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My name is Anika McEwan.
ReplyDeleteI am a junior and I am pursuing a double major (English and Studio Art) and a certificate for Leadership through the Ethnic Learning and Living Community RAP at CU Boulder. I enjoy reading, writing, art, being active, being outside, and dancing. I thoroughly enjoy helping people and dealing with charities although my involvement is unfortunately at a stand-still at the moment. I hope to be a teacher and an author as I grow up.
As far as my writing background goes, I was in the International Baccalaureate Program when I was in high school and during that time I wrote some of my longest papers. I wrote a paper that was about fifteen pages about how the language and word structure in Beowulf has impacted modern-day English. I also wrote a paper that was a little over ten pages long that dealt with the impacts of the Guttenberg printing press on the spread of information. Both of the aforementioned papers had a bibliography and sparing uses of endnotes.
Being at CU has greatly expanded my horizons.
This is partially due to the educational aspect and partially because it has forced me to make decisions about my life that I otherwise would not have had to deal with. I have enjoyed most of my major related courses thus far in my career here at CU and therefore it is very difficult for me to choose one class that I have enjoyed the most. I do however think that coming to CU has made me interested in too many areas of Art and English which will make it more difficult in the coming years to pick a path for the rest of my life.
I try to read during the summer, but seem to have very little time for free reading during the semester. I just finished Oryx and Crake by Margret Atwood and am currently reading the sequel titled The Year of the Flood. I am enjoying the novel so far and hope that the two books run more concurrently by the end of The Year of the Flood. I hope that one day I too can help others enter into alternate worlds.
Like with most people I know that I am a very deep and layered person but when writing introductions find it difficult to think of things to tell and stories that make me interesting so for now this is all I have floating around in my crammed and cluttered brain.
Hopefully I'm posting this in the right place. This is assignment 2a
ReplyDeleteDiego Gravinese
Contemporary art is full of contradictions. The line between various mediums and content is in a perpetual state of juxtaposition. More and more artists challenge the idea behind this ever present problem in art. Among some of the successful explorers we find artist Diego Gravinese. Diego is an Argentinean born painter who blurs the line between the popular subject areas of painting, photography and surrealism. His body of work, rendered in oil paint portrays figurative imagery in a photorealistic fashion. Gravinese captures moments in time, suspended to make his audience examine the relationship between photography and traditional painting in relation to the human form.
is Diego a photographer or a painter? The question is a difficult one to answer upon further investigation of his work. Browsing quickly through contemporary works, his paintings would be indistinguishable from the work of his photographic counterparts. Meriam Webster defines a photograph as an image projected onto a light sensitive material and recorded permanent on a surface. In this regard it is acceptable to label the work of Gravinese as photography. The light sensitive material being the retina inside his eye, translating an image through brush and oil paint permanently to the surface of his canvas with an uncanny accuracy.
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