Cindy Sherman

Fore ground - a pot and a mug
Mid ground - a cupboard and a woman
Back ground - an empty jar and dish washing liquid
Center of focus - the woman
Framing - in the kitchen, woman wearing apron, kitchen supplies
Pose - woman looking over her shoulder nervously with her hand on her stomach like she feels sick
Gaze - not looking at the camera, looking outside the frame (looking at door, someone coming in to the room or someone coming out of the room)
Expression - not happy, a little worried
Viewpoint - slightly low
Depth - the depth was shown in the foreground with the pot looking very large, background looking very light

Everything in the picture seems to come to a stereotype of where a woman's place is meant to be - in the kitchen. The hand on her stomach could mean that she is pregnant - a 50's shot of a woman's role - as a housewife and mother.  The woman is looking over her shoulder away from the camera. It appears like she is trying to hide the fact that she's glancing at something she isn't suppiosed to.  Also her kitchen space is very confined which you can see because the kitchen supplies are all clashed together making it look like a very small place.  It looks like she is not happy or comfortable as a house wife - if you look at her posture and tiny space.

The Mona Lisa

The Mona Lisa as everyone should well know was drawn by Leonardo Da Vinci between 1505-1514.  The woman sitting in this portrait is said to be La Gioconda a 24 year old Florentine woman but there has been some debate that the Mona Lisa was a series of sketches Leonardo had created over time or that it was a portrait of himself.  This painting without a doubt has to be the most famous painting around.  What makes it famous is her smile so faint and mysterious that you can't pinpoint her mood and the fact that she isn't looking straight ahead like she is distracted by something in the background and you start to wonder what that is.  This by far is not like normal portraits.
Leonardo Da Vinci was interested in capturing the inner thoughts and emotional responses of the human mind. Leonardo planned to show "the emotions of the mind" by placing his sitter in a beautiful landscape and focusing on such a mysterious facial expression.
I have always been fascinated by the Mona Lisa probably because it is so different from other paintings. I never could understand peoples' fascination on her smile so I guess you could say I was always fascinated because I thought it was kind of strange (bland).

Week two poetry response

We went to see two poets and a singer. The first guys poetry kind of creeped me out because it was about people being killed and the bombing of buses and I had to catch a bus to get home and that was all I could think about but he did make one comedy poem about a pear and I liked the comedy but not the poem.
The singer was up next and I loved it. The guy could sing and I liked the songs, they sounded really good.  I loved the first song. I think it was called Goldfish.
Then we had the last poet who was a girl. I think she did hers on culture. She would speak a strong word and do a lot of hand movements to emphasize it. I didn't like all the swearing done by both poets but other than that I think all of them were really good