Claude Monet

Claude Monet is one of the founders of French Impressionism. The term Impressionism comes from the title of one of his paintings, 'Impression, Sunrise'. This painting hung in one of the first impressionist exhibition. This style was not well liked by mainstream art critics and one of them termed it "impressionism", this was meant as an insult but the artists appropriated this term for themselves.

Monet started out drawing and selling charcoal charicatures. He later took drawing lessons and art classes. Eventually he was mentored and taught to use oil paints.

Monet was married to Camille Doncieux, who was the subject of many of his paintings: 'The Woman in the Green Dress', 'The Woman in the Garden', 'On the Bank of the Seine'. And others.

After Camille's death, Monet married Alice. Together with her 6 children and his 2, they moved to Giverny. They rented a house and were eventually able to buy the house, barn/studio, and surrounding land. Now that Monet's fortune had changed, with the help of his dealer (Paul Durand Ruel). He was having great success selling his paintings. Monet was then able to create beautiful gardens, ponds, and greenhouses for his own enjoyment and inspiration. Much of his later works were "series" paintings. He would paint a subject in varying light, weather, time of day and from different focal points. some of his "series" work included: Haystacks, Rouen Cathedral, Poplars, House of Parlament, Seine, and Water Lilies.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

A well known American architect who is considered to be one of the most innovative and influential figures in Modern Architecture. His career spanned over 70 years, allowing him to take adavantage of new developments in building materials and techniques that came about during the Machine Age. He is best known for his style of Organic Architecture. This is a style based on natural forms. The principals are: Simplicity - no unnecessary walls. Multiple style - houses should not nesecarily be built in a certain style, but should be built to meet the requirements of the individual. Sympathy (harmony) with the environment - the building should seem to grow from the environment, being made from local materials and matching the color of the environment. Buildings should bring people joy - this principal speaks for itself. His principals were most similar to those of the Arts and Crafts Movement, though not as conservative or traditionally rooted.

Born June 8, 1867 to William Carey Wright and Anna Lloyd Jones. He Lived in Wisconsin, where his mother taught him at a young age by using a system developed by a German educationalist, Friedrich Froebel. It consisted of games which involved putting together simple primary colored, geometric shapes to make imaginative constructions. This system would later become very popular and is called Kindergarten. Wright says in his autobiography that those "simple toys" were very influental to his architectural work. Wright never graduated from high school but went on to become an apprentice to a builder who was also the Dean on Engineering at the University of Wisconsin. There he was trained in draftsmanship.

Eventually Frank Lloyd Wright started his own architecture practice in Chicago. He flourished in what he termed "Organic Architecture". This was a building style based on natural forms. He was very successful throughout his long career and not only did he design and build houses, but he designed everything that went in them as well. From the windows, furniture, light fixtures and other accessories.

Wright's works can be broken up into four different periods:

• The Early Period - This includes the Queen Anne or Shingle styles as well as his freelance "bootleg houses".




• The Prarie Period - 1901-1910's this was a new house form characterised by strong horizontal and organic architecture. He used natural materials and harmony between the building and its site.




• The Textile Block Period - Decorative, Mayan-inspired, cast concrete houses.





• Usonian Period - 1935-55 lower cost than the Prarie houses, these could be built by the client and could also be prefabricated.

Frank Lloyd Wright designed over a thousand projects in his career. Some of the most famous ones include:

The Kaufmann House, also known as Fallingwater

The Guggenheim Museum in New York

The Imperial Hotel in Japan. It was constructed so well that it survived the great Kanto Earthquake in 1923 which leveled everything else around it.

child abuse diorama

The title of my diorama is "Child Abuse... An Abusive Childhood Is Not A Childhood". It gives you a look into the home of a healthy, happy childhood and an abusive one. The comparison is drastic...

One side of the house is full of smiling faces. They are the faces of children who are happy and enjoying their childhood. This side of the house is also filled with toys to represent a fun and light-hearted time in these children's life.

The other side of the house is full of disturbing images. Faces and bodies of children who have been abused. Innocent, crying children who have been beaten (one to death). The props are not those of typical childhood, they are cords and paddles (weapons against these children). There are no signs of a happy childhood here.

My diorama is meant to show the contrast between a healthy childhood and an abusive one. I hope that you are enraged by seeing these images of innocent children who have been abused. These children deserve a safe, happy, and healthy childhood. Don't pretend that this problem doesn't exist. We all must defend these innocent children who can't protect themselves.