Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists‚ Fifty Years Upon entering the museum‚ my interest were immediately focused upon Andy Warhol’s work. The exhibition showcased 50 works by Warhol. There were large and small pieces‚ video selections and wallpapered environments‚ and I spent the next two hours absorbed in a fantastic‚ somewhat chaotic Warholian world. Until his death in 1987‚ Andy Warhol was the reigning king of Pop Art culture and a huge iconic influence on the innovative approach to creative uses
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Andy Goldsworthy and Janet Laurence are two artists who investigates landscape and the environment‚ but in disparate ways. Andy Goldsworthy creates his artworks by utilising nature’s media precisely while Janet Laurence studies the environment’s architecture through photography‚ sculpture‚ video and installation. Andy Goldsworthy is a British artist who incorporates a wide range of nature surroundings such as snow‚ leaves‚ bark‚ rock‚ clay‚ stones‚ feathers‚ petals‚ twigs and much more‚ into
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strips them of their sanity‚ however occasionally there is a person who is able to buck that trend and restore hope. Andy Dufresne in Shawshank Redemption‚ by Rita Hayworth‚ is one of the few Christ figures that was able to restore hope to an entire nation. Andy arrived at Shawshank Penitentiary as a thirty-year-old man who had allegedly murder his wife‚ Linda Collins Dufresne‚ and her
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Andy Warhol - Campbell’s Soup (Tomato) Can Evaluation - Rebecca Hogg Andy Warhol‚ American Pop Artist‚1930-1987. This is a Silkscreen on canvas in 1962. Of all the varieties of soup that Warhol produced‚ Tomato was his most valued. In this print‚ the can stands alone. It stands just as one can with nothing else around it‚ no objects. I think Warhol chose the soup can as the modern or "in-thing" of his time was being able to print recognisable icons that were known to everyone in that specific
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The novel ‘Trash’ by Andy Mulligan is based on three dumpsite boys‚ Raphael‚ Rat and Gardo‚ who make a living on the Behala dumpsite‚ collecting anything recyclable. One day‚ Raphael finds something that is both dangerous and mysterious that even the police are desperate for it‚ they are even rewarding each family working and living on the dumpsite‚ money. Raphael‚ Rat and Gardo’s decision to keep the item from the police and solve the mystery themselves‚ led them to frightening consequences‚ but
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Modern Art. Excited to be productive‚ we all quickly agreed and left for the city within the hour. Upon arrival‚ we purchased our tickets and began walking around. While we were taking our time and observing the magnificent art‚ we got to the wall where Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans is intended to be. The pop art sensation was missing. In dismay‚ I touched the wall in which it is normally situated‚ and I transported into a disserted basement room of the museum‚ leaving my siblings
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When Andy and Tom throw their bar of soap into the Duvitches tub of fish‚ poisoning them all they are given the punishment from their father of going in the lake and catching 61 fish‚ the same amount the Duvitches had caught within the day. Andy’s father was right to give his boys such a tough punishment because this punishment allowed his boys to look at what they did in a new way. His sons learned a valuable lesson after they spent their time completing their punishment. The Duvitches were a large
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The Man on the Moon: Andy Kaufman by Marcos Gonzalez You sit down in Carnegie Hall. The theatre is packed‚ not a single seat is open. Your excitement begins to build as you reach the edge of your seat waiting for the performer to show his face. The curtains open and out comes a skinny‚ sweaty‚ hairy man in a brown suit and light-blue‚ collared shirt. He looks disheveled‚ pulls up a stool and begins to read The Great Gatsby. About an hour in‚ the crowd begins to filter out‚ but he continues
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GLOSSARY OF TECHNIQUES USED TO CREATE MEANING Active voice/passive voice Writing that uses the forms of verbs which create a direct relationship between the subject and the object. Active voice is lively and more direct. Eg. ‘We had fun’ is written in the active voice; ‘Fun was had’ is written in the passive voice. Alliteration The repetition of the consonant sounds at the beginnings of words. It is used to produce sound that adds to the atmosphere or mood of the words‚ or perhaps
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English Techniques Allegory Story with a double meaning: one primary (on the surface) and one secondary. The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters‚ figures/ events in narrative‚ dramatic or pictorial form. Alliteration Repetition of consonants at the start of words or in a sentence or phrase. Anaphora The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. Anecdote A short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person. Illustrate
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