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Matthew A. Sanchez Kristen Jones Fine Arts 9/26/17 Athena         Athena is associated with the city of Athens. The name of the city in ancient Greek is Athenai. In ancient times, intellectuals fought over whether Athena was named after Athens, or was Athens after Athena. Now Intellectuals (Scholars) generally agree that the goddess takes her name from the city. her origins are pretty simple though being that Athena was originally the "Aegan" Goddess of the palace, who managed household crafts and protected the king. While her Greek birth story is that Athena is fully born from Zeus' forehead. The story of her birth comes in several versions. In the version told by Hesiod, Zeus slept with Metis, but he immediately feared the consequences because some other Gods had prophesied that Metis would bear children wiser than Zeus. In order to stop this, Zeus swallowed Metis, but it was too late because Metis had already had the child. (Athena was born from his forehead a...

Matthew A. Sanchez Kristen Fine Art 9/19/17 Egypt: Art Of Immortality Tutankhamen's Coffin The main idea of this little piece was the art of preservation of the Pharaohs bodies, and how the tombs were decorated. Since they believed that the Pharaohs "Ka" and or soul would remain after death, that's why they filled the tombs with things that were important to the Pharaoh in the living world, such as food, clothing, family (once they die of course,) and pets. During the mummification of the body, the important organs were taken out and put in urns to be put in the tomb as well, one of the organs that weren't put in urns was the brain, since the believed the brain wasn't important the heart was. Another thing that occurred once in the tomb was the decorations inside of the tomb, that could be depicting the life of the Pharaoh or generous acts they committed while they were still in this mortal world. The paintings inside of a Pharaohs tomb ...

Matthew A. Sanchez Fine Arts Kristen Jones 9/13/2017 Is Fine Arts An Important Class?         The main topic of this article (The art of learning: Why art history might be the most important subject you could study today, found at http://www.salon.com/2017/01/15/the-art-of-learning-why-art-history-might-be-the-most-important-subject-you-could-study-today/) is that Art history/Humanities is an important thing for students to learn, as equally as STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) but it should be looked upon more. Such as more attention should be on the Art History classes. It even says and I quote "But after much protest from the liberal intellectual establishment, art history was “saved” and will stay on British curricula. If the cultured British nearly did away with art history, then what hope have we Americans?" Its basically saying that if a very nice culture got rid of this class, wouldn't we be have less hope of it becoming a common class here ...