Post #5 - Reading, GRQ and Discussion - The Art of Indigenous Americans Art History: A Century of Exhibitions

Guided Reading Questions:

1. Scholars
2. Museums
3. Native Art
4. Pueblo Watercolors
5. Esthetic
6. Basket Dance
7. Museum of Modern Art (moma) in New York
8. Multiculturalism
9. Two American Painters, an important exhibition in Washington, D.C. at the National Collection of Fine Arts (now the National Museum of American Art), exhibited the work of Fritz Scholder (Luiseño, 1937-2005) and T.C. Cannon (Kiowa-Caddo, 1946-1978). The title was a nod to Three American Painters, an exhibit of high modernist abstract art held in the previous decade, and it
10. American Indian Art: Form and Tradition
11. Native Art History
12. Ghettoization
13. Younger Generation

Discussion Summary (about violence in movies and video games):

During the lecture, I learned that Romans were very desensitized to violence and had a blast watching such gruesome acts for entertainment, and based on that, I can understand that parents are worried their kids will fall a victim to it and also be desensitized to it. It makes total sense why they would think that. When it comes to the question of if we could ever be desensitized to it and go back to what they did in ancient Rome, the answer is simply no. I think that there isn't a way for us to go backward because of how we are raised. We are raised to understand what is right and what is wrong, that alone gives us a clear understanding that watching people get slaughtered by animals or vice versa will never happen. We know that it was inappropriate of them to do that in the past. 

Post #4 - Lecture Native American - Gothic Architecture

The Native Americans had their own idea of the architecture such as wigwam houses, teepees, long houses where their whole community could fit inside, etc. They also had their own idea for story telling, they believed in spirits and in nature, animism. They were indebted to Mother Nature. They cherished the animals and they were never killing just to kill, always for a purpose to use every single part. They danced together and performed in buffalo dances together. Then we went to the Greek Amphitheater and how this was the first place where entertaining was changed to how we know it - where the performers were on the stage, the chorus was in the pit, and the viewers were in the audience. It also was the first place the scene was used. In Maximus, performing was changed to a more violent and gruesome effort, it is where prisoners or slaves were put to a bloody chariot race to see who won in order to be freed. This is where the audience was separated in groups - poor, middle class, wealthy/upper class, then the ruler had a section. In Rome Italy, we see the Colosseum. This is where people (slaves/prisoners) were forced to battle with each other or animals for a chance of being freed, but mostly slaughtered for entertainment. Exotic animals were used to be slaughtered at halftime or to fight the people inside. Here, class separation went a bit further by separating upper class, middle class, poor, and women. Then in 00186, Romans created the Pantheon which was the first structure to have a dome without being reinforced. In 537 AD in Istanbul, the Hagia Sofia was build - this was the largest structure with a dome and a half dome on both sides of it. It acted as a stepping stone to the Gothic Cathedral where pointed arches and more windows were discovered. It is where they relied on buttresses to help support the walls that support the larger ribbed vaulted ceilings. The points surrounding the Cathedrals were used to symbolize being closer to heaven, but also as an advertisement to people - "this is where the cathedral is". These were the first buildings to use a lot of stained glass to allow for light to get in. 

Post #3 - Article on Creativity and its Summary - GRQ

Summary on the article "new study reveals why some people are more creative than others":

It is not just people who are artists or who are big-minded, like Steve Jobs or Picasso. The article goes to share that you do not have to be a genius like them at all to be creative. All you have to do is keep an open mind. Plus, creativity goes far beyond the ability to draw and paint, it is all around us. As the article states  "a complex interplay between spontaneous and controlled thinking" is a huge part in creativity.  There is "little c creativity" which is crafting, jokes, or making a webpage and then there is "big c creativity" which is writing a speech or such. The study that was talked about resulted in finding that people with more connections and stronger ones came up with more and better ideas - they are more "creative". There are three brain systems that are known as networks: Default Network, Executive Control Network, and Salience Network".

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Post #2 - Raul Cuero

Cuero teaches that you are capable of doing something as long as you are willing, it is one of the things that he teaches to his students. I agree with his ideas in never giving up and always keeping your mind to it because that is very important due to the fact that if there is no try, there is no success. He kept his mind open all through his life and then he got a scholarship and went to school  in America. I do believe that people can learn how to be creative just like Cuero did, he overcame separatism and being treated differently, but he also is never limited to what society thinks of him. Don't let people think you are limited, always change that to be creative. I think that I can take his concept of always trying and never letting people think you are incapable of something to my life because it will help me push for further success. I can actually apply this to my life by simply taking what people say in consideration, but just brush it off and prove them wrong, use the words of doubt and bad things as motivators not stoppers. 

Post #1 - Profile & Pictures

 

Hi, My name is Cole Drouin. I am from Pelham, a small town in Southern New Hampshire. I attended Pelham High school where I was able to take 13 college classes giving me 38 college credits which allows me to be here at UT as a Sophomore, it is where I met my girlfriend Ashley who is now attending college on the East Coast to be a nurse, and it is where my whole experience really helped me with my future. I took a video production class for two years at Pinkerton Academy in Derry NH which helped me really decide film is what I wanted to do. I have two brothers, one is a senior and the other a sophomore in high school, they both play on the Pelham High School Boys Varsity soccer team where my Dad is the head Coach. I got a job at the local TV station (PTV or Pelham Television) where I was able to work since I was 14 which gave me another view in media and production. I also was a part of the tech team for the Pelham Community Theatre where I started in 2016 as back stage crew, then to props master and stage manager, then in 2021 I started running the Lights, Sound, Video, and Mics until this passed May.

    My Girlfriend and I going to Prom 

in May 2023!