Every day we see the world. We see with our eyes, but what we often miss are the details. Here are three pieces of art. Look at what is going on in each piece. What emotion is brought out through the colors, shapes, designs? 
Choose one of these pieces to connect to either a poem, novel, or essay read this year in class. Explain how the artwork connects to an idea, a particular scene, or even a character. Break both down in your explanation.
Your explanation should breakdown what you see in the artwork and then connect the art to your poem, novel, or essay. Remember to focus in on a specific character, scene or idea. All ideas should be original.
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For this blog, I will choose the blue and yellow burst of light in water which is my interpretation of the picture. In my interpretation, the emotions of freedom, liberty, and happiness are associated with this picture.
I believe this picture connects with the idea of individuality in Anthem because this picture, in my opinion, portrays a release of freedom. This release can be associated with Equality’s need for freedom, individuality, and liberty.
I see a release of individuality and freedom in this picture because there is a burst of blue and yellow light. This idea of release of individuality can be connected to Anthem's Equality.
The painting I chose was the second one that was on the right. Although the play is quite dull, the painting reminded me of "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett. It reminds me of the cyclical nature of the text. Just as Vladimir and Estragon return to the same place everyday(the side of the road with the worn down tree) and do the same things, the light blue portion of this is cyclical as well. The squiggly lines connect to each other and if you follow them, you end up at the same place you started, most likely. I felt that the background shade of blue used mirrors the dull gray that the landscape is described as. The gray hill and the dead tree. Overall, the landscape is gray and dull. The darker blue reminded me of this. And to explain the burst of yellow in the middle. This to me shows the random bursts of thought that Vladimir and Estragon have while waiting for Godot. It is the light in their agony of waiting for Godot, just as the bright yellow splotches are the light in the blue background.
I chose to analyze the 3rd piece of art which resembles a tree. If i were to choose a specific scene/setting to compare this to I would choose the tree found in "Waiting for Godot". Specifically I would choose the scene where the main characters are contemplating on killing themselves by hanging themselves on the tree. This painting seems to mirror the image of what the tree should represent in the book because it is depicted as dark, bared, and un-supporting. No man could ever hang themselves on a tree such as the one depicted with flimsy branches, allowing both of them to continue their journey to wait for nothing.
Steven z.
I chose the first picture; the red and orange one. It reminds me of the scene in Crime and Punishment where Raskolnikov and Sonya are reading the story of Lazarus. The book describes the scene as a murderer and prostitute are reading the Bible. Through analyzing this passage, I have come to understand that the reading of the story is, for both of them, a representation of hope. They have both lived dark lifestyles, just as Lazarus had been in the dark (death) and been raised to life. They are both hoping to have some sort of spiritual resurrection. While their lives are grim, there is still a glimmer of hope in the distance. This picture displays this through the color. The red and oranges represent blood (or death and darkness), and the small amount of yellow in the background is the glimmer of hope and light in the distance. It is the light at the end of the tunnel, just as Sonya and Raskolnikov are hoping to have.
The picture I chose to analyze was the last picture with the tree on it. This picture reminds me of the story the Pardoner's Tale. The scene from the Pardoner's Tale is the one where the men first arrive at the tree of death. The tree in the picture looks dark and so is the story. The story mainly focuses on the greed of the three men because they all want the gold that was placed under the tree. They each kill one another and really ended up finding death under the tree. In the painting it almost looks like little gold dots are falling from the tree. The little gold dots made me think of the gold under the tree in the story. I feel like the resemblance between the story and the picture are obvious in my eyes.
The picture I chose to analyze was the last picture with the tree on it. This picture reminds me of the story Anthem. The tree reminds me of the Uncharted Forest. The picture looks dark and mysterious just like the myths of the forest. At the end of the story Equality runs away into the Uncharted Forest. In a way this tree represents freedom for Equality. In the painting it appears that little gold dots are falling from the tree. The little gold dots made me think of the bulbs which represent electricity. I feel like the resemblance between the story and the picture is great.
K.Monkowski 1*
The artwork i choose to compare with is the first piece. The picture is colored using reds and oranges which are both warm colors. This reminds me of the book, Tuesdays With Morrie. A main character in the book is Morrie who becomes a very ill man. He is the most kind-hearted man and gives Mitch, which is the younger man who comes and visits him, comfort and security. There is also some sharp shapes drawn throughout the picture. The sharp shapes represent the challenges Morrie had to face with his health. That was the difficulty throughout the book and was resolved when he eventually passed away, which was for the better. These shapes and colors can be connected to Tuesdays With Morrie but may also be seen differently by other people.
I Chose the last one. The tree reminds me of Pardners tale when the three men were trying to chase death and ended up dying by the tree. The brighter spots reminded me of the gold they found and the darker spots made me think when the older guy warned the guys that they didnt want to find death and that it was under the tree but they ended up dying by greed and evil
Breanna Hartory
4/5
The first painting with the warm colors reminds me of the main character in Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov. The left side of the painting is very dark and mysterious-looking. It reminds me of the tortured mood that Raskolnikov often reflects, while the rest of the painting uses the same warm colors to create a light and more hopeful mood. This part of the painting reflects the good that Sonia sees in Raskolnikov and hopes to bring out. The bottom part of the painting is a more dreary use of the colors, showing Raskolnikov's constant suffering and guilt as a result of the murder. These are all the same colors reflecting very different moods and personalities, just as Raskolnikov has always been true to himself yet is comprised of many different elements.
I chose to focus on the piece of artwork at the bottom, the tree with the blue background. This reminded me of the piece we had read earlier in the year in which a mother was telling her daughter how to act. It was a lengthy lecture composed of only one sentence. The tree reminded me of this piece because some groups of branches are high and some are handng low, just like the mother's talk with her daughter. Some of the points of her talk are 'low' such as when she is speaking to her daughter about love. Other points are 'high', like the fact that the mother is trying to teach her daughter how to be a proper lady. The blue background reminded me of the cold tone of the piece. It was a constant lecture from the mother in which the daughter got few interruptions, but in the end it was to help the daughter grow to become a woman.
E.Zaranec 7/8
The picture I chose to analyze was the first one. This reminded me of Alex in Clockwork Orange. The reds, yellows, and oranges remind me of Alex’s love of blood and violence, which fades overtime through his prison experience, like the color fades to oranges and even yellow. The red is still present in the yellows, but is less noticeable, like Alex’s desire to be violent. The random streaks of faint white designs in the painting reminded me of Alex’s lack of purpose and the lack of structure and discipline in his life. There is a faint appearance of a person’s mouth in the painting, which could be similar to Alex seeing the screaming in the videos whenever he wants to be violent. The sharp triangle in the middle of the painting could be a symbol of violence like the knives Alex uses. I find the colors and subtle shapes to be similar to Alex’s violence throughout the novel.
I chose the first painting because the colors remind me of the pardoners tale and how it was all evil. The red symbolized the death that occured through out the story and the orange symbolized the scheming and plotting that went on through out the tale to try to get riches.
the peice of art work that i am choosing is going to be the top right one with the blue background with the yellow flame comming from the bottom because it relates to the poem that we read in the beginning of the year about the young girl talking about her dad and how he was abused when he was younger and how it effected him today and how even though he swore taht he would never abuse his children like his mother abused him he did and i just think that connects to the painting because the blue makes me think of all the emotion expressed when he was a child and is also symbolic for all of the tears and emotional stress on him as a child and i think of the yellow as a light flame being potrayed as the light of his soul and how under all of that emotion and pain there is still a great person deep within him but its blocked from comming out because of the emotional road blocks from letting it shine and let him have the same opurtunities as other children that are not being abused and have a happy child life and are stress free.
The artwork that I am choosing to write about is the bottom piece. The book I am choosing to connect this artwork to is Stephen King's On Writing novel.
I chose this book to compare this picture to for a few reasons. One reason being, in the picture it looks like there are ghosts in the background. It has mostly dark and dull colors throughout the painting. I relate this element to the time when King was overcoming his addiction and drug problems. That was a very dark and troubled time period in his life. The twisted winding of the tree also can relate to Stephen King's struggles and twists and turns throughout his life time.
Another reason I chose this picture is because of the yellow tints at the end of the branches on this tree. That brings a warmer element to this dull picture. This can connect with the hope and positivity King found in his life. He found this by overcoming all of his issues and became the man that many people admire nowadays.
Chelsea Durr 4/5 Period
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This piece of artwork (the first one) reminds me of "Crime and Punishment" especially the setting for Raskolnikov's room. The black lines form right angles and are shaded like cracks in a wall. The almost transparent white scribbles look like chalk or thin scratches. Red and dull yellow smears dirty the painting like a wall in a poor man's house. This square seems to have been cut out of the plaster in Rodya's cramped quarters. It both carries the stifling poverty of his conditions and the darkly bloody status of his mind. The shade of red is easily equated to the blood that he spilt. As a whole, this painting appears angry with its sharp angles, remorseful with its scar-like cracks, and confused with the muddled yellow smears.
Christian Schick 7/8*
The painting I choose is the third one with the tree and night background. The story it reminds me of is the Pardoner's Tale, the tree is what first made me think about it, but when I thought about it more I saw how beautiful the tree looked but in the night sky looked different. The tree made me think of where the three died but also the beauty reminded me of how looks can be deceiving. The old man that showed him to deaths tree was secretly death himself but being deceiving got the three to kill eachother. The night sky reminded me that even though something may be beautiful it can also be dangerous such as the gold seemed as if it was such a beautiful prize but what lead to their death.
In the second painting, I feel that I can relate its existence towards the story anthem by Ayn Rand. For generations, humans have mindlessly milled about, doing as they're told by the all powerful council, the symbolic representation here is that Equality has made an impact on their world, and it could bring about new change. If one could break free of the councils will, find a new form of happiness, and improve the way they live, others would be tempted to join, to for once, have an uncertain fate and discover the lost world around them.
I chose to look at the third picture which looks like a tree to me. It reminded me of the story we read about the people who sat by the tree and were greedy and that killed them. I think it could connect to the character of death, because that is a scary looking tree. Also the colors are kind of brighter though so it brings happier emotions but the blue is dark and reminds me of death. A.MacIvor
The picture I chose was the tree (the one on the bottom). The character I am choosing to compare this to is the tree in the pardoners tale. The first likeness is the gold undertones and the gold leaves in the tree, this shows how the gold was always hanging over their heads and how the need to have the gold was behind everything that happened in the story. The The painting is also surrounded by mystical looking brushstrokes and the tree in portrayed very abstract , this comments on how the pardoners tale tree was also in the midst of a very mystical mood in the story. Lastly the tree in this painting in very lanky, foreboding, and sinister and the view is looking up at the tree. In the tale the mood was also very dark and in the story they found “death under the tree” which seems appropriate that it would be a dark and dangerous place to be looking up at that tree. mckennavalasek
The blue painting with the tree reminds me of the pardoners tales. When the three greedy men went to find death at the tree.The fact that the tree has no leaves symbolizes death. It gives a dark theme to the picture. The dark blue sky gives a midnight feel and night also symbolizes death. All these things are really similar to that story.
I picked the last picture. The light blue sky without a sun to tell time reminds me of Waiting for Goddot. Also the tree with very few leafs on it reminds me of the one from the book.
the painting i chose to write about is the last one with the tree and the blue background. I thought this painting related with equality from the book anthem. This painting reminds me of growth, and life. This is much like how equality grew mentally throughout the story to find himself and discover what the world was truly about, not just what the council presented to him as real.
The picture with the tree makes me think back to the Pardoner's Tale, because it reminds me of the tree that the three men found. The painting is dark, and darkness is usually representative of death, which is what the three men find at the tree. Finally, the painting is of a tree at night, and the Pardoner's Tale takes place at night.
I choose to analyze the picture with the tree. It interests me because the tree seems to be out of place within the overall scene. The background is a bright blue (what a summer day may look like, or a summer night for that matter) and the tree has light, glowing leaves. The leaves look almost like lights. However, the tree itself looks rather ugly. It is not a tall, majestic tree that is usually shown with these flowing lights, but a twisting, contorting, and oddly colored stick. It looks old and wretched. This reminds me of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Dorian was a beautiful person paired with an ugly painting, and this painting is a beautiful background paired with an ugly main subject. The tree looks old and contorted, and by the end of the novel Dorian's painting looks old and twisted as well. The contrast within this painting and between Dorian and his painting are what I notice most.
I chose the first image to relate to the novel "A Clockwork Orange". This painting uses only warm colors such as orange, red and yellow, the same as fire. This reminded me of the character Alex. Alex was angry and violent just as fire is. And through these firey colors one can begin to see a city of some sort. Alex, too lived in a city. The setting fed his violence by surrounding him with other violent characters, gangs and corruption.
The third image of the tree reminds me of the tree from Waiting for Godot. The use of the color blue and the swirling in the background creates a gloomy mood that reflects the hopelessness Vladimir and Estragon felt while waiting near it. The tree is crooked has thin, gnarled branches, features that make for an unattractive tree. Vladimir and Estragon weren't sure if they were at the right tree, and Estragon even questioned it to be a shrub. The tree in the play was also incapable of taking their weights, as they contemplated hanging themselves from it, and it doesn't look like someone could hang themselves from the tree in the picture. The darkness of the night in the painting and what seems to be an image of a face to the right, even ghostlike, is disturbing and is similar to the dark thoughts of suicide by the two men who can't stand waiting by that tree any longer.
The play “Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett connects to the picture of the tree. In “Waiting for Godot,” there is a tree that Vladimir and Estragon stand near during a good portion of the play. The tree suddenly begins to sprout leaves during the play. In the picture of the tree, there are little buds that are starting to emerge. There also is a blue background with light appearing in the top left corner. The tree buds represent rebirth and regeneration. New life is forming on the tree. The light behind the tree represents hope. There is a “light” at the end of the tunnel. This is similar to the play. In the play, Estragon and Vladimir are waiting by the tree for Godot. The leaves on the tree start to grow throughout the play. This is a rebirth, which gives the two men hope, hope that Godot will come to them. Life is growing out the tree. Both trees represent the tree of life.
Joey Marincek 7/8th period
I chose the second painting. This painting instantly reminded me of the book Anthem and the character Equality. Around the edges the paining is this dark blue, like its frozen. The society in Anthem is frozen in time, they will not mention the times before them or move forward. The artwork is like a piece of ice and its cracking, just like Equality is trying to do with indivuality. He is the bright yellow trying to shine through. He touches Liberty and she follows him. It's like he is kind of breaking ice and his ideas (which are portrayed as the yellow)begin to leak through to other parts of society, which is why the panting gradually gets lighter from the outer dark blue.He's bringing out light in a dark world. This picture could also represent the light he invented and tried showing his brothers, but they rejected it.
The picture I choose is the one with the tree and the blue background. I choose this picture because I think it relates to the forest scene in the book Anthem. The tree is tall, and very clearly branching out. This represents the main characters desire to escape from his society and be his own person.
The third picture reminds me of The Pardoner's Tale. The tree in the painting looks as if it is dying, which represents the death of the three men when they find what is at the bottom of the tree in the story. the shades of dark blue help to represent the death present in the story.
The piece of artwork I chose was the one of the tree, in which I see the tree that is just blooming and the only light shining upon it being the light from the left side of the picture that is just creeping in and shining on the tree. I would use this to represent the last scene of the epilogue in Crime and Punishment, with the blossoming tree representing the promise of new hope and a new life to Raskolnikov, with the light shining in being the light of Sonia into his life, bringing the hope and bringing about this new promise of a life after prison.
Jennifer Sens 7-8
The piece of art work I chose was the bottom one of the tree with different branches, and the little bit of yellow background.
I believe this picture connects with the book Tuesdays with Morrie. This piece of art makes me think of Tuesdays with Morrie for different reasons. The branches to me remind me of age, how the tree has grown, just like Morrie has grown old and sick. But even though Morrie is old and sick he is still really optimistic about life, which I connect to the little yellow burst in the background of the painting.
I chose the picture with the twisted tree and the blue background. It reminds of the movie "The nightmare before Christmas" because of the color scheme. It has a feeling of darkness and despairity that can be said about the movie aswell. Also in the movie there is a tree that is twisted up and unwinds to form a bridge which is what i thought of when i seen the tree. The third feature of the picture is the somewhat looking skulls formed from smoke, these remind of the movie because the main character is a skeleton and that is what the smoke resembles.
Theist picture with the tree I would have to connect it to the book the cantiberry tales. The one story that I believe is the pardons tale. About greed. It looks like the tree in the book that I saw in my mind. A tree that is alive but yet looks mysterious and death like in a way. It had something fishy about it. In the story the whole idea of that they will find money under the tree and stuff. It caused them all to die.
I chose the second picture and I am related it to Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment. The piece represents the state of Raskolnikov's sanity and his overall grip on life as the book progresses. In the beginning, his thoughts are agitated and concentrated, shown by and narrow, yellow stream of color. Then upon committing the murders, his state of being explodes into a fray of madness that affect all aspects of his life. The yellow spreading out represents how committing his crime changes the ways he behaves in conversation (highly irritable and distant), economically (find little use for money, memory (waking up in strange places and not remembering things). Then towards the top of the painting, his changed mentality has altered too many characteristics of his life. Eventually breaking down bit by bit, confessing to Sonia, then acknowledging it to Svidrigailov and finally to the police show his psyche finally calming down. By the end, he's incarcerated, but his yellow agitation has cooled down into a calm blue and Raskolnikov is mentally sound.
The picture I chose to connect to a character was the twisted tree with the numerous branches going every direction within the sky. This to me connects to the book Tuesdays With Morrie, and Morrie himself. While the tree is twisted and branches off in many directions, it still grows against the sky and is held together by a strong center. While Morrie suffered through Lou Gehrig's disease, he seemed to grow more as an individual, exactly like the tree. The ideas he gave Mitch were drawing from his own experiences, like loving someone for who they are, and accepting people without judging. Morrie stayed true to his own ideals from the day he was diagnosed to the day he passed on, and stayed strong throughout his illness, like the trunk in the core of the tree.
Sean W. 4-5
When I saw the paining of the tree with the blue background I instantly thought of Waiting for Godot. The tree looks just as I imagined the tree in the play which Vladimir and Estragon wait beside to look like. The tree is described as very bare just like the tree in the painting. Also, the colors used in the background give the painting a very mysterious look, and the play has a very mysterious feel as well.
-Jimmy Rutkowski 2nd period
I chose the picture with the twisted tree. It reminds me of the book "Tuesdays with Morrie" that we read in class. I think that the dark blue colors represent the sadness that was present throughout the book. The tree looks weak with the bent branches and in the book morrie is weak from his cancer. The picture ultimately connects to the character morrie in the book because of the dark colors and the tree looking weak because morrie got weaker as the book progressed and more sadness came because of that.
The red painting reminded me of the Pit and the Pendulum, by Edgar Allen Poe. Looking at the art, I am envisioning the first chamber that the character is portrayed; the dark room with the pit. The design on the painting reminds me of the carvings and designs on the walls of the prison; one of primitive characteristics. Additionally, the deep colors to the left remind me, in context, of the blood meant to be shed in the story. In the upper right, I can see the sun, symbolizing the possibility of escape from the prison. All in all, I feel that this piece of art portrays a very menacing, burning aura that was also present in the short story created by Edgar Allen Poe.
Collin Mahoney, 4/5
The twisted tree reminds me of the epilogue of "Crime and Punishment," where Raskolnikov is serving his sentence in Siberia. The tree itself appears to be weak, and to be in a very cold environment (certainly not the ideal conditions for a tree). However, the tree still shows signs of life (in the shape of the small leaves on its branches). For me, this is symbolic of Rodya's new lease on life, given to him by the confession of his crimes and his relationship with Sonia. Her introduction of religion into his life appears to changed his perspective on life, which is now much more hopeful, just as the tree shows signs of hope in a seemingly hopeless situation.
In the piece of artwork I see a weak tree that is dying or dried up is burning up with little sprinkles of fire on the tips of the branch. The tree is in an irregular shape as it ascends to the sky. The background features a blue sky which seems to be in a whirlwind of clouds portraying the end of this world, with a little bit of light trying to show through providing a small sense of faith in which this tree is clinging to. In the “Canterbury Tales” specific the Pardoner’s tale it talks about three brothers who want to find and kill death. So an old man tells him that they can find death at a tree on a hill, which in the hollow tree it consumes large amounts of gold which in the end causes them to find death and is the cause of their demise. Anyway the way I imagine that tree is like the one in the artwork because the man death is one of a kind just like this tree is shaped. Death is an evil man that causes people to die basically so his tree should be the same way. It should be withered, dying, and a bit of a hell type of feel so adding fire to it does just that.
I chose the past picture because it is of a tree and I. The store pardiars tale there is a tree that symbols death in the story. In the story the 3 man go to the tree seeking death and ding a chest of gold. They try everything to bring it back but they all wanted it for them selfs so they would try to kill eachorther off. In the end all die at the tree which the tree symbols. In the picture it uses blue and yellow which the yellow connects to the gold. Also with the tree
The picture I chose was the tree in the bottom of the section. It reminded me of the Pardoner's Tale because it looks as if it is night time and the tree reminded me of where the gold lied for the three men. The tree is twisted and ominous looking just as the tale was.
The first picture makes me think of beawulf. I think of the the shore that he arrived on. The color from grundel killing people sets the mood of the painting.
For this blog I am picking the second piece of artwork. In this picture it looks like a bright yellow light trying to escape the blue surrounding it. This piece of art reminds me of equality in anthem. He is trying to break out of a society where everybody is the same. He is the yellow in the picture.
I chose the third painting of the winding tree for this blog. When I look at the painting I see life. Tree is not straight which signifies that life isn't a straight path to happiness. There are always kinks in the road to happiness but life goes on and the leaves on the tree show that life is still carrying on.
This painting can connect to Stephen King's on writing. In King's book he goes through a struggle of a terrible car crash but his life is still carrying on. In this painting it can resemble King himself because it is withering up and not growing straight but it is still able to live and grow leaves as King was able to live and keep writing.
The picture i am choosing is in the bottom section. This picture reminded me of the Pardoner's tale and the dark scene of the old man where the 3 men are found to be lieing. The tree represents the gold when these men lied because of greed. The tree is dark and in presented and looks to be told in odd way such as the tale was.
The picture I choose is the first one with the red's and orange. This poem reminds me of anger and greed due to the warm colors and harsh marks. This painting reminds me of The Partoners tale and the greed the men in that story were consumed with in hopes of killing the others in order to get more gold for themselves.
The picture I choose is the first one with the red's and orange. This poem reminds me of anger and greed due to the warm colors and harsh marks. This painting reminds me of The Partoners tale and the greed the men in that story were consumed with in hopes of killing the others in order to get more gold for themselves.
I chose the last picture with the tree on it. It reminded me of Tuesdays with Morrie because Morrie had a pink hibiscus plant that he had while he was dying The plant in the book symbolizes Morrie and his illness, as Morrie gets more sick the plants slowly starts dying. I think the tree and branches in the picture represents Morrie and his free mind and his individualism.
The picture I chose was the second one. The yellow is surrounded by the blue signifying that it's enclosed and trying to escape. This piece remeinds me of the book Anthem. In the book, Equality is trying to escape from his dystopian society where every one has to conform to one specific belief or idea. The yellow represents Equality, while the blue represents the distopian society in which he lives in.
The art I chose was the one with the tree on it. I chose this one because it shows, life, growth and individuality.
This relates to the book Anthem because it's like Equality. Equality didn't understand life until he escaped from the world he was living in. And once he was on his own, he was finally grown into his own person and understood life itself.
This painting reminds me of those things because not one tree is exactly the same as another. Also, trees start out small and grow into the kind of tree that they are just like people do. And finally, trees express life. Without trees, we would be no where in life.
I chose to analyze the first painting that bled burgundy all over the canvas. There's no particular reason why I chose it, or why I said that it did indeed "bleed burgundy", it just sounded cool. Maybe I just forgot the reason why I even decided to blog about this painting in particular. This reasoning that I just displayed is similar to the reason for why Gogo and Didi decided to wait for Godot in Samuel Beckett's tragicomedy. Also, there seems to be nothing that it is trying to clearly represent, and the same way that this painting shows nothing, yet represents something, goes into the true form that existentialism tries to evoke with human existence. It shows that even in living a life of nothing, there still exists something in the canvas, i.e. the lines that make the shapes of a ladder, a triangle (that looks like a tepee, in my opinion), the letter E, the number 5, and a whole lot of other random stuff. An example in the play that would remind me of this randomness would be Estragon wanting a carrot, but all Vladimir had was turnips. So many thoughts can be driven from this simple scene, but it brings out the random that existentialism usually brings.
The picture i chose was the one with the tree on it. I thought of the book Anthem and the uncharted forest in the story. the tree can be represented as freedom because in anthem Equality runs to the uncharted forest to escape life as he knew.
I chose the last picture, it reminds me of the Pardoner's Tale. The tree reminds me of the story because there are bright and dark spots in the picture. The light reminds me of how they came across the gold and how they were happy and the dark is when they died because of their own greed.
I choose the last one. it relates to anthem because the tree represents the forest in anthem, also all the charecters in it and individuality because the tree is by itself. it creates a dark erie picture like anthem did.
I chose to connect Tuesdays with Morrie to the picture with the tree. Morrie was old and he was sick and to me the tree looks like is it old but it is still alive. Morrie presents that throughout the book, he knows he is dying but he is still there. I also see in the picture the sparkle on the end of the branches, he brings that sparkle to people that he talks too. The background of the blue is surrounded around the tree and then there is a glow in the background which could connect to heaven. Heaven can be a representation of death, which Morrie is dying throughout the entire book.
For this blog, I'm just gonna be blunt: I immedietly thought of "Waiting for Godot" when I saw the third painting. I thought of that book for two reasons: one, was the tree inside the book, The panting actually was similar to how I perceived the tree looked at night, at the end of the book.
The second reason I thought of "Waiting for Godot", was because of the bland nature of the picture, with a seemingly beautiful frame. This stands for two things for me.
a. The wonder Mrs. Perrin made the book seem to have, and the dull story it actually contained, and
b. The book itself. Despite the dull story the book had, there was actually a very real message the book had. The more you look into the book the more you realize the beauty the book actually had inside, despite having a dull plot, setting, and characters, which actually work for the message it contains: don't wait for something to come to you, but chase after it yourself, of you'll be stuck in a sort of rut until you decide to move on.
I chose the last one because it shows a tree, like the forest in Anthem. Anthem showed Equality escaping into the forest where it was peaceful. The tree in the painting is made of blues and yellow which stand for calm and peace and happiness, which is what equality felt when he was in the forest.
The picture I choose is the one with the tree. The tree reminds me of the tree from the pardoners tale. The tree is elegant and almost innocence and that is what greed is. But then trees are strong and som have been around for awhile. The tree or painting releases a sense of innocence.
I chose the bottom picture of the tree. Its mostly bareness reminded me of the tree from Waiting for Godot. It also reminds me of the twistedness of human nature, how everything is not straight forward. It reminded of me of one of the scenes when Vladimir and Estragon were trying to figure out what they were doing at the tree and trying to find something to pass the time. They even thought of hanging themselves, just to get rid of the boredom. Not everything is to be taken as literal, as I don't think they really wanted to kill themselves at that point in time. The bleak blue background also made me think of the (what I thought as) the desolate landscape surrounding the tree in the story. It made me think that the back, or past of life isn't really important, and the front is where we need to focus. Vladimir and Estragon were thinking of the 'now' throughout the story, 'what are we going to do now to pass the time?' was probably something that went through their minds quite a bit. They didn't seem preoccupied what so ever abut the past, in fact, Estragon had even forgotten the events of the previous day in act II. We also don't get to see either end of the tree. We have no way of knowing for far it extends in either direction, another correlation found in Godot. They had been to the same tree many times prior to when the play starts, and probably went back to it many days afterward.
I picked the 3rd painting with the tree and compared it to Anthem. I compared the two because in the picture, the tree looks both dark/mysterious and bright/new beginning. Just like in the book, in the beginning, the forest represented death/mysterious because once someone went into the forest, they never returned. But in the end, the forest represented freedom and a new beginning for Equality because if he were to of never gone into the forest, he would of still been trapped in the dystopian society.
I am choosing to analyze the second painting and I am relating it to Anthem. Looking at the painting I see a light submerged in water. Basically the yellow crashing into the blue. This made me think of equality and when he presented his great invention to the council. They tried to rid of the light, they tried to submerge it in water. But the truth of the matter is that the water was unable to put out the light seen in both the painting and the story (equality's new life). These go hand and hand together.
A.Hetzel - 3rd Period
I chose the first painting to break down. To my eyes, this painting is of a creature (left) staring down and reaching into some small pond or body of water. The water meets that orange color at the horizon line which, in my opinion, symbizes the meeting of an internal conflict the creature has. On one half, you've got the water which symbolizes the more peaceful and tranquil side of the conflict. Then you've got the orange firey looking color which could symbolize and more agressive side of the conflict. I relate this painting to the short story we read called My Father's Noose. My reasoning is that in he story, the narater's father had an abusive mother, which lead to the suspected abuse from the father to the narater. This abuse could be the orange color in the painting. The water (or blue area) could be a more peaceful place or lifestyle the narrator was looking for. Or perhaps the water symbolized the narrator's realization of the abuse needing to stop. This realization could be why the creature seems to be leaning into the water, which could be seen as the narrator making the move toward a better life.
The second picture makes me think of Equality in Anthem when he is in the subway experimenting with things. The pictures shows a lot of blue with what looks like a yellow explosion and it reminded me of the things I pictured when reading Anthem. Equality discovered the light bulb and electricity and the picture represents the moment when everything is dark (the blue) and then all of a sudden electricity made the light bulb shine and light flooded the subway (the yellow part of the picture).
I looked at the picture with the blue and the tree branch. I connected that picture with the picture of tuesdays with morrie. When you think about it, the picture is a picture of an old crusty tree branch. the painting is beautiful but the tree it belongs to is obviously nearing the end of its life. This reminds me or morrie. He is an old dying man, but instead of being sad about dieing the book takes time to examine and explain death. Just like the piece of artwork. The artwork takes time to try and explain and try and present death in a beautiful way.
the painting i choose is the one with the tree. It reminds me of the uncharted forest in the book Anthem. The yellow spots remind me of electricity discovered by equality.
The piece of art I would like to use is the red one and I think it connects with Sonya from Crime and Punishment. On the right side of the painting it is very light and timid except for the cross/star shape which is turning into a deep red and outlined in black. This reflects how people view Sonya, on the outside meek and timid, but when you see her faith you know that is where her passion lies and the black lines reassure that she is unchanging in that thought. Then toward the left side of the painting is her character and her meaning. It’s a deep red and shows her love and passion, but it is also torn through with black ‘stitches’ which are another part of her that can never change. She is damaged, but that doesn’t change her motivation or character, but simply makes her drive stronger and her determination deeper like the rich shade of the red.
The tree painting and "The Life of Trees" by Dorianne Laux inspire many of the same feelings in me. The image of the tree is tranquil and mysterious and gives an impression of calmness. Laux creates the same mood with her words as ahown here, "I want to sleep/ and dream the life of trees[...]" (12-13). In this short statement she evokes images and ideas of trees that are dreamy and calming. Trees are peaceful and strong. They also seem to posses virtue, which Laux capitalizes on to create more human descriptions of trees. Through personification the reader gains a respect for trees as if they were wise humans, sages if you will. In this same way the image seems to show a magical tree that is somewhat human because of its implied movement. It seems to be dancing and enjoying the night, communicating much the same as Laux's trees do, that peace and patience are best. In general both pieces of art calm me.
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