (biography.com, publish date not available.) t age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen.…
Once he graduated from School of the Art Institute of Chicago he served on the Art Institute faculty for ten years. During the time he became faculty he taught and started putting his art in competitions and winning prizes. This was also around the time his artwork had begun to get better and better. He started gaining confidence and everyone started showing love to his artwork and telling him that he should try and go further with his talents in art. Shortly after that he began to work for playboy magazines for a man by the name of Hugh Hefner.…
By the end of the 1800s art was considered a subject of study just like science and math. For an artist to be taken seriously and considered a proffesional attending an art college was a neccesity. There they learn about line techniques, shading, colouring etc. Some artists believed that art was meant to be “studied” in schools. Art was meant to be felt like an emotion and the lines show flow from the conciousness to the paper.…
The notions of modernity, Pollock argues, are embodied in famous articles of the time such as Charles Baudelaire’s “The Painter of Modern Life.” Written in 1859, the article is a veritable call to artists to not only paint modern life but to experience it. Urban scenes…