Sra. Weldon

Please share with your classmates your favorite “art” by adding a comment to this blog entry.  If you want to link things or attach pics that don’t seem to be fully accomodated, feel free to email me, and we’ll add your stuff via blog (by editting this entry).

 Also, if you have friends who are writing or doing good art, please feel free to include them and link to their blogs or sites as well as to scan in their work.  If YOU write or paint or ????, please feel free to share all that too!

ART is a broad idea.  Some examples are things like music/bands, films, sculpture, comics, books, poetry, architecture, dolls…

Sra. Weldon recommends:

FILMS

Amelie, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Hable con ella, Mirrormask, The Royal Tennenbaums, Waking Life, Finding Neverland, Pride and Prejudice (2005 and 1996 BBC), I Heart Huckabees, Stardust, Whale Rider, Sense and Sensibility (Emma Thompson)…

POETRY

Rainer Maria Rilke, Billy Collins, Mary Oliver, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Jack Kerouac, Andrew Hudgins, Kathleen Norris, TS Eliot, W. Symborzka

PROSE

Flannery O’Connor, Douglas Coupland, JD Salinger, Jonathan Safran, Herman Hesse

PLAYS

Rosencranz and Gildenstern Are Dead, Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Crucible

MUSIC

Over the Rhine, Sufjan Stevens, Feist, Chopin, Cake, Cat Power, PJ Harvey, Joni Mitchell, Blonde Redhead, Hem, The Cure, Bjork, Low, Jeff Buckley, New Pornographers/Neko Case, Death Cab for Cutie, Dead Can Dance, Pinback, Radiohead, The Ditty Bops, The Police, Mos Def, Belle and Sebastian

VISUAL

Alphonse Mucha, Gustav Klimt, Georgia O’Keeffe, Vincent Van Gogh, Annora Spence, David Delamare http://www.daviddelamare.com , Charles and Ray Eames (especially their furniture), Remedios Varo, Hieronymus Bosch, Jonathan Yuen http://www.jonathanyuen.com/main.html

DANCE

Kiri J.’s Black and White Ballets, Antonio Canales’ Flamenco troup, Carlos Saura’s Flamence films

Laura couldn’t post pics in comments so here are her pictures:

artists-powerpoint.ppt

Check out Olga’s gallery: http://www.abcgallery.com/

Also see Art in the Picture: http://artinthepicture.com/

 How about Latino Art? http://delcorazon.si.edu/

 There are many museums online too. http://muva.elpais.com.uy/

And this is just cool…

http://formespa.rediris.es/powerpoint/pps/frida.pps

 and

http://formespa.rediris.es/audios/index.html#frida

(scroll down for the interview with Salma Hayek)