All around the world, we see sculptures. Whether they have cultural or religious meaning, they exist. A sculpture is a three-dimensional art object. Public monuments are one example of sculptures. Often, they are created to honor a person, a group, or an important historical event.

I live in a small town, a tiny town. We only have three traffic lights. I had never seen a sculpture of anything in my town. While riding around town I made a stop at the civic park.

While walking around the park, I noticed sculptures that I never saw all the times I had been there before. It was a riffle between a pair of combat boots and a hat. As I continued to walk around the park, I found a plaque that had information about the sculpture on it. The sculpture is big in size and it is a full round sculpture, it has a 360 degree view. There is another sculpture that is nearby of a soldier that looks like he is ready for combat. There are also flags for every branch of the armed forces.

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My community values the people that put their life on the line to fight for America and our freedom. The plaque above was dedicated in the city of Clewiston on November 11th, 2016 in honor of “America’s Sweetest Town Heroes.” Clewiston has the name of “America’s Sweetest Town” because we are home U.S Sugar Corporation. It was dedicated to the men and women from our town that fought for our country in World War II. The sculpture captures and expresses its purpose because it symbolizes a historical event that happened in our nation’s history. None of the objects in the park displayed what year the sculpture was created or who it was created by. I went to the Clewiston Museum and Chamber of Commerce to ask when it was created and by who, neither had the answer to those questions.

From September 1941 to 1945, the United States and British cadets trained in Riddle Field, Clewiston. 23 of the 1,325 British cadets were killed during training. Before the long-anticipated end of the war, British cadets were still making their way to Clewiston for training (Largent 2000).

This sculpture has a historical meaning to my community. Without having done this assignment, I would not know about the rich history that my town has with World War ||.

Citation:

Largent, Willard, “RAF Wings Over Florida: Memories of World War II British Air Cadets” (2000). Purdue University Press e-books.
Book 9.
http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/purduepress_ebooks/9

Abstract art, what is that? It is an art style that draws art as it is in real life. It is all about exploring form and color. It is also referred to as nonrepresentational painting because it has no subject matter. It is often hard to depict what is being painted. The painting above was created by Rufino Tamayo and is titled “Children’s Games” (Tamayo 1959). Rufino was a talented Mexican painter that helped blend 20th century abstract with pre-Columbian art style (“Rufino Tamayo”). The art style that he used for this painting was Expressionism and Surrealism. What drew me to this painting were the distorted looking figures in the background.

Its background looks shadowed. There are many lines, a mixture between open and closed. Some of them are thin lines. The shapes are irregular shapes that could be children. Some of the other shapes could represent the games that the children were playing. I identified them as children because of the name of the painting. The colors that the artist used in this painting red, pink, blue, and a hint of brown. To me, the color pink suggests love. I believe that correlates to this painting because people love children. I also believe that the background is red to symbolize the heat outside while the children were playing. This is definitely abstract art; it has no subject matter. You cannot look at this work of art and depict what exactly you are seeing, or what it is supposed to be.

Citations

Tamayo, Rufino. “Children’s Games.” Metmuseum.org, https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1983.208/.

“Rufino Tamayo.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/Rufino-Tamayo/337960.

The age of the “Black Power” movement is one that made its mark in the history of our nation. This work of art ” Soul of a Nation” displays the contribution that Black artists made from the peak of the civil rights movement. When you first look at this photo, you see nine African American men holding one fist in the air. You also see that the background has the word “Unite.” These little background details make the whole photo very important. This photo was used to show that social justice movements affected the artist and their work.

The civil rights movement is something that we have learned about through our history classes at school. It aimed to provide African Americans with the same human rights that whites had. The detail that appeals to me the most is the facial expression on all of the men. The look on their faces gives me the perception that they are serious about what they are advocating for, which is unity. They were tired of racist violence and wanted equality and unity, not discrimination. Many other artists used art to display the rights and freedom that they wanted. Everything in this photo speaks to me because of the message that I get from it. The message I get from this is that change will come. By them fighting for unity, it brought about change. The theme that this work of art portrays to us is black self-determination. See, back then, African Americans had to be determined and work hard to make things happen for them.

Many artists make works of art with a meaning behind them. Until you take a more in-depth look at it, you may never know what the message is that the artist wants you to grasp. Without analyzing this photo, paying attention to every detail, I would not have gotten the message that the author intended on me getting.

Hello all! My name is Kiyah Coco, and I am a dual-enrolled senior at Moore Haven Middle-High School. I have been taking dual-enrollment classes since my 10th-grade year, and I am on track to graduate with my AA this spring. Throughout my high school years, I have been very active in both my school and community. I have cheered and played golf on the varsity teams at my school. I am involved in numerous clubs at my school, such as Beta Club, SWAT Club, and Student Government.

My parents’ main priority for me has always been education. They have always pushed me to be the best. I have always been determined to reach the goals I have set for myself. I am looking forward to this semester. Wish me luck!

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde.

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