Art_Renaissance Test

Renaissance Test

1. What historical event (the fall of a civilization) took place in 395 AD to usher in the middle ages? The fall of Roman Empire

2. What was society and culture generally like in the middle ages? There was really rich people (2% of society) and most of people cannot read and write, and were very poor (98% of people). It was the less cultural area because people didn’t have money to pay artist.

3. Renaissance means rebirth of ideas.

4. What was being brought back during this time? The culture was high and there was many discovery.

Define:
5. Contraposto: when things are draw or sculpt in special position like twisting.

6. Chiaroscuro: the light and the dark=shadows

7. The painter of the Mona Lisa was Leonardo da Vinci

8. The man who sculpted the Pieta and the Sistine Chapel was Michelangelo

9. What is different about Renaissance painting compared to painting during the Dark Ages? During the dark age, people were paint straight and without shadows.

10. What is meant by the concept of "Humanism?" The study of every things about human.

What does a good citizen looks like?

Citizens are people who are a part of many communities like family, school, city, country, world... Without citizens, there aren’t communities. A citizen has rights (ex. he can share his ideas). But also, a citizen has duties and responsibilities. If he does not do his duties or responsibilities there are some consequences. For example, in a family, each person has to clean the house, and if they don’t do it, the house is dirty. A citizen can be native or naturalized. Native means when people are born in the community. Naturalized means when people become a citizen of a community where they are not was born, by a special process. A good citizen crosses social boundaries and doesn’t care about difference in people. It’s a person you can trust, and who considers the world’s problems seriously.

A good citizen of school has duties (ex.homework). He must listen and respect others. He also crosses social boundaries. A social boundary is an invisible wall that divides people because of difference. Language, culture, hobbies, ideas, opinions are some examples of social boundaries. Social boundaries are the cause of cliques. Cliques are group of people who stay together because of a common point and don’t easily let other in. Cliques make people ignorant. Because they stay with their own group, and don’t mix with other groups with other ideas. A good citizen of a school is open minded. He doesn’t care about difference (ex. race). He does not have prejudice . Prejudice is a opinion, prejudgement or attitude about a group of people. Also, he doesn’t have bias. Bias is caused by fear or ignorance. When people are in a clique, they are ignorant and then have prejudice and bias.

A good citizen of a country doesn’t stereotype and discriminate. A stereotype is an exaggerated belief, image or distorted ideas about a person or a group. Stereotype are based on mass media (ex. T.V, news paper), culture, history etc. Scientists made a experiment that proved children learn stereotypes at 3 years old. It’s because children listen to what people say and also watch T.V. They think what they hear is a good thing. Discrimination is the ill-treatment of a person because of group membership. A good citizen must fight prejudice and discrimination. One example of a person who crosses social boundaries was Gandhi. A good citizen must teach his children they must listen to other ideas and also learn other cultures. They need to be open minded if they want to become good citizens. Psychologist at Harvard created Project Implicit. It’s a test that measures unconscious bias. You can do this test, and try to undo your own unconscious bias.

A good citizen of the world takes a part in Global debates. He share his ideas with others, to tries to find solution to Global warming. And then, he can learn new ideas and solution. I think it’s not too late to change our life style. One person cannot change the world, nut 6 million people can change it. Global warming is the Earth temperature increasing. It’s because the extra CO2 (cause by human) stay on the Earth because of green house effect. There will be a lot of effect if we don’t try to stop pollution. First, they will be no work, then immigration. Also, there will be no rain, then no crops, then no food, and then some big famine in the world. Also the height of the sea will increase and cover all islands like Taiwan. Also Antarctica will melt, and lots of animals like polar bear will disappear. But we can try to change that. We can stop polluting the world (ex. electric or solar car) We can teach children how the Earth is important because children are our future. We can make communities action like cleaning the beach.

A good citizen is a person who tries to make his world better.

THE END :D

Haiti_life

Haiti_Life

What is the story about?

The story “life” is about a pregnant woman who will have her baby. The midwife can’t help her so she have to go to the hospital. She is going to the hospital, but the car was out of gas. The men ask help, because if he doesn’t drive the woman, her and the baby will die. Then, people come to help us, and they push the car to the hospital. This story show the country need help and money from other country. If the man had money, he could buy gas, and then the woman could have her baby quickly. Also, the country need some good university, to form people like midwife to be qualified for such cases. We need to care about what happening in Haiti because it can happen the same thing in Taiwan, and people will need help. Also, some people are die, we can’t do anything for them, but some people, man, woman and children who are alive, wait for help, they wait for a people found them below their house. They are humans, and we can’t leave them die like that. All of citizen can give money, or go to Haiti, to help people. They need water, food, clothing and help. This story show that if people help other, we can save life.

Richard Wagner Opera

a.Richard Wagner was born on 1813, and die on 1883 in Venice, Italy. He was a german, composer, theatre director, and essayist. He was most famous for the western music in his operas which he wrote the poems which deliberately change the ordinary of the time people thought it was a "total art".


b.Richard Wagner has completely transformed the design of the opera from 1850, conceiving it not as entertainment but as a sacred drama. The Fairies (Die Feen), The Liebesverbot (Das Liebesverbot) and Rienzi operas are the youth. These works have nothing particularly remarkable and rarely played nowadays.With The Flying Dutchman (Der fliegende Holländer) and Tannhauser and Lohengrin, Wagner wrote his first great romantic operas. The composition of Tristan und Isolde , often considered his masterpiece. Next come The Meistersinger of Nuremberg (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) and The Ring of the Nibelung (Der Ring des Nibelungen). The Ring of the Nibelung, also known as Tetralogy is a series of four operas based on German and Scandinavian mythology. The last opera of Wagner's Parsifal, is a contemplative work based on the Christian legend of the Holy Grail.Through his works and his theoretical essays, Wagner exerted a great influence in the world of lyrical music. Combining drama and music to create the musical drama, he made himself the champion of a new conception of the opera, in which the orchestra plays a no less important than the singers.

1.Richard Wagner wrote romantic operas.
“The music assemble with verse to form, since Wagner, the poetry” Stephane Mallarme
He also wrote racist essay like Judaism in music, he wrote opinions violently antisemitic. Frequently accusing the Jews, especially Jewish musicians.


2.Wagner was the author of his operas, very rare event in the history of the music scene.
In the Ring, each character (including the ring) is associated with a musical theme with ariations independently indicate psychological climate in which this character is changing is the famous "motto"


3. Throughout his life, in his conversations, his writings, Richard Wagner has stopped issuing opinions violently antisemitic. Frequently accusing the Jews, especially Jewish musicians, of being harmful alien to Germany, he recommended their assimilation to the Germanic culture.
The first essay of Wagner, Judaism in Music, was published in 1850. He wrote in particular that the German people was "repulsed" by the Jews because "their appearance and behavior of foreign" Jews "are anomalies of nature" chatting "to their voices squeaky, squealing and buzzing» .

Jelly Roll Morton

Jelly Roll Morton

a)Jelly Roll Morton transform the ragtime on the Morton’s piano style. He remove the side of the rigid structure to make music more airy, more clear, paving the way for the improvisations of Earl Hines and the great pianists who would follow.
-In 1904, he became a itinerant pianist, working in many cities.
-From 1915 to 1920, he has lived in Los Angeles with the famous Spike Brothers.
-In 1922, he moved to Chicago, the new jazz center. He recording two performance with a sextet, Big Foot Ham and Muddy Water Blues.
-In 1926, Morton was recording with his Red Hot Peppers. Bands like Grandpa's Spells, Black Bottom Stomp, and The Pearls are the best examples of Morton's creative talents not only as a composer and arranger, but also as a pianist.
-Jelly Roll Morton wrote "King Porter Stomp," a song he dedicated to a pianist (Porter King) and will be covered by many bands of 30-40 years (Fletcher Henderson, Benny Goodman) and even by many Gil Evans later.

b)Jelly Roll Morton was very important because he create the Morton’s piano style, which later became the current jazz. He influence many jazzman ( ex. Earl Hines) He create the "transition" between ragtime and actual jazz.

1.People really liked Jelly Roll Morton, he was a great pianist and people liked the Morton’s piano style. He was famous because of the "Spanish tinge" of exotic rhythms and penning such standards as "Wolverine Blues", "Black Bottom Stomp", and "Buddy Bolden's Blues".
2.Now, most people who listen him are jazzman, are jazz fan. For some people, Jelly Roll Morton is an idol.
3.Jelly Roll Morton was very famous during his success, from 1923 to 1929, people say he was the musician of musicians. The jazz popularity was from 1920 to 1960.
4.The Morton style come from ragtime. The ragtime is very similar than jazz, it’s the same rhythm. This is ragtime http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFVBoWKnj4E and this is Morton piano style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lTAqkIWRAg
5.Jelly Roll Morton was an appreciate black man, one of the first time a black man was accepted. But during the period when he was recording his interviews, Morton was seriously injured by knife wounds when a fight broke out at the Washington, D.C. establishment where he was playing. A nearby whites-only hospital refused to treat him, and he had to be transported to a lower-quality hospital further away.