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(03/06/14 12:00pm)
Continuing on from my last post, we’ll finally wrap up the rest of Baroque. During the 17th century, England was having a pretty rough time. For the most part, England imported their painters. But now, for the first time, England was able to produce talented native artists. My ultimate favorite is Gainsborough. Gainsborough’s paintings have an informal feel to them. He loved nature and believed it to be worthy subject matter for art, so he incorporated natural landscapes as the backdrop for his portraitures. He mastered the elongation of the human form to make his figures look regal. He offset this regality with natural, casual poses and contemporary dress. This is seen in Gainsborough’s “Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan.” He paints the woman among the landscape in such a natural and beautiful way. She is dressed informally, no aristocratic garb, and sits very naturally. There is no pomp and circumstance. She isn’t stylized to look like a goddess and there is certainly no usage of props. The English Baroque style is definitely characterized as a restrained elegance.
(03/06/14 5:00am)
I was in my Business and Future of Journalism class last week when we were given a group project. The idea was pretty simple: We were supposed to invent something people needed. Ideas largely included apps (hello, 2014) with innovative and funny concepts. One of them in particular struck me as interesting. It was a dating website that matched you up with your dream significant other according to your taste in music. Country two-steppers and hipster snobs could now be provided with almost effortless means to snagging that perfect first date. Not a bad idea—admittedly better than my group’s sad attempt at some “get back at your ex-boyfriend” app that referenced Ryan Gosling. It left me wondering: Is that what we’ve come to as a people, and, would it work?
(03/05/14 4:40pm)
The spring break experience is like the senior prom of high school — except you get four of them. It's a week of shenanigans, beaches and friends. Spring break is basically a free for all for kids to get buck-wild and be carefree.
(03/05/14 2:46pm)
Burton Barr Central Library encourages us to critically consider the messages we receive today with the exhibit "State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda". This is a traveling exhibit with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, rooted in Washington D.C. (my second home).
(03/05/14 2:40pm)
Baroque (1600-1750) was an art movement that came after the Renaissance. It took techniques like realism and chiaroscuro and combined them with the intense drama and emotion of the Mannerists (a group of artists that chose to deviate from the harmony and perfection of the Renaissance). Because Baroque combines Renaissance and the Mannerist ideals, it yielded some of the most ostentatious and ornate pieces of art. Art became more of a way of life during the 17th century. The point of Baroque art was to elicit an emotional response. To do so, artist perfected the use of chiaroscuro and became masters of light. Technically, the Baroque era began in Rome around the 1600s. Then it spread to France and to the rest of Europe. In this post we will be focusing on Italian, Flemish and Dutch Baroque, and in the next post we will finish the entire time period with English, Spanish and French Baroque. This will give you a little taste of what the Baroque era had to offer and how each country and artist took their own spin on the Baroque style.
(03/03/14 3:46pm)
Graphic by Noemi Gonzalez | The State Press
(02/27/14 8:46pm)
Music videos are kind of hit-or-miss for me. Sometimes they leave me unaffected, but more often than not, I’m either floored or underwhelmed. The worst is when the vision I had for a song gets crushed by a video interpretation that doesn’t fit. This might come off as irrelevant to the music or even selfish, but I think there’s usually a heavy dose of meaning for artists in the videos they piece together for songs. To not resonate with a video feels much like not resonating with the artist, their initial vision and the music itself.
(02/27/14 5:00am)
It was early 2010 when I began seriously considering what I wanted to do with my life. That is, what I wanted as a career.
(02/26/14 9:25pm)
I had the opportunity to travel down to Nogales, Ariz. with my International Political Economy class. We were able to experience the border and the extreme disparity that exists between the United States and Mexico's border towns. On one side, you see faltering infrastructure, and on the other, you see perfectly kept porches with shiny rocking chairs.
(02/26/14 9:16pm)
College is a place for students to grow from teenagers into young adults. That learning process is neither easy nor cheap. We spend thousands of dollars each semester as a payment to the societal overlords simply so we can get an education in return.
(02/26/14 3:48am)
In celebration of Black History Month, Student Engagement and the Black History Month planning committee collaborated to host a Soul Train dance Tuesday at the Downtown campus.
(02/25/14 12:00pm)
Out of darkness sprang new life. It came in the form of the Renaissance. The Renaissance gave a breath of fresh air into art. It fostered scientific knowledge, humanism and nostalgia for the classics. It began in Italy, around the 1400s, and eventually caught fire and spread to the rest of Europe by the 16th century. However, today’s blog will be focusing on the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” or more commonly known as a few of the Italian Renaissance masters: Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael.
(02/25/14 5:00am)
Childhood memories have an enormous impact on my life that often slips through the cracks. One of my favorite things about growing up in my family is the road trips we would take every summer across the country. While my fellow classmates would brag about luxury cruises and trips to Disney Land, I would talk about the crazy, tumultuous adventures my family partook in as we drove from Wisconsin to the Florida Keys or Washington D.C. There always seemed to be something special about being in such close quarters with my parents and sister for an extended period of time with nothing but each other, gas station snacks and mixed tapes to keep us amused.
(02/24/14 2:35pm)
Life is about participating. Memories are all well and good, but there's nothing like being in a moment you know will never exist again outside of your own mind.
(02/24/14 5:19am)
Rows of neutral painted houses line the streets. Each house blends in with the next, creating a sea of suburbia.
(02/22/14 5:52pm)
SPM BBL Acoustics + Interview from The State Press on Vimeo.
(02/20/14 12:00pm)
The Middle Ages covers a large span of time—from the 5th to the 15th century. In terms of major events, the Middle Ages started roughly after the fall of Rome and ended with the beginning of the Renaissance. The Middle Ages began with a period more commonly known as the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages was marked by the death of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian in 565. This time period was a point in history where civilization was at a low: people didn’t live long, life was exceedingly difficult and religion was the answer.
(02/20/14 5:00am)
Do you remember your first MySpace song? I remember mine. I was sitting in my grade school’s “computer lab,” which for my seriously tiny, private Catholic school entailed a small room filled with the beige plastic boxes we once knew as computers. Of course, we were supposed to be working on some project that probably involved a lot of floppy disks and clip art instead of dipping our toes in social media for the first time. After I chose some painfully emo selfie with too much black eyeliner and a lime-green font, it was time for the moment of truth. I picked “Cute Without the ‘E’” by Taking Back Sunday. “And will you tell all your friends / you’ve got your gun to my head / this all was only wishful thinking.” Yeah, my 13-year-old, completely provided-for self with a functional family liked to pretend she had it rough.
(02/19/14 2:32pm)
My senior year of high school may have been better titled as, "The Year of John Malkovich." As the protagonist of both films, "Of Mice and Men" and "The Glass Menagerie," he seemed to appear when our class thought we saw the last of him.
(02/19/14 2:20pm)
College students carry the label, "Young and Dumb."