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.