BESSIE SMITH 1894 – 1937 Bessie Smith‚ known as “Empress of the Blues”‚ was born on April 15 1894 in Chattanooga‚ Tennessee. She was one of seven children to a part-time Baptist preacher and his wife. However‚ by the time Bessie was nine years old both of her parents were dead. Bessie and her brother Andrew were already singing on the streets of Chattanooga for spare change. Bessie’s older brother Clarence had joined a travelling vaudeville1 show as a comedian and dancer and in 1912 he
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light blue and dark blue colours with some yellow hints on the tips of the tentacles. The centre of the octopus is darker and as you reach to the end of the tentacles it gets lighter. The colours blend together nicely and they flow together well. The colours remind me of the ocean and the creatures that live inside of it. The tentacles are long and sharp at the ends. It is scaly and also looks like blue coral in the ocean. It reminds me of how the ocean and how the colours are dark blue in some
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an overall painting. The dimensions of the painting are 120.5 inches by 135 inches. The first thing that one notices when looking at “Back on Earth” is the actual shape of the canvases. Elizabeth Murray managed to balance out two opposites – a blue canvas that is purely geometric and has strong sharp edges‚ with the green canvas that has an organic‚ biomorphic shape with softer‚ curved edges. Surprisingly‚ the shapes do not “fight”‚ but rather compliment and complete each other. Murray’s choice
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by Burgoyne Diller‚ Blue point by Kate Shepherd‚ and most of all The Coming And going by David Salle. This trip was a great experience for me and I got to learn and see new things. The first painting that caught my eye was the First Theme by Burgoyne Diller. For some reason the colors of Blue‚ yellow‚ and white on black background caught my eye. I thought it was very different and unique to start off with a large square in the middle and then a long yellow rectangle and a blue long rectangle on
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original invasion saw more blues-charged groups like the Rolling Stones coming over the Atlantic. These British blues groups were influenced by the black blues singers of the ’40s and ’50s such as Muddy Waters‚ Robert Johnson‚ and B.B. King. The British artists covered the black artists this time out of respect‚ not simply to try to capitalize on the black artist’s success like the "vanilla" American cover artists of the ’50s. This respectful covering of the original blues hits ended up paying off
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John Lee Hooker born on August 22‚ 1917‚ in Clarksdale‚ Mississippi. He was the fourth out of eleven children in his family of William and Minnie Hooker. His father was a sharecropper and Baptist minister who was not fond of the blues because his father refers blues music as the “devil’s music”. When he was five years old‚ his parents separated from each other and they divorced when he was eleven. In his younger years‚ Hooker received a limited amount of formal education. However‚ music was an important
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TECHNIQUES Master the Basics of Rhythm” FROM THE ONLINE COURSE MUSIC THEORY 101 by PAUL SCHMELING Learn the Intricacies of the Seventh Chord” by MICHAEL RENDISH FROM THE ONLINE COURSE GETTING INSIDE HARMONY 1 Examining the Theory Behind the Blues” by PAUL SCHMELING FROM THE ONLINE COURSE MUSIC THEORY 201 GETTING STARTED WITH COUNTERPOINT FROM THE ONLINE COURSE COUNTERPOINT BY BETH DENISCH Beth Denisch is an associate professor in the Composition Department at Berklee College of
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1/23/11 The Psychology of Color The brain receives signals from three different color channels: red‚ blue‚ and green. When the brain receives a mix of these signals‚ we perceive colors that are mixtures of these three primary colors through a process called color addition (Think Quest “Color Psychology”). All colored visible light can be expressed as either mixtures or consistencies of red‚ blue‚ or green‚ which by perception between the eyes and the brain‚ produces the vast spectrum of color that
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Experiments. Procedure Refer to pages 209 – 211 of Heath Chemistry Laboratory Experiments. Data and Observations Part I: Equilibrium Involving Thymol Blue Table 1 Reagent Added | Stress (Ion Added) | Colour Observation | Direction of Equilibrium Shift | NaOH (Step 5) | OH⁻ | Green | Left | NaOH (Step 6) | OH⁻ | Blue | Left | HCl (Step 3) | H⁺ | Green | Right | HCl (Step 4) | H⁺ | Yellow | Right | Part II: Equilibrium Involving Thiocyanatoiron (III) Ion Table 2 Reagent
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the name of the doll in the piece. This piece of art belonged to the pop and surrealist art movement. I think that the title of the piece‚ ‘Blu’ is the name of the doll in the work‚ but it could also represent the ‘blue-ness’ of the piece as there is a constant wash of blue‚ blue could also represent sadness and loneliness‚ which is also present in the piece through the dolls eyes. If you look closely as the piece‚ you can see that there are clouds and raindrops that could represent tears.
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