Design with imagination.Qanita Qamarani Qanita Qamarani, age g, in Indonesia, created a very colorful and imaginative painting, exhibited as part of ICAF's Utopia Project at Haus der Kunst The Haus der Kunst (literally House of Art) is an art museum in Munich, Germany. It is located at Prinzregentenstrasse 1 at the southern edge of the Englischer Garten, Munich's largest park. in Munich, Germany. In the painting, Qanita imagined how her house as well as others would look in the future. She feels that there might be underwater homes in the sea, where families can watch the variety of beautiful fish that swim by. Other homes may be built in outer space and provide their families with a view of twinkling twinkling, in astronomy: see seeing. stars. Qanita's painting shows how colorful, futuristic fu·tur·is·tic adj. 1. Of or relating to the future. 2. a. Of, characterized by, or expressing a vision of the future: futuristic decor. b. buildings will look and the kinds of family and community activities that will take place in them. Among the activities shown are such things as classes at school, playing games, watching TV, and eating dinner. The multi-colored buildings are shaped like domes or igloos and are connected by tube-like hallways. The viewer is able to see inside some of the buildings as well as outside, where the fish and other sea creatures are swimming around and the stars twinkle overhead. Life seems to be going on as usual but with some very exciting differences! Faith Ringgold Faith Ringgold (born October 8, 1930) is an African-American artist and author. Ringgold was born and raised in Harlem and educated at the City College of New York, where she studied with Robert Gwathmey and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. A well known American artist by the name of Faith Ringgold, created a colorful "story quilt" titled, Tar tar: see tar and pitch. (Tape ARchive) A Unix utility that is used to archive files by combining several files into one. It is often used in conjunction with the "compress" or "gzip" commands to compress the data. Beach 2, in which she shows how exciting family life might be in a big city, if things were just a little different. Ringgold was raised in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and began her artistic career about 35 years ago, receiving many awards and honors for her work. Ringgold created an entire series of painted quilts and children's books that tell the story of a little girl by the name of "Cassie" and her family. All of the stories are told from Cassie's point of view and, like Qanita, she was very imaginative! In Tar Beach 2, Cassie imagines members of her family one evening up on the rooftop in the city, relaxing and enjoying themselves. Overhead, the stars are twinkling and children are flying! Two other children lie on a blanket, looking upward, while the adults are sitting at a table. On another table, food and refreshments re·fresh·ment n. 1. The act of refreshing or the state of being refreshed. 2. Something, such as food or drink, that refreshes. 3. refreshments A snack or light meal and drinks. are laid out. Laundry hangs in the background and the city's buildings glitter with lights. The rooftop, with its tar and tarpaper tar·pa·per n. Heavy paper impregnated or coated with tar, used as a waterproof protective material in building. , is the only "beach" that these city dwellers have to enjoy. In the story quilt, Cassie's everyday life seems to be going on with just a little dusting of magic. The bright colors and imaginative theme of the story quilt are very similar to those in Qanita's painting. In both we see people engaged in everyday activities but with several imaginative twists. In Faith Ringgold's story quilt, children fly--in Qanita's painting, children attend school under the sea. One of the favorite subjects of artists is "the future" and imagining how things might be someday some·day adv. At an indefinite time in the future. Usage Note: The adverbs someday and sometime express future time indefinitely: We'll succeed someday. Come sometime. . Qanita and Faith Ringgold have both shown us how imagination can become the subject of artists' work. Tar Beach 2, Faith Ringgold [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tar Beach 2 can be viewed online at: http://www.dareonline.org/artwork/ringgold1.html |
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