Cavon baker; Betrand Nkali; Darian Banks; Denis lawton

Bertrand Nkali; Cavon Baker; Darians Banks; Denis lawton

Denis Lawton; Bertrand Nkali; Darian Banks; Ousmane Ba; Cavon Baker



It is said that a picture can say more than a thousand words and some say they tell stories, but art makes me think. Experiencing new variety of art, there is a new look at how people are unique in their own. Everyone perceives life in his or her own way. Like I, growing up where I live there were graffiti on the streets as the only symbol of artistic talent my culture had. Nothing showcased or viewed as art, but an act of defacing property. To see art appreciated shows me there is a lot out in the world to learn, experience and choose from. Life is about opportunities, be yourself and take them head on.



 

I look at the Scarface portrait and immediately want to take a picture in front of it. Remembering the days I spent watching the movie triggered pleasant memories for me. I always watched the film with my family or friends, since to us it is a classic. Therefore i wanted to take the picture not alone but by my teammates side symbolizing my extended family out here in Texas. Next we have an abstract art piece of a robust women decorated in pink and black dots. Amusing to my teammates and I, we figured why not express and be proud of our man hood. Darian Banks grips





the one of her boosoms showing possesion, Bertrand stands firmly showing confidence and Dennis and I stand as witness to the connection between man and women. Even though it just a statue, my mind was running on all cylinders.


Ousmane Ba ; Bertrand Nkali

    This trip was awesome while it was shocking. it was not easy to see these women with breast Cancer I was thinking if it was somebody in my family was in that situation I would feel so bad. But these women they are so stronger to handle this sickness. That was a great experience to me I will share this experience with my family and with my friends.

                                                                                     

                                                                                                                      Ousmane Ba



Ousmane Ba; Darian Banks

 

Downtown Houston

first class trip

 

Art and cultural expression

 

 

  

 

 

 



   Our next two trip to the Houston streets art was more fun than I expected. The more I examined the graffiti, the more I was surprised by the intention of the artist. I could almost feel what they must have felt as they created. I was interested in where their choice of colors and design elements came from? how do they know that those color and design elements can create art? is such knowledge inborn? every time, I see a graffiti piece I think about these questions.

 

 I ask myself," how does one define art?" is art the fruit of our imagination or the expression of our feelings?. Nobody can objectively answer to these questions. I come from Cameroon in Africa and yet I see such type of graffiti and their meaning. I quickly figure out that here that graffiti art has liberty meaning. the artist use the public place to express that he free to think and create. arts does not follow any regulations the artist have a free choice. they can freely choose the color and elements of design. in Cameroon the graffiti artists have to certain rules. for example excessive  use

 

of the red color in graffiti artwork  is prohibited. graffiti artwork have to express cultural heritage

 

 

 

 

 



 

       

 

 

 

ousmane

It was a great trip, and it was a great experience for me to see all those kinds of arts out there. Before I was not interested on the art, but since I started the Humanity class, now I understand the importance of arts. Can't next trip.

ousmane; bertrand; chuck ; banks

ousmane

first trip

     During these two exciting trips in Houston, I experienced art in a new perspective that I never thought I once would. Growing up I had no chance of experiencing events like this so I soaked in the whole trip as if I never seen amazing art before. Everything seemed so natural and apart of the area. The art projects matched the vibe of the environment allowing my group and I get a full effect of the purpose behind what we saw. Anxiety taking over in suspense of what we were to see next and anxiety still fills my group for the next trip this humanities class embarks on so we can say we been somewhere. Feeling like we making progress in life, we all start from somewhere, but it matters where you are going.

Ba, Bert, Chuck(me) and D-Banks. Houston

Bert and Chuck. 1st trip

2nd trip

Art is Art no Matter what

Houston art street graffiti

    During to our first trip I was so impressed by the beauty of the choice of colors and draw. I was able to read the artist emotion and feeling through the draw on the wall. It seems really crazy to me how they came up with those ideas of drawing. I am not really a fan of this type of arts but it was so crazy to me how the graffiti capture my attention. It was a really good learning experience for me to understanding the human imagination and creation. I do not really understand the message of the graffiti but for sure I could feel the emotion of the artist through his artworks.
 the second trip was more about arts architectural.





 when I admire all this tall building and statue I could only ask myself how did they come up with those ideas? how did they make that? during that trip I experience a high level view of Houston and could feel the nature art. all those buildings together set a splendid view of the city. I come from a city who does not have that many tall building and architecture so for me it was like being in another universe. some people see that as " deja vu" but for me it seem spectacular how human defy the rule of the nature. In my home country we do not have such gigantic architecture so I guess we can associate cultural and art1? can we use art to express cultural characteristic. I want to know if the people or artist that create have conscience of the impact they have on the society. Architecture artwork reminds us that the human imagination is bigger as hundred times that we think. Like a famous painting artist said one day " human in self is nature is already an artwork"

 

 



 





first strip