Picture Assignment

                             Rossy Jerez

Three Pictures Assignment 

Picture #1           

“Still Life with Melons and Peaches, “Monet 1866” 

 

Claude Monet was born on November 14, 1840, and died on December 5, 1926.

Claude Monet found French Impressionist painting.  He began painting at the age of 11 and at the age of 16 left to Paris to pursue his career in art.

Claude Monet reason for painting food was when his wife passed away and he was going through times of poverty, he planted his own garden to survive. From then he decided to paint all the beautiful foods he grew in his garden to show how grateful he was.

Claude Monet used oil paint and canvass

In this painting I can see the orange color of the Melon, and peaches. The green color of the grapes, also the white wall in the back of the table. Something else that I see is the beautiful print design plate against the wall with royal blue color and white.

   

Picture #2   "The Scream” (1893)     

Edvard Munch was born on December 12, 1863, in Lotern, Norway and Died on January 23, 1944. Munch came from a big family in which he was the second of five children. In 1864 His family decided to move to the city of Oslo, where it was the beginning of his nightmare and tragedies. For instance, in 1868 his mother died, 1877 his sister Sofia died, and few years later his only brother died too. His other sister was institutionalized most of her time suffering from mental illness.

By 1879 Munch began attending the technical college to study engineering. But, one year later he became interested in art. In 1881 he attended the Royal school of Art and Design.  In 1893 he painted "The Scream" where he express the inner feeling and emotions through the art work

"The Scream” (1893) is one of the most famous Art of Edvard Munch in till today.

 Picture #3

         The Starry Night byVan Gogh

This Painted was made in June 1889,

 Van Gogh was born 30 March 1853 and died 29 July 1890.

Starry Night is a painting by the impressionist artist Vincent Van Gogh. It portray the vision of outside through hishospital room window located in southern France at night, even though it was painted from memory during the day. The paint is Van Gogh's most well-known works and marks a decisive turn towards greater imaginative freedom in his art.Van Gogh spent his early years working for a firm of art dealers, even those his father wanted him to be working in a family business. But that wasn't the job that VanGogh wanted to do. He wanted to be painter to express himself.

The meaning of this picture in my interpretation is of someone standing on a mountain or tall building looking down at the town at night with the moon and the stars out.  The swirl is the earth moving and the wind blowing a night breeze.

Siddhartha# 3

Rossy Jerez

Assignment #3

Siddhartha (1922) by Hermann Hesse

But now, his liberated eyes stayed on this side, he saw and became aware of the visible, sought to be at home in this world, did not search for the true essence, did not aim at a world beyond. Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike. Beautiful were the moon and the stars, beautiful was the stream and the banks, the forest and the rocks, the goat and the gold-beetle, the flower and the butterfly. Beautiful and lovely it was, thus to walk through the world, thus childlike, thus awoken, thus open to what is near, thus without distrust. Differently the sun burnt the head, differently the shade of the forest cooled him down, differently the stream and the cistern, the pumpkin and the banana tasted. Short were the days, short the nights, every hour sped swiftly away like a sail on the sea, and under the sail was a ship full of treasures, full of joy.

The passage:

                This passage is saying that Siddhartha began to see things for what they simply appear to be instead of analyzing everything that surrounds him.  Siddhartha's curiosity and intend to search for answers has vanished because he is now seeing things from a different perspective.  He sees how beautiful things come into view and how wonderful it makes him feel.This is what Siddhartha has traded his questioning for. He looked at flowers and butterflies like a child would and was open to whatever life presented to him. Therefore, Siddhartha lived life as it happened, giving him a sense of happiness and joy.

Hesse and Nietzsche had similar interpretations about one’s religion .Both protested against religion. Hesse believed that everything in the universe from a small insect to human nature was important and should be thought of just as equal in the world. Just because one studies the word of god as a father, does not make you better than someone with or without a religious title or nonreligious belief.

This passage is important to me:

                This passage is important to me because I never see things just for what they are. I usually still feel curious of how many things came about to this world. When I read this quote I thought about how I want to see things when I become an elderly person. I want to spend the last years of my life stepping back from what I want to know. It would be great to one day live life fulfilling my senses.

GERMANY AND IT’S ECONOMY #1

            Germany is and has been for many years on the top of the list for the country with the most succeeding economy in the world. Because its large profits off of its agriculture, large labor force, imports ,and exports, Germany has experienced progress and development within the economy.

             Although recently fertility rate from the Agriculture has dropped, 1.6 percent of Germany's labor force depends on the profit made by their potatoes, wheat, barley, beets, sugar, fruits, cabbage, poultry, farm animals, and more. Most of the working force in Germany work in industries and services. In 2006-2007 Germany faced a crisis of falling unemployment, reducing work hours, of the government services.  It was as time of recession as severe as it was during the second World War.  Regardless of the bad times Germany faced economically in the past it is still a country considered as a main exporter. Germany  exports products such as famous vehicles, chemicals, household equipment’s, and machinery  which are known to be beneficial. It is easy to economically prosper for Germany when it comes to their export system since their technology is really advanced and up to date with what the modern target is interested in.  However, Germany doesn't only send their products out to other countries. Germany  receives tons of dollars worth of  products such as pharmaceuticals from their partnering countries  like Netherlands.

                Germany is one of the few counties who has gone from extreme crisis to being top five, leading, economically. The countries economy slightly resembles that of the United States. 

Nietzsche Quote #1

Rossy Jerez                                             Nietzche Quote                                 2/7/14

ndamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely c Nietzsche once stated in The Birth of Tragedy, p.23, Walter Kaufmann transl “Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.”

This quote means that ever since Christianity existed, It was created and necessary in order to cover or hide people's personal problems and hatred towards their life with faith. The type of faith of Christianity provides people with consist of belief in a healthier life in another place. I choose this quote because I can related to it as a Christian believer. I, as stated in the quote, turn to my religion in time of need in the life.