Week 4

Part 1

1. The name of the museum that I decided to visit online is the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.

2. I used a youtube video, wikipedia and the official website for the Asian Art Museum for my three background sites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7zEwCtA_T0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Art_Museum_of_San_Francisco

http://www.asianart.org/

3. Three facts that I learned from the background information from my museum are:

1) The Asian Art Museum started by Avery Brundage agreeing to give his collection of Asian Art to San Francisco if they built a museum for it.

2) A matcha is a Japanese tattoo.

3) A tokonoma is an alcove in a Japanese tea room used for displaying hanging scrolls, flowers or other objects.

4. A specific piece of work in the Asian Art Museum that attracted me was Landscape with Waterfall by Huang Junbi. I liked this piece because of all the detail and I also thought it was cool how with such little color there was so much depth in the painting. This piece is categorized as a literati. A literati is a Chinese artist, like Huang Junbi that studies Art, Poetry and Calligraphy. In literati art all three of these components are incorporated into their pieces to show their talent of all three aspects.

Part 2

1. Amanda--Stated that Freier's childhood shaped his educational viewpoints.

2. Angie--Freier has had a huge influence on both new philosophical perspectives on life.

3. Ben--Stated that Freier often skipped school to play soccer with his friends and this is where he developed an understanding and connection for the less fortunate.

4. Brooke--Freier developed a teaching plan for all levels of education

5. Elizabeth--Stated that Freier's book Pedagogy of the Oppressed is one of the most quoted educational texts.

6. Eric--Said that Freier became involved in an educational movement to combat illiteracy between 1962 and 1964.

7. Gabby--Stated that in 1964 Freier was put in jail for 70 days because the government thought that his methods of literacy were causing people to want change.

8. Garin--Freire attended the University of Recife and studied philosophy and the psychology of language.

9. Jacob--What Jacob found most interesting about Freire was his experiment known as "Bare feet can also learn to read" .

10. Tuo--Stated that Freire's book Pedagogy of the Oppressed is about seeking equality and justice in the educational system.