Ignoring Christina's World...a parallel

This painting is another one of my favorites. It's called Christina'a World by: Andrew Wyeths. I feel so many different feelings when I see this painting. I feel that Christina feels alone and ignored. This painting is a big picture of how I feel. For the past year and two mounths I have felt ignored and alone. Some people would say, "Then start getting social and talking to people." Well everytime I try they just ignor me. Even if they do talk to me, usually through text or IM, they'll just stop randomly and not even say goodbye. Sometimes I give them the beneifit of the doubt and wait for them to respond but it never happens. I'd wait till 2 in the morning and nothing. And no one seems to care, they act like they do but they don't. Whenever I try to personally talk to someone they don't say anything back to me, they just look at me and go on with what they were doing. Sometimes I feel like I'm being annoying and you would think someone would say something but they don't. Sometimes I feel like I'm an annoyance to my friends. When I ask if I am they just say, "No you're not." But for some odd reason I feel like they are lying to me. This all together makes me feel alone. And if all of this ignoring wasn't enough, even my family makes me feel this way. After my long days at school I come home to screaming at me about everything possible. I don't know what to do with myself anymore. The worst thing about this is that I wish it was all a dream but it isn't, it's all real. What have I done? I don't understand.
Anyway, this painting is pretty much what makes these feelings occur. Maybe this isn't how the artist wanted people to view this painting. But this is how I view it, I mean...I'm artistic....What's your exscuse?

Le Sommeil...or what you will.

Le Sommeil by: Salvador Dali, is one of my favorite paintings. With paintings, such as this one, people, weather it be a very artistic person or even your every day average person, interpret paintings in many different ways. They way they feel or the emotions that they are feeling can effect the way they view a paintings message. Le Sommeil is french for "sleep", which is the message the Dali is obviously trying to pass, but when I first saw this painting, unaware of its title, I felt depression. If you closely examine the face you can see that it looks like something is troubling it and it seems isolated. In the back round it appears to be a little town. I feel that the person that this face belongs to might be going through a depression and feels isolated be society. Even though it may have support systems it doesn't really help the mass depression it's feeling. Now maybe I feel this way about the painting because I too am going through somewhat of a depression. Like the face, I have many people that support me and try to help me through the rough times I've been having, but it doesn't fully cure the depression. The supportive people in my life sometimes may think that they understand what's going on and most of the time they do, but other times they don't. When they don't that's when depression starts to feel like isolation because there you are, upset and the people around you not understanding why you are upset. This usually makes the depression worse and you then start to slowly lose your supports. Some fall so deep into depression that they eventually give up. Luckily for me, that isn't the case. Just before I'm about to give up, something good happens and then I keep going.
Now if I weren't in depression, I would probably feel that this painting is as it's titled "The Sleep". Looking at it, it does resemble sleeping. The face is resting on the supports in way that it looks like a sheet. If they painting was viewed this way, it would look sad as much as it would look peaceful and calming.
This painting is a GREAT example that paintings have meanings and that some have more than one meaning, you just have to look close.

And so it begins...

You have just entered a blog that is basically an example of the life and interests of a young, teenage boy in America that has been swept up in the marvelous world of the arts. This blog will talk about acting, singing, dancing, writing, reading, sculpting, and yes....even cooking because although some don't see cooking as an art...it is, it really is. Recent fads will be discussed in here as well as recent events in the news. So, welcome readers, welcome. I hope you enjoy this as much as I will.