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Claude Monet: The Parc Monceau: Julia Hershey

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Claude Monet: The Parc Monceau: Julia Hershey

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He painted three paintings of the same backgorund, but all with different focuses.  The painting that I picked focuses on the green grass, and the tree buds.  He grew up French, and was fond of painting controlled nature scenes.

"Our art room is blooming like a museum full of O'Keeffes, van Goghs, and that French guy who painted flowers with tiny dots." (77)

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Girl From the Back: Salvador Dali - Abbey Muscato 

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Girl From the Back: Salvador Dali - Abbey Muscato 

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The art piece I have chosen is “Girl from the Back” (1925) by Salvador Dali. The portrait is of his younger sister, Ana Maria Dali. This viewpoint, while lending the picture an air of mystery and intrigue, ensures that the viewer is drawn to the landscape, much like the girl is. Her hair contrasts the white buildings, and the curves in her shoulder accent the corners of the buildings. His sister modeled for him often, and this piece was shown in Barcelona, where Pablo Picasso viewed it the first time. The piece is simple and harmonious, quite different from Dali’s usual work.

“I have never heard a more eloquent silence.”

Melinda is always being told what to do and how to act, and she only really feels at peace when she is alone, and away from the world. I included this quote because she appreciates silence, and she seems to have her back turned to the people in her life. Not because of how she acts, but just because of how they treat her.

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Picasso created this cubist style painting in the summer of 1921. To some art historians, Three Musicians may be seen as Picasso's response to "The Piano Lesson", the huge music-making scene Henri Matisse painted in the summer of 1916. I choose this painting to relate to the quote "Seeing beyond the what is on the surface... what did the world look like to him?" from page 119, because Melinda started to finally understand what she needs to do for her tree.

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Salvador Dali was born in 1904 in Spain. in 1916 on summer break he saw some modern paintings. He started studying drawing in 1917. He attended many different schools and has many different art styles throughout his lifetime.

in Speak on page 119 it says "why not draw naked guys, just to be fair? Naked women is art, naked guys is a no-no" knowing that we will be looking at the book with a gender lens this is the first time she directly mentions an example of how genders are treated differently.

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Frida Kahlo was born in Coyoacan, Mexico is 1907. Frida was the 3rd daughter out of the 4 children her mother had. She turned away from studying medicine as an adult when she had a variety of diseases and an accident that led her to a full body cast. She said she paints herself the most because it is the subject she knows best.

This painting, The Two Fridas, was made in 1939. This painting was made after her divorce with her husband and it shows her two personalities. Frida on the left is in traditional Mexican attire with a broken heart while Frida to the right is in a modern dress that would be worn at the time. At first she had said that it represented something she remembered from her childhood but later she confessed that it symbolized the loneliness she had felt after the divorce.

“This has meaning, Pain”

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Salvador Dali was born in Spain and throughout his life created some very abstract pieces. He studied drawing at the Municipal School of Drawing in Figures. In his early years he also experiments with impressionism and pointillism. He continues his education at various art schools. Later on, Dali gives teaches in New York and some of his work is featured there. He has had many opportunities and hundreds of pieces showcased throughout his lifetime. The paining I choose is called Le Sommeil. this painting shows surrealism because of the objects unusual shapes. He uses contrasting colors to bring out the different subjects. The subject in this painting is reliant on crutches which is a symbol that is easily related to.

"Mr Neck storms into class, a bull chasing thirty-three red flags."(53)

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Picasso- Woman In An Armchair-  Jessica Swisher  

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Picasso- Woman In An Armchair-  Jessica Swisher  

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Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter who lived during the late 1800's and the early 1900's. He created this piece, Woman In An Armchair, in 1909. His desire when painting this portrait was to meld the figure with its environment by leveling distinctions with volumetric forms and empty spaces.
In the novel it states "Rachel is with me in the bathroom. Edit that. Rachelle is with me in the bathroom. She has changed her name. Rachelle is reclaiming her European heritage by hanging out with the foreign-exchange students."(Page 20.) Throughout the rest of the book Melinda talks about how much Rachel has changed and she conforms to he environment.

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Frida Kahlo was an amazing painter who was alive from 1907 to 1954. She achieved great international popularity for her Mexican-inspired artist ability. Kahlo uses vibrant colors in her paintings. Many of them are self-portrait that portray her pain and sexuality. The Wounded Deer is a great painting that she made. It is a painting of her head that is in the body of a wounded dear. Many arrows are in it. This paint correlates to Speak when Melinda “wounded” herself with the paperclip in art class. "I follow the line of my thumb instead and gash myself" (92). Therefore, in this instance, Melinda symbolizes as the wounded deer in Kahlo’s painting, The Wounded Deer.

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This oil on canvas painting was created in 1965 when O'Keeffe was 77 years old. It is based on her experiences as an airplane passenger during the 1950s. She clearly depicts the clouds and the sky as she saw them through an airplane window.

"I feel like I can fly" (186). This statement tells how Melinda feels after Ivy shows her the bathroom stall she'd written in and how a bunch of people are agreeing with her about Andy Evans. This painting of the sky and clouds can help readers visualize Melinda's feelings during that scene.

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Kahlo-  Self- Portrait on bed      - Madison Perry 

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Kahlo-  Self- Portrait on bed      - Madison Perry 

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Frida Kahlo grew up during the Mexican revolution. She originally was studying medicine cut began a full time painting career after an accident. she began to paint self portraits " i paint myself because  am often alone and I am the subject I know best"  Kahlo painted her own personal experiences rather than her dreams. At the age of 6 ahlo contracted polio which left her right leg thinner than the left.

"I am an outcast" pg 4 and " My room belongs to an alien" pg 15

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Eyes in the Heat, painted by Jackson Pollock in 1946. It is part of a series of seven canvases. Pollock doesn’t apply paint with a brush, but rather squeezes pigment directly from a tube right onto the canvas, pushing and smearing it around to create a thick and textured crust. Color is seem rhythmically over the entire canvas. The watchful eyes of creatures is concealed in the painting that might appear here and there, mimicking the restless movement of the viewer’s eyes.

In this novel, Mr. Freeman says "You will each pick a piece of paper out of the globe. On the Paper you will find one word, the name of an object. You will spend the rest of the year learning how to turn that object into a piece of art. But here's the catch - by the end of the year, you must figure out how to make your object say something, express an emotion, speak to every person who looks at it." Pollock took an object: eyes, and gave it a deeper meaning, speaking to everyone who takes a look at it. (page 12)

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Salvador Dali was a Spanish surrealist. Many of his paintings were a bit strange looking or abstract because of it. The piece I chose was his most famous, “The Persistence of Memory”. The painting features a barren, occasionally cubic landscape with a hill in the background. However, it’s much more recognizable due to its famous melting clocks. These represent how time is really a construct and truly means nothing if you don’t want it to. I’d pair it with the metaphor “My room belongs to an alien. It is a postcard of who I was in fifth grade,” because they both are making a statement about how time changes things.

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Kahlo painted this in 1945, when she was forced to be fed by prescription of her doctor. At that time Frida Kahlo was suffered from a lack of appetite due to her many surgeries and numerous illnesses.
In this painting, Frida Kahlo depicts what she went through with the "forced feeding" diet. The disgusting food with animals and skulls was hold by the wooden structure which used to hold her canvases for painting.

The quote I chose was “I am getting better at smiling when people expect it.”  (page 32) Melinda says that when she goes to Heather's house and her mom asks Melinda to have a sleepover, Melinda smiles when she really means that she would not like to be with Heather's friends.
The relationship between the quote and the painting is that both show how they are expected to be a certain way, Kahlo with her "forced feeding" diet and Melinda smiling and pretending to be fine with a sleepover with people she does not like and pretending to be fine after what happened in that party.

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This is a painting by Claude Monet. It is called "Poplars on the Epte" and it was painted in 1891. Monet liked to paint the poplar trees on the bank of the river Epte, that was near his home. He painted these trees in several seasons from a boat. Waiting for perfect light was very important in painting this picture and took a great amount of time.

"On a shelf I find a book of landscapes filled with illustrations of every stinking tree that grows: sycamore, linden, aspen, willow, fir, tulip poplar, chestnut, elm, spruce, pine. Their bark, flowers, limbs, needles, nuts. I feel like a regular forester..." (Page 103)

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Savlidor Dali painted this in 1947 and correlates with a Disney movie he helped write but which came out in 2003. Dali is known for his surrealism and manipulation of time, space, and matter. Here he depicts two giant-like mask heads suspended on turtle shells as having a glass ballerina in between them.

Like the ballerina, Melina in the novel, Speak feels caught between what society thinks and expects of her. She feels like she is constantly told what to do and how to behave and therefore has no autonomy, although she attempts to regain some in a voiceless manner in small ways.

"You're not supposed to do that!" (66).