Yes, We Have A Spectacular, Dirty, Riotous, Beautiful World. Important Lesson here to share and hardwire into you...: You can have Love but sometimes when we only focus on "Love" We Lose "Life." Its balancing the 2 and gaining life by the same old-age God given "gifts" "rituals" and "practices." Without God in a marriage we Lose Sight of Life. Without a marriage We lose Sight of Love. Rather, God gave us the "Perfect" Balance!! Keep the God Routines and dont Lose them. Doing Godly Works as Roles within a marriage is Life-Saving. Love Without Life is as Dead as Science Without God and God Without Science. There Are Heroes and Villains in the World. In the End the Same Age-Old Practices such as Social Works, Equality or Even the Simplicities of Kindness and Gratitude gave Us Our Ever-Beautiful World that We Cherished as Earthly Families of A Well-Balanced Universe. Without the balance that same cadence and roll of a waves gravitational pull from the moon needing balance is no different than the cadence of balance from our own mind and our own environments. God is the key because God is the balance. Because these middle-grounds exist proves that humans are not capable of balance on their own but that it is learned from a force and discipline of knowledge higher than theirs proving that there is a God, that he does exist, and that all the General, Special Relativity and Physical Sciences Exist because of his nature and phenomenon of the known balance of his natural existances and creations in our first existent Worlds. Intimately our World relies on the "Perfection of Balance" and the Villain of the World, the enemy of human beings is what stops the actual cadence of the world and starts the wages of sin so that the World fails itself. God is the "Perfect" and "Natural Dominant" Existence. If Our Brains are unbalanced there is a force of cadence and magnetivity that is thrown off balance in its natural existance. If we do life-altering things because our brain chemistry is off then we have disrupted the physical balance of the World. Say we get haughty and the World is thrown helter-skelter. The wage for that sin is death bc we defied its natural existance. The existance of God is the perfect gravitational pull of the moon towards the tides of the ocean. Weve Learned to balance these things now but without them woe to the Earth for Great Hails of Doom because you upset its balance! Cadence and Physics matter much more largely in Our Environment and accepting the challenges of change and balancing not only our minds, but our societies We have the Perfect Eden but denying the Respect for the Universe gives us an unnatural and undeserving hell that takes quite a while to fix. Praise God, Balance Yourselves, Sew seeds of kindness so that it may go well with You!!
Monday, November 23, 2020
Love Vs. Life
If you have Love but you Lose Life You Have Lost Existence.
Therefore, You "Must" Balance "Love" With "Life."
Fine Conducts of Wisdom by Our Ancestors..Find Ancestors..Find Perfect Practice in Life-Saving things. Ask Yourself "What Saved the World?" And then Do IT! - So IT May Go Well With You!!!
Faith and Fine Works my Friends!!!!
Friday, October 16, 2015
"The LOVE of Hawke" by Jessica Gerlemann
2/29/2020
Afternoon Beach California “The LOVE of
Hawke”
By: Jessica Lee Gerlemann
a.k.a. Wanda Simmons
Introduction:
Chapter 1: [My Letters to Wolf]
At the waterfall s I kissed you. But you could have betrayed me. At first you did when you left and insulted
me and called my friend a loser.
However, who knows what his intentions were as well. If I hadn’t of learned to work with you we
all would have been dead. What’s worse is
I feel I cannot trust anyone to help me personally in this and I don’t know how
this world is going to get to get the help it needs if you stop me. But I see you in this and this group of
people I am in. Betrayal happens all the
time. I’d like to think it’d be best if
we left it up to the ones that care for our well-being or the maltreatment, war & famine occur
once again because of the common mistakes we make the most. But in the care-keeping you are going to find
the look-alikes, posers, & the breaking down of the government. As long as this happens you won’t have true
peace. Don’t support the corruption or
enable the abuse. And God knows be
careful with yourself! In a sea of
unworthiness and an ocean full of people are ignorant Motherfuckers who
monopolize things while the innocent ones only want justi ece. In an ocean full of people there is always an
ounce of potential but a likeability of a characteristic that is a threat to
your well-being and livelihood. You must
eradicate it from yourself or the wickedness of that characteristic will
eradicate you! Therefore…Learn from the
mistake, change the course of action, and build a better life with me
–Together!!! One with no downfalls. If
only people didn’t manipulate and hurt one another to a point of no overcoming
and just wickedness because of the poor survival skills that they were
taught! In many cases with the
psychologically abused you find the want of power and control in one’s life. You find repeat abusers in the people who have been badly abused and
need the time to emotionally heal.
Repeat abusers or victims of warfare will lash out as the World and
break it in their heart-break and anger until somebody helps them cope. Without re-direction towards the skills of
coping and positive characteristics there is none. But at least if you don’t believe in God
believe in Justice!!! For all
life-situations are equivocal . Maslow
has taught us about the coping skills we need my love. The Hierarchy of Needs that one must
possess. Love & Nurture comes with a
sense of peace & tranquility my beautiful Heroine.
Chapter 2
Peace & Tranquility was achieved Wolf. In an ocean of healthy well human beings we
are now abiding. However, my Love, know
that as long as we exist to be repeat abusers and hurt one another the
breakdown of the government will be the end of our fate, our love, our
acceptance into this world. However much
government exists; it only exists by God and good communication. However long as people run it, it will
experience corruption. That’s why we
offer Reform. If I came from Germany and
Germany believed in war but I came to America for a place of freedom. We can’t let them take the Pride for One’s
Love For Their Country away from US.
Much less, the knack for the need of Justice for the innocent and those
who have been victims of warfare! Who,
my great transgressor, has the right to change that?? Who has the right when God is a real being that granted us life for eternity
to live forever in Peace & Harmony in the First Place!? God granted us life! The
best answers we have are in the characteristics of the World, Our
Knowledge, & Ourselves. Our America,
even, if you will. For as long as the
world exists humans will try to corrupt and dishearten one another and abuse
one another –Until We learn war no more.
–There is always a Time for War & a Time for Peace!!!! – You’re a
fool to tell another human being that they have no chance at life at all when
life is all you’ve been given and they can take yours! For every wicked acting person is a person of
peace somewhere else who Will treat you
better & Love Who You Are & Be Your Friend. Most of all…. –Be Your Own Friend. They are fools for A) Pushing you around B)
Trying to control you C) lording or powering over you and telling you you have
no chances, -No power or Authority to Chang your life when once again it is
–yours.
Sincerely,
Hawke.
Chapter 3
They had taken
me to the Hospital. I didn’t know what
to expect. This time I had actually went
on my first date. Jen and Darren said he
was driving 80MPH. Funny thing was I was
under a blanket on the floorboard in the back and didn’t even notice. I had my Semi-Automatic and I loved the man I
was with tremendously for his soft eyes and his loving heart and how he was
warm to the touch. I had gotten to the
hospital and naturally again in was either full of criminals or kids with
criminal like tendencies, behavioral problems or abuse victims. I was
wore. I needed to get the rest this time
that I deserved thanks to my friends. I
noticed how touchy people were. A need to
be my friend and yet a social barrier and a boundary line not to cross so that
both parties did not take action profusely wrong against the other. I can definitely say that I saw a
difference. I often thought about the
men and which ones I loved the most.
What’s worse was,…I knew I only needed one but that a group of them
beckoned for me..as much as I wished to be at peace with time and my husbandly
owner, my true love-Hensen. I had
thought I knew everything about a man –in all shades –in all areas. It seemed I had always learned something
new. I loved the fact how my faith in
this group of men loving me was perhaps infallible although the characteristics
of their sensibility over one woman or any woman they fantasized about deeply
flawed-. I couldn’t think of a better
way to put it into writing. She was
5’’7 102 lbs. She would have gotten away with being Bigfoot the Indian if they would have let her. But the task would have been too flawed.
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She couldn’t think of the way that she could express her love
and her hate of injustice to these people.
She had been through so much. At
times emotionally distraught but always able to deal with the problems near at
hand better than anyone else she had known.
If they hadn’t of attempted on
her when she was young. Sometimes it
just took people to have the realization of One’s self. To understand that deep down they were
someone different than what they had perceived them to be. At worse-She was a man of war. At best- She
was a wife eternally enveloped with the love of her surpassor. Forever she dedicated herself to one
work. The work of Justice & Love in
her life and others. Yet, sometimes with
reality she had come to notice that she wasn’t the only one victimized,
attempted on, loved, beat, or even hated.
Sometimes she even had to be careful because in a town near Baja was
Sacramento and L.A. where there were some gangs and she couldn’t wear the color
purple. A feigned color of furvish value
that represented the wine of Christ’s blood that her Momma had passed on to her
in faith. Forever more, she couldn’t
fathom the world in a irrevocable place full of graveyards and tombs with
burned bodies and no vegetation much like the recent warfare in lesser
privileged countries. So her and her
men…They fought internationally for better conditions, for more love, peace
& tranquility in the hope and remembrance of the –Love that made these
individual men what they were before a time of almost surpassed warfare. In the End –These Men…Learned to Love from
–One strong woman with a 3-fold cord and surpassed and spread the –Love and
ExaMPLE to other Women of ages and strong ability to help lead the
International Government in Strong & Dignified Ways. Forever would –Hope’s Faith last. Forever –NATIONS WOULD HOPE IN HIM. HIS**- COURTS RULED BY SAGACIOUSNESS. IN ALL ASPECTS BRIDGES BUILT FROM HEART TO
HEART AND THE NEGATIVITIES MINIMIZED ON AND ACTIONS ALL DONE IN WISDOM, FAITH,
& TIME TO HEAL THE HEARTS OF SPADES, THE DIAMOND OF HEARTS, THE CLUB OF
HEARTS AND THE HEART ITSELF TO A POINT OF FULFILLMENT IN THE WORDS OF THE
DOCTRINES--. -FOREVER & EVER** IN GOD &
FATHER-
AMEN
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Fish Are Like People
Fish are like people in a sea
Lost in a wave of emotions
They swim about with glee
Or they try to bait you with a potion
Like Snow White, the apple, and the witch
Or Cinderella with a dress for a ball
You'll find that some of them are a snitch
Or they coul take the high road and walk tall
Lost in a wave of emotions
They swim about with glee
Or they try to bait you with a potion
Like Snow White, the apple, and the witch
Or Cinderella with a dress for a ball
You'll find that some of them are a snitch
Or they coul take the high road and walk tall
**~The Sillies~**
So, there was this undercover government agent who was a
warewolf and he lived across the road..he clucked and he ducked and he got ran
over by a train..he wore a tupe and a dinosaur tried to apply for a job and
cried when he died.. Barney turned green and Elmo turned purple… then I drank a
slurple..a dog turned into a cat and a mouse ran the wall..the parakeet walked
on its head and the scorpion king married me..boy he was a loser… that was 1
month down the drain..the sun became the moon and the moon smiled at me..the
grass fell out of the sky..and the rain shot out of the ground..stupid
geyser,..or is that a goose,..heck if I know all the other girls are loose..
some guy called me on the phone that was really a girl..well I guess sometimes
you have to just give life a whirl..my foot fell on my face and I began to
think that I hatched out of an egg and had a tail like my dad said..the vacuum
sucked up my brother and I began to miss him..did I ever say that he loved
kim..the microwave cooked my shorts for dinner and then I knew uncle buck was a
real winner..I caught the criminal down the road…he tried to run but I turned
him into a toad..I turned into an Indian and scalped that cowboy..oh my oh
my..do I sound violent or am I just silent..why does nobody hear me..I guess
because they can’t see.. don’t leave a blind man with a blind dog.. there is a
good chance they won’t get out of the fog..I don’t know who’s here or who’s
listnin but I don’t wanna be caught kissin..why doesn’t the frog turn into a
prince..stupid little story you weren’t real now you make me whince..too bad
too bad this isn’t real..but I keep my true words with a reel..oh fishing pole
of the sea..why don’t you catch my first fish for me..
*You can make sense out of nonsense
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
"The God of Peace"
The God of Peace
The Spider spins its web at night
The bird sings in the morning
The snake that gives a fright
Never returns to the scorning
One angel lays the dew
Upon thy ground
The other brings glad tidings
Of great good news around
A mother cow welcomes the new
Baby calf born in the spring
Bowing before God are few
As the innocent kids fashion the fling
But the Psalms say, “Praise God!”
Hear oh you his People
Just as houses are made of sod
Sing about his glory in all the heavens
Praise him in all the Earth
©2010 Jessica Gerlemann
The Spider spins its web at night
The bird sings in the morning
The snake that gives a fright
Never returns to the scorning
One angel lays the dew
Upon thy ground
The other brings glad tidings
Of great good news around
A mother cow welcomes the new
Baby calf born in the spring
Bowing before God are few
As the innocent kids fashion the fling
But the Psalms say, “Praise God!”
Hear oh you his People
Just as houses are made of sod
Sing about his glory in all the heavens
Praise him in all the Earth
©2010 Jessica Gerlemann
Francisco Goya vs. Damien Hirst
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Art Appreciation
Jill Foote-Hutton
22 April 2010
Damien Hirst and Francisco Goya Contributed Exemplary Art
Damien Hirst and Fracisco Goya both contributed exemplary art in the time period that was respective to when it was introduced. Each contributed several exhibits of art that were publicized. Introducing their art to the public is the way they succeeded as artists learning what intrigued and interested not only they themselves, but others, who viewed what they were making. They not only became popular because of the work they introduced but they produced work that beautified space of their own home or working environment. Hirst had the pharmaceutical display and frozen images and Goya painted the walls of his own country house before he fell ill. Criticized or not, they were definite for taking a stance, much like the large installation, “Pharmacy,” by Damien Hirst. Four bottles filled with liquid sit on the counter that are filled with symbolization of a large life exhibit. Each represents earth, air, fire and water. (http://www.tate.org.uk/pharmacy/) Francisco Goya was famous for Saturn Devouring One of His Sons from 1820-1822. Fresco, transferred to canvas 57 7/8 ×32 5/8 in. at the Museum del Prado in Madrid Spain. There were a combination of mediums, scales, locations and dates of work that were done by both artists. A variety of bodies of work were produced by each. (Sayer, M. Henry, A World of Art, 6th edition. Oregon State University-Cascades Campus, Prentice Hall, 2010. Print.) Goya was born in Fuendetodos, Spain April 16, 1828. Hirst was born in Bristol, England in 1965. So naturally, Hirst is a little younger than Goya.
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Hirst was well known also for the freeze exhibition. Goya, on the otherhand, was known for his art commissions and painting in the courtroom. Damien introduced the “Freeze” exhibition held in London in 1988. Also, he was well known for a butterfly exhibit made from monochrome canvases inside the exhibit that I marveled at. He called these “In and Out of Love.” Not being a stranger to controversy, tales of his life and work appear in international publications. Known as a heavy drinker who liked frequent parties and a brawl now and then, he still stood as an inspiring artist. Goya born in a village in northern Spain soon moved to Saragossa as a young boy. There his father worked as a Gilder. At 14 Goya began to become a local painter at Jose` Luzan. Hirst, a visual artist, became a pioneer of the group of one of many British Artists of the Young British Artists Association or YBA. Named by Journalists after his inspiration. (http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definition/.jsp?entryId=320) Full of fresh new faces, they drew an interest in everything “other than” the traditional art practices. One example of this was the rotting flesh of the dead cow Hirst used in his artwork. It turned out to be a unique phase and era for the YBA. Francisco next went to Italy to continue the study of art. Soon after Goya returned to Saragossa in 1771. Hirst, coming from a working class family, grew up in Leeds, England. After Goya returned in 1771 he began painting frescoes for a cathedral locally. (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/goya/) His work was done in the rococo tradition and literally established Francisco’s artiste` reputation. Damien, in his early years as well, was known around Goldsmiths, a school, as a talented ostentatious student never afraid to speak or exert his opinions especially about art in his work. Goya, in contrast, professionally started painting cartoons for a factory for the royal tapestry in Madrid. By this I mean the personification of the royale`. Francisco painted these from 1775 to 1792. Influenced also by
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neoclassicism, the technique started gaining favor over the rococo traditional style. Considered to be the revolutionary Spanish Court painter and etcher, he is best known for his portraits of nobility of modern Spain. His life span ranged from 1736 to 1828 when he died.
As a mere young boy Goya learned to work in the fields, because there was little work for a gilder following his father’s work. Francisco learned to endure physical hardship in a strenuous career. Unlike Goya, Damien, who was born with less of the same hardship that Goya endured had quite a measure of success also. At thirteen, Goya’s father decided to move to Zaragoza because he was able to make more money. Jose, Francisco’s father, sent his son to school. His son eventually became recognized for his artistic talent and eventually his father entered him into the academy of the Jose Luz`an then. There Goya made the acquaintance Martin Zapater who became his correspondent and best friend. Goya first began his career when art of the Spanish court was a stagnant imitation of Italian art. At seventeen his first commission, an altarpiece, showed the apparition of the hot-blooded youth who loved bullfighting and his women. Often involved in street fights, several were killed one night and Goya had to flee for his life. At nineteen when he arrived in Madrid he entered a competition hoping to be admitted to the Royal Academy of San Fernando. Goya went on escapades that forced him to flee. In Parma his second prize painting competition won and he returned to Zaragoza painting frescoes. He fell seriously ill later after marrying Bayeu’s sister, Josefa and in 1775 after moving to Madrid. From 1776 to 1791 he painted forty-five cartoons alone. Gay idealized scenes of country life were painted and then he fell ill. Coming to a point where his pictures were criticized by Bayeu he became embittered and returned to Madrid commissioning to paint
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portraits of the royal family. (“Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco Jose`.” Collier’s Encyclopedia. 11th Volume © Crowell-Collier Educational Corporation 1969, pg 278)
In 1998 Hirst became involved in a pop group, Fat Les is the group that recorded two singles. He is interestingly not only an artist. Damien Hirst won the Turner Prize for the third installation of the Pharmacy. His work is exhibited in Britain, Korea, U.S., Australia and countries all over Europe. He has worked on several side projects. Keith Allen is an acquaintance he works on them with. Not only is there Hirst’s Pharmacy, but a Pharmacy restaurant that it has turned into that has just a taste of Damien’s work. He did this with PR legend Mathew Freud until the sale of the restaurant came about. The Montana group then bought it. Damien Hirst Pharmacy can be watched on you tube. The August 1995 exhibit involves a dead cow and bull having sexual intercourse by means of a hydraulic device. Not preserved in formaldehyde this sickening piece was left to rot. Flies about, health officials were afraid that this project might explode because methane gasses might shatter the glass. This caused vomiting to some of the viewers so it likely was not one of his most popular. To Damien, these new, introduced ways were forms of art. To some, this was gross and not the traditional way of thinking. His interest in art beyond the conventional media encompasses paintings, sculptures, video and much more.(http://www.leninimports.com/damien_hirst.html) Damien Hirst was influenced in his art at age 16 by David Sylvester’s interviews with Francis Bacon. (http://www.guardian.co/uk/theguardian/2007/sep/13/greatinterviews1) (My way into art) It was
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stated that the interviews changed the “bushy-tailed, bright-eyed artist.” He mentions that he consumed the information much like consuming them “like a bible to a believer.” In the article, “My way into art,” he describes it as one of the first things he used that influenced his art that he didn’t have to get a dictionary just to figure out what it meant. This describes how the not only accurate and technical but precise artist took into account the research and information he connected to his art work. Francis Bacon influenced his early art. Finding his interviews he became interested in invention, accident, violence and abstraction. Not only did Damien try new and innovative ways of art but he really loved glass which is how it became part of many of his exhibits being it is transparent. The Pharmacy became about by the idea of confidence and trust in medicine. His pieces like Substitute Holidays, No Feelings and God are to be a paradox of the Western notion that medicine and chemicals being able to help a person to cheat death. He says, “You can only cure people for so long and then they’re going to die anyway. You can’t arrest decay, but these works suggest you can.”
Goya was responsible for many of the painting series called the “Disasters of War” Series. These were the most brutal of the guerilla war and Peninsular War and shows the truth of the brutality of the war he seen. Hirst was good at showing the truthfulness of death and the life of medicine. Each took drastic measures and Damien even went to non-traditional measures such as the dead cow rotting to draw a point about life and how it is eventually going to die after medicine is used to preserve it as much as possible. Francisco painted much of the brutality of war. Here is where each artist took an interest turn of similarity towards each other.
Damien uses shock as a relevant and formal element of design. Also, he likes to focus on the science of life. Filling his tanks of glass displays with Formaldehyde as a preservative he
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also has temporal spot paintings 650×546in. He collected dots from each of the people he had paint them and then displays them. Liking to shock his viewers because it gives him
pleasure as an artist he feels that if he does this, he has done a good job. He uses the cow’s open skull with flies and the fetus and intestines of a pregnant woman. Interestingly he links the pregnant women to the happiness and the horrors of pregnancy and also to his own personal experience of his wife’s pregnancy. This artist uses techniques that awes and makes the audiences mouth drop agape when looking at the patience and value that each of his pieces of work really have. Goya in contrast has art that some considered less full of life because he suffered through the stages and horrors of war. It being what impacted him the most and what he knew best he decided to highlight it. He chose black and whites in his war exhibits of the “Disasters of War Series.” He used a variety of water colors and techniques in the frozen country exhibits full of life and used duller colors for the court and the “Series.” The mouth in Goya’s art, more than anything else, gives off expressions of happiness, sadness, guilt, distress, and leer, gape, gap or grin. Hirst uses organic and representational displays. Also, he uses the painted dots as art for art’s sake and also has some connection to his other artwork in the Pharmacy. The dots represent his pills and each of them have been individually painted by other people. Observing subjectively, the art is intriguing, interesting and is full of vivacity or what you might say to be “life.” For the “Freeze” art exhibit special tanks of Formaldehyde are used in making still images relating to nature and having spatial significance. The dots by Hirst are temporal. Also they are kinetic and moving. Goya’s art seems to be frozen moments and stops in time or snap shots of the “Country Life” in Madrid Spain. There seems to be an emphasis on
the life also of the art then that inspired him in his watercolors. Although, with a rough
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background and some hardship, he produced some duller images of life and the way he felt or perceived things for the Spanish court. More than likely, his Country Life Frescoes had the proportionate scale and set the scene of a happy or gay life. There is balance in some of his older frescoes, but horridity and famine, violence and misery in his particular painting in our art book of the god, Saturn, eating his own son.
Presentation in Goya’s work was just as critiqued as Hirst’s work. In contrast though, Damien’s science provides a lot more patience. Hirst’s work is organized for presentation to other’s in a museum whereas Goya worked on several levels on his own, in schools, and then for the Spanish court so there had to have been some dullness or vulgarity in his scenes because of his environment concluding to the war and the courtroom. He also had commissions in which his artwork had a need to be vulgar in order to be fully understood by the viewer. Similarly both delighted in creation and both showed the true nature of some aspects of life in their artwork. Hirst with frozen images might have represented the vivacity of life for Goya it was the country life. Each used different techniques and one was water color while the other might have been temporal or something similar.
Cultural perspectives that probably influence Goya was likely the influence of court decisions, court scenes and his own experiences and learning lessons of those from his personal life. When criticized he was embittered so his artwork must have been the pride in his life. Damien had to have had interest in creation and the passion of love as his butterfly exhibit was called, “In and Out of Love,” which impressed me much. Damien used things that inspired him and narrated truth. Also, his work included jaw-dropping artifacts like the diamond skull with
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the teeth being the only thing leftover, “For the Love of God,” as it is called. (http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-artists/damien-hirst.htm) Hirst also uses hues, temperatures and chiaroscuro to the color scale of primary colors of reds, greens, yellows, blues and violets in other shades and hues such as red- and blue- violets. Both use psychological implications to produce a happy mood.
Each artist plays a vital role in the outcome of their work. Damien and Francisco both used themes of art in different ways. One documented the world after becoming deaf after his illness and the other still documents the world today. Goya from experience, witnessed the horrors of war and that is why also not all of his paintings are the happy Country life. Hirst still uses and invents new and innovative ways to document the world around him. Both used their imagination well. Each document the beautiful and sublime. They fit into social commentaries. Each fell well into the category of self-referencing art and universal truths. Goya likely has some evidences of the effects of war and politics in his more dreary pieces of work. The number of works by both artists connect to the outside world and live and shine without conflicting the space of one another by much. In contrast though, Hirst seemed to focus on the positivities of life. Naturally after becoming deaf, Goya focused on some of the politics in his life that changed life around him. This likely was the paintings he painted from his experiences afterwards. The happy scenes of the balanced “country life,” and “In and Out of Love,” compliment one another. The unhappier times for Goya where he connected the negative sides of war and politics were similar to the shark frozen exhibit by Hirst, called, “The Physical Impossibilities of Death.”
Thematic connections for rococo art would include the death of Louis XIV in 1715 in which afterward French life became exceptionally well. Whereas the taste was formed by
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societal women with real, covert, political power including Louis XV’s mistress. A French word derived from French rocailled, referring to small stones and shells that decorate interiors of
grottos, the artificial caves were popular in landscape design at the time. (A World of Art the sixth edition ©2010 by Pearson Education Inc. New York. Sayer, Henry) Thematic connections for Hirst would probably be the repetition in rap music where the diamond skull is used in Kanye West’s Video as modern art. Also, a theme of Hirst was to produce images that helped viewers and art appreciators understand the science of life. Goya’s thematic connection to viewers was to show the truth of the beauteous and ugly aspects of life. The historical relevance of the works of art is to display art to beautify and add value to the space around us in our every day environments and to add though much of like the work that is backed publicly by the National Endowment for the Arts. Truly then, Damien Hirst and Francisco Goya contributed awe-inspiring art.
Art Appreciation
Jill Foote-Hutton
22 April 2010
Damien Hirst and Francisco Goya Contributed Exemplary Art
Damien Hirst and Fracisco Goya both contributed exemplary art in the time period that was respective to when it was introduced. Each contributed several exhibits of art that were publicized. Introducing their art to the public is the way they succeeded as artists learning what intrigued and interested not only they themselves, but others, who viewed what they were making. They not only became popular because of the work they introduced but they produced work that beautified space of their own home or working environment. Hirst had the pharmaceutical display and frozen images and Goya painted the walls of his own country house before he fell ill. Criticized or not, they were definite for taking a stance, much like the large installation, “Pharmacy,” by Damien Hirst. Four bottles filled with liquid sit on the counter that are filled with symbolization of a large life exhibit. Each represents earth, air, fire and water. (http://www.tate.org.uk/pharmacy/) Francisco Goya was famous for Saturn Devouring One of His Sons from 1820-1822. Fresco, transferred to canvas 57 7/8 ×32 5/8 in. at the Museum del Prado in Madrid Spain. There were a combination of mediums, scales, locations and dates of work that were done by both artists. A variety of bodies of work were produced by each. (Sayer, M. Henry, A World of Art, 6th edition. Oregon State University-Cascades Campus, Prentice Hall, 2010. Print.) Goya was born in Fuendetodos, Spain April 16, 1828. Hirst was born in Bristol, England in 1965. So naturally, Hirst is a little younger than Goya.
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Hirst was well known also for the freeze exhibition. Goya, on the otherhand, was known for his art commissions and painting in the courtroom. Damien introduced the “Freeze” exhibition held in London in 1988. Also, he was well known for a butterfly exhibit made from monochrome canvases inside the exhibit that I marveled at. He called these “In and Out of Love.” Not being a stranger to controversy, tales of his life and work appear in international publications. Known as a heavy drinker who liked frequent parties and a brawl now and then, he still stood as an inspiring artist. Goya born in a village in northern Spain soon moved to Saragossa as a young boy. There his father worked as a Gilder. At 14 Goya began to become a local painter at Jose` Luzan. Hirst, a visual artist, became a pioneer of the group of one of many British Artists of the Young British Artists Association or YBA. Named by Journalists after his inspiration. (http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definition/.jsp?entryId=320) Full of fresh new faces, they drew an interest in everything “other than” the traditional art practices. One example of this was the rotting flesh of the dead cow Hirst used in his artwork. It turned out to be a unique phase and era for the YBA. Francisco next went to Italy to continue the study of art. Soon after Goya returned to Saragossa in 1771. Hirst, coming from a working class family, grew up in Leeds, England. After Goya returned in 1771 he began painting frescoes for a cathedral locally. (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/goya/) His work was done in the rococo tradition and literally established Francisco’s artiste` reputation. Damien, in his early years as well, was known around Goldsmiths, a school, as a talented ostentatious student never afraid to speak or exert his opinions especially about art in his work. Goya, in contrast, professionally started painting cartoons for a factory for the royal tapestry in Madrid. By this I mean the personification of the royale`. Francisco painted these from 1775 to 1792. Influenced also by
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neoclassicism, the technique started gaining favor over the rococo traditional style. Considered to be the revolutionary Spanish Court painter and etcher, he is best known for his portraits of nobility of modern Spain. His life span ranged from 1736 to 1828 when he died.
As a mere young boy Goya learned to work in the fields, because there was little work for a gilder following his father’s work. Francisco learned to endure physical hardship in a strenuous career. Unlike Goya, Damien, who was born with less of the same hardship that Goya endured had quite a measure of success also. At thirteen, Goya’s father decided to move to Zaragoza because he was able to make more money. Jose, Francisco’s father, sent his son to school. His son eventually became recognized for his artistic talent and eventually his father entered him into the academy of the Jose Luz`an then. There Goya made the acquaintance Martin Zapater who became his correspondent and best friend. Goya first began his career when art of the Spanish court was a stagnant imitation of Italian art. At seventeen his first commission, an altarpiece, showed the apparition of the hot-blooded youth who loved bullfighting and his women. Often involved in street fights, several were killed one night and Goya had to flee for his life. At nineteen when he arrived in Madrid he entered a competition hoping to be admitted to the Royal Academy of San Fernando. Goya went on escapades that forced him to flee. In Parma his second prize painting competition won and he returned to Zaragoza painting frescoes. He fell seriously ill later after marrying Bayeu’s sister, Josefa and in 1775 after moving to Madrid. From 1776 to 1791 he painted forty-five cartoons alone. Gay idealized scenes of country life were painted and then he fell ill. Coming to a point where his pictures were criticized by Bayeu he became embittered and returned to Madrid commissioning to paint
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portraits of the royal family. (“Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco Jose`.” Collier’s Encyclopedia. 11th Volume © Crowell-Collier Educational Corporation 1969, pg 278)
In 1998 Hirst became involved in a pop group, Fat Les is the group that recorded two singles. He is interestingly not only an artist. Damien Hirst won the Turner Prize for the third installation of the Pharmacy. His work is exhibited in Britain, Korea, U.S., Australia and countries all over Europe. He has worked on several side projects. Keith Allen is an acquaintance he works on them with. Not only is there Hirst’s Pharmacy, but a Pharmacy restaurant that it has turned into that has just a taste of Damien’s work. He did this with PR legend Mathew Freud until the sale of the restaurant came about. The Montana group then bought it. Damien Hirst Pharmacy can be watched on you tube. The August 1995 exhibit involves a dead cow and bull having sexual intercourse by means of a hydraulic device. Not preserved in formaldehyde this sickening piece was left to rot. Flies about, health officials were afraid that this project might explode because methane gasses might shatter the glass. This caused vomiting to some of the viewers so it likely was not one of his most popular. To Damien, these new, introduced ways were forms of art. To some, this was gross and not the traditional way of thinking. His interest in art beyond the conventional media encompasses paintings, sculptures, video and much more.(http://www.leninimports.com/damien_hirst.html) Damien Hirst was influenced in his art at age 16 by David Sylvester’s interviews with Francis Bacon. (http://www.guardian.co/uk/theguardian/2007/sep/13/greatinterviews1) (My way into art) It was
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stated that the interviews changed the “bushy-tailed, bright-eyed artist.” He mentions that he consumed the information much like consuming them “like a bible to a believer.” In the article, “My way into art,” he describes it as one of the first things he used that influenced his art that he didn’t have to get a dictionary just to figure out what it meant. This describes how the not only accurate and technical but precise artist took into account the research and information he connected to his art work. Francis Bacon influenced his early art. Finding his interviews he became interested in invention, accident, violence and abstraction. Not only did Damien try new and innovative ways of art but he really loved glass which is how it became part of many of his exhibits being it is transparent. The Pharmacy became about by the idea of confidence and trust in medicine. His pieces like Substitute Holidays, No Feelings and God are to be a paradox of the Western notion that medicine and chemicals being able to help a person to cheat death. He says, “You can only cure people for so long and then they’re going to die anyway. You can’t arrest decay, but these works suggest you can.”
Goya was responsible for many of the painting series called the “Disasters of War” Series. These were the most brutal of the guerilla war and Peninsular War and shows the truth of the brutality of the war he seen. Hirst was good at showing the truthfulness of death and the life of medicine. Each took drastic measures and Damien even went to non-traditional measures such as the dead cow rotting to draw a point about life and how it is eventually going to die after medicine is used to preserve it as much as possible. Francisco painted much of the brutality of war. Here is where each artist took an interest turn of similarity towards each other.
Damien uses shock as a relevant and formal element of design. Also, he likes to focus on the science of life. Filling his tanks of glass displays with Formaldehyde as a preservative he
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also has temporal spot paintings 650×546in. He collected dots from each of the people he had paint them and then displays them. Liking to shock his viewers because it gives him
pleasure as an artist he feels that if he does this, he has done a good job. He uses the cow’s open skull with flies and the fetus and intestines of a pregnant woman. Interestingly he links the pregnant women to the happiness and the horrors of pregnancy and also to his own personal experience of his wife’s pregnancy. This artist uses techniques that awes and makes the audiences mouth drop agape when looking at the patience and value that each of his pieces of work really have. Goya in contrast has art that some considered less full of life because he suffered through the stages and horrors of war. It being what impacted him the most and what he knew best he decided to highlight it. He chose black and whites in his war exhibits of the “Disasters of War Series.” He used a variety of water colors and techniques in the frozen country exhibits full of life and used duller colors for the court and the “Series.” The mouth in Goya’s art, more than anything else, gives off expressions of happiness, sadness, guilt, distress, and leer, gape, gap or grin. Hirst uses organic and representational displays. Also, he uses the painted dots as art for art’s sake and also has some connection to his other artwork in the Pharmacy. The dots represent his pills and each of them have been individually painted by other people. Observing subjectively, the art is intriguing, interesting and is full of vivacity or what you might say to be “life.” For the “Freeze” art exhibit special tanks of Formaldehyde are used in making still images relating to nature and having spatial significance. The dots by Hirst are temporal. Also they are kinetic and moving. Goya’s art seems to be frozen moments and stops in time or snap shots of the “Country Life” in Madrid Spain. There seems to be an emphasis on
the life also of the art then that inspired him in his watercolors. Although, with a rough
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background and some hardship, he produced some duller images of life and the way he felt or perceived things for the Spanish court. More than likely, his Country Life Frescoes had the proportionate scale and set the scene of a happy or gay life. There is balance in some of his older frescoes, but horridity and famine, violence and misery in his particular painting in our art book of the god, Saturn, eating his own son.
Presentation in Goya’s work was just as critiqued as Hirst’s work. In contrast though, Damien’s science provides a lot more patience. Hirst’s work is organized for presentation to other’s in a museum whereas Goya worked on several levels on his own, in schools, and then for the Spanish court so there had to have been some dullness or vulgarity in his scenes because of his environment concluding to the war and the courtroom. He also had commissions in which his artwork had a need to be vulgar in order to be fully understood by the viewer. Similarly both delighted in creation and both showed the true nature of some aspects of life in their artwork. Hirst with frozen images might have represented the vivacity of life for Goya it was the country life. Each used different techniques and one was water color while the other might have been temporal or something similar.
Cultural perspectives that probably influence Goya was likely the influence of court decisions, court scenes and his own experiences and learning lessons of those from his personal life. When criticized he was embittered so his artwork must have been the pride in his life. Damien had to have had interest in creation and the passion of love as his butterfly exhibit was called, “In and Out of Love,” which impressed me much. Damien used things that inspired him and narrated truth. Also, his work included jaw-dropping artifacts like the diamond skull with
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the teeth being the only thing leftover, “For the Love of God,” as it is called. (http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-artists/damien-hirst.htm) Hirst also uses hues, temperatures and chiaroscuro to the color scale of primary colors of reds, greens, yellows, blues and violets in other shades and hues such as red- and blue- violets. Both use psychological implications to produce a happy mood.
Each artist plays a vital role in the outcome of their work. Damien and Francisco both used themes of art in different ways. One documented the world after becoming deaf after his illness and the other still documents the world today. Goya from experience, witnessed the horrors of war and that is why also not all of his paintings are the happy Country life. Hirst still uses and invents new and innovative ways to document the world around him. Both used their imagination well. Each document the beautiful and sublime. They fit into social commentaries. Each fell well into the category of self-referencing art and universal truths. Goya likely has some evidences of the effects of war and politics in his more dreary pieces of work. The number of works by both artists connect to the outside world and live and shine without conflicting the space of one another by much. In contrast though, Hirst seemed to focus on the positivities of life. Naturally after becoming deaf, Goya focused on some of the politics in his life that changed life around him. This likely was the paintings he painted from his experiences afterwards. The happy scenes of the balanced “country life,” and “In and Out of Love,” compliment one another. The unhappier times for Goya where he connected the negative sides of war and politics were similar to the shark frozen exhibit by Hirst, called, “The Physical Impossibilities of Death.”
Thematic connections for rococo art would include the death of Louis XIV in 1715 in which afterward French life became exceptionally well. Whereas the taste was formed by
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societal women with real, covert, political power including Louis XV’s mistress. A French word derived from French rocailled, referring to small stones and shells that decorate interiors of
grottos, the artificial caves were popular in landscape design at the time. (A World of Art the sixth edition ©2010 by Pearson Education Inc. New York. Sayer, Henry) Thematic connections for Hirst would probably be the repetition in rap music where the diamond skull is used in Kanye West’s Video as modern art. Also, a theme of Hirst was to produce images that helped viewers and art appreciators understand the science of life. Goya’s thematic connection to viewers was to show the truth of the beauteous and ugly aspects of life. The historical relevance of the works of art is to display art to beautify and add value to the space around us in our every day environments and to add though much of like the work that is backed publicly by the National Endowment for the Arts. Truly then, Damien Hirst and Francisco Goya contributed awe-inspiring art.
"The Doll House" Drama
Jessica Gerlemann
Professor Harrell
En1333
2 November 2010
The play The Doll House has a very interesting message that applies to our day. Ibsen was the first father of drama to introduce realism of every day’s problems into his play. For example, in this particular play he focused very well on the social inequality of women around 1879-1891. The particular message of the play seemed to be that in a marriage and life nothing is perfect and a lot of things can seem unfair unless you learn from what happens to you and grow from it.
Torvald and Nora are two very different people. One is strict and well disciplined and the other is child-like and elegant. For instance, Nora is young-hearted, has big dreams, and wants to have a wonderful family life but chooses to leave to find out what she still needs to learn from the world. She considers this an obligation she owes to herself. In contrast, Torvald is a lawyer who believes a woman should remember her obligation to her family. He has strict morals that he sticks to and believes Nora should be the same way. Nora likes macaroons but Torvald actually restricts her from them. Although, they both love each other and their children very much, Nora chooses to split off from the family when the situation of difficulty arises.
There is unique symbolism in the Doll House that represents certain outcomes of the plot in the play. The tarantella, tambourine, and letters and the sit-down- discussion all represent certain outcomes that gradually unfold themselves. The tarantella is the dance that Nora prepares herself for and uses to distract her husband from the letter. The tarantella is the symbol of their last happiness together. The tambourine is like the wake-up call for Torvald that not everything is going to be perfect. The letters are the starting page for Torvald and Nora’s first real difficulties. The sit-down-discussion represents Nora’s freedom from being just a doll in a dollhouse and she vows to herself to find true knowledge before returning to her family.
The significance of the title Doll House speaks for itself. It is the fact that Nora is still being talked down to and overprotected that she never learns for herself. Her quote from the play actually says, “When I was little, I was my father’s doll. Now that I’m older I’m your doll and the children are my play dolls. I’ve got to find out for myself and be true to me to truly figure out what the world is like.” This quote is the starting point of Nora’s re-approach to ready herself for marriage life in hope of Torvald changing also.
There is an ironic quote that Ibsen incorporates into the drama of the Helmer’s lives. “It's a sweet little bird, but it gets through a terrible amount of money. You wouldn't believe how much it costs a man when he's got a little song-bird like you!” (Act I) This quote is ironic because even though Torvald thinks that Nora costs a lot. He is unaware of the secret that he costed more though. When Krogstad introduces the secret to Torvald he becomes furious with Nora and says a few harsh things immaturely and Nora decides to leave.
The screen adaptation as well as the play was interesting. I really liked how they showed Nora and Kristine skating in the snow in Norway. For example, they actually show the friendship of Kristine and Nora from the very beginning. They also show the background relationship break-up of Kristine and Krogstad. I also liked how they didn’t just put the whole play inside the Helmer house only indoors because it would have been a lot more boring. In the movie, the scenes actually take Nora outside the house and we get the chance to watch how each of them interacts. The flirtatious scene with Dr. Rank is still there but I also imagined it much differently from the movie. I also noticed that the relationship didn’t just seem slightly immature, it just seemed like it hit end-roads because the difficulties had arisen.
I believe the movie and the play was a very good representation of what the Victorian Age must have been like for women around that time. I agree with Torvald that Nora had obligations to her family, but, I also agree that Nora had the obligation to herself to learn and be on her own for once in her life. The Queen set the example and believed in women sticking to their duty but Ibsen introduced the true reality of the sacrificial role of women sometimes being unfair. It especially seems unfair if your husband is harsh with you for trying your best and making a mistake. I thought that there was slight immaturity on each spouse’s part that resulted in the break-up. I believe Torvald was too harsh and thrusted his opinion on Nora too much. I also believe that Nora needed to learn what the world was really like on her own and so she didn’t have to worry about making mistakes that could affect the lives of her husband and children. Nora needed to be her own person. In the end it was kind of tragic to watch them separate because they really were a cute couple. The thing is though, you can be really mature in a marriage and obstacles and difficulties still arise. That’s why it is so important to be truthful to one another in a marriage.
Professor Harrell
En1333
2 November 2010
The play The Doll House has a very interesting message that applies to our day. Ibsen was the first father of drama to introduce realism of every day’s problems into his play. For example, in this particular play he focused very well on the social inequality of women around 1879-1891. The particular message of the play seemed to be that in a marriage and life nothing is perfect and a lot of things can seem unfair unless you learn from what happens to you and grow from it.
Torvald and Nora are two very different people. One is strict and well disciplined and the other is child-like and elegant. For instance, Nora is young-hearted, has big dreams, and wants to have a wonderful family life but chooses to leave to find out what she still needs to learn from the world. She considers this an obligation she owes to herself. In contrast, Torvald is a lawyer who believes a woman should remember her obligation to her family. He has strict morals that he sticks to and believes Nora should be the same way. Nora likes macaroons but Torvald actually restricts her from them. Although, they both love each other and their children very much, Nora chooses to split off from the family when the situation of difficulty arises.
There is unique symbolism in the Doll House that represents certain outcomes of the plot in the play. The tarantella, tambourine, and letters and the sit-down- discussion all represent certain outcomes that gradually unfold themselves. The tarantella is the dance that Nora prepares herself for and uses to distract her husband from the letter. The tarantella is the symbol of their last happiness together. The tambourine is like the wake-up call for Torvald that not everything is going to be perfect. The letters are the starting page for Torvald and Nora’s first real difficulties. The sit-down-discussion represents Nora’s freedom from being just a doll in a dollhouse and she vows to herself to find true knowledge before returning to her family.
The significance of the title Doll House speaks for itself. It is the fact that Nora is still being talked down to and overprotected that she never learns for herself. Her quote from the play actually says, “When I was little, I was my father’s doll. Now that I’m older I’m your doll and the children are my play dolls. I’ve got to find out for myself and be true to me to truly figure out what the world is like.” This quote is the starting point of Nora’s re-approach to ready herself for marriage life in hope of Torvald changing also.
There is an ironic quote that Ibsen incorporates into the drama of the Helmer’s lives. “It's a sweet little bird, but it gets through a terrible amount of money. You wouldn't believe how much it costs a man when he's got a little song-bird like you!” (Act I) This quote is ironic because even though Torvald thinks that Nora costs a lot. He is unaware of the secret that he costed more though. When Krogstad introduces the secret to Torvald he becomes furious with Nora and says a few harsh things immaturely and Nora decides to leave.
The screen adaptation as well as the play was interesting. I really liked how they showed Nora and Kristine skating in the snow in Norway. For example, they actually show the friendship of Kristine and Nora from the very beginning. They also show the background relationship break-up of Kristine and Krogstad. I also liked how they didn’t just put the whole play inside the Helmer house only indoors because it would have been a lot more boring. In the movie, the scenes actually take Nora outside the house and we get the chance to watch how each of them interacts. The flirtatious scene with Dr. Rank is still there but I also imagined it much differently from the movie. I also noticed that the relationship didn’t just seem slightly immature, it just seemed like it hit end-roads because the difficulties had arisen.
I believe the movie and the play was a very good representation of what the Victorian Age must have been like for women around that time. I agree with Torvald that Nora had obligations to her family, but, I also agree that Nora had the obligation to herself to learn and be on her own for once in her life. The Queen set the example and believed in women sticking to their duty but Ibsen introduced the true reality of the sacrificial role of women sometimes being unfair. It especially seems unfair if your husband is harsh with you for trying your best and making a mistake. I thought that there was slight immaturity on each spouse’s part that resulted in the break-up. I believe Torvald was too harsh and thrusted his opinion on Nora too much. I also believe that Nora needed to learn what the world was really like on her own and so she didn’t have to worry about making mistakes that could affect the lives of her husband and children. Nora needed to be her own person. In the end it was kind of tragic to watch them separate because they really were a cute couple. The thing is though, you can be really mature in a marriage and obstacles and difficulties still arise. That’s why it is so important to be truthful to one another in a marriage.
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