Illustrate a Story

          I found this particular story interesting because it informed me about the destruction if the U.S.S. Arizona  (Battle Ship) in Pearl Harbor through the eyes and words of a teenager who enlisted in the military the previous year. Frank Curre survived the tragic event of that day while aboard the U.S.S. Tennessee (Battle Ship). He also experienced a great piece of history due to the fact that this event is what got the United States involved in World War II.

Brooklyn Museum Reaction

Field Trip 4: The Brooklyn Museum

 
For our fourth field trip, we visited the Brooklyn Museum. Although this is one of the largest and oldest Museums in the country, it holds inside many different and distinct works of art that will leave you amazed. From all the exhibitions inside this museum, there were three that were of importance to me and the class. These include “Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties”, “Sanford Biggers: Sweet Funk-An Introspective”, and “Timothy Greenfield Sanders: The Latino List”.
From the “Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties” there were many paintings that were as the title states from the twenties and illustrated ideas of life from that time period. These arts included paintings from environmental getaways to a women relaxing nude on a sheet, all the way to commonly used masculine products. The work of art that caught my eye in this exhibit is called, “The Beach” which was completed in 1924. It consists of three paintings (triptych), all of the same size and perfectly lined up next to one another as each picture continues where the other left off. They illustrate a large group of people, both men and women just talking and socializing in a mature and proper way while enjoying the beautiful ocean breeze, sunny day, and overall just relaxing. The men are fully dressed and the women are in stockings and skirted bathing suits and the artist describe this painting as on that suggests the social encounters that were newly possible in America at that time. The idea of identity in this work seems to be cultural since all these people that have gathered at the beach as a mini society and all began to mingle.
From the “Sanford Biggers: Sweet Funk-An Introspective there were many works of art that were as the title states, Funky or weird. The one that stuck out to me is titled “Blossom, and was completed in 2007. This was pretty much a classical wooden piano that was intertwined with the center of a tree and also played music by itself. The purpose of this is that of 1930’s Blues singer, Billie Holiday. The tree and piano represents her popularization of the song, “a protest against lynching” which was usually racially motivated. It is also the center of this exhibition, and shows a sense of cultural identity since this was an all around problem faced by society back in the 1930’s.
From the last exhibition I visited, “Timothy Greenfield Sanders: The Latino List”, there were also a hand full of interesting things here. To start it off, this exhibition was located in a giant white room and had four large cloth columns at its corners. This all seemed like a very pure, and natural way of displaying art as well as culturally oriented through the constant use of the color white which is favored by Hispanic families. On the inside of theses columns however were large photographs of well known, famous people of Latin heritage from the worlds of culture, politics, business, and sports. They were framed in white frames and were in high resolution. Upon walking around these picture, one that caught my eye was that of hip hop rapper Pitbull, also known as Armando Christian Perez who is of Cuban descent. This caught my eye because he is one of my favorite rappers, and I was not expecting to see a picture of him at a museum.
Although I was not at the Brooklyn Museum for too long, I got to see many interesting works of art by going there. I am looking forward to going back there since there is still many exhibitions I have not witnessed yet and am hoping to see everything this second time around. The Brooklyn Museum was very fun adventure and well worth my time. I recommend it to anyone who has an interest in art, as well as sculptures, and fine displays.



Guy Pene du Bois (American, 1884-1958)
“The Beach”
1924



Sanford Biggers
“Blossom”
2007



Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
“The Latino List”
2011

  

The Best Pizza Ever!!!

Eddie’s Delicious Home Made Pizza Recipe

For my Culinary Design Project, I decided to go along with making pizza. Not just any pizza however, but home made pizza with whole wheat pitas, shredded whole milk cheese, and any kind of tomato sauce. This can then be baked in your oven to your perfection. This particular kind of home made pizza is significant to me because its the way my mom always makes pizza and I grew up with it. I have ate it with friends and family throughout my life very often, and still enjoy it this everyday home made appetizer at least once a week in my current life. It is very easy to make since it uses common fridge items that you might already have, is very cost effective, and tastes great at the end.

Ingredients

1) Whole Wheat Pita (6 per packet) -Preferred

2) Francesco Rinaldi Sweet and Tasty Tomato Sauce (24oz.) -Preferred

3) Polly-O Whole Milk Mozzarella (32oz.) -Preferred

Instructions

Step 1) Gather materials. Pita Bread which can be bought at many places these days, same as
            with tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese. You might also have these materials in your
            fridge, since they are very common use food products.

Step 2) Grind up the mozzarella cheese in a big bowl so that you have the most difficult and time
            consuming part done with.

Step 3) After this open the Pita Bread. Lay a couple of pitas out on a thin metal sheet or plate    
            which is commonly found in many house hold ovens.

Step 4) Open the tomato sauce and spread it over all the pitas with a spoon.

Step 5) Spread the previously shredded mozzarella cheese over the tomato sauce covered  
            pittas.

Step 6) Turn on your oven to any temperature above 300 degrees so your pizza can cook well
            and quick to your perfection.