: About Me

I am an artist in almost every aspect. It's creation, taking the thoughts from your very mind and extracting them, sculpting them, and sharing them with the world. I am a painter, sculptor, writer of stories, poems, anything really =], photographer, aspiring graphic designer and though I cannot make it, I love music! My heart beats for this and my soul carries it along with me whereever I may travel. I live for life, ALL LIFE, especially nature. I would live in the beds of flowers and forests if I wasn't so scared of bugs, hehe! The mountain tops call to me from time to time and one day I will make my way to them and share in the splendor that is...well, there are no words I can come with to express the raw and unbridled beauty of such a land. One day, my friend, one day =]

My passion is ...

creation, beauty, love

I know too much about ...

random facts noone cares to know XD

My parents always told me ...

I could never write for a living

My childhood ambition ...

becoming a famous artist, like my hero Claude Monet

My favorite memory ...

my first museum, the Monet Exhibit when I was 5

Why I write ...

to complete myself

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

this, nothing, Marcy Playground

My first job ...

I was a hostess and a Chinese place

My best moment ...

any with my love

My inspiration ...

Claude Monet, my future family, the trees and stars in the skies

Arts & Humanities > Art History Art history: Understanding cubism

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To better understand Cubism, you must, as with all art, take into account what was going on in the world at the time the movement was taking place. Cubism was a movement that held some pretty radical influence with politics. At the time, anarcho-syndicalism was rising in popularity, sparked by the industrial revolution. Factories needed workers and while the economy rose, the guys at the top of the ladder thought they could rip off their employees. The people, the workers, wanted their rights! They wanted the fruits of their labor! It was stated, "...the ultimate aim of the General Strike ...

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