AP Euro Blog
Friday, April 15, 2011
WWI DBQ
Monday, April 4, 2011
Extra Credit Animal Farm
Say you'll come with me
It'll do you no harm
I know that you'll like it
On animal farm
Beware of the stress signs
The body's alarm
Two weeks ought to cure it
On animal farm
(Get down, get down, get down, get down ,get down, get down, down, down, down, down, down)
Thereis the peace of the quiet and the country air
Your attitude changes
You begin to care
A curb on excess is encouraged by nurses
And the urge to remonstrate is stifled when your dinner plate is gone
Don't let it deter you
Switch on the charm
The inmates will love you
On animal, on animal, on animal farm
(Get down, get down, get down, get down, get down, get down,down, down, down, down, down)
There is the peace of the quiet and the country air
Your attitude changes
You begin to care
A curb on excess is encouraged by nurses
And the urge to remonstrate is stifled when your dinner plate is gone
Don't let it deter you
Switch on the charm
The inmates will love you
On animal farm
Say you'll come with me
It'll do you no harm
I know that you'll like it
On animal farm
I know that you'll love it
On animal farm
I know that you'll like it
On animal farm
Newsworth
(Newsworth)
So tell me
(Newsworth)
What's really news after all
The king broke a string, did that warrant five curtain calls
(Newsworth)
Excuse me
(Newsworth)
Your news has taken a dive
The artists are gone
Now who is the fastest alive
Your pretence is there
But your envy's showing its face
You dropped your guitar
The ball point's taking its place
Your ego suffered a blow
When your idol showed his disdain
You say that you're unbiased well you must think that we're green
(Newsworth)
I've heard that
(Newsworth)
A newsworth lives in his pen
May I suggest
It's likely that he lives in one then
(Newsworth)
What happens
(Newsworth)
After you lie down at night
In your case the lying's not reclining you can lie best upright
We quite understand
You can't always be kind
Please take extra care
And think before you malign
You've come a long way
Since the broom and the tea bag days
So drop the Sunday paper stuff
One page of ads is one too much
When it comes to slagging, we play rough
Did you think we were green
Well we're not
You're a
(Newsworth)
You're a
(Newsworth)
You're a
(Newsworth)
Friday, March 25, 2011
Late 19th Century DBQ
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Candide Redo
- Pangloss was very optimistic and a philosopher as well.
- Pangloss taught Candide when he was young about thinking optimistically.
- Candide, the main character, always keeps his heart and mind open.
- Candide takes what Pangloss says to heart and remembers it for later reference.
- Candide was continually optimistic, even though his life was hard.
Pangloss made great points about life throughout his travels and inspired Candide to remain optimistic even in times of great hardships. - Pangloss said that everything that happens is the best it could be and there is no effect without a cause.
- Believed God made everything that happens happen in the best way it can be.
- Pangloss believed that optimism was key and that everything happened for a reason.
- He was banished from a castle, stabbed Cunegonde's brother, found the Golden City by mistake, and was reunited with his love at the end.
Martin was an irksome person, who had a negative yet more realistic outlook on life. He caused turmoil between he and those around him. - Martin was a pessimist and created a negative atmosphere.
- Martin was bluntly realistic compared to Pangloss's philosophy of optimism.
- He talked about rising above all the evil of the world to get to God.
- His pessimism irked Candide during their travels together.
- Martin keeps trying to dissolve Candide's hope of ever finding and marrying Cunegonde.
However, Candide never gives up hope, and in the end through all the problems he's faced, he still manages to marry Cunegonde and live happily with her - He befriended an elder woman who helped to reunite he and Cunegonde at the end.
- Everything that happened, happened for the best in his mind, which kept Candide going. He married the girl he loved and lived a good life.
Friday, March 18, 2011
FRQ
Monday, March 14, 2011
Outline Final Draft
Definitions:
Chiaroscuro-the distribution of light and shading/darkness in a picture/paintingSfumato- the gradual change of colors in a painting
Thesis- Artists during the Italian Renaissance were exponentially more popular due to the change in style of art into a religious outlook, but the profession developed into a more exclusive occupation because of how the work became remarkably lifelike.
Filippo Brunelleschi was a great beginning to an era of religious art work.- He was an architect and sculptor.
- "a Florentine hero on account of the celebrated dome"(Web Gallery of Art)
- Brunelleschi was trained as a goldsmith and greatly enjoyed it. (Life of an Artist)
- Art work:
Sacrifice of Isaac bronze relief
Crucifix polychromed wood
Dome of the Cathedral
- Went from a geometric style to a rhythmic sculptural style (Web Gallery of Art)
Donatello created masterpieces out of bronze and marble with religious background to them.- He sculpted bronze and marble
- His earliest sculpture was of David.
- His early sculptures were of a Gothic style
- Works of art:
Statue of David in marble
Marzocco in stone
St. Rossore in bronze
Bertoldo di Giovanni created statues from mythological creatures and beings.- He was a pupil of Donatello
- "The teacher of Michaelangelo since he was employed by Lorenzo de Medici, Il Magnifico"(Web Gallery of Art)
- He was interested in classical sculpting
- Art works:
Arion bronze statue
Bellerophon and Pegasus bronze statue
Hercules with the Apple of Hesperides bronze statue
Sandro Botticelli was a well known painter whose paintings were more religious, but the most well known was that of a Roman goddess.
- He was an Italian painter
- "His understanding of perspective and foreshortening, of architectural design and, indeed, of anatomy, were all that might have been expected of a man with such a background, but it is to the pure visual poetry of the outcome that he owes his fame"(Web Gallery of Art)
- He experimented with pyramidal form
- Did many works for Lorenzo Medici the Elder
- Most notable painting was The Birth of Venus
- The Adoration of the Magi gave him a great reputation for color, design, and composition(Life of an Artist)
- Art works:
The Virgin and the Child with Two Angels and the Young St. John the Baptist tempera on panel
Adoration of the Magi tempera on panel
St. Sebastian tempera on panek
The Virgin and Child Enthroned
The Birth of Venus
- His main works of art were done between 1490 and 1519
- He was ranked among the masters of the Venetian Renaissance
- His early influences were Antonello da Messina and Giovanni Bellini (Vittore Carpaccio)
- "in later years Carpaccio appears to have been influenced by Cima da Conegliano" (Vittore Carpaccio)
- Did many paintings of the Virgin Mary
- Works of art:
The Annunciation
Holy Conversion
St. George and the Dragon
- Considered the true Renaissance man
- He first worked in sculpture as a boy
- Apprentice to Andrea del Verocchio whose specialty was perspective (Museum of Science)
- Leonardo had a very picturesque was of drawing and painting.
- He used perspective and realistic techniques in his paintings which was different than what had been used then. (Museum of Science.)
- Chiaroscuro and sfumato are what he used a great deal to make his paintings and drawings so lifelike.
- His artwork was influenced by science(biology/anatomy) as well as dissections he made on dead human beings to make his art look so realistic
- The first piece he was ever paid to do was an altar piece for the chapel of the Palazzo Vecchio. (Web Gallery of Art)
- His first patron was Ludovico Sforza.
- Art works:
Annunciation
Virigin of the Rocks
The Lady with the Ermine
The Last Supper
Michelangelo - Painted the Sistine Chapel
- Worked in the Medici Gardens when he was younger
- At around the age of 16, he had already completed two great works of art: The Battle of the Centaurs and Madonna of the Stairs
- His high point in sculpting was when he created the statue of David.
- Works of Art
David marble statue
Sistene Chapel: Last Judgement, Genesis, Prophets, Sibyls, Iqnudi, Spandreis, Lunettes, Triangles, Medallions
Madonna and the Child marble statue
Romanticism Free Response
To what extent did Romanticism challenge Enlightenment views of human beings and the natural world and how did this challenge illustrate changes between the enlightenment and romantic views of the relationship between God and the individual?
The Romantic age came with many changes. They questioned God's authority, and how He affected humans and what they did. Romanticism changed the way people thought. It made people question the affect that God had over them, and what the reason for their talent and ideas were. Romanticism caused people to think outside the box and to become more in sync with the natural world and their emotions instead of keeping God as their reason for everything they did that was great.
Ludwig van Beethoven is an example of how everything changed and became more natural and emotional. He was a fantastic musician/music writer who's music is still listened to to this very day. Beethoven created a more emotional effect in his music. Instead of being very formal and straightforward, his music was more up and down and played with one's feelings. His music was not made for a religious figure or because he felt that God wanted him to. Beethoven wrote his music out of feelings and the want to create it.
Percy Shelley is another great example of the affect that Romanticism had on people. Shelley was a poet who poured emotion into his poetry. They were so dramatic, but created an affect like the poet was talking about them instead of himself. He married a woman and had a child with her. However, this marriage did not last because he fell in love with another and left his wife and child abandoned. Percy was the first to do what he really felt. He went where is emotions took him, even if it meant abandoning those who were his family. His poetry showed this passion he felt. Another like him was John Keats. Keats had lost his family at a fairly young age and knew how it felt to grieve. He went from being a surgeon who amputated extremities on people with no anesthetic, to a heartfelt poet. His poetry made him so much more interesting and gave him the affect of a troubled soul that was greatly alluring to those in his time because there were very few who were like this.
Edgar Allen Poe was a fantastic poet. His poetry created such a dark picture that dug deep into one's soul. He poured out his emotions that gave his poetry such imagistic qualities. All over the world people still read his poetry. This is because they can deeply connect to it and take personal experiences that can be related to his poetry.
Writers, poets, musicians, and artists of the Romantic age all created a great new era. They gave one reason to do things without a religious reason. The Romantics caused a great change that enveloped the entire world. They did not need a religious reason to create any kind of art, they did it because they wanted to and poured their emotion out into their work. This is why Romanticism greatly changed the relationship between human beings and the natural world along with their inner emotions and caused them to come out and be shown to the world through many different ways.