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The wasted land is a documentary of Vick Muniz a Brazilian artist that describes himself in the documentary as a poor boy that had grown up with nothing and end up to be one of the best selling artists in brazil. The wasted land was release in 2010 it was shot in Jardim Gramacho, one of the world's largest landfills located in Rio de Janeiro Brazil, where men and women gather to recycle garbage. To have a better opinion of the situation Vick flew to brazil to see the situation himself and he said in the documentary that “I was expecting to see people who were beaten and broken. But they are survivors.” By watching the documentary we can see that these people are very proud there is violence everywhere near them they could choose the easy way like everyone and be a gang member or prostitute but instead, they are collecting garbage to earn their lives worthily. By spending time there with them Vick will pick some and make a portrait of them throughout the documentary. His objective...

For this week's assignment, i decide to talk about the photographer Zanelle Moholi. Zanelle Moholi is an amazing South African photographer and also an activist that try to tell stories from the picture she took. In most of her works, she tries to put light on subjects that are taboo or subject to controversy in her country. In Somnyama Ngonyama a series of pictures she did, on one of the portraits she wears bike tubes around her neck and head as a jewel but she is trying to talk about apartheid in South Africa where black people were just taken put bike tire around their neck and burn. Apartheid is a dark period of South African history where segregated and discriminated. A lot of color folks died during that time. And there are sensible subjects even in today's South Africa. But as a committed artist, these are The tough subject Zanelle Moholi cover on some of her artworks. Another hot t subject in South Africa but also in Africa is the treatment of gays and lesbians ther...

Hi professor i modify my photo collage and here is the result.

One of the paintings that I liked at the MoMA was gold Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol is the one the creator of the pop art movement. The reason I choose this painting is that it is more recent it’s up to date compared to other movements like renaissance or impressionism. And the painting is addressed to society it’s a self-portrait of Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was a huge celebrity in the fifties. The painting was made by andy Warhol the year Marilyn Monroe committed suicide in 1968. After world war II since the European countries were ruined by the war, the united states economy was at it best we assisted to a boom of manufacturing, mass media, consumer society, and artist works are influenced by what they see in society and that what brings the pop art movement art for the population. The second painting  that I really like at the museum is the ‘’ Dance’’ painting of Matisse. We saw the painting in our lecture class, but the painting really looks better...

The idea on this photo montage is to create illusion you can see a shadow of a human that a dog is trying to bite the hand.Or a dog being scold by his master