narrative 3

I think I am finally in touch with my life. A touch of pride with a lot of hope. I've had friends shipped away to Iraq and Afghanistan and so far, thank god, they are all still alive and well. I don't pretend to understand everything that is going on, nor the reasons behind it all and regardless of which party is in power or who the president happens to be at any given time. I still have faith in our country and a lot of hope for the future.

Hope by Sri Chinmoy

Hope
Know no fear.



Hope dares to blossom
Even inside the abysmal abyss.



Hope secretly feeds
And strengthens
Promise.

Waiting on the World to Change by John Mayer

Now if we had the power
To bring our neighbors home from war
They would have never missed a Christmas
No more ribbons on their door
And when you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information, oh
They can bend it all they want

That's why we're waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change

Hope for the World

Never a time
I fall apart
I must be strong
Cause the winners win
The losers lose
Choose your sides
It's your move
And I am the one you should fear the most
Cause I am the one who will bring you down
And as long as I exist there's hope for the world

Hope You Never by Tom Petty

I hope you never fall in love
Hope you never get your heart broken
I hope you never fall in love
With somebody like you

I, too, sing America. By Langston Hughes

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,"
Then.
Besides,
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed--
I, too, am America.
This poem represents a black mans hope for freedom and respect in America. He is preaching that he is human too and should get the same respect as a white man.

Hope Abides By - Sri Chinmoy

Hope abides; therefore I abide.
Countless frustrations have not cowed me.
I am still alive, vibrant with life.
The black cloud will disappear,
The morning sun will appear once again
In all its supernal glory.

This poem speaks about hope and abiding by hope. This person says if you live your life around hope, life will give back to you.

Hope by Gerry Beckley

You gotta hope it’ll be alright
Come on and hope it’ll turn out fine
Yeah, hope it’ll be alright, please

When the night turns to the deepest shade of black
At that point there is no reason to turn back
High above angels are falling from the sky

Lift your heart knowing
It’s gonna be alright
It’s gonna turn out fine

This song represents hope very obviously. It is telling you that everything is going to be okay and you just need to have hope and everything is going to turn out fine.

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

The caged bird sings
with fearful trill
of the things unknown
but longed for still
and is tune is heard
on the distant hillfor the caged bird
sings of freedom

Maya Angelou is preaching about the hopes of slaves getting freedom. She is saying that the slaves don't know what lies ahead but they are hopeful that it is something good.

"Hope" is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson

"Hope" is the thing with feathers --
That perches in the soul --
And sings the tune without the words --
And never stops -- at all --

This excerpt of the poem represents hope. It is giving hope humanistic qualities by saying it has feathers and sings. It is also saying that hope never gives up or stops.

Critique 3

The artist of the piece of artwork is Lyle J. Hatch, and the title of the piece is “I wanna Believe There’s Hope”. The medium is a kaleidoscope photograph. The subject matter is hope. Lyle’s piece of artwork is hypnotically engaging. The colors blue, green, pink, purple, yellow, and orange mesmerize the viewer and make them not want to look away. I bright colors are contrasted with the black around it making behind the piece seem dark and the bright colors to represent hope.
The piece of art is abstract and not of concrete existence. In the piece of art there is a dramatic distinction between dark and light which is chiaroscuro. The content of the piece is to ask if there is hope still left in the corrupt world. There are many different colors in the piece including blue, green, pink, purple, yellow, and orange. Many people critiqued this photograph and brilliant and great. The field of the photograph is black which I believe is supposed to be represented as darkness. The focal point is the kaildescope colorful object in the center of the photograph. The graphic is a photograph. The main part of the painting is the highlight with all the different bright colors. The value of the photograph is more light than dark throughout the whole painting. The tone of the painting is an abundance of colors throughout the entire thing. The entire photograph is mixed with black which makes the photo shaded.
The focal point of the photograph I believe is a circular shape with a profusion of colors. I believe the black in the background represents darkness against hope which is the light colors. The narrative is subtle for this photograph could mean a possibility of things to many different people. The bright array of colors represents hope throughout one’s life. The dark behind the bright colors represents many people’s hopelessness. The bright colors make the piece strong and effective.

Museum of Fine Arts-Boston

http://www.mfa.org/

National Gallery of Art- Washington D.C.

http://www.nga.gov/

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

http://www.lacma.org/

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/all/listview.aspx?page=1&sort=0&sortdir=asc&keyword=hope&fp=1&dd1=0&dd2=0&vw=1

Philadelhia Museum of Art

http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/results.html?searchTxt=hope&bSuggest=1&searchNameID=&searchClassID=&searchOrigin=&keySearch=+Search+&page=1

Languages

http://www.projecthope.org/

Founded in 1958, Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) is dedicated to providing lasting solutions to health problems with the mission of helping people to help themselves. Identifiable to many by the SS HOPE, the world’s first peacetime hospital ship, Project HOPE now provides medical training and health education, as well as conducts humanitarian assistance programs in more than 35 countries.

Sciences

http://healingandhopethroughscience.org/home.html

Healing and Hope Through Science brings hands-on science classes, one on one instruction, and student authored Nature Newsletters to patients at Duke Children's Hospital and UNC Children's Hospital. They coordinate their programs with the Duke Hospital School and UNC Hospital School. Healing and Hope Through Science has served over 1000 patients since June of 2006.

International

http://www.hopeinternational.org/site/PageServer

HOPE International is a Christian faith-based, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization focused on alleviating physical and spiritual poverty through microenterprise development. HOPE practices a holistic approach to poverty alleviation. Microcredit and basic business training enable individuals to build businesses and break free from physical poverty. Clients find that their increased income enables them to provide more nutritious and regular meals as well as improved housing and education for their children.

Psychology

http://www.apa.org/monitor/oct00/seeger2.aspx

Pete Seeger was the most respected folk singer right around of the time of Kennedy's assassination. Pete asks his fans to all to be in the struggle to make it a better world by showing compassion to our community and to the earth. As a psychologist, the author found himself referring back to Pete Seeger as often as any of my former professors or teachers. Pete's credibility seems to transcend politics, philosophy or science. Perhaps, he personifies what can happen when a human being maintains hope in adversity, restructures his thinking and helps those around him to do the same.

History

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005129

In 1945, Us and Soviet troops entered the concentration camps, they discovered piles of corpses, bones, and human ashes. Soldiers also found thousands of survivors -- Jews and non-Jews -- suffering from starvation and disease. For survivors, the prospect of rebuilding their lives was daunting, but what they needed was hope.

Languages

http://noticias.latam.msn.com/ar/internacional/articulo_afp.aspx?cp-documentid=23573553

After Chile's devastating earthquake many people are hoping to find family members alive and unharmed. The heavy machinery began removing the rubble in hopes fade of finding survivors of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Chile, beginning a slow reconstruction by President Michelle Bachelet will take up to four years. Military forces kept a tight guard of the city and continues the distribution of food, which is done in an orderly fashion house to house while in coastal areas, tactical divers and rescue dogs looking for the bodies began to expel the sea.

Sciences

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3076915/

This certain article deals with two different oppurtunities that rely heavily on hope. People and families who have or have to deal with incurable diseases have a huge amount of hope. They are hoping their loved ones won't die or suffer and at the same time hoping for a cure. Scientists are also hoping for cloning. Animal cloning has happened successfully in many instances and also an attempt at human cloning. There are many controversial views of the subject but what some people dont know is that cloning can save lives. Scientists are working with clones to try and cure diseases that have incurable at the moment. Some diseases that such scientists are working on currently are Alzheimer’s, diabetes, heart disease and Parkinson’s.

Places/Locations

http://www.hopeforhaiti.com/

Hope for Haiti is a non-profit charitable organization whose mission is to improve the quality of life for the Haitian people, particularly children, through education, nutrition, and healthcare. The organization asks for people to donate money or time to their important cause. 96% of donations we raise directly reach the people who need it most. 100% of all donations received in response to the earthquake are going directly to our disaster relief effort on the ground. The people who volunteer their time and money have hope that with their help they can help Haitian families and children from poverty and starvation.

Psychology

http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=28966&cn=110

Before Barak Obama came onto the scene psychologists and business leaders were working with the concept of hope as an effective way of motivating people, dealing with difficult emotions, and cultivating well-being in daily life. Whatever our beliefs are about Barack Obama, the fact is he managed to inspire hope in many people through out the country with his psychology of hope in trying times.

History

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/the_fight_to_end_slavery.htm

The Fight to end slavery involves hope in many ways. The slaves were hoping to become free along with public leaders who were fighting for all of the slaves and black men and women. Some of these public leaders who stood up for hope were Nat Turner, John Brown, Dred Scott, Fredrick Douglass, Harriett Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and Abraham Lincoln.

Poem

What Hope Is
By: Vineet Bansal

What hope means

Hope is bright shining light which keeps darkness at the bay
Hope is gentle cold breeze on a hot summer day

Hope is to remain positive when going gets tough
hope is seeking more when others think u had enough

What hope means

Hope is dreaming of tommorow
Hope is simmering under sorrow

Hope is sparkles when tears in our eyes
Hope is a beautiful thing & beutiful things never dies

What hope means

Hope is as light as a feather
Hope keeps all of us together

Hope is ubiquitous and free of cost
hope is the last thing ever lost.....

Lyrics

I Hope You Dance
By: Lee Ann Womack


I hope you never lose your sense of wonder,
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger,
May you never take one single breath for granted,
God forbid love ever leave you empty handed,
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean,
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens,
Promise me that you’ll give faith a fighting chance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.

I hope you dance....i hope you dance.

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance,
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Livin’ might mean takin’ chances but they’re worth takin’,
Lovin’ might be a mistake but it’s worth makin’,
Don’t let some hell bent heart leave you bitter,
When you come close to sellin’ out reconsider,
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.

I hope you dance....i hope you dance.
I hope you dance....i hope you dance.
(time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along,
Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder where those years have gone.)

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean,
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens,
Promise me that you’ll give faith a fighting chance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.

Dance....i hope you dance.
I hope you dance....i hope you dance.
I hope you dance....i hope you dance..
(time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along
Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder where those years have gone

Jean-Honoré Fragonard Biography

Birth Year : 1732
Death Year : 1806
Country : France

Jean-Honoré Fragonard was born in Provence, in the town of Grasse. At the age of eighteen, he left home for Paris where he studied with Boucher and possibly with Chardin. He was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1752, but continued to study with Vanloo and Lépicié before going to Rome in 1756. In 1759, Fragonard and his contemporary, Hubert Robert, were invited to accompany the Abbé de Saint-Non on a trip to southern Italy and Sicily. The two young men, each strongly influencing the other, sketched and painted archaeological scenes, landscapes, and religious and genre works, all on a small scale. During the trip Fragonard had the opportunity to study the richly colored and highly lit works of the Neapolitan painters and, returning to Paris by way of Venice, also studied his Venetian contemporaries and the works of older Venetian, Dutch, and Flemish masters, some of whose works he copied. Upon his return to France in 1761 Fragonard was admitted to the Academy because of a painting more classical in subject matter than in execution. Then, in 1765, he gave up historical and religious paintings to work in the style for which he is best known, painting landscapes and interiors peopled with enchanting young lovers, cupids, and Venuses, in a refreshingly light atmosphere of pure joie de vivre.

Among his most famous patrons were Madame de Pompadour, the financier Bergeret (who accompanied him to Italy again in 1773), and Madame du Barry, for whom he painted the great panels of "Progress in Love", now in the Frick Museum in New York. Du Barry refused the completed works and Fragonard kept them in his own home, taking them with him to Grasse when he fled the horrors of the Revolution in 1790. The artist returned to Paris where he had already received official recognition and was made a member of the Jury of Arts and named to a post in the newly created Louvre Museum. He had, however, outlived his period. The sober thought of the revolutionary era, as represented in the painting of David, could not include Fragonard. He was ousted from his Louvre apartment in 1806 and deprived of his pension. He died in poverty during the same year.

One of the most brilliantly original French painters of the late eighteenth century, Fragonard painted with a spontaneity and a fluidity of technique that recall Rubens. His imagination, delicate wit, and refinement combined to create volatile poetic canvases that present the best aspects of the period of Louis XVI.

http://www.dropbears.com/a/art/biography/Jean-Honore_Fragonard.html

Buchenwald

Artist: Margaret
Title: Buchenwald
Country: Germany
Medium: Photograph

Festival

Artist: Ken Heyman
Title: Festival
Country: Israel
Medium: photograph

Women's March

Artist: John Olson
Title: Women's March
Country: United States
Medium: Photograph

Artist: Dorothea Lange
Title: Migrant Mother
Country: United States
Medium: photograph

Prince Patutsky's command

Artist: Jules Olitski
Title: Prince Patutsky's command
Country: Unknown
Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Children at Work

Artist: Lewis w Hine
Title: Children at Work
Country: United States
Medium: Photograph

Artist: Carlos Schwabe
Title: The Virgin of the Lilies
Country: France
Medium: Painting

The Swing

Artist: Jean-Honore Fragonard
Title: The Swing
Country: London, France
Medium: Oil on canvas

Hope Vibrant

Hope Vibrant
Artist: alrooh
Medium: digital art
Location: Saudi Arabia

Hope and Desperation

Hope and Desperation
Artist: Wendal Anschutz
Medium: Original oil
Location: Kansas

Hope

medium: digital art

Hope Taking Flight

Hope Taking Flight
Artist: purplenoel
medium: digital art

Critique #2

Jonathan Ray is a photographer from Minnesota who photographs a variety of things such as aviation, scenic views, cities, real estate, automobiles, and portraits. He photographed the image I chose and it is called A Glimpse of Hope. The subject matter of the photograph is hope. The photograph is simply a tree frozen in the winter with a light behind the tree. The light behind the tree lights up the tree and the sky above the tree. The surrounding sky and ground is left dark and cold.
The photographer of this piece uses a drastic use of chiaroscuro. The light behind the tree makes a drastic difference between the darkness of the sky and ground. The content of the photo is a symbol of hope and to have faith. Anyone who critiques this photo views it as beautiful and refreshing to look at. The emphasis of the light behind the tree is to show that even in tough times you can still find hope. In the middle of the photo there is a large tree which represents a figurative characteristic. The focal point of the photo is the tree which is lightened. The light in the background highlights the tree and its importance. The darkness surrounding the tree is shaded with dark colors such as black. The value of the photo is even with a mix of dark and light tones. The visual of the photo shows the tree and the roots of the tree and the bare ground. The light in the background of the tree makes a sign of movement which could portray the sun going down. The optical view of the photo makes the light seem like it is in fact the sun going down.
I believe this photo represents a message to anyone who needs a boost of hope. Things these days are getting pretty rough in the world, failing economy, increased unemployment, and constant war. If this small tree can blossom after a winter like this, we all can make it through the hard time. When it all seems to be too much, take a deep breath, and remember to hold on to your hopes. The focal point of this photo would be the tree. The light behind it makes the tree look fantasy-like. It makes you think that maybe there is hope left in the world. The narrative is subtle. You have to look beyond the photo and realize what the photographer was trying to get people to understand. The darkness surrounding the tree represents desolation. What the photographer is trying to get his viewers to realize is in the middle of misery you can find hope. The characteristics that make this piece strong and effective is its drastic change of light vs. dark, and the true meaning of the frozen tree with light behind it.

Critique #1

The artist of my painting is Steve Atkinson and the title is Hope and Despair. He uses acrylic paint over a triple primed canvas. The subject matter is hope. In this painting there is an obvious change between dark and light. In the painting the dark colors which are the mountains are enclosing the person who is also painted dark colors. The dark colors represent despair and anguish. The light colors in the sky are a deep red, orange, and bright yellow. The sun is in the middle and the focal point of the painting. The bright colors represent what is coming in the future for the person, which is hope.
In critiquing this painting I would have to begin with the term chiaroscuro. In the painting there is an obvious distinction between dark and light colors. In the painting the content in the art is in despair and looking and reaching for hope, which is in the distance. The emphasis of the painting is the dark tone of the mountains is placed around the brightness of the sun and vibrant happy colors. In the painting the artist shows a person in the middle of it which represents figurativeness. The focal point of the painting is the sun which represents hope. The foreground of the painting is the dark colored mountains which represents despair. By interpreting this painting I would say the person is surrounded by darkness and is reaching out for hope which is the sun and light colors. The pigment of the painting is dark colors including brown and black. It also has a deep red, orange, and bright yellow. The painting has shade within the mountains and the person. The subtle message the artist is trying to give is that the person is reaching out for hope. The value of the painting is light and dark figures. Lastly, the graphic is painted with acrylics.
The focal point of the piece of art is the sun. The surrounding colors around the sun are darker and the sun is deeper than the color of the sun. The closer to the sun the brighter and more vibrant the colors get. The bright colors represent hope. The narrative is subtle. The dark colors which represent the mountains and the person represent despair. The sun and vibrant sky represents hope. The person is reaching for what is coming in his future, which is hope. The mix of dark and light colors makes this painting very effective and unique.

DECLARATION
For my concept folio I decided to do the theme of hope. The definition of hope is, the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best. To me hope is a way to go on living even when all the odds are against you. Hope is a lifestyle, one that I wish I could stand by but it's impossible for anyone to be hopeful all the time. Even so, we must all hope as often as possible and as much as possible. Sometimes it seems like Hope is a bad thing because hope distracts us from our goals but it is actually taking us to new paths when we are lost. No one can live without hope.
Being a senior in high school means many changes are going to be happening within the next year. Filling out applications, writing essays, and paying fees are a few of the small parts of applying to college. Once you are done with this, you think you would be relived but you are not. This is the worst part; waiting. Waiting for college admissions to decide if you are good enough to attend their college and waiting to see if your family is financially eligible to get financial aid. Throughout this process all I can have is hope. Hope that I can get into my top schools and be able to afford them. Hope that next year I will meet new people are form new relationships. All I can do is hope for the best.
After the recent tragedy in Haiti, many celebrities are reaching out. Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and Sandra Bullock donated $1 Million to Doctors without Borders, an organization where Doctors and nurses volunteer to provide urgent medical care in countries to victims of war and disaster. Also, Gisele Bundchen donated $1.5 million to Red Cross. These celebrities donated money to give the Haitian people hope to survive and begin a new life. There is a website where people submit art they have created that signifies hope for African children and other people suffering of starvation and diseases. There is another website which deals with the hope of Obama changing the United States. People will send in their art work to the website. Some songwriters who write about hope are Journey, Tom Petty, Lee Ann Womack, Michael Jackson, and many others. Many poets also wrote about hope such as Emily Dickinson, Raymond A. Foss, and many more.