POP music!!!

which originated in its modern form in the 1950s, deriving from rock and roll.the terms popular music and pop music are often used interchangeably, even though the former is adescription of music which is popular (and can include any style), whilst the latter is a specific genre containing qualities of mass appeal. As a genre, pop music is very eclectic, often borrowing elements from other styles including urban, dance, rock, latin, and country. 

It real Psychedelic!!!!!

Psychedelic music's LSD-inspired vibe began in the folk scene,Psychedelic rock reached its apogee in the last years of the decade. 1967 saw the Beatles release their definitive psychedelic statement in Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, including the controversial track "Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds" and the Rolling Stones responded later that year with Their Satanic Majesties Request. Pink Floyd produced what is usually seen as their best psychedelic work The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.American stars of Jimi Hendrix and The Who, whose single "I Can See for Miles " delved into psychedelic territory. These trends climaxed in the 1969 Woodstock Festival, which saw performances by most of the major psychedelic acts, but by the end of the decade psychedelic rock was in retreat. Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac and Syd Berrett of Pink Floyd were early "acid casualties", the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cream broke up before the end of the decade and many surviving acts moved away from psychedelia into more back-to-basics "roots rock", the wider experimentation of progressive rock, or riff laden heavy rock

the british are coming!!!!!

By the end of 1962, what would become the British rock scene had started with Beat groups like The Beatles. Beat bands tended towards "bouncy, irresistible melodies", while earlyBritish rythem and blues acts tended towards less sexually innocent, more aggressive songs, often adopting an anti-establishment stance. There was, however, particularly in the early stages, considerable musical crossover between the two tendencies. By 1963, led by the Beatles, beat groups had begun to achieve national success in Britain, soon to be followed into the charts by the more rhythm and blues focused acts.

In 1964 the Beatles achieved a breakthrough to mainstream popularity in the United States. "I Want to Hold Your Hand " was the band's first number 1 hit on the Billborad hot 100, spending 7 weeks at the top and a total of 15 weeks on the chart. Their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show on 9 February, drawing an estimated 73 million viewers (at the time a record for an American television program) often is considered a milestone in American pop culture. The Beatles went on to become the biggest selling rock band of all time and they were followed into the US charts by numerous British bands.The British Invasion helped internationalize the production of rock and roll, opening the door for subsequent British (and Irish) performers to achieve international success

Everybody go Surfin!!!

Surf music achieved its greatest commercial success as vocal music, particularly the work of the Beach boys, formed in 1961 in Southern California. Their early albums included both instrumental surf rock (among them covers of music by Dick Dale) and vocal songs, drawing on rock and roll and Doo wop and the close harmonies of vocal pop acts like the four fresh man. Their first chart hit, "Surfin" in 1962 reached the Billboard top 100 and helped make the surf music craze a national phenomenon. From 1963 the group began to leave surfing behind as subject matter as Brian Wilson became their major composer and producer, moving on to the more general themes of male adolescence including cars and girls in songs like "Fun, Fun, Fun" (1964) and "California Girls" (1965).Other vocal surf acts followed, including one-hit wonders like Ronny & the Daytonas with "G. T. O." (1964) and Rip chords with "Hey Little Cobra",

Rock and Roll Baby, we got soul baby!!

The foundations of rock music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, and quickly spread to much of the rest of the world.It has been argued that "That`s All Right (Mama)"(1954), Elvis Presley`s first single for Sun Records in Memphis, was the first rock and roll record, but, at the same time, Big Joe Turner`s "Shake Rattle and Roll", later covered by Haley, was already at the top of the Billboard R&B charts

ROCK on!!

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and rool heavily influenced byrythem and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of other genres such as blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical and other musical sources. Musically, rock has centred around the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with bass guitar and drums. Typically, rock is song-based music with a 4/4 beat utilizing averse chours form, but the genre has become extremely diverse and common musical characteristics are difficult to define. Unlike many earlier styles of popular music, rock lyrics have dealt with a wide range of themes in addition to romantic love: including sex, rebellion against the establishment, social concerns and life styles. the Red Hot Chili Peppers for example was know for and by theire rock.

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form that originated in African American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United Stated at the end of the 19th century fromSpirituals, Work songs, field hollars, Shouts and Chants, and rhymed simple narrative Ballads.The blues form, ubiquitous in Jazz , rythem and blues and Rock and roll is characterized by specific chord progressions, The blues genre is based on the blues form but possesses other characteristics such as specific lyrics, bass lines and instruments. Blues can be subdivided into several sungenres ranging from country to urban blues that were more or less popular during different periods of the 20th century. The term "the blues" refers to the "blue devils", meaning melancholy and sadness; an early use of the term in this sense is found in George Colemans one-act farce Blue Devils (1798).Though the use of the phrase in African American music may be older, it has been attested to since 1912, when Hart Wards "Dallas Blues" became the first copyrighted blues composition In lyrics the phrase is often used to describe a depressed mood

Louie Louie Louie!!!

Louis Armstrong

(August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana. Armstrong was a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performance. With his instantly recognizable deep and distinctive gravelly voice, resembling the sound of a trumpet, Armstrong was also an influential singer, demonstrating great dexterity as an improviser, bending the lyrics and melody of a song for expressive purposes. Renowned for his charismatic stage presence and voice almost as much as for his trumpet-playing, Armstrong's influence extends well beyond jazz music, and by the end of his career in the 1960s, he was widely regarded as a profound influence on popular music in general. Armstrong was one of the first truly popular African-American entertainers to "cross over," whose skin-color was secondary to his music in an America that was severely racially divided. It allowed him socially acceptable access to the upper echelons of American society that were highly restricted for a black man. While he rarely publicly politicized his race, often to the dismay of fellow African-Americans, he was privately a strong supporter of the civil rights movements in America.

That Jazzy Beat!!

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in black communities in the Sotuhern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions.As the music has developed and spread around the world it has drawn on many different national, regional and local musical cultures giving rise, since its early 20th century American beginnings, to many distinctive styles: NewOrleans jazz dating from the early 1910s, big band swing, bebop from the mid-1940s. Latin jazz in various forms, soul, rock and smooth jazz, and many more. Some of the most talented musicans started in the jazz era such as Louie Armstrong, Miles Davis, and many more great musicans.

Beethoven

A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. Beethoven's first music teacher was his father. Although tradition has it that Johann van Beethoven was a harsh instructor, and that the child Beethoven, "made to stand at the keyboard, was often in tears,". In March 1787 Beethoven traveled to Vienna (possibly at another's expense) for the first time, apparently in the hope of studying with Mozart. In 1789 Beethoven obtained a legal order by which half of his father's salary was paid directly to him for support of the family. He also contributed further to the family's income by playing viola in the court orchestra. Beethoven's compositions between 1800 and 1802 were dominated by two large-scale orchestral works, although he continued to produce other important works such as the piano sonata Sonata quasi una fantasia known as the "Moonlight Sonata" which is mostly recongnized today.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Was an influential composer of the classical era. Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position, always composing abundantly. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his death.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach, was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, and violist.Bach wrote much music, which was revered for its intellectual depth, technical command, and artistic beauty. Many of his works are still known today, such as the Brandenburg Concertos, the Mass in B minor, the Well-Tempered Clavier, and his organ works. His father taught him to play violin and harpsichord. his father was a was a directior of the towns musicans along with his uncle. Bach's abilities as an organist were highly respected throughout Europe during his lifetime, although he was not widely recognised as a great composer until a revival of interest and performances of his music in the first half of the 19th century. He is now generally regarded as one of the main composers of the Baroque period, and as one of the greatest composers of all time. before his death hee did a mass in B minor which is greatly known throughout Europe

The classical times!!

The traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times.classical music" did not appear until the early 19th century, in an attempt to "canonize" the period from Johann Sebastian Bach to Beethoven as a golden age they are the most know for their music during this period as well as Mozart. How to tell if it is classical if very hard to differ by and is difficult to list characteristics that can be attributed to all works of that type. however one may considers contemporary composers who are described as classical; or music that has certain instruments like violins, which are also found in other genres. However, there are characteristics that classical music contains that few or no other genres of music can contain.The instruments used in most classical music were largely invented before the mid-19th century (often much earlier), and codified in the 18th and 19th centuries. They consist of the instruments found in an orchestra, together with a few other solo instruments (such as the piano, harpsichord, and organ). Most of the music can be known by the song form, classical music can also take on the form of the concerto, symphony, sonata, opera,suite,symphonic poem, and others.

feel the music!!!!!

Music is all around us. we us it in presentations, in movies, and just for the joy of listing. We over look that music was first started by or rooted from classical in some way. No matter what type of music you listen to came from classical music. We all have different type we listen to, and I will explore a few genres. we use music to express ourselves in every which way.

ANDY WARHOL

Andy was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh as the son of Slovak immigrants. His original name was Andrew Warhola. His father was as a construction worker and died in an accident when Andy was 13 years old.

Andy showed an early talent in drawing and painting. After high school he studied commercial art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. Warhol graduated in 1949 and went to New York where he worked as an illustrator for magazines like Vogue and Harpar's Bazaar and for commercial advertising. He soon became one of New York's most sought of and successful commercial illustrators

In 1952 Andy Warhol had his first one-man show exhibition at the Hugo Gallery in New York. In 1956 he had an important group exhibition at the renowned Museum of Modern Art.

In the sixties Warhol started painting daily objects of mass production like Campbell Soup cans and Coke bottles. Soon he became a famous figure in the New York art scene. From 1962 on he started making silkscreen prints of famous personalities like Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor.

The pop artist not only depicted mass products but he also wanted to mass produce his own works of pop art. Consequently he founded The Factory in 1962. It was an art studio where he employed in a rather chaotic way "art workers" to mass produce mainly prints and posters but also other items like shoes designed by the artist. The first location of the Factory was in 231 E. 47th Street, 5th Floor (between 1st & 2nd Ave).

Warhol's favorite printmaking technique was silkscreen. It came closest to his idea of proliferation of art. Apart from being an Art Producing Machine, the Factory served as a filmmaking studio. Warhol made over 300 experimental underground films

Claude monet

When Monet traveled to Paris to visit the Louvre, he witnessed painters copying from the old masters. Having brought his paints and other tools with him, he would instead go and sit by a window and paint what he saw Monet was in Paris for several years and met other young painters who would become friends and fellow impressionists; among them was Edouard Manet 

In June 1861, Monet joined the First Regiment of African Light Cavalry in Algeria for a seven-year commitment, but, two years later, after he had contracted typhoid fever, his aunt intervened to get him out of the army if he agreed to complete an art course at an art school. It is possible that the Dutch painter Johan Barthold Jongkind, whom Monet knew, may have prompted his aunt on this matter. Disillusioned with the traditional art taught at art schools, in 1862 Monet became a student of Charels Gleyre in Paris, where he met Pierre-Auguste. Together they shared new approaches to art, painting the effects of light en plein air with broken color and rapid brushstrokes, in what later came to be known as Impressionism.

Vincent Van Gogh

The son of a pastor, brought up in a religious and cultured atmosphere, Vincent was highly emotional and lacked self-confidence.In 1886 he went to Paris to join his brother Théo, the manager of Goupil's gallery. In Paris, van Gogh studied with Cormon, inevitably met Pissarro, Monet, and gauauin, and began to lighten his very dark palette and to paint in the short brushstrokes of the Impressionists. Van Gogh pursued him with an open razor, was stopped by Gauguin, but ended up cutting a portion of his own ear lobe off. Van Gogh then began to alternate between fits of madness and lucidity and was sent to the asylum in Saint-Remy for treatment. Van Gogh loved art from an early age. He began to draw as a child, and he continued making drawings throughout the years leading to his decision to become an artist. He did not begin painting until his late twenties, completing many of his best-known works during his last two years. In just over a decade, he produced more than 2,100 artworks, consisting of 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 water colors, drawings,sketchesand prints. His work included self portaits, landscapes, still lifes portaits of flowers,and paintings of cypresses,wheat fields and sunflowers

Renior

French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality.Renoir the child of a working class family. As a boy, he worked in a porcelain factory where his drawing talents led to him being chosen to paint designs on fine china. 　 Around 1892, Renoir developed rheumatoid arhritis Renoir painted during the last twenty years of his life, even when arthritis severely limited his movement, and he was wheelchair-bound. He developed progressive deformities in his hands and ankylosis of his right shoulder, requiring him to adapt his painting technique. It has often been reported that in the advanced stages of his arthritis, he painted by having a brush strapped to his paralyzed fingers. 　 　 Renoir's paintings are notable for their vibrant light and saturated color, most often focusing on people in intimate and candid compositions. The female nude was one of his primary subjects. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene through freely brushed touches of color, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings.

A master at work

Michael Angelo was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance. A number of his works in painting, sculpture, and architecture rank among the most famous in existence. Two of his best-known works, the Pieta and David, were sculpted before he turned thirty. (David pictured right)

(Pieta pictured left)




















 Despite his low opinion of painting, Michelangelo also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last  Judgement on the altar wall of the  Sistine Chapel in Rome.

Michelangelo took the commission to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which took approximately four years to complete (1508–1512).

ahhhh the Reniassance

The Reniassance. such a lovely time. such a lovley time for art was well. the Reniassance was a lot of portraits of people who were higher up in status. With these portaits they learn how to light and shading. most depicted kings with their faimilies and or just by themselves.

walk like an egyptian

The egyptians, such an intresting era to learn about but we have to thank them for their tributes to the art world. They showed every thing in their writings and pictures. They documented offerings, weddings, new gods, ect. They have set the way on how we document and draw to a whole new level.  Also in their architecture.It is amazing that they had the ability to buils all the tombs, pyrimids memorials. it just boggles the mind.

Art. It's 3 simple letters but it entails so much. We use it in so many ways. We communicate with it, make fashion statements with it, even propels us to the future with it. Art first started by the cave men who used art to communicate with his fellow man. They drew bison, raindeer, horses ect. to let others know that what they needed for warmth, food, even tools. These said drawings were done by sticks, furs( which they used that to give it a spray effect) and their fingers.The colors they used were things around them such as charcoal. By then the Indians perfected these techniques by using berry juices and flower dyes to obtain more colors. They also used different tools to achieve different line strokes.

As we go on throughout day to day we neglect to understand that art is changing all around us. And it's changing rapidaly as time goes by. We see art, we wear it, we even talk with art. We will take a trip to how it all got started. And we will end up to today's art as we know it. And how paintings, fashion, technology keeps on changing.