Presentation

Presentation is needed to express your ideas and opinions to a group of people. Our teacher told us to do presentation after making a mind map at school. 

One of the ways to train people to become more confident. What's the connection with art? Well, usually, shy/quiet people are introverted and hard to express and/or open up his/her mind. Closing yourself will stop your imagination running wild too. Maybe you can still be imaginative but, it will run out soon or later. What's more, by becoming open-minded, you'll be able to understand people more, like your friends. 

Anyway, presentation is a skill needed for you to tell people your work. If you don't train how to speak well, people might misunderstand you, leading to people won't buy your artwork and you become poor and won't be able to afford food anymore and bing bong, welcome to heaven. However, I didn't talk much in the presentation last week. Why? I forgot, maybe I had a terrible day or something. 

The teacher told us to split subjects for each of us to present the audience. Dillon talked about entertainment that will make people smile, Kelly was about foods and how that can make people happy. I presented about ideas, the actual meaning is that when people get good ideas, they smiled automatically. From ideas, you can make songs, paintings, recipes, produces convenient tools to make people happy and smile. I got that thought after the presentation though. 

From that experience, looks like I need to prepare and organize what I have to say and present to the audience. Also, don't drag your emotions and problems during presentation. Don't forget to smile, speak louder and look at audiences when talking, that will make you look confident and they will think that you know what you're doing.

After each group's presentation, the teacher gave us advice to improve our presentation skill. It is a good skill to develop, good stuff the school teaches us to do such thing.






I only said something like "When we get ideas, we smile." I still have a lot to improve.

Well, that's all for today. Have you ever done presentation, readers? 

Mind map

Greeting, readers.

Last time, I typed about brainstorm. Today, it's about mind map. Mind map and brainstorm are quite similar. The difference is that in mind map, you planned it beforehand and it has to be logical. Other than that, both of them are the same.

Last Thursday, the teacher split us into groups again, a different one from last time. Teacher called our names randomly before. Now, she asked us to say our number according to our seats. There will be three people with the same number and that means you're in the same group. A neat plan to make random people in the same group.

I'm in the same group as...

Kelly and Dillon

People behind Dillon are just extras doing photo bomb and making his arm disappear.

In that short time on Thursday, I get to know that Kelly likes Jazz music, potatoes and...some other foods. Dillon's mother is really kind and skilled, she made a pencil case for him to let him take a lot of colored markers to school. I also know that Dillon likes to annoy people. 

Oops... I'm getting off track. Going back to mind map.

Our topic for mind map is "Creating Smiles", looks easy but not really. At first, we didn't know what to write on Mahjong paper so, we wrote common stuff that make people smile such as, eating delicious food, annoy other people and listening to music. After that, we expanded it. Last time's picture of the brainstorm, it wasn't suppose to be like that.That is more of a mind map. In brainstorm, you just wrote out ideas for the topic, while in mind map, you can connect stuff together to the topic like, priest and monk can be linked to religion and conflict (the teacher pointed it out so we won't be confused.)

Well, I had another fun at class and we drew a smiley in the mind map. Can you see it?

That's all about mind map. Thank you for reading.

Impressionism

Greeting, readers.

You must have heard of Van Gogh and his sad history,he's included as impressionist artist. Impressionist is an art movement that doesn't have deep details in the painting, it's more of a painting of certain emotions. Impressionism originated from 19th Century based on a group of Paris-based artists.

<Impressionism paintings

Academic paintings>

There are a lot of impressionist artists at around 18th-19th, there are also some females. The three most famous female impressionists are described as "les trois grandes dames" meaning the three leading ladies. Today, I'll write about them.

Mary Cassatte (22nd May 1844-14th June 1926)

Mary Cassatte was born in a wealthy family in America. Her parents opposed her decision to be a professional artist at first however, she started studying at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1861-1865. She stopped studying at that school because it was really slow paced and moved to France. However, because of some problems, she moved around until she finally go back to France. At her dark time, she was invited by Edgar Degas, she had admired him since 1875 from Degas powerful pastels painting.

After joining the Impressionists, she befriend Berthe Morisot, the first female member in that group. Cassatte stayed with them until 1886 when she began to exhibit her works at New York galleries.
It's still vague whether Cassatte has a relationship with Degas since both of them share similar traits.

Marie Braquemond (1st Dec 1840-17th Jan 1916)

Marie Anne Caroline Quivoron, She was born from an unhappy arranged marriage unlike Cassatte and Morisot. After her father's death, her mother remarried and they moved around until they resided in south of Paris. She studied painting from M.Wasser and progressed incredibly. Her work got accepted by the Salon at 1857.  Felix Braquemond saw her when she was painting and they got married after engaged for 2 years. In 1870, Braquemond's delicate body deteriorated after her son's birth.

Under the influence of the Impressionist during 1887-1890, her style began to change and her husband was disgusted. Most of her famous works were painted outdoors. She even said in defense to her husband's harsh critiques, "Impressionism has produced ... not only a new, but a very useful way of looking at things. It is as though all at once a window opens and the sun and air enter your house in torrents."

Berthe Morisot (14th Jan 1841-2nd March 1895)

Morisot was born in a painter's family and moved to Paris when she was really young. Morisot's first career started at Salon de Paris in 1864 until 1873, a year before the Impressionist's first exhibition.
In 1868, Morisot met Edouard Manet and he caught a special interest in her. While it should be that Manet who taught her impressionism, their relationship seemed to be quiet different.
Morisot tried to persuaded Manet into plein air painting, she's also the one who invited Manet into the Impressionists. In 1874, Morisot married Manet's brother, Eugene, and they had one daughter, Julie.

Morisot's paintings reflect the 19th Century's culture and she avoided nude paintings. Like Mary Cassatt, she focused on domestic life.


These three ladies are respectable, they wanted to try something different with different reasons each. They didn't care for the critics they get from people. I'd like to have their strong determination to art as well.

What do you think, readers?
Think for a while and thank you for reading. 

Class Brainstorm Lesson

Greeting, readers.

Today, it's about my class lesson, brainstorming. Mainly, you just have to put every single ideas you have with some sort of connection to your topic. As an example, your topic: Frankenstein, you can connect it to green, monster, story and you can expand it by using those keywords.

Moreover, logic and others didn't apply in brainstorming that means, you can think of whatever you want like, flying Frankenstein hit the tree and the tree turns into a massive laptop, chasing Frankenstein as if they're in Pacman world.

The teachers separate the class into groups of three people in each group in order to let other people share ideas. It helped us to know more about our classmates and expand more ideas into the brainstorm.

 <See? there are not a lot of ideas on the paper if I'm alone.

Our topic was "Catch a Crab" but I forgot to take pictures at class and I remake it with "Frankenstein"

The teacher told us to buy Mahjong Papers because the size is bigger than A3. We have to put in as many ideas as we have onto the paper.

After that, we got separated into groups. I was in the same group as our female class representative, Na. I don't remember her last name. It's too long, Na is her nickname. She called me G. She's creative, cheerful and her painting skill is just...professional. Na is from Vietnam.

The second person is Ritika, originated from India. Ritika is a quiet person. I haven't get to know her more but she's a kind person. She always respond me whenever I ask her about homework. I always forget what homework we get from teachers.

Anyway, in those two hours of class, we just threw in any kind of ideas. During that time, I looked around the class and most of the students were actively doing the activity.

It was fun to get to know more about your classmates and learned their different perspectives.
Na is into animated and cute stuff. Ritika likes a band called Coldplay, I knew it because somehow from "Catch a crab" get connected into technology and scientist.

The week after that, the teacher told us to represent our ideas in front of the class and told our classmates as to why we can get those ideas.

Na and I at EOY event

The kind Ritika

These are pictures of my friends.
They also make blogs but I forgot to ask them the website. May fate brought you to those two.

Thank you for reading.

This week

      Greetings. This week, I haven't go anywhere special. Mostly, I play games and draw at my apartment. At school, nothing particularly interesting happens, if I remember correctly. So... Let's go back to last Saturday, my best friend's birthday. Her name is Yumiko, she's not Japanese but she looks like Japanese and can speak the language.

 At Friday night, my friends in the same apartment and I commenced our "Surprise at Midnight" plan. The plan is to surprise her at exactly 12 a.m. We went to sleep early, after a while I went out of the room to tell the rest that Yumiko had slept.

We barged in suddenly and threw some balloons at her face. We didn't see any response. Looking closer, she laughed too much that no voice come out at all.

Yumiko complained that she's still sleepy but, we forced her to wake up and eat at least a slice of cake. We end the surprise with a picture.

The next day, I promised to have lunch with her at VeganBurg. Yumiko is vegetarian (impressive to have such determination at such age, right?) The dishes at that restaurant are really good and healthy.

After that, I left her finishing her dish and go to EOY held at Marina Barrage, a cosplay event held every year in Singapore. There are also merchandise booths and I planned to buy some presents for Yumiko's 17th Birthday. I searched around the place for the characters that she like while taking pictures of the cosplayers.

I went out with my classmates to the event. They are Na and Sherry. Sherry is a cosplayer, she decided to cosplay as Makise Kurisu from Steins;Gate.

I also have friends who work at the booths. After I spent the day searching for the right present for Yumiko, I regrouped with Na and Sherry. We walked around for a while until the event finished. We took a few pictures at the top of the building. There are a lot of tourists with their family, the children played around, some were playing kites and the others just ran around. I parted with them and had dinner with my friends who had finished working although, I just order a drink since there are no soup menu. (I had sore throat. Why do I still eat burger? Well, I made a promise and it's her 17th Birthday).

That Saturday was eventful. I went home and gave the presents to Yumiko. She's delighted when she saw the presents which consists of a pokeball, Hakuryuu Ren's figurine and Hakuryuu Ren's poster. It was tiring but also fun.



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