MORE WWII!! -yay!

Lots to learn more about with the World War 2. Here are some websites that help a beeter side of understanding the atomic bomb that the US had put upon between the feud of Japan and the USSR.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/pubs/fs/46345.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Gov/US-History/WWII/sov-japan.neu (IDK if useful)
http://ftp1.us.proftpd.org/hyperwar//PTO/Dip/USSR-Jap-DoW.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1112551.stm (soviet union timeline)

Sorry I didn't say much but more info shall come tomorrow or sooner or later.

WWII continuing

Today I learned more about the World War 2 and it is quite interesting. I found out that the famous atomic bomb by the US was so the USSR would not get involved in the war, on the side US did not like the Soviet Union's ways of getting resources. Everything was all over the place during the end of the war like countries giving up and their leaders doing suicide (who does that sound like?). I also found out that the US posters used to create these posters of Japanese people who looked like weird creatures and brought up about the whole rape incident to many of their citizens so they put that in our posters against them to show that Japan were pigs according to US back in the day. I was also surprised how young the emperor of Japan was and how cruel he was and sneaky he was. All of these events are not even half of the WW2 era.

WWII

This is probably irrelavant but very valuable to know. I don't know if you have ever heard of the book Because of Romek but I have recently read apart of a chapter from that book and I was very sad to read that. Here is a brief summary of my opinion upon the chapter:

Based off what I’ve read in this selected chapter of Because of Romek, I was truly stroke by the life of people during World War II. A quote on page 115 paragraph 2 that stroke me states, “Now and then we found people dead. We carried them downstairs, too, and put them on a cart. We pushed the carts to the ghetto entrance and loaded the bodies onto trucks. That’s what happened to Mother and my sisters.” After reading that, I felt very sad and very grateful for all of the things I have. Just to go through the motions of dealing with dead bodies and having to put them in carts to load them a truck due to all of the torture being put upon the people is very depressing and then knowing that your family was apart of that process is even more depressing. If I was in his shoes, I wouldn’t know what to do and probably would have never survived all of the obstacles he had to overcome. Back then torture must have been a priority because most of the world was going through depression and being killed over one decision. I also found it interesting was the torture level and how constant it came to the people or known as the slaves. They suffered from the cold, hunger, thirst, being shoot at, depression of loosing a loved one and attacked by dogs. Romek I have to say was very strong for having to get over his family deaths and escaping death. When he was attacked by dogs stated on page 118 in paragraph 7 says, “The dog jerked its head from side to side, and I could feel the flesh tear.” Just by reading that quote you could feel his pain and to have to go through that and keep on going on with the day is very challenging. The main point that I am trying to convey is that the torture level back then was very barbaric and not necessary. Just by reading this chapter of someone’s life makes me love life even though we have to go through obstacles we have to be strong and make it to the top. When we say it’s too hard and I can’t do it lets think back when it was required to go through it even if it meant death.

Tell me your opinion on reading my feedback of the story.

Update on the Great Matisse

Well just to show appreciation for helping me edit my critique, I thank all for the feedback. Here is my redo:

Why are their so many colors? What are they trying to tell the world? Well have no fear The Great Matisse is here. Matisse should know plenty of things about art and colors. Being that he was one of the influential artists of the 20^th Century, his creative ways has set the bar up for creativeness in artwork and for thinking outside of the box through art.

After reviewing Matisse eye popping artwork, first thing that may come to mind is, “WOW!” How does an artist vision its artwork to be so brilliant? Visualizing one of his most well known pieces of artwork such as The Wild Beast, it has a variety of colors that make you wonder, what does it mean? Based on his criteria, he does not pay attention to the detail of his art pieces, more so on the meaning of the painting. Just to know for every brushstroke on a canvas by Matisse, has some sort of story/ meaning to what he is trying to tell the public makes you want to view his artwork.

Being that Matisse is the leader of the Fauves in 1917, a group of artist who believe the color of the painting was just as important as the meaing of the painting, he has influenced a type of art called Expressionism. Even though it developed by Georges Rouault, he branched his ideas from Fauvism although his artwork was similar to Matisse’s work, it didn’t reach Matisse’s limit of creativity and color usage in every brushstroke.

Another rival that lined up with Matisse is Picasso. Both have very creative patterns and twist-n-turns within their paintings and have some sort of way to express themselves through the colors on a canvas. If you have ever viewed Picasso’s artwork, he expresses his paintings through extremely bright colors, hard edged forms, and flattened space. On the other hand, Matisse expresses his painting through using no naturalistic colors (he is inspired by Impressionism but twisted it through his paintings). Both Picasso and Matisse have intelligent minds and put out their creative visions out on the canvas.

After reviewing Matisse’s artwork, it is very creative and to know that every brushstroke has meaning really makes his artwork art. Based on his quote, “There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted”, he is a true artist that thinks outside of the box and sets his mind to whatever as long as it has meaning and color. He has truly saved art from going down hill.

Bombs Away Dear Matisse

Oh great Matisse we love your art but what does it mean? Within his definition of art is by showing that art has to have meaning within the colors on a canvas. You may wonder what is art and its purpose. It may mean the purpose of life, nature, random thoughts or many other sources of being creative. Viewing Matisse’s artwork, it has many things that may come to mind like, how did this come together as art?

Matisse’s artwork is very odd and it makes you wonder how can an artist such as Matisse; create weird scenarios to get the viewers attention. Looking back on his history, going to the best schools and studying arts in Paris gave him keys points to creating great art. Art has its mysterious ways of feeding its message to people to create a piece of artwork. In some way, art spoke to him as creating unnatural colors with some sort of meaning behind it. It must be stressful for him as an artist to follow those bases.

One that caught my attention the most was Madame Matisse. Every brushstroke had some sort of story behind it and that is very inspiring. I wonder how his wife felt about this painting because it looks very odd. But every artist has their own vision on their work and his turn out to be “different”. Don’t get me wrong his work is very unique but showing some simplicity wouldn’t hurt. Being that half of the painting was half light and the other dark was very interesting but I would really like to know why it couldn’t be like one side happy and the other side sad or something similar to that.

Another piece of work by Matisse is The Joy of Life 1905-06. The colors are very eye popping and I wonder what the true meaning of this painting is supposed to be. It shows a lot of naked Caucasian people being happy and doing things at their pleasure. Why are they naked? Is it a sign of freedom? Also there are random people posing in random places and a group of people making a circle dancing. What’s their significance toward the meaning of this painting? I’ve noticed that the circle of people is just like the dance painting later in 1909. I’m guessing that the previous painting has inspired a separate painting of the dancing circle of happy people. What I would suggest in the Joy of Life painting would be to put all of his positive pieces of work all in one to show a variety of his pieces of work all in one.

Art can be viewed in many ways but in Matisse’s world it is very creative and odd. The great thing about Matisse is the way he sets his artwork toward what he is thinking about at that specific moment. The only side effect is does he ever notice will the audience ever understand his artwork and the true meaning?

With the feedback, I understood that my paragraphs were run ons and made little since and now the meaning behind Matisse is known.