Spanish Art-Interpretation

This report has been prepared by: Caileigh Watson

Hi everyone and welcome back to FPWC (Famous Painters With Caileigh) Today we are going to be learning about George Littlechild’s painting “Red Horse Boarding School” and Frida Kahlo’s “The Wounded Deer.”

George Littlechild was born in 1958 in Edmonton and was taken from his family at birth. He was sent to 5 different foster homes by the time he was 4.

Frida Kahlo was born Jul 6, 1907. When she was a child, she caught polio and from then on, she had a limp. In 1925 she was in a bus accident and spent the rest of her life suffering from it.

The important details of these paintings lie within the artist’s story. In the Red Horse Boarding School one of the hidden details lie in the stars. In the schools George was forced to go to if you did a good job you got a gold star if you did a bad job you got a red star.

In The Wounded Deer Frida symbolized herself as a stag with arrow sticking out all over her. The arrows symbolize her pain and disappointment over her failed back surgery that she hoped would be successful.

In “Red Horse Boarding School” the two symbols that are important are the stars and     the horse cut in half.  The horse symbolizes how the First Nations people had their history torn away from them.  The stars represented the stars that they got as a grading method.

In “The Wounded Deer” the two important symbols are the broken branches and the arrows.  The branches represented pain and depression and the arrows represented her feelings towards her failed back surgery.

A similarity between these two paintings is the pain and suffering that they both portray that the artist went through.  This shows how many paintings are inspired through pain and suffering.

From these art pieces we can learn pieces of these artists that can only be expressed through paintings. We can learn their secrets that were too painful to share and we can make connections that were never there before.

Health/Bible

The verses 1 Corinthians 6:19 (Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own) and Romans 12:1(I appeal to you therefore, brothers,^[a] by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship) talk about respecting your body. How do you respect your body? Respecting your body can include protecting yourself from things that can harm you like Drugs, Smoking and Drinking alcohol. Respecting your body also means exercising and doing brain teasers or puzzles doing these thing can help your body as well as mind grow. 

Mental well-being

Understanding What mental well being is can be very difficult. Nowadays there is lots of stress about little things like tests and friends and jobs. Ways to promote mental health for you and others can include doing things to release stress like deep breathing staying calm and doing things to relax you. You can also try and learn new things learning new skills helps to challenge your brain and keep it sharp. Try to be active as being active can make you brain feel great. Connecting with other people can also help you to be social and can also help to relive stress.

Exercise

Exercising and doing activities that are active helps your body. Different activities help different parts of your body, for example, doing a fitness circuit exercises many parts of your body so it is a very beneficial exercise to do. Doing a fitness circuit can also help you build up stamina a little bit at a time. Doing competitive swimming can build up your arm muscles and your leg muscles. Another benefit is being able to control your breathing well. An emotional effect competitive swimming can have is it helps you to develop good sportsmanship.  Effects that doing yoga can have on your body include flexibility, the ability to hold a pose for a long time and it relaxes people. Being active can help your body to work better and help you to feel better physically and emotionally.

My favourite kind of exercise is running and swimming because it uses my legs as well as my arms.  I have recently discovered that I like basketball through Faith and Fitness.  I like being able to work with other people and to dribble down the court while communicating with everyone else to work to pass to them.  

Bullying, discrimination and stereotyping

     Consequences of Bullying, Discrimination and Stereotyping can be very big and some can be very small. Bullying is being mean to someone else and physically or verbally abusing them.  Discrimination is when you treat a certain type of people lower than everyone else.  Stereotyping is when you judge someone before you get to know them based on what other's think.  You don't even get the chance to know who they are because you have already judged them.
     If you are bullying someone or being bullied you could cause someone or be feeling like nobody cares about you can't do anything right and make them do things that will hurt themselves. Some ways you can stand up to Bullying, Discrimination and Stereotyping is by making the victim feel better after it happened, Telling the person to back off or telling an adult. NEVER be mean back as it will make you feel just as bad.  Bullying, discriminatiion and stereotyping is something that is happening more and more now days.  People are getting bullied if their hair looks funny or their clothes look different.  If everyone did their part to stop these issues then people would be happier and there would be less cases of suicide.  

Career

I visited two sites that take your personality and decipher what kind of person you are. they then take there information and tell you what kinds of jobs your skills could allow you to do.

Education Planner

and

Student Planner

     I was a Creative thinker. I now know that I have all the skills required to do all the jobs that I have always wanted to do like childcare, being a doctor or nurse, being a verterinarian or a baker.  I also know the jobs that I wouldn't be good at like being a plumber or electrician.  I like the kind of jobs where you have to interact with people and care or them.  I love baking, taking care of kids and helping others.  It's fun to think about what jobs I could be doing in the future and imagining that.

Goals

I wrote myself three goals for this year.  I've taken one goal and put it through the SMART goal process.

S-Starting my baking business
M-I will know I've reached my goal once I've made the posters, and started to get my first baking orders.
A-Set my prices-Make the poster-get poster to people-in my Grandma's complex and Dad's work etc.-start taking orders
R-This goal is very reachable especially with Christmas coming
T-I'd like to have my first customer by December