Hello,
How are you? Do you remember the pictures I showed you in Part 1? I will now show you these pictures again, but with some links to background information about them.
Look at the picture above again. It looks like an ordinary country house or barn on the outside, but it has a unique story to it. Click on this link for more, and on this link here about the picture.
Look at this next picture. It looks like a quiet beach now, but it was once a place where great history was made. Click on this link to find out more about this place.
Now look at this next picture again. This was the birthplace of a famous person from the 20th century. Click on this link here to find out about who the person was.
Look at the picture above again. It looks like an ordinary country house or barn on the outside, but it has a unique story to it. Click on this link for more, and on this link here about the picture.
Look at this next picture. It looks like a quiet beach now, but it was once a place where great history was made. Click on this link to find out more about this place.
Now look at this next picture again. This was the birthplace of a famous person from the 20th century. Click on this link here to find out about who the person was.
Finally, while this final place has people in the picture, the place is very important. Click on the link here to find out more, and click on this link about the two people in the picture.
I hope these are interesting for you.
See you next time!
Images: Top photo - "Arromanches" by Bulo78 - Own work. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arromanches.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Arromanches.jpg/Barn - "Pollock-barn" by Dmadeo - Own work. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pollock-barn.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Pollock-barn.jpg/Building - Picasso’s birthplace - By Dominik (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Pablo-Picasso-Birthplace.jpg/
Couple - Woodstock couple by Burk Uzzle/image reproduced from file courtesy of Laurence Miller Gallery/laurencemillergallery.com
All images from except Woodstock couple from Wikimedia Commons. All rights reserved. I do not own the rights to these images. All images uploaded for educational purposes only.
After reading the background of all the pictures I was shocked ! really...because all of them are totally different from what i thought and wrote.
ReplyDeleteThere is one picture so passionate that left me deep impression. Then I wrote some summary about pic4. In my opinion, the pic 4 is a war scene, I felt that my heart was pierced and filled with intense emotion,or patriotism ...just something like that. But the truth is they were having a music festival instead of a disaster or war ! It was called the Woodstock Festival.
just incredible!!!!! i will remember it definitely! OMG~~~~
Hello Julia - thank you for your comment!
ReplyDeleteAs you saw on the link, Woodstock was a rock festival held north of New York City in the summer of 1969. Organizationally it was a disaster, air lost a lot of money. Yet it was a special moment to a lot of people from that generation not only in the U.S., but even in Western culture, because it was the high point of the hippy and anti-Vietnam War movements. So it was what it looked like - a disaster. Yet a lot of people were happy and for all the people who went (around 500,000 or so! Check the link again for the number) there was almost no violence and a great sense of cooperation among people.
Here's a different link about the two people in the picture:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-woodstock-moment-40-years-later-33569550/?no-ist
There is 1-2 pictures about that couple and how they look now. Hope you can see it and enjoy it!
Hello Lee, thank you for your reply and wonderful link.I enjoyed it so much. Now, i just want to say i really can't imagine the truth.That's extraordinary!
DeleteHello Julia,
DeleteIf you're interested, I found a Wikipedia link for Woodstock in Mandarin. Check it out!
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/胡士托音樂節
Hello Lee,
DeleteThank you for this, if i have a chance to go to USA in future, i will go and see it with my own eyes! The Festivel is a fine spectacle i think.
I think so too. The site where the festival was held has a museum about it, with a website - google "Woodstock" on Google and you'll find the website today for the museum.
DeleteI choosed and wrote about Jackson Pollock's house and studio. I guessed that this house is in U.S. but I have no idea where the house in New York, because my "New York" image is city.
ReplyDeleteThe story was very different of mine, so everythings were surprised for me. Jackson was painter and he died just 44 years old! He's too young. I thought that his life was pain for he. I'm interested in his life, so I'll go to borrow DVD"Pollock".
Jackson Pollock was an incredible painter - one of the most interesting in 20th century art in Western culture. I know some Japanese museums have some Pollock paintings.
DeleteHe had many personal problems. He was an alcoholic who tried hard to stay away from drinking but in the end he died in a car accident, driving drunk, so he died too young. But he left many great works in his career.
I was a fine arts major when I was in university - I studied painting and drawing. Jackson Pollock was one of my heroes! To this day, his work is very inspirational to me. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
The movie made about him was very good and the Pollock-Krasner House and Studio was used in the making of the movie. (By the way - you probably saw that Lee Krasner, his wife, was also a great painter and her studio was inside the house. Check out her work too - you can find her profile on Wikipedia in Japanese and I think she has a website for her paintings too.)
Glad you enjoyed it!
I wrote about Pollock-Krasner House and Studio. At first I knew that the house is very small. So I surprised that the house was house and studio for Pollock-Krasner. And I knew he was wonderfully artist.
ReplyDeleteI have interested in about him. So I going to watch him DVD when it is holiday. I am looking forward to do it.
Thank you for your comment, Yuna! See my reply above about Hana's comment - rent the DVD about Jackson Pollock. And check out Lee Krasner's profile on Wikipedia too. She was his wife and a also a great painter herself. Glad you enjoyed this!
DeleteI chose a picture#1.
ReplyDeleteI guessed that it happened a war at the place.But I didn't image the details.
I knew that the place was France and a happening was a war of British and Germany. I was surprised at British military force! it's so powerful!!
Although It's a beautiful beach now, Gold Beach War actually happened there in the past.
I think
I'm interested in the brown ship.
Sorry! I made a mistake.
Delete"I think" is extra.
Hello Nanami! Glad to see you could upload the comment.
DeleteIt's hard to believe that those kids playing on that long concrete structure you see them on in the picture were on the same beach where incredible history was made. That thing they are on is called a Mulberry harbor - it was a mobile port that could unload supplies from the ships that were used in the landing of the soldiers and weapons for the attack on the beaches.
The British and the Americans couldn't build long roads all the way across the English Channel from England to the Normandy beaches of course, so they did the next best thing - built all the parts of a port, put them in ships and large boats across the waters, then put them together - all while they were under attack from the Germans!
Gold Beach was actually one of five different beaches that were used for the Normandy landings. The others were called Juno, Omaha, Sword, and Utah beaches. They all used these Mulberry harbors, so the old parts of the ports are all over the five beaches. If you ever go to France and visit the Normandy beaches, there will be many signs and places showing where you can find and see the old Mulberry harbors along the beaches. They're incredible!
I am posting a comment for Toru, who had some trouble posting his comment directly here:
ReplyDeleteI was surprised that the photo was about "Woodstock Music and Art Festival". I've read a musical related manga, they had a similar scene of the photograph. That linked me to the "Festival" and "Hippy".
Some people said that this photo looks very sad, depressing, etc. Some even said that it looks like after war. It does looks like that way, but I thought it was a festival in somehow. I predicted the couple looks like hippies. The place looks big mess, trashes everywhere. They all look very tired, some are still sleeping.
I would like to watch Arnold Skolnick's documentary movies about this festival.
Reply to Toru:
ReplyDeleteThank your for your comment! Woodstock was quite the moment in the cultural history of the U.S. I have the DVD of the documentary of the festival with Japanese subtitles - Anderson-sensei may also have it too. You could ask him if he has it and if he does, I'm pretty sure he would let you borrow it.
If he doesn't have it, you could ask me and I could let you borrow it. The only thing is that it's a double-sided DVD (very rare these days, I think!) and the whole documentary is about 3 hours long - so it's a lot of viewing!
By there way, if you're interested, let me show you this link. It's about the two people you see in the Woodstock picture on the blog:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-woodstock-moment-40-years-later-33569550/?no-ist
The link shows that picture, which is quite famous, and shows that same couple they way they look now. They got married not long after the festival and they are still married - to this day. They are both retired now, if you can believe that! So check that out and tell me what you think of it. Enjoy!
This is Yui's comment - she also had some trouble uploading her comment:
ReplyDeleteAfter I read these true stories, I felt interesting! I thought very different stories using them. I choose third picture. I thought this place was the target of terrorism but there was the stage of festival! However crime also happened. Of course not terrorism! These festival and building are important for Americans I think, but I made there terrorism's stage and felt sorry... However my prediction of place was correct! I was surprised at this point too.
This is my reply to Yui:
DeleteYes! That 3rd picture is also not what it seems. It really does look like the kind of place that would be targeted by terrorists, especially the way this kind of place has been shown in James Bond or the Mission Impossible movies - always with some European location and always in some fashionable or rich part of a city in France or Italy.
But in fact it was in Spain, and it was Picasso's birthplace - he wasn't born in a hospital. His mother delivered him in the apartment where his family lived! I believe also that people are not only still living in that building even today, but that there may even be someone or a family living in the same apartment where he and his family lived. Quite incredible, isn't it? Hope you enjoyed that picture and the story behind it!
I am sorry I am late to post this.
ReplyDeleteI worte about picture #2, the Gold Beach.
The beach looks so beautiful and fantastic.
I imagined something romantic about that place so I had a big surprise.
I did not think about something terrible from the beach.
But I have known that war becuse of the documentary movie I wathched in the library before. In the movie, there were a old German and an old Englishman. Both of them were soldiers during the war.
Before they met, they talked about what they were thining in front of cameras each other. When they met, they said that it was incredible to meet the enemy of the war and talk with smiles.
It was difficult to understand for me and I cannnot understand completely but I thought they are very kind and have the sense of humor to laugh at the terrible bygone.
Hello! Yes, it is hard to believe that this calm, quiet-looking beach was once the scene of a huge battle that played a major role in World War II.
DeleteMaybe these two men had to laugh the way they did to keep themselves from crying. Maybe also the only way they could live with it was to laugh and find, in the terror of the time they were there in war, some kind of crazy humor about it all. One way or another, it was an incredible time for them their lives were changed by.
I am sorry to be late to you.I chose the last picture.Form the picture I can see that people experienced the war.They looked very sad.Not only lost the house bue also lost the family.So I hope the world will no war anymore.The peace is the only way to happiness.
ReplyDeleteI am sorry for late posting.
ReplyDeleteI chose the Gold Beach one. The true story is totally different with mine. I was suprised very much. I have never thought that this queit beach was used to war. I am happily to see the peaceful picture now because I don't want the world to have war again.