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ISKCON extends its support to ban on slaughter of cows. (2015, April 21). Retrieved from https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/iskcon-extends-its-support-to-ban-on-slaughter-of-cows/articleshow/47002524.cms?from=mdr

This week, I was looking over the internet and found that some Americans were enjoying ISCON as their belief, and chanting Hara Krishna in the street. Something I know for a while that people do celebrate different types of culture in the Americas and it is so beautiful to see different cultures, religion, and different perspective.

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Shuplyak, O. (n.d.). Oleg Shuplyak hidden face illusion. Retrieved from http://www.optical-illusionist.com/illusions/oleg-shuplyak-hidden-face-illusion

One of the favorite types of paintings is the illusion type of paintings which I will always spend some time looking deeply. The painting I choose for this assignment which catches my eyes is the painting by Shuplyak. When I look more deeply into the paintings, I can see more people in the same painting. The painting is so effective because the artists gave so much of hard work and the color grabbing attention. In this painting, I thought I saw a house but realized that I could see an old man, while in his nose, I can see another child.

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Om Symbol. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.ancient-symbols.com/symbols-directory/om.html

The item I choose as the powerful symbol is the OM symbol. Every single Hindu recognize the symbol and it represents the value of being Hindu. I will do some research for my final project and I will try to gather some more images to represent it more deeply.

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V, J. (n.d.). Books On Vaishnavism And Vaishnava Tradition. Retrieved from https://www.hinduwebsite.com/bookreviews/vaishnavabooks.asp

For my final exhibition show case, I am planning to put something related to this image. Since my exhibition is more about the culture, religion and daily life alike of Hindu believers. This image represents the lord Vishnu with Goddess Laxmi. The main god of Hindu is Lord Vishnu and Laxmi and it is to be belived in the incarnation of Vishnu in different forms. There are numerous of gods, goddess and religious events celebration in Hindu's life and this image represents the whole.

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Hanuman Conversing. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1982.220.9/

The artwork is the Sculpture of Hanuman, which comes from a Hindu philosophy. Hanuman represents a lot of human power and people also believe in praying to him in the need for manpower. Hanuman is the devotee of Lord Rama and he prays to him as a spiritual devotee. This sculpture or the statue represents all equality and happiness, as well as power. The creative artist is still unknown based on the met museum but there was ere couple of people who have bought this statue. The art is still available in south India temple and kept together as partLord Rama. The materials are used as a copper alloy to make this beautiful art/statue.

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2) T. (Ed.). (2018, November 07). Shankha. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shankha#/media/File:Shankha_with_rosette.jpg

Image retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shankha#/media/File:Shankha_with_rosette.jpg

For my second sculpture, I found this little object called Shankha which also represents the god vishnu in many different ways. The only reason I am choosing this image is to thoughts on these instruments. It also represents the time, sound effects that represent the earth. Usually, this is also known as the power of god Vishnu

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Balligrama, D. (n.d.). Standing Vishnu as Keshava. [Stone] Retrieved from https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/18.41/

Image retrieved from: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/18.41/

For my final project, I want to focus on Hindu sculptures themes which Hindu people have numerous gods that they believe in. I want to focus on Vishnu as my theme and have numerous arts, elements, and other sources that represent the Vishnu in many different ways. I am interested in this topic because I really didn't get enough time to research arts and other beautiful sculptures about Hindus which I think this project will give me an opportunity to learn little more. This art will be displayed in the exhibition because Vishnu is the source of Hindu and the main god who have numerous of incarnation. I think this will be the great art for the display because as you can see closer and closer to the image, you will see many images that will pop up on your Brian. Every single element and parts in this sculpture represents something deeper, which will be great to learn more about.

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Castro, J. (2017, December 03). Can Animals Count? Retrieved from https://www.livescience.com/61084-can-animals-count.html

I choose Animal Violence as my second theme and I think it's one of the important themes as well. In many countries, there are millions of animals that are being treated unfairly, and humans often abuse their power to harm the animals. Not all humans do that, but in general speaking, we often forget we are humans and they are animals.

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Jadhav, A. (n.d.). Characteristics of Living Things. Retrieved from https://biologywise.com/characteristics-of-living-things

For this week, our main focus is on themes, and I think this is a great topic to discuss. I choose the picture of a plant which shows the plant is being planted by the human. The theme of this picture is to admire nature and support the environment as well as climate change. People still don't believe in climate change and damage more trees than planting a tree. I love creation and I think it is a good practice to teach our coming generations to love the environment as well. In order to love nature and the environment, we need to be able to take care of the environment, plant more trees, and make nature green.

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Favorite News/Article Link: 3/1/2019 (2)

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Favorite News/Article Link: 3/1/2019 (2)

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Markman, J. (2019, February 26). Artificial Intelligence Beats The Hype With Stunning Growth. Retrieved from https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2019/02/26/artificial-intelligence-beats-the-hype-with-stunning-growth/#71cb44951f15

Artificial Intelligence is growing drastically and more than 3000 CIO gave the response that it is growing over 37% every year. There has been a good estimate that AI will be the future generation and it will be utilized properly. I am interested in technology and the future that will change drastically with the technology. I do research and look for what's happening with the technology in the current event/ year. AI makes human's life easier but my only concern is what humans will do if AI starts doing all our work.

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Williamson, A. (n.d.). In the Owlery. Retrieved from https://www.pottermore.com/image/in-the-owlery

Harry Potter is one of my favorite book as well as the favorite movie. I start reading this book since I was in 7th grade and still when I have to think about some favorite movies or book, this book comes in my mind. This painting interest on me and the way everything is shown in this image, such as all the characters, the theme of the book, and the adventure of the scene interest on me, I especially enjoy the wizard part and the scary creepy objects they have in the story.

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2/19/2019 - Essay Topic Selection 2: Border #8

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2/19/2019 - Essay Topic Selection 2: Border #8

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Rovner, M. (1997-1998). Border #8[Paint on Canvas] . Retrieved from: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/282883

The second artwork I choose for my essay topic selection is the Border #8 by Michal Rovner, who was born on November 7th 1957. Her classification is painting and she went to Tel Aviv University and Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. she is generally known as the painter and did multiples of paintings with her creativity. Border #8 has very creative elements and mostly used black and white color and shades. The meaning is very psychological and political according to the met museum and it covers the border between certain geography that it is related to the military. The painting was painted on the canvas around 1997 to 1998. In my essay, I will be comparing this painting to the View of Toledo and basically describe every single elements, view, compare and contrast between two painting and other information after some more research.

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2/19/2019 - Essay Topic Selection 1: The view of Toledo.

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2/19/2019 - Essay Topic Selection 1: The view of Toledo.

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Greco, E. (1599–1600). View of Toledo [Oil on Canvas] Retrieved from: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436575

One of the artwork I choose for my essay topic selection is The view of Toledo by El Greco, who was born on October 1, 1541, and died on April 7, 1614. He works as the painter, sculptor, and architect. He was generally identified as the icon painter. He has done numerous paintings and all of them became famous paintings. The view of Toledo represents a lot of things that happen in the real city town. As I so focused and I was looking at the painting, I saw multiples of things happening at the same time in the town/city. The matter of the work and style of the painting is so deep and thoughtful meaning with the powerful sky during the thunderstorm. The formal element that is used in the art are such as green and the blue color was used a lot, which green represent the grass and nature while the blue represents the sky, water, river, and weather mood. The painting was beautifully done using oil on canvas which in my essay, I want to write about all the beauty of this painting, the mood, the view, the emotions from nature, how the artist present the beautiful paintings and some other useful information as I keep looking at this painting. I will try my best to gather all the information with proper citation to possibly describe the painting while comparing with my second painting selection.

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(Maddie Fabbro, (n/d) Retrieve from: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/happynotmad/beauty-is-pain/).
This week interesting topic is something I realize about pain. When I was looking into heel images, I realize that we often forget to live our life, while trying to show the standard of life. This images taught me that, beauty is your happiness, beauty is your journey of life, not the standard or showing case of your life.

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( Mesoamerica, Coahuila, (1800-850). Retrieve from: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/2002.471.1/
This week, I focused on this pattern repeated image which makes me think deeply that something special is in this image. The color that are repeating, the pattern it is repeating, it must be something that artist did really well on the painting.

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January 28 - February 3rd Weeks Personal Interest Artwork.

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January 28 - February 3rd Weeks Personal Interest Artwork.

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(Rui Cao. (1910). https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Woman-with-A-Mandelin-after-Pablo-Picasso-1910/994278/3632706/view).
This week, my interest on the art moves little dipper in critical thinking. After reading the Uses and Function section of the examples, I understand little bit more the ways of understanding on arts. This specific image I chose have lots of elements and functions which the girl is playing guitar and the background looks imaginary type, with lots of houses behind and if you keep looking at the image, it will go way beyond on what we think of.

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(Emanuel Santos. (03/29/2017). https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43598431)

This is one of my favorite artwork because this is the

Sculptor of the famous soccer player in Portugal, Cristiano Ronaldo. This Sculptor uses different color and elements to provide the best-looking view. I really love soccer and I am really impressed with the artist, Emanuel Santos for making this great looking statue. This statue is placed in Cristiano Ronaldo Portugal, International Airport.

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(Hopoorand. (05/09/2015). http://homedesign2018.com/need-some-abstract-painting-ideas/semi-abstract-painting-ideas/).
This week reading focus on the elements of the color and principles of arts, and most importantly the theme was to focus on the different colors. I really enjoy reading the PDF books about elements of colors and it helps me understand the secrets behind the colors. Since I am not the artists, I am still learning the arts and enjoying this class. The image I choose for this week reading is the sunset with a brighter color view and lots of elements and particles are used in different areas of a painting by the artist Hopoorand.

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Susquehanna Art (Museum Visit) (1/22/2019) 

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Susquehanna Art (Museum Visit) (1/22/2019) 

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(Susquehanna Art. (01/5/1949). Art Museum [Painting/Card board. Harrisburg, PA.)
This picture is from one of my museum visit in Susquehanna Art place and this image makes me look deeply inside. I didn't find the exact image, so I had to google this image and found somewhat similar. The name of the art is A painting of old days history. It make me to choose this image because for some reason, the painting and the color of the image grabs my attention. First thing I saw in this picture is that A lady riding the bike, looking at another woman who was sitting outside of the house. Another interesting in the image is that two man looks like they are in Army and they look stress, something is not going right for them, or it's just they are missing their love one's since the third man is talking with the lady. There are bunch of other man in the image who were sitting just like the first two man in the front of the image. The ocean gives the image view little more war hints, that those army probably just crossed the ocean, or waiting to cross or go for the war and that could be the reason of being stress or looks depressed.

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(Bastola, S. (11/13/2018). Pottery [Clays/Pottery Wheel]. East High School, Harrisburg PA.)
This pottery is one of my favorite, because it took lots of time to create and all the steps it took for my girlfriend. It takes a lot of management skills and to build a perfect pottery. Sometimes you need to go really fast or slow and steady to make it perfect to represent something from the creativity. This pottery represents the culture in some part of Asia, especially for Nepalese and Indian people, since this is used for all the cultural events. This was the gift she make it for me and all the time it took for her to make this beautiful pottery and this is the main reason why I have chosen this image. For me, it represents my culture and what all my ancestors had in their time back then.

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This is one of my favorite image from the internet. I used to look at this image when I was in middle school history class. This image represent multiple things at once, and overall in my opinion, we all can together make the world peace. We all are equal and how beautiful creativity we all have from all over the world. There may be things that I can do and there may be things that my friend from different country can do and I can't do that same thing. If we all become friends, and share our hands together, we all can make the huge different in this world.

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This is one of my favorite image overall, because the flow of water impress me a lot. There are different meanings on this specific image from my point of view, such as it could be representing the flow of life, how the life will be up sometimes and how the life will be down sometimes. It could represent the events from our lifetime. We all feel low sometimes and this image represent that there will be up moment coming, just like this wave flow of the ocean.