PAGE_My Driving Question

Artists in this day are more advanced in their knowledge abd exploration of art. Poeple's emotions and opinions have expanded over the years, and their view on recent art has or has not changed.

With peace art, the artist is trying to put you at ease. They are trying to communicate "their" feelings and view of peace. They want you to understand how they feel.

What is the connection between the artist and the viewer?


OUR DRIVING QUESTION:

Could a song about peace inspire one to be a better person, therefore be more "pro-peace" ? how?


SOME STUDIES have shown that listening to violent music lyrics or heavy metal increase agressive and hostile thoughts and feelings*. But what if the music that was listened to was about peace? How would the listeners feeling or thoughts change or stay the same??

One site claims that listening to peaceful music while medatating can improve the medatation drastically and make it easi er to achieve the peak of medatation.


"It's a proven scientific fact that every cell in your body is affected by the sounds that you hear — be it music, spoken words, or noise from traffic. The good news is that you have great influence over what sounds you expose yourself to."

-Tania Gabriel.



















*= www.apa.org/releases/violentsongs.html

www.scienceblog.com/cms/violent_lyrics_increase_
aggressive_thoughts_feelings_study_finds - 39k -

clearinghouse.missouriwestern.edu/manuscripts/209.asp

a) What changes did you make to the original images you used?

I took a picture of of ids in a class room with a boy in the from writing a note, I used this image as my backround. i made him look agry by liquifying his eyebrow to a more mad shape. I then took an image of a girl and made it black and white. I used a layer mask on the "girl face" layer and blended it into the back round so it didn't look as if i had just cut and pasted it. I got a piece of lined paper from google and draged it onto my image. I then created another layer of text and tilter it so it apperaed to be on the paper. Finally i put some font to bring the image together.

b) What pleases you most about the technical quality of your work? Why?

I like what i did to his eyebrow it is a subtle touch, except i think it really made the image. I didn't expect it to turn out so well.

c) What displeases you most about the technical quality of your work? Why?

The fact that respect isnt noticable and with looks like it the most promenent word because i needed to make it legable against the dark hair.

d) What new techniques or skills did you learn through the completion of this activity?

I learned that when you use liquafy, it doesnt alwase have to look extreme and ridiculous, you can maake it more suttle.

e) What message did you hope to convey in your collage, if any?

How much a little note reall hurts one person. and that no one will respect you if your a bully, the closest thing to respect would be fear.

f) What emotional response do you hope to elicit from your audience?

When you bully someone, even if they dont look hurt infront of you, you can be damaging them alot.

g) What changes would you make to improve on this image?

The lettering