Art and Technology

Going through  Angel de Quinta's Stage Door blog I really enjoyed it. For me, I can relate a lot to this blog because I've seen a lot and have been apart of a few musicals. When going through his blog I wanted to do this post on one of my favorite Broadway shows. Some of my favorite Broadway shows that I've seen are, Lion King, Hairspray, and Aladdin, but my all-time favorite is Wicked.  I really like Wicked not only because it's the whole backstory of  "The Wizard's of OZ", but this has some of the best music that I've heard in a Broadway show because of how powerful the singing is.  I did watch both clips that were provided on the blog about Wicked. The first performance was the song Wonderful. To be honest that isn't one of my favorite songs in the show. The other clip that he put up was Defying Gravity, which is one of my favorite songs in Wicked. This is one of those powerful songs that I was talking about before. The person that's singi...

Madame Butterfly 1904 Giacomo Puccini Madame Butterfly is an Opera that was premiered in 1904 composed by Giacomo Puccini. I explain this opera as a hopeless romantic love story of a Japanese girl Cio-Cio-San, or Madame, and a white American man, Pinkerton. Madame is a geisha wife, which is basically a girl that entertains men with conversation, dancing, and singing. When Pinkerton shows up they end up “falling in love” and they get married. Before he leaves for sea they make love and she ends up getting pregnant. As the opera is going on she’s just waiting for him return back home with their child. I like to describe this opera as a hopeless romantic love story because Madame believed that he was in love with her just as much that she was in love with him. She didn’t want to listen to anyone else and what they had to say about their relationship. Even when she was offered to still be a geisha she turned it down, because she’s married now and she has to wait for her husband to ...

Madama Butterfly  Madama Butterfly was a very interesting animation, and I haven't seen something like this before. It was a little bit harder to follow because there were no words and we had to realize what was going on from the different scenes. We are able to follow what happens by their actions, emotions, and even colors.  Like I said before I haven't seen something like this before and it was a little strange for me to watch. I don't really have the creative mindset to fully understand what was exactly happening in the video. I'll explain later in the blog post but it did take me a while to fully understand the ending. I just had to use the actions and emotions of the characters to realize what had happened.   From the start of the video, we could tell that something bad may happen to her in the future because of the dark/black background that was happening in the beginning. Another thing I noticed with color is that when a good thing was happening...

Baroque Butterfly            For the project of combining two images and creating a new one I decided to make a "Baroque Butterfly". First off I wanted to do something that was dedicated to the lesson we learned this week in class. In Art and Technology, we learned a lot about the Baroque era, history, fashion, etc. So I decided to use a Baroque style knife and Baroque skirts, with a Baroque design on the skirt. I'm not a very artistic person but when I think of art I usually think of nature, so that's why I used a buterfly. Something that butterfly wings and Baroque fashion have in common is that they both creative designs on them so I thought that went together well.