American Perspectives

American Poetry

   This poetry was intense. It surprise me how different this poetry was from others that I knew, beacuse this one was full of bad things! That was a shocking thing. I'm not saying that I didn't like but it was a different perspective of the poetry, because for me poetry is good, love, peace and this was all about confession, drugs, alcohol and those stuff. Another thing that impress me was the life of the poets! Most of the poet's lives sucked; Crane was homosexual and he commited suicide, Schwartz was an alcoholic and suffered from mental illness, Berryman wanted to be Yeats and alcoholic, Lowell suffered heart attack, etc, etc. I see why this poetry was tended to be with that subject. Even though they had horrible lives, they made such great works that are still talked about the people. I think that the life of the americans influenced a lot in their problems, we can see that from that time living in NYC isn't easy as it seems.

The Eight

   I loved this paintings. The idea of "The Eight" was great because in some way the artist were teaching or showing the art to the people that didn't know anything about it. The Aschan School, focused in the urban life was a wonderful idea because people of lower resources always have been in distant with the art. Also I loved the style that each of the painters, the bruswork gives it the style of made "urban", it represent what they are seeing. Also loved the colors because help with the style of the paintings and do not clash with anything. I liked the painting of "Tam Gan" and "Willie Gee" by Robert Henri and what I didn't like is how can you approve  "Black Bear" and "Black Bear II" that isn't art! and my favorites are "Fire on 24th Street" and "The Fight" by Everett Shinn., they are amazing!