3.23 - Western Culture: The Roaring 20's

3/23/2020

This blog space is for the discussion of culture and art in the West during the 1920's and early 1930's. What do you think Dali's paintings "mean?" You like? Dislike? How about the Jazz? If you would like to discuss anything regarding culture in today's lesson, this is the spot.

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Sherer

3/25/2020 08:30:41 am

No one wants to talk about my hero Woody Guthrie? My favorite school of art, surrealism? One of my favorite forms of music, Jazz? Such empty!

Daniel

3/26/2020 10:57:04 am

I love how Dali's personality was literally his paintings. I remember the first time I viewed his paintings I was really confused looking at them because I wasn't sure why I was seeing more than one figure or faces. Dali's double images indicated how he viewed the world. its just awesome that he would turn his perspective of the world into beautiful art. also, why are the color schemes in terms of the background similar in his paintings. they just tend to give off this dreamlike vibe through the background. its fascinating once again how he's able to connect with others, how he's able to touch that and illustrate it. Also did you know that he drew in his bath, thats kinda odd but I guess thats what made Dali interesting, the fact that he did things that others found odd. I love how his paintings not just allow you to view a new perspective but also find and purpose within the painting. sure you can say that thats the whole point of art, for not just the artist to include a purpose or a message but for an audience to give one of their own, but Dali managed to do more than that, like he once said " I don't do drugs. I am drugs." also what's your favorite Salvador Dali quote, mine is "Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."

Daniel

3/26/2020 11:19:57 am

Dali gave surrealism a new significance, a new purpose. he shaped a style into something of his own. thats what an Artist does, "Surrealism is distinctive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision." - Salvador Dali

Sherer

3/27/2020 07:07:56 am

I knew some kids in collage that loved that quote too! I figured out of everyone you would love the Dali works the most. I have always found the shower (and in his case the bath) to be a great place for ideas, Did you have a favorite painting of his?

Daniel

3/28/2020 04:05:09 pm

My favorite painting of his is Woman at the Window in Figueras, since it symbolizes women’s individuality as well as technological advancements in the background by the Ford logo. I love it but hate it. I love it because it illustrates old culture but hate it because it symbolizes modernization. BTW I’m not a big fan of modernization. I don’t why I just know that the more we advance the more we lose. It’s weird to think how just in a few years how a lot can change. Time is strange I will never understand it.

Daniel

3/26/2020 11:46:36 am

My favorite song by Woody Guthrie is "I ain't got no home in this world anymore" it symbolizes many during the Dust Bowl, the struggles many experienced, it also indicates how wealth was a major factor. emphasizing how wealth gap was the only difference between people during that time. his work also indicates how he's left with no purpose, where he describes himself as wandering worker. So he means that if you have no job no house therefore you have no purpose. Well that's at least how I interpreted the song. It makes sense why his songs earned him the nickname "Dust Bowl Troubadour" during that time period.

Sherer

3/27/2020 07:11:27 am

Woody was to music what maybe some would consider Steinbeck was to literature. He was famous for just listening to people's conversations and turning them into one of his talkin' blues songs. "Philadelphia Lawyer" is one of my favorites of his and of course "This Land is Your Land" which in its original form was a form or protest. We tend to only remember the first few verses, but these were a statement:

"As I went walking I saw a sign there,
And on the sign it said "No Trespassing."
But on the other side it didn't say nothing.
That side was made for you and me.

In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
By the relief office I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?

Nobody living can ever stop me,
As I go walking that freedom highway;
Nobody living can ever make me turn back
This land was made for you and me.

Dario

4/3/2020 03:34:30 pm

Dali's paintings were a way to draw out his feelings and his perspective of life. Dali's ideas and emotions came from tragic moments in his life like losing his mother and his younger brother. Another factor that made him a better artist was events that happened around him like "The Great Depression, Racism, and etc." I personally like how a few of his drawing look because everyone sees them a different manners and can be interpreted in many ways. What I can picture in these drawings is the sense of not being able to control time. He expresses the yearn of his family members (especially his mother which was one of his greatest losses in his life) and the time he will never be able to spent with them. Dali's artist skills look fantastic, unbelievable and his shapes are engaging and mysterious looking. Others felt the same feeling of expressing themselves in different ways, Jazz became a musical way for African Americans to express their feelings like Louis Armstrong with one of his most famous songs "What a Wonderful World." I used to think that Jazz was only Brass and some woodwind instruments, but I discovered that they happened to also occasionally use the guitar and the violin, like Woody Guthrie. He was the songwriter of "This land is your land." Woody's songs are simple but contain a deeper meaning behind them. I think music a celebration of life that dates back to the first humans who admired their own kind of music.

Sherer

4/14/2020 09:45:29 am

Dario! Joining AP now are you? Welcome! And, dude, vibraphone jazz!

3.23 - Western Culture: The Roaring 20's

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