At here, Shakespeare use imagery, make us clearly what’s going on . Let us imaging how terrible it is. It also shows us how Claudius killed hamlet. We can see the process in that scene. We can know that’s very important, because the author on purpose make us imaging that scene we can know why is the sad story we knew how the reason could cause the whole action of hamlet. We would see the Claudius in hamlet’s view.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Notebook Entry
That swift as quicksilver it course through the natural gates and alleys of the body And with a sudden vigor it dothand curd, like eager droppings into mike, the thin and wholesome blood. So did it mine. And a most in stand tatter barked about, most Lazar-like with vile and loathsome crust all my smooth body.
At here, Shakespeare use imagery, make us clearly what’s going on . Let us imaging how terrible it is. It also shows us how Claudius killed hamlet. We can see the process in that scene. We can know that’s very important, because the author on purpose make us imaging that scene we can know why is the sad story we knew how the reason could cause the whole action of hamlet. We would see the Claudius in hamlet’s view.
At here, Shakespeare use imagery, make us clearly what’s going on . Let us imaging how terrible it is. It also shows us how Claudius killed hamlet. We can see the process in that scene. We can know that’s very important, because the author on purpose make us imaging that scene we can know why is the sad story we knew how the reason could cause the whole action of hamlet. We would see the Claudius in hamlet’s view.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
college essay
Enjoy to facing
I was standing on a Cape Cod beach. In the hot day and surrounded by the sea stretch as far as the eye can see. The quiet place blows a blast of wind. I saw the wide of the sea. I enjoyed the nature. I felt I was so tiny. Suddenly, I realized that I have to dedicate my life to know knowledge as much as I can. In addition, fishing taught me several valuable lessons that will make me interesting in the process of solve problem.
At first, I have to pass a few places to find a good one. It is very hard to walk on the beach. When I arrive at my destination, I immediately feel the place is so different. There were many fish in there. I realized that I must begin with knowledge that may be not directly illustrate and confuse. However, the knowledge will be known when insist.
The fishing makes me to remember my life. As an immigrant I am. When I came to United state I realized how important the English it is. I know my English level close zero. I abhor myself that I didn’t work hard in English in China. I am good at Math. I like to calculate many things before I do. Include my life. I always calculate my life. I calculate what I get when I do something. In China, when I learned English I felt very hard. I didn’t get it at all. I tried to avoid it. I calculate it about the English that I can not get the high grade. I don’t want fail. I focus on the other subject.
When I step in school of United State, I realized I got a wrong calculation. I can not avoid the English any more. I have to face it. I learn it 1 year and half. I discovered more mistakes I got the more knowledge I got. In the learning English I enjoy fail. I enjoy making a mistake. I don’t afraid to learn English and more. At the time, I realized that I will suffer many problems in the future. But I’ll never give up. I’ll face it. I’ll enjoy my mistake.
I was still fishing on Cape Cod beach. I was so rapture at that time. I was happy not because I got many fish, because I enjoyed the process of fishing. I enjoy the life. I’ll face my problem until forever.
I was standing on a Cape Cod beach. In the hot day and surrounded by the sea stretch as far as the eye can see. The quiet place blows a blast of wind. I saw the wide of the sea. I enjoyed the nature. I felt I was so tiny. Suddenly, I realized that I have to dedicate my life to know knowledge as much as I can. In addition, fishing taught me several valuable lessons that will make me interesting in the process of solve problem.
At first, I have to pass a few places to find a good one. It is very hard to walk on the beach. When I arrive at my destination, I immediately feel the place is so different. There were many fish in there. I realized that I must begin with knowledge that may be not directly illustrate and confuse. However, the knowledge will be known when insist.
The fishing makes me to remember my life. As an immigrant I am. When I came to United state I realized how important the English it is. I know my English level close zero. I abhor myself that I didn’t work hard in English in China. I am good at Math. I like to calculate many things before I do. Include my life. I always calculate my life. I calculate what I get when I do something. In China, when I learned English I felt very hard. I didn’t get it at all. I tried to avoid it. I calculate it about the English that I can not get the high grade. I don’t want fail. I focus on the other subject.
When I step in school of United State, I realized I got a wrong calculation. I can not avoid the English any more. I have to face it. I learn it 1 year and half. I discovered more mistakes I got the more knowledge I got. In the learning English I enjoy fail. I enjoy making a mistake. I don’t afraid to learn English and more. At the time, I realized that I will suffer many problems in the future. But I’ll never give up. I’ll face it. I’ll enjoy my mistake.
I was still fishing on Cape Cod beach. I was so rapture at that time. I was happy not because I got many fish, because I enjoyed the process of fishing. I enjoy the life. I’ll face my problem until forever.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
In the story of Hamlet by William Shakespeare, there are the very famous speeches of all the time. Especially, the line “To be or not to be” (3:1 line 64) that is the most important in the text. That was decided what he would do. A lot of people are still using this sentence today. It made us fell the people who said these sentences are sad. It was also showed us that the person was confused. In the video were acted difference from Kenneth Branagh, Alexander Fodor, and Laurence Olivier. We could see they performed so difference. This speech could express what hamlet’s feeling at that time. We could through the tone and the attitude to criticize the actor performed is good or not. In the video by Kenneth Branagh, he acted before the mirror. I thought that was very propriety as what the hamlet did, because hamlet was asking the question by himself. The mirror was reflected himself. He could ask any question, and the shadow in the mirror was liked listening. That made us thought hamlet was talking to himself. He was confusing what should he does. At the other way, the tone of Kenneth Branagh was also propriety. It was slowly and deep. It made the audience feel the pain in hamlet. In the video by Alexander Fodor, I thought the video inaccurate, especially in this speech. Alexander Fodor speaks too fast. It doesn’t make the audience feel the hamlet was in painful. It also sat there. It doesn’t have a feeling as hamlet in pain. In the video by Laurence Olivier, it also showed it was a good video. I thought that is the good video because there was the good setting. It showed us hamlet was standing before the sea. It also showed hamlet was deciding should live or not live. It also let the audience thought the situation in hamlet. In the book, hamlet thought of commit suicide. “Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles. And, by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep-“(3, 1, 65-68) He was confusing what should he does. It was hard to decide. In the video by Kenneth Branagh, I thought he was act very well. He was staring his shadow in the mirror. He was thinking about himself. It was corresponded the book. The speech was taking to him. If he stared to the shadow in the mirror that was correct. In the video by Alexander Fodor, I don’t think that can show the audience everything about the hamlet, because the light was very bright. It doesn’t feel the pain. And he was speaking very fast. I also thought his emotion was not the hamlet did. In the video by Laurence Olivier, it showed us the good setting as the book “ or to take arms against a sea of troubles.”(3:1 67) That was propriety what the book said. Even though it had showed us the good setting, but compare to the video by Kenneth Branagh, I thought the video by Kenneth Branagh is better. Hamlet only talked to himself. He only used the figure of speech. In the video by Kenneth Branagh, the speech was going on until the line “When he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?” (3:1 83-84) hamlet took out his knife and appoint to the mirror. Suddenly, the picture was showed the king shock. Hamlet was getting closer to the mirror. That was showed us that hamlet would make the king surprise. The also means the king had felt the terrible from hamlet. The music at that time was also terrible. It made us following the direction by hamlet. When the speech goes on, hamlet was getting closer to the mirror. It was like hamlet go to find out the king after the mirror. It also could reflect to the book. I like the video by Kenneth Branagh because Kenneth Branagh could perfectly control the tone. He also showed us his speaking skill. He was standing in front of the mirror. He was facing himself. He also could perfect express what the hamlet did. He just showed his feeling as he experienced what the hamlet experienced. He could properly strong his voice, and controlled the speed. He made us to following his direction. We could also following the direction of the emotion. At the beginning, I wonder how the setting could was only set by the mirror, but until I watched the whole story and compare to the other two video. I thought the mirror was the most important to be setting. After I understand the whole story, I knew he was talking to himself. He was confusing. He could not make a decision. He could talk to his spirit. And the mirror can reflect him. That was as the spirit as the shadow comes out to the audience’s eyes. We could follow his tone and got more than the book. I also think about the costumes of hamlet. It was like the modern noble gentleman. The light was darkness. It made us feel dark in hamlet’s heart. All in all, I thought the video let me think hamlet will showed me how to effect to the king coming soon. Through the tone I can believe that hamlet would suffer the terrible thing before he accomplishes his revenge. I also can think about the king live hard after that, because he was shocking when hamlet took out the knife. He would worry about hamlet revenge. I think that Kenneth Branagh did a great job in re-enacting the scene from the act three scene one. I think he was success to fulfill the character of hamlet. He performed action more than I can image. It also made me more clearly about the story of hamlet. That was why I think the video by Kenneth Branagh was better than the other two people acted.
In Alex Katz’s artworks, there is always express himself through drawing, painting, etc. We can see his situation through the painting, like the “lilies against yellow wall” and “the moose” which may cause by his muse. In his early work the characters and objects shows his feelings. Placing his emotions into his work, he can only paint when he feels a certain way. The similarities in this painting, gives the audience a look into how he feels. The setting of the snow mountain and the yellow glass are feeling sad. In the painting of “the moose” relate to the many of others he painted by the objects. Each object has showed his situation at that time. “The moose” is a simple when looked at but holds many meanings for the painter. It also can see what kind of experience he suffers.
Alex Katz painted the “The moose” on 1983. The pose of the moose would make the reader wonder. The buns of moose were showed in front of the picture which I took notice of. “At a fairly early point he arrived at his signature blending of figure, landscape and abstraction -- not too suave, not too rough, a little goofy, a touch melancholic -- and he has stayed with it.” (Holland 1) The buns are one of the most important parts in the picture. It would make the reader confuse and would think how come this picture would exist. The artist didn’t make the buns of the moose clearly. It was hard to realize it is a moose in the first sight until see the head of the moose. The artist used the raw umber color on the top. And it made it darker and darker when the eyes move towards down. I can’t picture brown, but I can picture the umber color. And the color was showed the artist was very softly and gently to draw that place. Through this color can’t see the shape at all. Just the few lines made very real. The other reason make the reader thought real because the tail is prominent. The color was the same as the buns. The color was increasing different. We still could see the lighter color in the medium of the dark. We can know the artist made the lighter color first, and then cover the dark color.In the back of the moose, it draws by the ghost white and the plum color. It showed the age of moose was old. It is hard to picture these colors on the back of the moose. It liked the snow on the back. It also displayed the cold weather. And let the reader feel painfulness. In that weather, it would made reader to sympathize the moose. We could through these to think about the feeling of the artist at that time. It showed the artist also has some painful in his heart. The shapes on the back like the eagle stretch its plumage cover on the moose. It showed the moose want to has the plumage and fly away. The eye of the eagle was sharp. The tail of the eagle is the same place on the tail of the moose. The ghost white and the shapes of the color are obviously separate the eagle and the moose. The line of the feather is decreasing when is going down the picture. It showed very real because the size of the eagle is correspond the standard of the eagle. The expression of the eagle is also showed very real. “Katz manages to efface whatever opinions he might have in service to a formal,” (Lennie 5)The one of most attract and catch the reader’s sight may be the eye of the moose. It almost set on the center of the picture. The little rectangle enclose by the white color, it display the spirit of the moose. The litter rectangle was surrounded by ivory black. At the edge of the eye, the artist made a little gray color lighter and lighter reflect the angle of the ray. It showed particularity detail. It could prove the artist was concentrated on that time. It also showed the propriety mix.The hole of the nose is also worth while to pay attention on. Perhaps the most reader wouldn’t see the hole of the nose, but the artist made it bigger than used to. It used the brick color to show the clear menu. There are many black spot cover on the brick color. It showed the ray shine different, and the distant between moose and people. “it is about surface appearance, figuration edited down to a purity that flirts with abstraction but never crosses over.” (Lennie 2) It also considered the limit of the human being eyesight. In the clear menu contain the paste. We could see the wise skill of the artist. May the reader would think why the horns so big and how come the color is so oddball. Is it the most important thing as the thing in the head? When we were still focusing on the horns, we can see the horns like the tree. The tree is very important at this place. We couldn’t see any tree but the shadow in the lake. That could let us thought the moose couldn’t leave there. It belongs to there. We also could think the artist has some thing want to do, but he couldn’t accomplish it.During looking at the moose, the yellow thing may catch our sight. Let us follow it down and think what it is. When we distract and focus on the yellow thing we could see that is the glass. It already is yellow. At that situation, it may tell us it is fall and is going to winter. It made us slop over. The winter always made people felt bad. It would remind the reader the pity thing or bad memory or so on. We could think the artist has some unhappy thing in his mind. “straightforward depiction that manages to be both cerebral and approachable.” (Lennie 5) He also wanted to show us that he has the bad situation in his live. There still have some sea green dark color and white color mix in the yellow grass. The shapes of the grass are point to the moose. It looks as the moose made them be yellow and wilted them. At here, the artist express his live is dark. It displayed he did something wrong. At the back of the moose, there is the lake and mountains were drawn by steel blue and steel blue light. It is hard to believe the sky such dark. It doesn’t have any green color on the mountain. It doesn’t have anything on the mountain but stone. It means it doesn’t have any tree on the mountain. It showed it doesn’t have any energy on this place. It likes anything will be end soon. The color of the sky could tell us the time close to dark. That day is close to end. “It's a romantic, melancholy moment in the woods,”(Lennie 9) It doesn’t have delight thing. At this point, we could know the artist already be old man. He felt his live doesn’t have delight thing as young any more. He felt his live is grey. He also made us feel that he will be end.
Art is a way for a person to express the artist what they know about the world and what he think about the world through drawing, painting, dancing, etc, or a combination. Alex Katz holds true to this, he paints for his wife and no other, as his emotions belong to him. He likes to paint his friends and family. “his wife and muse” (Kathryn 1) It has tell us how important paint his wife. It would relate to muse. Just like “The black dress” and “Ada with Nose”, it has show us Alex Katz drew his wife on different angle and expand bigger to view. Alex Katz paints his wife particular on every part.
Alex Katz paints “The black dress” on 1960 with oil. The black on Alex Katz’s wife was fit her which I took notice of. We can see the black color on the dress cover whole body. The black color made the painting darkness. It also makes the other place more obviously. It would make the view wonder. It would guess the artist is on purpose to cover something. We are hard to see how his wife’s figure is. Was Alex Katz on purpose? “It is a fine balance, and one that has guaranteed her longevity as a subject.” (Faye 2) It had told us that Alex Katz want to cover his wife’s age. He wants his wife keep the same figure. But the people must be old. He can not change the fact. The only thing he can do is paint her down on the paper. It would keep it forever. At here, we can see that Alex Katz will cheat himself. He doesn’t want to accept the natural condition.
When the eyes keep look on the Alex Katz’s wife, we could see the different pose from her. It is hard illuminate what she was doing. "Ada," as Alex has painted her, is more than a person, as the best portrait personas usually are. (Faye 2) How the people look on is different. Her hand and her leg create the different expression. There are no different pose are alike. Just looking at her hair, it is also different some is look denser than some. It had told us that the Alex Katz’s wife at different period. It was the different age. It had told us that Alex Katz very love his wife. No matter how old she was.
The most eye-catching point in the painting is the man who is on the right. It is also is as the picture on the painting. All pictures are drawn in Alex Katz’s wife. In the picture of that man suppose it is Alex Katz. Alex Katz is looking on his wife’s different pose. He also looked his wife on different period. It could express Alex Katz care for his wife every time. He also cares for his wife every change. It had told the viewer he love his wife more than everyone. But Alex Katz is not a real person in the painting. He drew himself as the picture in the painting. It could represent he was separated a distant from her. His wife only can do something for him as look at the picture.
Much is learned from Ada's clothing and her general look, which places her unequivocally in each decade of the era covered. Katz's rather empirical American approach, with observations gleaned from what is immediately at hand, and a tidy, almost proper sense of what is fit to show, sets him worlds apart from Picasso and other European avant-gardists, with their psychically charged, erotic portraits of multiple paramours. (Faye, 3)
In this painting, Katz cordons off a cultural space in which this elegant woman is an object of esthetic appreciation--from many different angles--though not particularly an object of overt desire. The color of the cordon is yellow. Yellow is the color that would catch the viewer’s attention as the traffic light why use on the cross street. Alex Katz was on purpose to show cordon, and let the view know that is one person. That’s was his wife.
In the first expression of the painting, it looked like the camera in the middle, and took the picture of them. The light in the middle is brighter than two sides. It looks like a dream. How could six the same people stand together. The dream about the same person at the different age gets it together. Alex Katz thinks that he would do his subject no matter what. “found my subject matter and a reason to devote my life to painting,'' he has written.” (Grace)
The “black dress” may imply that Alex Katz is not satisfied with the people will be old, especially in his wife. He needs to draw it down on the paper. The painting can be interpreted in two different ways; he wants to watch his wife forever and draw his wife. The other way is his wife watch him and is waiting for him at different period. In fact, everything in the world is running. It would never stop. Even though the “black dress” can cover up some of the change, but it can’t cover up the whole change.
The third painting is “Ada and Alex” also done with oil between 1980. In the painting, the first thing that caught my eyes was the man who is Alex. The age of Alex Katz is younger than right now. He is 82 years old at this year. The color on Alex Katz is displayed young. But he didn’t smile. It showed Alex Katz is cool. “Everyone in Katz's world is a cool cat.”(Lennie 12) Include Alex Katz himself. He also made himself be a part of the painting. He made himself cooler than everyone that he drew. He wears the business suit as something formal. His head is lean some angle. It showed he cares his space less than he cares his wife. He wife set on the middle. The most part occupy by his wife. It had told us his wife is most important in his life. “his wife and muse” (Kathryn, 1) His wife as the muse in his artwork. He would think his wife when he was drawing the picture. That is a reason why he likes to portrait of the people, especially in his wife.
The woman on the left is Alex Katz’s wife. In the first impression in the painting is there is a woman smile. Why Ada was smiling?” We don't know why she's smiling when she does, or at whom, if anyone.”(Faye 9) Maybe Alex Katz thinks Ada in his heart is the good person who can make him happy. She can make many great time in Alex Katz’s memory. Ada’s head raise little bit as she needs to look at the far distant. It made us think about there is something we don’t know. There is a secret in her mind.” the slightly upturned corners of her mouth make her look as though she is keeping a secret.”(Faye 10) Nobody knows what’s in her mind except Alex Katz.
Look at the painting specifics, there is no setting on the painting. It has showed Alex Katz can not get the other be important in his world. His world only Ada is enough. As the note in the biography of Alex Katz, he is born in New York. His world suppose there is various in his mind.
The most interesting is Ada’s clothing and her look. Much is learned from Ada's clothing and her general look, which places her unequivocally in each decade of the era covered. Katz's rather empirical American approach, with observations gleaned from what is immediately at hand, and a tidy, almost proper sense of what is fit to show, sets him worlds apart from Picasso and other European avant-gardists, with their psychically charged, erotic portraits of multiple paramours. (Faye, 3)
Through his years of painting, Alex Katz as a portrait artist expresses himself by the painting what he wants to paint. What he sees in his friends and his wife. He tries to show his painting to the audience what he thinks. In the “black dress” and “Ada and Alex Katz”, there is a pattern has tell the audience that Ada is the most important person in his world.
Alex Katz painted the “The moose” on 1983. The pose of the moose would make the reader wonder. The buns of moose were showed in front of the picture which I took notice of. “At a fairly early point he arrived at his signature blending of figure, landscape and abstraction -- not too suave, not too rough, a little goofy, a touch melancholic -- and he has stayed with it.” (Holland 1) The buns are one of the most important parts in the picture. It would make the reader confuse and would think how come this picture would exist. The artist didn’t make the buns of the moose clearly. It was hard to realize it is a moose in the first sight until see the head of the moose. The artist used the raw umber color on the top. And it made it darker and darker when the eyes move towards down. I can’t picture brown, but I can picture the umber color. And the color was showed the artist was very softly and gently to draw that place. Through this color can’t see the shape at all. Just the few lines made very real. The other reason make the reader thought real because the tail is prominent. The color was the same as the buns. The color was increasing different. We still could see the lighter color in the medium of the dark. We can know the artist made the lighter color first, and then cover the dark color.In the back of the moose, it draws by the ghost white and the plum color. It showed the age of moose was old. It is hard to picture these colors on the back of the moose. It liked the snow on the back. It also displayed the cold weather. And let the reader feel painfulness. In that weather, it would made reader to sympathize the moose. We could through these to think about the feeling of the artist at that time. It showed the artist also has some painful in his heart. The shapes on the back like the eagle stretch its plumage cover on the moose. It showed the moose want to has the plumage and fly away. The eye of the eagle was sharp. The tail of the eagle is the same place on the tail of the moose. The ghost white and the shapes of the color are obviously separate the eagle and the moose. The line of the feather is decreasing when is going down the picture. It showed very real because the size of the eagle is correspond the standard of the eagle. The expression of the eagle is also showed very real. “Katz manages to efface whatever opinions he might have in service to a formal,” (Lennie 5)The one of most attract and catch the reader’s sight may be the eye of the moose. It almost set on the center of the picture. The little rectangle enclose by the white color, it display the spirit of the moose. The litter rectangle was surrounded by ivory black. At the edge of the eye, the artist made a little gray color lighter and lighter reflect the angle of the ray. It showed particularity detail. It could prove the artist was concentrated on that time. It also showed the propriety mix.The hole of the nose is also worth while to pay attention on. Perhaps the most reader wouldn’t see the hole of the nose, but the artist made it bigger than used to. It used the brick color to show the clear menu. There are many black spot cover on the brick color. It showed the ray shine different, and the distant between moose and people. “it is about surface appearance, figuration edited down to a purity that flirts with abstraction but never crosses over.” (Lennie 2) It also considered the limit of the human being eyesight. In the clear menu contain the paste. We could see the wise skill of the artist. May the reader would think why the horns so big and how come the color is so oddball. Is it the most important thing as the thing in the head? When we were still focusing on the horns, we can see the horns like the tree. The tree is very important at this place. We couldn’t see any tree but the shadow in the lake. That could let us thought the moose couldn’t leave there. It belongs to there. We also could think the artist has some thing want to do, but he couldn’t accomplish it.During looking at the moose, the yellow thing may catch our sight. Let us follow it down and think what it is. When we distract and focus on the yellow thing we could see that is the glass. It already is yellow. At that situation, it may tell us it is fall and is going to winter. It made us slop over. The winter always made people felt bad. It would remind the reader the pity thing or bad memory or so on. We could think the artist has some unhappy thing in his mind. “straightforward depiction that manages to be both cerebral and approachable.” (Lennie 5) He also wanted to show us that he has the bad situation in his live. There still have some sea green dark color and white color mix in the yellow grass. The shapes of the grass are point to the moose. It looks as the moose made them be yellow and wilted them. At here, the artist express his live is dark. It displayed he did something wrong. At the back of the moose, there is the lake and mountains were drawn by steel blue and steel blue light. It is hard to believe the sky such dark. It doesn’t have any green color on the mountain. It doesn’t have anything on the mountain but stone. It means it doesn’t have any tree on the mountain. It showed it doesn’t have any energy on this place. It likes anything will be end soon. The color of the sky could tell us the time close to dark. That day is close to end. “It's a romantic, melancholy moment in the woods,”(Lennie 9) It doesn’t have delight thing. At this point, we could know the artist already be old man. He felt his live doesn’t have delight thing as young any more. He felt his live is grey. He also made us feel that he will be end.
Art is a way for a person to express the artist what they know about the world and what he think about the world through drawing, painting, dancing, etc, or a combination. Alex Katz holds true to this, he paints for his wife and no other, as his emotions belong to him. He likes to paint his friends and family. “his wife and muse” (Kathryn 1) It has tell us how important paint his wife. It would relate to muse. Just like “The black dress” and “Ada with Nose”, it has show us Alex Katz drew his wife on different angle and expand bigger to view. Alex Katz paints his wife particular on every part.
Alex Katz paints “The black dress” on 1960 with oil. The black on Alex Katz’s wife was fit her which I took notice of. We can see the black color on the dress cover whole body. The black color made the painting darkness. It also makes the other place more obviously. It would make the view wonder. It would guess the artist is on purpose to cover something. We are hard to see how his wife’s figure is. Was Alex Katz on purpose? “It is a fine balance, and one that has guaranteed her longevity as a subject.” (Faye 2) It had told us that Alex Katz want to cover his wife’s age. He wants his wife keep the same figure. But the people must be old. He can not change the fact. The only thing he can do is paint her down on the paper. It would keep it forever. At here, we can see that Alex Katz will cheat himself. He doesn’t want to accept the natural condition.
When the eyes keep look on the Alex Katz’s wife, we could see the different pose from her. It is hard illuminate what she was doing. "Ada," as Alex has painted her, is more than a person, as the best portrait personas usually are. (Faye 2) How the people look on is different. Her hand and her leg create the different expression. There are no different pose are alike. Just looking at her hair, it is also different some is look denser than some. It had told us that the Alex Katz’s wife at different period. It was the different age. It had told us that Alex Katz very love his wife. No matter how old she was.
The most eye-catching point in the painting is the man who is on the right. It is also is as the picture on the painting. All pictures are drawn in Alex Katz’s wife. In the picture of that man suppose it is Alex Katz. Alex Katz is looking on his wife’s different pose. He also looked his wife on different period. It could express Alex Katz care for his wife every time. He also cares for his wife every change. It had told the viewer he love his wife more than everyone. But Alex Katz is not a real person in the painting. He drew himself as the picture in the painting. It could represent he was separated a distant from her. His wife only can do something for him as look at the picture.
Much is learned from Ada's clothing and her general look, which places her unequivocally in each decade of the era covered. Katz's rather empirical American approach, with observations gleaned from what is immediately at hand, and a tidy, almost proper sense of what is fit to show, sets him worlds apart from Picasso and other European avant-gardists, with their psychically charged, erotic portraits of multiple paramours. (Faye, 3)
In this painting, Katz cordons off a cultural space in which this elegant woman is an object of esthetic appreciation--from many different angles--though not particularly an object of overt desire. The color of the cordon is yellow. Yellow is the color that would catch the viewer’s attention as the traffic light why use on the cross street. Alex Katz was on purpose to show cordon, and let the view know that is one person. That’s was his wife.
In the first expression of the painting, it looked like the camera in the middle, and took the picture of them. The light in the middle is brighter than two sides. It looks like a dream. How could six the same people stand together. The dream about the same person at the different age gets it together. Alex Katz thinks that he would do his subject no matter what. “found my subject matter and a reason to devote my life to painting,'' he has written.” (Grace)
The “black dress” may imply that Alex Katz is not satisfied with the people will be old, especially in his wife. He needs to draw it down on the paper. The painting can be interpreted in two different ways; he wants to watch his wife forever and draw his wife. The other way is his wife watch him and is waiting for him at different period. In fact, everything in the world is running. It would never stop. Even though the “black dress” can cover up some of the change, but it can’t cover up the whole change.
The third painting is “Ada and Alex” also done with oil between 1980. In the painting, the first thing that caught my eyes was the man who is Alex. The age of Alex Katz is younger than right now. He is 82 years old at this year. The color on Alex Katz is displayed young. But he didn’t smile. It showed Alex Katz is cool. “Everyone in Katz's world is a cool cat.”(Lennie 12) Include Alex Katz himself. He also made himself be a part of the painting. He made himself cooler than everyone that he drew. He wears the business suit as something formal. His head is lean some angle. It showed he cares his space less than he cares his wife. He wife set on the middle. The most part occupy by his wife. It had told us his wife is most important in his life. “his wife and muse” (Kathryn, 1) His wife as the muse in his artwork. He would think his wife when he was drawing the picture. That is a reason why he likes to portrait of the people, especially in his wife.
The woman on the left is Alex Katz’s wife. In the first impression in the painting is there is a woman smile. Why Ada was smiling?” We don't know why she's smiling when she does, or at whom, if anyone.”(Faye 9) Maybe Alex Katz thinks Ada in his heart is the good person who can make him happy. She can make many great time in Alex Katz’s memory. Ada’s head raise little bit as she needs to look at the far distant. It made us think about there is something we don’t know. There is a secret in her mind.” the slightly upturned corners of her mouth make her look as though she is keeping a secret.”(Faye 10) Nobody knows what’s in her mind except Alex Katz.
Look at the painting specifics, there is no setting on the painting. It has showed Alex Katz can not get the other be important in his world. His world only Ada is enough. As the note in the biography of Alex Katz, he is born in New York. His world suppose there is various in his mind.
The most interesting is Ada’s clothing and her look. Much is learned from Ada's clothing and her general look, which places her unequivocally in each decade of the era covered. Katz's rather empirical American approach, with observations gleaned from what is immediately at hand, and a tidy, almost proper sense of what is fit to show, sets him worlds apart from Picasso and other European avant-gardists, with their psychically charged, erotic portraits of multiple paramours. (Faye, 3)
Through his years of painting, Alex Katz as a portrait artist expresses himself by the painting what he wants to paint. What he sees in his friends and his wife. He tries to show his painting to the audience what he thinks. In the “black dress” and “Ada and Alex Katz”, there is a pattern has tell the audience that Ada is the most important person in his world.
“moose”
In the painting of the moose by the artist Alex Katz, it showed the reader the moose in front of the mountain and lake. The pose of the moose would make the reader wonder. The buns of moose were showed in front of the picture. The buns are one of the most important parts in the picture. It would make the reader confuse and would think how come this picture would exist. The artist didn’t make the buns of the moose clearly. It was hard to realize it is a moose in the first sight until see the head of the moose. The artist used the raw umber color on the top. And it made it darker and darker when is going down. I can’t picture brown, but I can picture the umber color. And the color was showed the artist was very softly and gently to draw that place. Through this color can’t see the shape at all. Just the few lines made very real. The other reason make the reader thought real because the tail is prominent. The color was the same as the buns. The color was increasing different. We still could see the lighter color in the medium of the dark. We can know the artist made the lighter color first, and then cover the dark color.In the back of the moose, it draws by the ghost white and the plum color. It showed the age of moose was old. It is hard to picture these colors on the back of the moose. It liked the snow on the back. It also displayed the cold weather. And let the reader feel painfulness. In that weather, it would made reader to sympathize the moose. We could through these to think about the feeling of the artist at that time. It showed the artist also has some painful in his heart. The shapes on the back like the eagle stretch its plumage cover on the moose. It showed the moose want to has the plumage and fly away. The eye of the eagle was sharp. The tail of the eagle is the same place on the tail of the moose. The ghost white and the shapes of the color are obviously separate the eagle and the moose. The line of the feather is decreasing when is going down the picture. It showed very real because the size of the eagle is correspond the standard of the eagle. The expression of the eagle is also showed very real.The one of most attract and catch the reader’s sight may be the eye of the moose. It almost set on the center of the picture. The little rectangle enclose by the white color, it display the spirit of the moose. The litter rectangle was surrounded by ivory black. At the edge of the eye, the artist made a little gray color lighter and lighter reflect the angle of the ray. It showed particularity detail. It could prove the artist was concentrated on that time. It also showed the propriety mix.The hole of the nose is also worth while to pay attention on. Perhaps the most reader wouldn’t see the hole of the nose, but the artist made it bigger than used to. It used the brick color to show the clear menu. There are many black spot cover on the brick color. It showed the ray shine different, and the distant between moose and people. It also considered the limit of the human being eyesight. In the clear menu contain the paste. We could see the wise skill of the artist. May the reader would think why the horns so big and how come the color is so oddball. Is it the most important thing as the thing in the head? When we were still focusing on the horns, we can see the horns like the tree. The tree is very important at this place. We couldn’t see any tree but the shadow in the lake. That could let us thought the moose couldn’t leave there. It belongs to there. We also could think the artist has some thing want to do, but he couldn’t accomplish it.During looking at the moose, the yellow thing may catch our sight. Let us follow it down and think what it is. When we distract and focus on the yellow thing we could see that is the glass. It already is yellow. At that situation, it may tell us it is fall and is going to winter. It made us slop over. The winter always made people felt bad. It would remind the reader the pity thing or bad memory or so on. We could think the artist has some unhappy thing in his mind. He also wanted to show us that he has the bad situation in his live. There still have some sea green dark color and white color mix in the yellow grass. The shapes of the grass are point to the moose. It looks as the moose made them be yellow and wilted them. At here, the artist express his live is dark. It displayed he did something wrong. At the back of the moose, there is the lake and mountains were drawn by steel blue and steel blue light. It is hard to believe the sky such dark. It doesn’t have any green color on the mountain. It doesn’t have anything on the mountain but stone. It means it doesn’t have any tree on the mountain. It showed it doesn’t have any energy on this place. It likes anything will be end soon. The color of the sky could tell us the time close to dark. That day is close to end. It doesn’t have delight thing. At this point, we could know the artist already be old man. He felt his live doesn’t have delight thing as young any more. He felt his live is grey. He also made us feel that he will be end.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Rongliang, Lei
Ryan Gallagher
English 12 CP, Period 6
06 March 2009
Portrait painting Alex Katz
Alex Katz is an American figural artist associated with the Pop art movement. In particular, he is known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints. Internationally recognized painter and printmaker Alex Katz was born in 1927 in Brooklyn, New York. A retrospective of his paintings was shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1986. In 1988 the Brooklyn Museum exhibited his prints. The Saatchi Collection in London presented a 25-year survey of his paintings in 1998. This interview with Alex Katz took place in September 1998 in his studio. It was published on Art2u in 1999. (Walker, par1) Because one of the three museums shows of your work is an exhibition of paintings of your wife, Ada, The material from the museum quotes Irving Sandler, that Ada "is woman, wife, mother, muse, model, sociable hostess, myth, icon, and New York goddess.” How the forty portraits (from 1957 forward) indicate these various aspects of Ada, we’ll leave to others to determine. He had said in an interview with Brian Appel that you “ran into Ada in ’57.”(Kotzin, Par20) During his first ten years as a painter, Katz admitted to destroying a thousand paintings. Since the 1950s, he worked to create art more “freely” in the sense that he tried to paint “faster than [he] can think.” His works seem simple, but according to Katz they are more reductive, which is fitting to his personality. In 1994 Cooper Union Art School created the Alex Katz Visiting Chair in Painting with the endowment provided by the sale of ten paintings donated by the artist.
Base on the newspaper that I had read, I had some idea emerge in my mind. And that made me see the painting in their eyes. In the other way, I also wonder how he could paint his wife as the painting put in the exhibition. But he made his wife more than a people in the painting. It also showed his skill is very well. The pieces of his art that I like the most is the painting name “My mother’s dream”, it takes a similar approach four section, each passage of brushy gray competing with blue, again. Its sky through a canopy of trees, leaves stipple the air, positive and negative space shift into and out of each other. In the other painting, the homely painting directed the eye into its depths and away from the relentless flatness found in the more recent print, as though acknowledging a path taken and the possibility that beauty might be more than skin deep.
Ryan Gallagher
English 12 CP, Period 6
06 March 2009
Portrait painting Alex Katz
Alex Katz is an American figural artist associated with the Pop art movement. In particular, he is known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints. Internationally recognized painter and printmaker Alex Katz was born in 1927 in Brooklyn, New York. A retrospective of his paintings was shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1986. In 1988 the Brooklyn Museum exhibited his prints. The Saatchi Collection in London presented a 25-year survey of his paintings in 1998. This interview with Alex Katz took place in September 1998 in his studio. It was published on Art2u in 1999. (Walker, par1) Because one of the three museums shows of your work is an exhibition of paintings of your wife, Ada, The material from the museum quotes Irving Sandler, that Ada "is woman, wife, mother, muse, model, sociable hostess, myth, icon, and New York goddess.” How the forty portraits (from 1957 forward) indicate these various aspects of Ada, we’ll leave to others to determine. He had said in an interview with Brian Appel that you “ran into Ada in ’57.”(Kotzin, Par20) During his first ten years as a painter, Katz admitted to destroying a thousand paintings. Since the 1950s, he worked to create art more “freely” in the sense that he tried to paint “faster than [he] can think.” His works seem simple, but according to Katz they are more reductive, which is fitting to his personality. In 1994 Cooper Union Art School created the Alex Katz Visiting Chair in Painting with the endowment provided by the sale of ten paintings donated by the artist.
Base on the newspaper that I had read, I had some idea emerge in my mind. And that made me see the painting in their eyes. In the other way, I also wonder how he could paint his wife as the painting put in the exhibition. But he made his wife more than a people in the painting. It also showed his skill is very well. The pieces of his art that I like the most is the painting name “My mother’s dream”, it takes a similar approach four section, each passage of brushy gray competing with blue, again. Its sky through a canopy of trees, leaves stipple the air, positive and negative space shift into and out of each other. In the other painting, the homely painting directed the eye into its depths and away from the relentless flatness found in the more recent print, as though acknowledging a path taken and the possibility that beauty might be more than skin deep.
Rongliang, Lei
Ryan Gallagher
English, 12CP Period 6
3 March 2009
Annotated Bibliography
Bennett, Lennie. “Cool Katz”. Petersburg Time. Feb, 2005
http://infotrac.galegroup.com.ezproxy.bpl.org/itw/infomark/0/1/1/purl=rc1_BRC_0_CJ128150411?sw_aep=mlin_b_bpublic
Base on the newspaper, it tells me about we see Alex Katz’s working out a more complex way to present them.
Breidenbanch, Tom. “Pacewildenstin” Art Forum Dec, 2007 P146
http://find.galegroup.com.ezproxy.bpl.org/itx/infomark.do?prodId=EAIM&userGroupName=mlin_b_bpublic&version=1.0&type=retrieve&docId=A111696424&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm
Base on the newspaper, it had tell me how the flower painting. How a golden yellow field dotted with umbrella-shape blossoms atop boldly brushed stems, is a testament to how much “more” this mature artists “less” has become.
Cotter,Holland. “The 60’s” The New York Time. June, 2006
http://infotrac.galegroup.com.ezproxy.bpl.org/itw/infomark/1/1/1/purl=rc1_BRC_0_A146523676?sw_aep=mlin_b_bpublic
Base on the newspaper, it had tell me that landscape and abstraction not too suave, not too rough, a little goofy, a touch melancholic and he has stayed with it.
Glueck, Grace. “Two sides of Alex Katz” The New York Time Sept, 2005
Base on the newspaper, it had tell me that tried plein-air painting, and found his subject matter and a reason to devote his life to painting
Hirsch, Faye. “Good-life Ada.” Art In America. July, 2007
Base on the newspaper, it had showed me that about Alex Katz’s work. I know that what was covered Katz’s career.
Katz, Alex. “Flower and Landscapes on view October 8- November 8, 2003” Sept, 2009
http://infotrac.galegroup.com.ezproxy.bpl.org/itw/infomark/1/1/1/purl=rc1_BRC_0_A107944520?sw_aep=mlin_b_bpublic
Base on the newspaper, it had tell me that in flowers and land scopes, Katz explores up-close the volumes and colors created by nature light.
Leffing well, Edward. “Alex at Pacewildenstein, the whotney Museum and Peter blum” Art in America March, 2002
Base on the article, it had tell me that Katz offer his attention to a solitary blonde woman caressed by similar light, although it seem to come from anther direction.
McQuaid, Gate. “Paintings, small yet grand Addison gallery first stop for Katz’s traveling exhibit paintings provide glimpse into Katz’s mastery” Boston Globe Jun,2001
Base on the newspaper, it had tell me that the shadow and sunlight play over the painting with such clarity you can feel the heat of the sun on the lake.
Naves, Mario. ”The various Alex Katz” New Griterion Dec, 2001
Base on the newspaper, it had tell me that art as something distinctive, something which might have its own history.
Plagens, Peter. “Peter Blum/Pacewildenstein/whitney Museum of American Art”. Art Forum .Dec, 2001
Base on the article, it had tell me that Katz is essentially an image make who wants to be considered a painter painter, Image makers treat paint as pure means to an imagistic end.
Scheib, Ronnie. “Chuck close”. Variety Jan, 2008
Base on the newspaper, it had tell me that the circles, ellipses, dots and squiggles only resolve themselves into a giant physiognomic likeness at a great distance.
Smith, Roberta. “Alex Katz” The New York Time .Nov, 2005
Base on the newspaper, it had tell me that show has a harshness, even a ruthlessness that is usually veiled in the glowing colors and wet-on-wet surfaces of Mr. Katz’s paintings.
Ryan Gallagher
English, 12CP Period 6
3 March 2009
Annotated Bibliography
Bennett, Lennie. “Cool Katz”. Petersburg Time. Feb, 2005
http://infotrac.galegroup.com.ezproxy.bpl.org/itw/infomark/0/1/1/purl=rc1_BRC_0_CJ128150411?sw_aep=mlin_b_bpublic
Base on the newspaper, it tells me about we see Alex Katz’s working out a more complex way to present them.
Breidenbanch, Tom. “Pacewildenstin” Art Forum Dec, 2007 P146
http://find.galegroup.com.ezproxy.bpl.org/itx/infomark.do?prodId=EAIM&userGroupName=mlin_b_bpublic&version=1.0&type=retrieve&docId=A111696424&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm
Base on the newspaper, it had tell me how the flower painting. How a golden yellow field dotted with umbrella-shape blossoms atop boldly brushed stems, is a testament to how much “more” this mature artists “less” has become.
Cotter,Holland. “The 60’s” The New York Time. June, 2006
http://infotrac.galegroup.com.ezproxy.bpl.org/itw/infomark/1/1/1/purl=rc1_BRC_0_A146523676?sw_aep=mlin_b_bpublic
Base on the newspaper, it had tell me that landscape and abstraction not too suave, not too rough, a little goofy, a touch melancholic and he has stayed with it.
Glueck, Grace. “Two sides of Alex Katz” The New York Time Sept, 2005
Base on the newspaper, it had tell me that tried plein-air painting, and found his subject matter and a reason to devote his life to painting
Hirsch, Faye. “Good-life Ada.” Art In America. July, 2007
Base on the newspaper, it had showed me that about Alex Katz’s work. I know that what was covered Katz’s career.
Katz, Alex. “Flower and Landscapes on view October 8- November 8, 2003” Sept, 2009
http://infotrac.galegroup.com.ezproxy.bpl.org/itw/infomark/1/1/1/purl=rc1_BRC_0_A107944520?sw_aep=mlin_b_bpublic
Base on the newspaper, it had tell me that in flowers and land scopes, Katz explores up-close the volumes and colors created by nature light.
Leffing well, Edward. “Alex at Pacewildenstein, the whotney Museum and Peter blum” Art in America March, 2002
Base on the article, it had tell me that Katz offer his attention to a solitary blonde woman caressed by similar light, although it seem to come from anther direction.
McQuaid, Gate. “Paintings, small yet grand Addison gallery first stop for Katz’s traveling exhibit paintings provide glimpse into Katz’s mastery” Boston Globe Jun,2001
Base on the newspaper, it had tell me that the shadow and sunlight play over the painting with such clarity you can feel the heat of the sun on the lake.
Naves, Mario. ”The various Alex Katz” New Griterion Dec, 2001
Base on the newspaper, it had tell me that art as something distinctive, something which might have its own history.
Plagens, Peter. “Peter Blum/Pacewildenstein/whitney Museum of American Art”. Art Forum .Dec, 2001
Base on the article, it had tell me that Katz is essentially an image make who wants to be considered a painter painter, Image makers treat paint as pure means to an imagistic end.
Scheib, Ronnie. “Chuck close”. Variety Jan, 2008
Base on the newspaper, it had tell me that the circles, ellipses, dots and squiggles only resolve themselves into a giant physiognomic likeness at a great distance.
Smith, Roberta. “Alex Katz” The New York Time .Nov, 2005
Base on the newspaper, it had tell me that show has a harshness, even a ruthlessness that is usually veiled in the glowing colors and wet-on-wet surfaces of Mr. Katz’s paintings.
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