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I am not familiar with the American culture. Since it's April I am hearing a lot about Easter. I don't really know what Easter is all I know is that there is bunnies and eggs. After talking to few people I found out what Easter really means and it has nothing to do with bunnies. Easter is a christian holiday that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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This is a painting that is hanging in my house. It was made by one of my uncle in Nepal. This is a painting of a god, Manjushree. I love this piece of art because of of all the detailing it has. The shape of her crown with all the detailing and the different color of gems. The background color being dark really helps her green skin stand out. The perfect lining of her necklace. Both side of the necklace has the same thickness to it. Overall I think this image is really interesting

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Singh, S (N.D). The Art of Diversity. [Watercolor]. Retrieved from: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-art-of-diversity_b_59b60c25e4b0c50640cd68dc

One thing that has a powerful identity is me Diversity. I feel like diversity is extremely important to me. Diversity is one of the reasons why I chose to come to Harrisburg University. I am from Nepal. Coming to the United States was a big part of my life. A decision that made me extremely happy. The United States is known as a melting pot because of how diverse it is. I also don't feel so lonely or felt out when I am in a diverse group of people.

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Degas, E (1874). The Dance Class. [Oil on Canvas]. Retrieved from: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438817

My theme for my project is
dancing. This is one of the image that I plan to use on my project. Dancing has so many thing involved to it. Some people do it as a hobby (like me), while some might do it to express their emotions. Dancing is form of art. In this image you see a lot of different things going on. There are a lot of ballet dancer practicing. some look nervous some don't. We also see a grand father. That can mean a lot of things. But grandfather always loves to support their grand daughter.

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Russell, J (1745-1806). Mrs. Robert Shurlock (Henritta Ann Jane Russell, 1775-1849) and Her Daughter Ann [Pastels & Oil Sketches on Paper] Retrieved from: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/67.132/
This is a portrait of the artist's daughter, Henrietta and his granddaughter, Ann. This portrait was made in Guildford, Surrey in 1801 by John Russell. This painting is in New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He used pastel on paper to make this portrait. Some essential points are the detailing of the cap and shawl made with gauzy fabric. The mother's arm is oddly longer because the baby was added later.

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Cassatt, M. (1900). Young Mother Sewing. [Oil on Canvas]
Retrieved from:https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/29.100.48/
The second theme that I chose was A Women's Role. Women's have always been unappreciated in the community. Yet they do twice as much work as men do. They deserve to be respected as well.

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Unknown. (2019). African Women Dancing Headscarfed. [Oil painting, Canvas Prints, Poster]
Retrieved from: http://www.saleoilpaintings.com/paintings/african-women-dancing-headscarfed.html
One theme that I would like to do for my final project is Beauty of color. This theme really sticks with me because I have always been bullied for being dark skin. I am not even Black I am Asian. I feel like people these days define beauty by a persons color.

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Afremov , L. (unknown). Late Evening Stroll. [Palette knife oil painting on canvas]. Retrieved from: https://afremov.com/late-evening-stroll.html
The second theme that I chose to do was colorful. As I was looking at images for colorful this image completely caught my eye. The reason why I chose to do this theme was because I feel like no matter how many dark times there are in life things can always get better. Life can get dark at many different situations. But it's up to a person to make it beautiful again.

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Turkius, P. (2011). Happy Family.[unknown]. Retrieved from: https://pixels.com/featured/happy-family-pristine-cartera-turkus.html
One of the theme that I chose to do is family. I feel like family is one of the most important thing in the world. The reason why I want to investigate more about this theme is because every family is different some are very loving and showing while some love but do not show. There are many different types of families out there.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fndeDfaWCg
Boys, Backstreet . "Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way (Official Music Video)." Youtube, 25 Oct, 2009.
Out of all the songs there are, I have to say this one is my favorite song. I like this song because backstreet boys in one of my favorite band and this song is really catchy. You can listen to this whenever like it does not matter if you are sad or happy it matches all emotions.

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Hunt, H. ( 2016). American Housewife. [Television Series]. Los Angeles, CA: CBS Studio Center

This is one of the favorite shows that I watch. Mainly because it teaches me about the american culture. I am not from the U.S.A. I am from Nepal. This help me learn about a lot about the American culture and how they work as a family.

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David, G (1455-1523). Virgin and Child [Oil on oak panel] Retrieved from: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1975.1.118/
This artist of this image was Gerard David. He was born on 1460 and dies in 1523. He was a painter and a manuscript illuminator. He was great with colors. He ran two workshops in his life. He was a painters' guild in Burges. Most of his paintings are religious. zhe was best known for his altarpieces. This painting was made with oil on oak panel. One of the elements that this painting uses in color. David was known for his brilliant use in colors. As we can see he uses his colors to make his painting look realistic. One detail that I plan on discussing in my eyes is the structure. The way the mother's fingers are perfectly aligned with the baby's body as well as how the baby is hugging his mom.

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Russell, J (1745-1806). Mrs. Robert Shurlock (Henritta Ann Jane Russell, 1775-1849) and Her Daughter Ann [Pastels & Oil Sketches on Paper] Retrieved from: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/67.132/
The artist of this image, John Russell was born on March 29, 1745 and he died on April 20, 1806. He was born in Guildford, UK and died in Hull, City of Kingston-upon-hull, UK. He worked as a Portrait Painter. This is a portrait of his daughter Henrietta Ann Jane Shurlock and his grand daughter. His did his first painting when he was 13 years old. He painted a replica of another painting. Later, he attended Royal Academy Schools where he won a gold for his drawing named "Aquarius". This specific painting is pastel on painting, laid down on canvas.
I feel like one of the elements of art that he used was value. In the image we can we that he painted the humans white meanwhile the background is dark blue or dark. In the middle there is gray lining to it. I think he uses texture as well. When I first took a look at this picture I felt a mother's love.One detail that I plan to discuss in my essay is that how he makes the painting look so realistic.

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Van Eyck, J. (1434). Arnolfini Portrait. [Oil on panel] Nation Gallery, London. Retrieved from:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Van_Eyck_-_Arnolfini_Portrait.jpg
Out of this weeks lessons I found this image the most interesting. For the quiz I know that this painting uses multiple textures to increase the sense of realism. In my personal perspective, i love this image because it shows love. They are getting ready to start a family and they both are in it together. It not like now a days where the father just walks out of the family. I love the background and the clock hanging in the wall as well.

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Unknown (9th - 4th). Figure Vessel [Ceramic]. Ecuador. Retrieved from https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1987.113/
As I was scrolling to find an image to write about this one just stopped me. For a second I was really confused, why is there a hole in a baby's stomach. As I look at this image it looked odd to me. You can tell its a human being, but why does it look so different. I got a bit interested and looked up the culture and saw that most of their ceramics are made bigger than usual. They want their ceramic to be rounded and have minimum details on it while most people would want a lot of detail on their ceramic.

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Unknown (1966). Tara, The Buddhist Savior [Copper, Stones]. Retrieved from: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/66.179/
Out if all the images this one caught my eye the most. I think that is because it looked familiar to me. I do realize this go because my dad part of the family is Buddhist, an we know this god as "Tara Bhagwan". We actually have a statue of her at our house as well. As I look at this more carefully I can see that she has a lot of jewelry on. I don't know if jewelry has a meaning in Nepali, but almost all the women are obsessed with jewelry. One thing that comes out as a surprise me is that this was created during Malla period and the statue still looks so new. I love the detail of her dress. It shows me that she is fashionable. That is also a surprise to me because women in nepal didn't even wear jeans.

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Mask (Banda) [Wood, paint] . (1995). Retrieved from: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1978.412.307/
I chose this artwork from uses and function section because the image looked really interesting to me. I really like the translation to the mask; as where the description said the mask had a jaw of a crocodile, the horns of an antelope, the body of a serpent and the tail of a chameleon. It's one mask but it has so many animals involved in it. The history of this headdress has changed as well it used to be something that ha scared significance but now it is used as an entertainment.

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Munch, E. (1899) . The Dance of Life [Unknown]. Retrieved from: https://www.edvardmunch.org/the-dance-of-life.jsp
I chose this artwork as my person interests because dancing used to be one of  my hobbies , until i got sick and can no longer stand on my legs. when i was looking for painting that showed dancing, this painting caught my eye. I didn't even look at the author. As I look at this image it shoes me beautiful couple in the background dancing. While in foreground there are 2 jealous women looking at 2 people who are dancing but does not look like they are enjoying themselves. Just like his other paintings he uses expressive lines to draw the women's shape. He also uses analogous colors to set his background as well.

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Salvador, D. (1952). Galatea of the spheres [Shapes]. Retrieved from: https://www.allposters.com/-sp/Galatea-of-the-Spheres-1952-Posters_i153242_.htm
I chose this image form our readings this week. I fell in love with this image the first time I saw it. The way the author uses all different shapes to make the painting look like a women is amazing. The color contrast just flows as well. The way he chose background and foreground is just amazing. I love this artwork.

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Figure 2. West, B. (1971) William Penn Treaty. The State Museum of Pennsylvania

This is the picture of William Penn's treaty if Indiana. Since I was not able to visit a museum, I took an online exhibition of the state museum of Pennsylvania. As I was looking for art work online this picture really stood out to me. This image shows the friendship and peace between two different cultures. There has been a lot of cultural troubles like different culture people not getting along. Like in Harrisburg just last week, they had a fight blacks vs Hispanic. This image makes me feel as its possible that one day we can all get along.

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Figure 1. Gubhaju, R. (November 7, 2018). Rangoli. Lancaster.

This image is known as Rangoli. We create this this once every year outside of our house, to welcome god inside our home. I chose this art because I am not a very creative person. This is the most creative thing I have done since I got sick. And I am not a creative person at all. This image say what religion I follow which is Hindu.

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As I have mentioned, I follow Hinduism and I am a big believer in god. This is a painting of a god that my family follows the most. We have pictures and statues of him at our home. We don't eat any sort of meat, eggs or fish on Thursday because that is known as "Sai Ram's day".

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Out of all the pictures this week. This picture stood out the most to be. I follow Hinduism as my religion. I noticed this god is lord Shiva. This picture actually means a lot to me because my brother was born on the same day that lord Shiva was born.