It didn’t take me long to think of an idea for my final. Everyone knows me for being the foreign girl; it is brought up to me on a daily basis and I love the fact that I am from Bosnia. It’s what makes me, who I am. I go back to Sarajevo, Bosnia every summer; I pretty much have two homes, one here in Oconomowoc and another one in Sarajevo. The experience is wonderful; it makes me understand the world much better and see it from a different perspective.
So my final is based around this. I decided to do a scene of the cities down towns. In both of the pictures, which I took, the scenes are famous landmarks in the town. In Oconomowoc I choose the four corners and the yellow stone building that everyone knows about. In Sarajevo I choose the old historic downtown, a huge tourist attraction and a beautiful place. For the background, I painted the continents and the oceans on two boards that I connected together. That brings the two main scenes together; and on top of the background I used a quote to show my theme. It says “home is where the heart is” and it is exactly what I was trying to portray with my art.
I had some trouble at the start of the project. First I started painting with oil based water colors and I just couldn’t get the hang of it. They weren’t drying, and I had trouble mixing the colors and getting the right shades. It definitely got frustrating. I really tried to make it work, but it just didn’t cooperate with my skill. So I switched to acrylic and started all over again. This time around, it was much easier because the pain dried faster and I had a variety. The colors were looking good and I could even create texture, and it would dry like that! I got the two images painted pretty fast, and I was satisfied. The background connected them together really well, creating movement and rhythm.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
astro paper
Dalila Karic
02/16/09
Galileo Video Reflection
From the beginning of his time, Galileo was in constant conflict with himself and his surroundings. It was not a simple conflict between science and religion, as usually portrayed. Rather it was a conflict between Copernican science and Aristotelian science which had become Church tradition. Religion was a huge deal during this time; Galileo was even pushed into becoming a priest in the early years of his life. Speaking against religion could prove fatal. Galileo was an arrogant, opinionated man. He loved to speak out. He supported Copernicus’s heliocentric theory, but he was also a supporter of the Bible. However, he tried to avoid controversy by not making public statements on the issue. Galileo finally expressed his scientific views supporting Copernicus as well as his biblical views in a 1615 letter to the Grand Duchess of Tuscany which became the basis of his first Church trial and censure.
Galileo was not a friendly man; he had few friends. He also had three illegitimate children, something everyone looked down on during this time. However, he did get patronage by the Medici, a very well respected Italian family, which gave him some support. They gave him the title of a mathematician and philosopher. Galileo kept contact with one of his children, Virginia. Through their letters, it really showed that she might have been one of the only people he actually cared about and who’s opinions he valued.
His discovery of the Jupiter’s moons, sun spots, and phases of Venus gave more support for the heliocentric theory. The earth was believed to be special because the Sun, made of the element "fire" had to be less massive than Earth which was made of much heavier elements. Also the sun didn’t have any “moons” like the earth. When Galileo discovered the four moons of Jupiter, this disclaimed the earth from being “special”.
Also, Galileo discovered the phases of Venus and Venus could only have phases if it circled around the sun; disproving the church’s geocentric beliefs. After these discoveries many people privately accepted Copernicus’s theory; but only a few were brave enough to support it publicly.
Pope Urban the eight was one of Galileo’s admirers. During a court dinner, in 1611, at which Galileo defended his view on floating bodies, Barberini supported Galileo against Cardinal Gonzaga. Galileo was given permission to publish his books. He presented it as a dialogue between two characters debating the heliocentric theory. This way, the people could see both sides, and he knew had enough proof to win this debate. With that Galileo had the books published in Italian so the people could read it and the truth could be spread. Yet, the church even saw this as a huge threat, and it caused Galileo many consequences.
I think Galileo had no way out; the church was too powerful and too old to be proved wrong by one of its members. He tried every way possible and it still didn’t work, even his arrogance and intelligence couldn’t beat the false beliefs the church was tied to.
02/16/09
Galileo Video Reflection
From the beginning of his time, Galileo was in constant conflict with himself and his surroundings. It was not a simple conflict between science and religion, as usually portrayed. Rather it was a conflict between Copernican science and Aristotelian science which had become Church tradition. Religion was a huge deal during this time; Galileo was even pushed into becoming a priest in the early years of his life. Speaking against religion could prove fatal. Galileo was an arrogant, opinionated man. He loved to speak out. He supported Copernicus’s heliocentric theory, but he was also a supporter of the Bible. However, he tried to avoid controversy by not making public statements on the issue. Galileo finally expressed his scientific views supporting Copernicus as well as his biblical views in a 1615 letter to the Grand Duchess of Tuscany which became the basis of his first Church trial and censure.
Galileo was not a friendly man; he had few friends. He also had three illegitimate children, something everyone looked down on during this time. However, he did get patronage by the Medici, a very well respected Italian family, which gave him some support. They gave him the title of a mathematician and philosopher. Galileo kept contact with one of his children, Virginia. Through their letters, it really showed that she might have been one of the only people he actually cared about and who’s opinions he valued.
His discovery of the Jupiter’s moons, sun spots, and phases of Venus gave more support for the heliocentric theory. The earth was believed to be special because the Sun, made of the element "fire" had to be less massive than Earth which was made of much heavier elements. Also the sun didn’t have any “moons” like the earth. When Galileo discovered the four moons of Jupiter, this disclaimed the earth from being “special”.
Also, Galileo discovered the phases of Venus and Venus could only have phases if it circled around the sun; disproving the church’s geocentric beliefs. After these discoveries many people privately accepted Copernicus’s theory; but only a few were brave enough to support it publicly.
Pope Urban the eight was one of Galileo’s admirers. During a court dinner, in 1611, at which Galileo defended his view on floating bodies, Barberini supported Galileo against Cardinal Gonzaga. Galileo was given permission to publish his books. He presented it as a dialogue between two characters debating the heliocentric theory. This way, the people could see both sides, and he knew had enough proof to win this debate. With that Galileo had the books published in Italian so the people could read it and the truth could be spread. Yet, the church even saw this as a huge threat, and it caused Galileo many consequences.
I think Galileo had no way out; the church was too powerful and too old to be proved wrong by one of its members. He tried every way possible and it still didn’t work, even his arrogance and intelligence couldn’t beat the false beliefs the church was tied to.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
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Artist Emulation (stephen shore)
Stephen is known for his deadpan images of banal scenes and objects, and for his use of color in photography. By the 1970s only serious art photographers saw the world in black and white. For those able to shake off the convention working in color proved revelatory. By using color in his photos, Stephen generally made it accepted as an art form in photography. Shore took pictures of things you would see every day and that aren't necesarily appealing to the eye-landspaces, intersections, gas stations. Shore had his first major solo exhibit at the age of 24, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His Uncommon Places was a bible for the new color photographers because, alongside William Eggleston, his work proved that a color photograph, like a painting or even a black and white photograph, could be considered a work of art.
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