How are emotions portrayed in art?

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  emotion in art.

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  Emotion is all around us in all source of art

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  forms. We hear it in music.

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  We see it on TV with theatrical drama played out

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  on our TV shows.

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  We see in artworks we flipped through a storybook and

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  maybe those pictures will change our mood according to what

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  the story's about.

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  Art and emotion are together and they can't be separated.

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  So here's a little sideshow to show you what I'm

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  talking about.

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  Let's take a look.

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  So go back.

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  One more step.

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  Here we go.

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  So how our emotions portrayed in art?

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  Let's take a look.

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  We just talked about a few ways, but this painting

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  right here, what it's doing is it's creating a story

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  with the subject, and in this case is subject is

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  a person, and they have their fists up.

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  Can everyone put your fist up?

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  Early country AFIS Really tight.

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  So your nickels term wait.

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  How does that make you feel?

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  Put your forehead dune on your fist?

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  What kind of emotion is that?

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  I want you guys to think about it at home.

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  Everyone will feel different emotions.

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  See this one by Vincent van Gogh, The sorrowful old

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  man 18 90 So again his fists are clenched.

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  But this time not so much.

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  And he's hunched over.

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  So if you could hunch over where you're sitting and

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  rest your hands on loose fists, how does that change

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  from the other picture?

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  We just looked at notice the position of this old

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  man, too.

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  He's in a chair.

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  He slumped over.

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  When do we do these sorts of positions?

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  That should give you a clue on how to tell

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  a story with emotion using art.

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  Let's take a look at this picture.

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  So in this picture, let me see if I can

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  play you some music.

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  You ready for this?

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  I don't know about you, but I was feeling kind

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  of. So if you want to try this at home,

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  go ahead and put those hands on the side of

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  your face in it.

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  Open your eyes really wide and scream.

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  This is ever Monk.

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  He painted this in 18 93 a long time ago.

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  Now this emotion and let's look at this up close.

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  Take a look at this one.

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  It's supposed to make you feel here, let me play

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  you some nice music to help you with this one.

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  Take a step inside this painting.

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  How does it make you feel?

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  What do you see?

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  Notice how the different people are doing different things.

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  But their bodies are all telling us a story about

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  what their emotions are.

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  Go if you are sitting on the grass in a

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  park and you were just watching the pond with votes

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  on it, how would that make you feel?

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  So in this picture, art is trying to convey another

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  emotion. I would connect this one with calm or content.

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  Okay. We learned about this color as emotion.

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  You guys recognize this slide?

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  We recognize these monsters and some of their emotions connected

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  with the colors.

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  So the next couple of sides we're gonna look at,

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  we'll have to do with more use of color to

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  get across a feeling.

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  Pablo Picasso.

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  I have a few sides from Pablo Picasso, and it's

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  a really wonderful thing.

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  It goes through his artistic career and this is 1903

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  And without knowing too much about what was going on

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  in the world in 1903 what do you think was

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  happening around this family?

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  What do you think?

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  What is the boy saying eyes that a mother and

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  a father?

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  No, I was just playing you some sad music, so

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  that should try to help evoke certain sad feelings to

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  really get this picture across as sadness.

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  Now everyone, of course, can read into it differently.

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  But the color blue, the color blue was known as

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  sad. So that's why, in this painting, you see, it's

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  colored all monochromatic blue scale.

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  It's not.

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  It's a very well done painting, but it is very

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  sad, and the blues really do enhance it.

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  Whoa, Pablo Picasso, What's going on?

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  This one is called The Weeping Woman, and it's from

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  1937. So about 30 years later he painted this.

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  You can see it's distorted.

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  It's in the form of Cubism.

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  This woman looks like maybe she's biting her nails.

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  Does she have tears coming down her face?

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  So why did they use so many weird colors together?

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  Doesn't make anyone feel confused.

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  Were anguish all those sharp lines and edges?

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  Hey, how you have straight line or angles.

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  You should feel more anguish or turmoil like there's some

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  kind of a conflict going on, and when you clash,

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  a lot of colors together like you see, in this

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  picture, you should feel unease.

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  Okay. Say click next one.

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  Okay. Dorothea Lange, photographer.

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  What is she trying to convey with this art form

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  of photography?

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  Now, this is 1936.

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  Color photography was a thing.

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  It was around, but she chose to do it in

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  black and white.

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  What is it about black and white versus color?

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  What is she thinking about?

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  Why are her kids looking so sad?

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  So I want you to think about the expression on

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  her face and how that can really change the way

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  your emotions feel when you look at her picture.

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  Okay, here we have a lot of blues.

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  This one is Vincent Van Gogh is called Starry Night

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  over the Rhone.

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  So it's another one of his story night pictures.

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  But this one's a little bit different.

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  Blue as we know it was supposed to be sad.

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  So what's going on?

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  Do you feel sad in this picture?

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  Well, remember, colors can represent all sorts of things, so

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  let's put ourselves into this artwork.

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  You're alone on the shore of a river.

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  The boats are at bay.

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  The stars are lighting up the sky.

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  Everything's quiet.

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  You might feel calm in this.

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  I'll let everyone feel something different.

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  Okay, okay.

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  Emojis, Let's talk about artwork and form of emojis now.

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  Emojis. We just did a project with that to try

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  to help us understand our facial expressions.

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  So let's talk about how emojis, which is an art

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  form because it's a picture right to symbol.

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  It's a graphic image that's trying to tell us something.

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  So let's take a look at what these emotions might

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  be and what kinds of other symbols air found in

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  art besides happy and sad faces.

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  Who, Keith hearing Keep Bearing is one of my favorites.

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  1985. This was really great mural he painted.

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  Now this.

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  How many symbols can you find?

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  One cube, three plays music with it.

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  How does that make you feel?

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  All right, Well, I was feeling kind of happy.

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  I don't know about you, but even yellow.

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  If you remember the color symbol for yellow, it's happy

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  and the symbol for ah heart.

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  What does that mean?

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  What does that represent?

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  Usually it's love.

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  We have a symbol of the earth with a heart

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  around it and the two hands holding it what it

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  could that represent.

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  So you can really represent a lot of emotions with

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  symbols. Okay, so you can use symbols, all different kinds

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  of symbols.

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  Ah, another Picasso.

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  This one was almost 50 years from the very first

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  Picasso picture.

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  We looked at a lot of change in the world.

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  1949. This one was called The Peace Stuff.

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  What does the dove symbolize Piece And he created.

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  This is very simple picture of a piece stuff.

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  So if you look, do some research and you look

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  up different symbols for different emotions or different narratives who

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  we wish to portray in your pictures, you'll come up

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  with a lot of different things.

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  See, how about this one?

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  This is also probably Picasso.

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  Almost 10 years from the peace stuff, he made the

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  fire bouquet two hands coming together, holding onto a bouquet,

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  said two different hands.

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  Is it the same person holding the bouquet, or is

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  it two different people sharing a bouquet of flowers?

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  So again, this is for you to decide.

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  As the viewer, you get to choose what this narrative

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  or emotion is trying to invoke in you.

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  Ah, this is one of our final slights, and it

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  looks like this one.

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  Is Jim dying from 2007.

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  So it's quite recent, and he's using the symbol of

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  a hurt.

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  What is that symbol owes?

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  Usually it's love.

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  It could be friendship.

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  His use of colors here is all over the place.

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  It looks like jelly beans of color, so I think

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  he's trying to be playful and whimsical here.

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  So when you guys are creating your artwork or thinking

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  about how you can use art to tell a story

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  or create an emotion or feeling and share that with

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  the world, think about how you can set the stage

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  sort to speak.

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  How are you going to pose yourself?

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  Will be the screen.

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  It would be something simple, like the P stuff.

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  It's up to you.

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  But look around.

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  You'll find that there are lots of symbols all around

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  you telling a story of their own, so enjoy.

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  And I hope this video has helped you in your

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  coursework. Bye