A hybrid of Aztec and Catholic rituals, Dia de los Muertos is based on ancestor worship.
Notes on Dia -
- Celebrated on Nov 1, All Saints Day, Nov 2, All Souls Day in the Catholic Church.
- Partying in the cemeteries. Food, drink and talking with long-time friends.
- Pan de Muertos.
- Tequila: distilled from the Blue Agave cactus.
- Candles and marigolds. Sometimes Monarch butterflies.
- Papel Picado: symmetric and figurative scenes cut in tissue paper.
- Ofrendas (offering); an altar laden with food, drink and mementoes dedicated to a beloved ancestor.
- Calacas: skulls.
- Calaveras: skeletons - often clad in items suggestive of people in all occupations.
- Catrina: female, well-to-do skeleton.
- Pagan: pre-Christian worship.
Anatomy of a skeleton's bones.
- cranium
- mandible
- vertebrae
- clavicle
- sternum
- scapula
- rib cage
- humerus
- radius and ulna
- carpal bones
- metacarpals
- phalanges
- pelvic girdle
- coccyx
- femur
- patella
- fibula and tibia
- tarsal bones
- metatarsals
- phalanges
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Chicken of the Dead quiz
Cranial Supper quiz
1. The brain case: the __ .
2. The somewhat triangular shoulder blade: a) scapula b) sternum c) mandible d) femur.
3. The collar bone: ___ . a) patella b) clavicle c) mandible d) femur.
4. The bone that supports your biceps: __ . a) mandible b) fibula c) femur d) humerus.
5. The radius and ulna are associated with your a) neck b) spine c) shin d) forearm.
6. The phalanx bones are part of your a) legs and arms b) hands and feet c) vertebrae and cranium d) ribs and pelvis.
7. The tarsus is associated with the __ . a) foot b) hand c) neck d) pelvis.
8. The pair of bones that comprise your shins: __ . a) tibia and fibula b) ulna and radius c) carpal and metacarpal d) humerus and radius.
9. The vertabrae are connected to the __ . a) mandible b) ribs c) pelvis d) ulna.
10. Your tailbone, or coccyx, is part of the a) os coxae b) carpals c) cranium d) calliope.
1. The brain case: the __ .
2. The somewhat triangular shoulder blade: a) scapula b) sternum c) mandible d) femur.
3. The collar bone: ___ . a) patella b) clavicle c) mandible d) femur.
4. The bone that supports your biceps: __ . a) mandible b) fibula c) femur d) humerus.
5. The radius and ulna are associated with your a) neck b) spine c) shin d) forearm.
6. The phalanx bones are part of your a) legs and arms b) hands and feet c) vertebrae and cranium d) ribs and pelvis.
7. The tarsus is associated with the __ . a) foot b) hand c) neck d) pelvis.
8. The pair of bones that comprise your shins: __ . a) tibia and fibula b) ulna and radius c) carpal and metacarpal d) humerus and radius.
9. The vertabrae are connected to the __ . a) mandible b) ribs c) pelvis d) ulna.
10. Your tailbone, or coccyx, is part of the a) os coxae b) carpals c) cranium d) calliope.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
A basis for creating three dimensional art: the skeleton, from cranium to metatarsals
Dia de Los Muertos project time:
Each group of 4 students - groups assigned by the teacher to expand classroom networks - will be responsible for delivering by Th, Nov 1 or Fri, Nov 2.
Those are the Christian celebrations called All Saints and All Souls Days - Dia de los Muertos is celebrated principally on All Souls.
a) Large, painted, articulated skeleton model - paper or cardboard.
b) Anatomy lesson and quiz.
c) Dia de los Muertos lesson and quiz.
Each group of 4 students - groups assigned by the teacher to expand classroom networks - will be responsible for delivering by Th, Nov 1 or Fri, Nov 2.
Those are the Christian celebrations called All Saints and All Souls Days - Dia de los Muertos is celebrated principally on All Souls.
a) Large, painted, articulated skeleton model - paper or cardboard.
b) Anatomy lesson and quiz.
c) Dia de los Muertos lesson and quiz.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
What Bill Gates, Paul Allen and other moguls do with some of their millions: learn about the fine arts and collect art
Bill Gates and Paul Allen, each bigillionaires because of their success as founders of Microsoft, have amassed large art collections.
Like you, they took fine arts classes when they were young. As their success in the business world grew, their sense of what to buy with their money turned to art.
For many billionaires, says Forbes.com, the art purchases they've made has been a profitable move.
Eric Clapton, rock guitarist and songwriter, recently made millions when he auctioned a painting by Gerhard Richter that he'd bought in the 1990's.
Like you, they took fine arts classes when they were young. As their success in the business world grew, their sense of what to buy with their money turned to art.
For many billionaires, says Forbes.com, the art purchases they've made has been a profitable move.
Eric Clapton, rock guitarist and songwriter, recently made millions when he auctioned a painting by Gerhard Richter that he'd bought in the 1990's.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Picasso was enthralled by the outcast Romani
The Romani are an ethnic group living mostly in Europe, says Wikipedia, who trace their origins to the Indian Subcontinent.
Romani are known in the English-speaking world by the exonym Gypsies (or Gipsies).
They are known collectively in the Romani language as Romane, Roma or Roms.
Their largest concentrated populations in Europe, especially the Roma of Central and Eastern Europe and Anatolia, followed by the Kale of Iberia and Southern France.
There are an estimated one million Roma in the United States; 800,000 in Brazil, whose ancestors were deported by the government of Portugal during the colonial era.
During World War II, the Nazis embarked on a systematic genocide of the Romani.[62] Romanies were marked for extermination and sentenced to forced labor and imprisonment in concentration camps.
They were often killed on sight, especially by the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) on the Eastern Front.[citation needed] The total number of victims has been variously estimated at between 220,000 to 1,500,000; even the lowest number would make the Porajmos one of the largest mass murders in history.
The distinctive sound of Romani music has strongly influenced bolero, jazz, and flamenco (especially cante jondo) in Europe. European-style gypsy jazz is still widely practiced; one who acknowledged this artistic debt was guitarist Django Reinhardt, a Belgian gypsy.
Romani are known in the English-speaking world by the exonym Gypsies (or Gipsies).
They are known collectively in the Romani language as Romane, Roma or Roms.
Their largest concentrated populations in Europe, especially the Roma of Central and Eastern Europe and Anatolia, followed by the Kale of Iberia and Southern France.
There are an estimated one million Roma in the United States; 800,000 in Brazil, whose ancestors were deported by the government of Portugal during the colonial era.
During World War II, the Nazis embarked on a systematic genocide of the Romani.[62] Romanies were marked for extermination and sentenced to forced labor and imprisonment in concentration camps.
They were often killed on sight, especially by the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) on the Eastern Front.[citation needed] The total number of victims has been variously estimated at between 220,000 to 1,500,000; even the lowest number would make the Porajmos one of the largest mass murders in history.
The distinctive sound of Romani music has strongly influenced bolero, jazz, and flamenco (especially cante jondo) in Europe. European-style gypsy jazz is still widely practiced; one who acknowledged this artistic debt was guitarist Django Reinhardt, a Belgian gypsy.
Cannot compare Picasso to Steve Jobs if you don't know the Jobs bio
Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (1955 – 2011)[6][7] was an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc.
He was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution[9][10], says Wikipedia. Jobs also co-founded Pixar Animation Studios.
Jobs oversaw the development of the iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, and iPad, and the company's Apple Retail Stores, iTunes Store and the App Store.[17] The success of these products and services propelled Apple to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company in 2011.[18]
The reinvigoration of the company after the mid-1990's is regarded by many commentators as one of the greatest turnarounds in business history.
He was raised by adoptive parents in San Francisco. His father taught him to rebuild radios and TV's in the garage.
In 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He dropped out of college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes, including a course on calligraphy.[41] He continued auditing classes at Reed while sleeping on the floor in friends' dorm rooms, returning Coke bottles for food money, and getting weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple.[42]
He traveled to India in mid-1974[44] with a Reed College friend (and, later, an early Apple employee), Daniel Kottke, in search of spiritual enlightenment.
Staying for seven months, Jobs shaved his head and wore traditional Indian clothing.[47][48] During this time, Jobs experimented with psychedelics, later calling his LSD experiences "one of the two or three most important things [he had] done in [his] life".[49][50] He also became a serious practitioner of Zen Buddhism, engaged in lengthy meditation retreats at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. He maintained a lifelong appreciation for Zen.[52]
Jobs and Steve Wozniak met in 1971. Wozniak had designed a low-cost digital "blue box" to generate the necessary tones to manipulate the telephone network, allowing free long-distance calls. Jobs decided that they could make money selling it. The clandestine sales of the illegal "blue boxes" went well, and perhaps planted the seed in Jobs's mind that electronics could be fun and profitable.[55]
When Woz revealed that he had invented a computer in 1976 (the Apple I ), they founded Apple computer in the garage of Jobs's parents in order to sell it.[59]
Jobs's design aesthetic was influenced by the modernist architectural style of Joseph Eichler, and the industrial designs of Braun's Dieter Rams.[36] His design sense was also greatly influenced by the Buddhism which he experienced in India while on a seven-month spiritual journey.[126] His sense of intuition was also influenced by the spiritual people with whom he studied.[126]
He was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution[9][10], says Wikipedia. Jobs also co-founded Pixar Animation Studios.
Jobs oversaw the development of the iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, and iPad, and the company's Apple Retail Stores, iTunes Store and the App Store.[17] The success of these products and services propelled Apple to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company in 2011.[18]
The reinvigoration of the company after the mid-1990's is regarded by many commentators as one of the greatest turnarounds in business history.
He was raised by adoptive parents in San Francisco. His father taught him to rebuild radios and TV's in the garage.
In 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He dropped out of college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes, including a course on calligraphy.[41] He continued auditing classes at Reed while sleeping on the floor in friends' dorm rooms, returning Coke bottles for food money, and getting weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple.[42]
He traveled to India in mid-1974[44] with a Reed College friend (and, later, an early Apple employee), Daniel Kottke, in search of spiritual enlightenment.
Staying for seven months, Jobs shaved his head and wore traditional Indian clothing.[47][48] During this time, Jobs experimented with psychedelics, later calling his LSD experiences "one of the two or three most important things [he had] done in [his] life".[49][50] He also became a serious practitioner of Zen Buddhism, engaged in lengthy meditation retreats at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. He maintained a lifelong appreciation for Zen.[52]
Jobs and Steve Wozniak met in 1971. Wozniak had designed a low-cost digital "blue box" to generate the necessary tones to manipulate the telephone network, allowing free long-distance calls. Jobs decided that they could make money selling it. The clandestine sales of the illegal "blue boxes" went well, and perhaps planted the seed in Jobs's mind that electronics could be fun and profitable.[55]
When Woz revealed that he had invented a computer in 1976 (the Apple I ), they founded Apple computer in the garage of Jobs's parents in order to sell it.[59]
Jobs's design aesthetic was influenced by the modernist architectural style of Joseph Eichler, and the industrial designs of Braun's Dieter Rams.[36] His design sense was also greatly influenced by the Buddhism which he experienced in India while on a seven-month spiritual journey.[126] His sense of intuition was also influenced by the spiritual people with whom he studied.[126]
The Mediterranean to Montmartre: the life of Picasso
Picasso quiz
1. Picasso was born in the Spanish city of a) Malaga b) Coruna c) Madrid d) Barcelona.
2. He became an accomplished painter as a teen. T / F
3. He was from a notable region of Spain called a) Basque b) Alsace
c) Catalonia d) Andalusia.
4. Picasso's most-loved sport: a) futbol b) handball c) mountain hiking d) bull fights.
5. He was born in poverty but was enormously successful as a painter. T / F
6. Picasso's Big Apple was a) Paris b) Madrid c) NYC d) London.
7. Picasso was a member of the group of European artists who called themselves the surrealists. T / F
8. Picasso was a member of the group of European artists who called themselves the fauvists (French: "savages"). T / F
9. Picasso was a member of the group of European artists who called themselves the cubists. T / F
10. He felt most at home in the Spanish city where he spent his teens: a) Malaga b) Coruna c) Madrid d) Barcelona.
11. This Spanish painter touched Picasso more than the others:
a) El Greco b) Goya c) Velazquez d) Dali.
12. His lifelong friend and rival was the almost-equally famous painter a) Henri Matisse b) Salvador Dali c) Vincent Van Gogh d) Jean Renoir.
13. The Blue Period and the Rose Period paintings were part of his __ career. a) early b) late.
14. Picasso and other artists favored life in the __ section of Paris in the early 1900's. a) Montmartre b) Bastille c) Champs d'Elysees d) St Germain.
15. The famous river that flows through the heart of Paris: the __ .
a) Loire b) Thames c) Rhine d) Seine.
16. Two of the faces in Demoiselles d'Avignon reflected Picasso's interest in the masks and sculptural art of the continent of __ .
a) Asia b) Africa c) Eastern Europe d) South America.
17. One of Picasso's earliest Parisian lovers, Eva Gouel / Marcelle Humbert, died of __ . a) illness / cancer b) suicide c) murder d) motorcycle crash.
18. For half of his adult life Picasso was married to the former Russian ballerina, __ __. a) Olga Kohkalova b) Marie-Therese Walter
c) Dora Maar d) Francoise Gilot.
19. Claude and Paloma Picasso were the children born to the artist and mistress __ __ . a) Olga Kohkalova b) Marie-Therese Walter c) Dora Maar d) Francoise Gilot.
20. During WWII the city of Paris was occupied by the __ .
a) Russians b) English c) Germans d) Dutch.
21. The painting "Guernica" depicts the bombing of a Spanish village by German bombers in 1937, during the ____ . a) WWI b) WWII c) Spanish Civil War d) Spanish-American War.
22. The painting "Demoiselles d'Avignon" portrays a) French dancers
b) Spanish prostitutes c) African laundry workers d) the five muses.
1. Picasso was born in the Spanish city of a) Malaga b) Coruna c) Madrid d) Barcelona.
2. He became an accomplished painter as a teen. T / F
3. He was from a notable region of Spain called a) Basque b) Alsace
c) Catalonia d) Andalusia.
4. Picasso's most-loved sport: a) futbol b) handball c) mountain hiking d) bull fights.
5. He was born in poverty but was enormously successful as a painter. T / F
6. Picasso's Big Apple was a) Paris b) Madrid c) NYC d) London.
7. Picasso was a member of the group of European artists who called themselves the surrealists. T / F
8. Picasso was a member of the group of European artists who called themselves the fauvists (French: "savages"). T / F
9. Picasso was a member of the group of European artists who called themselves the cubists. T / F
10. He felt most at home in the Spanish city where he spent his teens: a) Malaga b) Coruna c) Madrid d) Barcelona.
11. This Spanish painter touched Picasso more than the others:
a) El Greco b) Goya c) Velazquez d) Dali.
12. His lifelong friend and rival was the almost-equally famous painter a) Henri Matisse b) Salvador Dali c) Vincent Van Gogh d) Jean Renoir.
13. The Blue Period and the Rose Period paintings were part of his __ career. a) early b) late.
14. Picasso and other artists favored life in the __ section of Paris in the early 1900's. a) Montmartre b) Bastille c) Champs d'Elysees d) St Germain.
15. The famous river that flows through the heart of Paris: the __ .
a) Loire b) Thames c) Rhine d) Seine.
16. Two of the faces in Demoiselles d'Avignon reflected Picasso's interest in the masks and sculptural art of the continent of __ .
a) Asia b) Africa c) Eastern Europe d) South America.
17. One of Picasso's earliest Parisian lovers, Eva Gouel / Marcelle Humbert, died of __ . a) illness / cancer b) suicide c) murder d) motorcycle crash.
18. For half of his adult life Picasso was married to the former Russian ballerina, __ __. a) Olga Kohkalova b) Marie-Therese Walter
c) Dora Maar d) Francoise Gilot.
19. Claude and Paloma Picasso were the children born to the artist and mistress __ __ . a) Olga Kohkalova b) Marie-Therese Walter c) Dora Maar d) Francoise Gilot.
20. During WWII the city of Paris was occupied by the __ .
a) Russians b) English c) Germans d) Dutch.
21. The painting "Guernica" depicts the bombing of a Spanish village by German bombers in 1937, during the ____ . a) WWI b) WWII c) Spanish Civil War d) Spanish-American War.
22. The painting "Demoiselles d'Avignon" portrays a) French dancers
b) Spanish prostitutes c) African laundry workers d) the five muses.
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