The Muse

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Volume 1, Issue 1: The Inaugural Issue of the WMA Art Magazine

By Sunghyuk Seo

May 3, 2011 Wilbraham, MA 01095

Introduction

The M use S taff Editor in Chief Yeonjoo Donna Lee Section Editors Movable Gallery

Yeonjoo Donna Lee Yuanqing Vicky Liu Fashion

Rui Ryan Lin Face Match

Hyunjung Stephanie Ji Hidden Artist

Teresa Kennedy Beauty of Campus

Casey Berg Style of Art

Bethany Lyon Evan Filkins Music

Brooke Mele Enrichment Credit

Chi Genevieve Zhang Faculty Advisor Paul Bloomfield Faculty Editor Rita Carey Faculty Writer Jessica Feldhiem

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The Muse!

The first issue of our new school art magazine is finally here!

Starting back in November, we first brought up the idea of creating an art magazine at our school over the dinner table. It is incredible to look back at that the kind of random conversation, which was really the first step of the embryo of our newborn baby—The Muse.

So like a mother gives birth to the child after the nine-month pregnancy, a team of writers and artists began shaping and developing The Muse. Everyday was a challenge; everyday was an improvement. From presenting our first PowerPoint outline to Mr. Bloomfield to gathering members by talking with each individual, we as novices in magazine production met many obstacles.

Deciding sections in the magazine and gathering opinions from every member, every step was filled with the one of the main challenges many of us face here: Time! Working on weekends in the small computer lab became the habit of our weekly schedule. Frustration and struggles were the main themes of every single weekend.

However, we did not give up. The motivation from Mr. Bloomfield and from members of the magazine group pushed us to work without too many complaints. So now it is finally the time to present our baby—The Muse.

We’d like to give special thanks to Dr. Donohue for her magnificent support, Mr. Bloomfield for his wonderful advice, Mrs. Carey for her dedication in proofreading, and all the members of the art magazine club—Donna Lee, Vicky Liu, Brooke Mele, Casey Berg, Evan Filkins, Ryan Lin, Stephanie Ji, Genevieve Zhang, Teresa Kennedy, and Bethany Lyon. Thanks so much for all your hard work and dedication to The Muse! We are optimistic that The Muse will continue to be published next year with updated art news, views, and related stories. We have so many budding artists here, and this is our way of recognizing them. We also welcome everyone’s opinions so feel free to write to us at any time. Unfortunately, we are sad to say goodbye to most of our members, who are seniors. We will miss you and wish you all the best of luck in college!

With Appreciation Donna Lee Vicky Liu Founders of The Muse

The Muse

Table of Contents

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May 2011: Volume 1, Issue 1 page 16

page 17

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Introduction How The Muse is made

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page 12

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Hidden Artist Mr Whitcomb’s art

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Contents

Beauty of Campus Photography of our beautiful campus

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Movable Gallery Art work from classes

Fashion Get fancy in dress code

Face Match Faculty who look like celebrities

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Style of Art What is surrealism?

Music Get ready for summer

Enrichment Credit Let’s enrich ourselves

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The Muse

Movable Gallery

Movable Gallery

How often do you see your friends’ art work?

All students are required to take three Fine & Performing Arts credits at Wilbraham & Monson Academy, which means EVERYONE has taken or is taking art, music, or theatre classes. However, only a limited number of classes exhibit their work. It is hard to see the great hidden art work of many students. So, THE MUSE has created a Movable Gallery to show everyone what our peers have accomplished.

Grade 7 Self-Portrait Collage

Lexi Smith Grade 6 Hieroglyphocs

Grade 8 Abstractions from Nature Oil Pastels and Water Color Yeonjoo Lee, Yuanqing Liu

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Lili Brook

Trey Kelley

Trey Kelley

Claire Bi

Kevin Sun Yeonjoo Lee, Yuanqing Liu

Movable Gallery

Sunghyuk Seo

Vivian Wang

Casey Berg

Chloe Snyder Yeonjoo Lee, Yuanqing Liu

Elizabeth McClellan

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Aislinn Calabrese Casey Berg

Sunghyuk Seo

Ryan Lin

Ilen Liu

Nicole Robitaille

Casey Berg

Ilen Liu

Casey Berg Yeonjoo Lee, Yuanqing Liu

Fashion

“Dressy”

Dress code

Ladies and guys!

Let me introduce a few tips on how to look dressy and fancy in dress code.

Rui Lin

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Calling for Colors!!

Guys, show your taste in fashion by spring blazer!

Were you born wearing a black or dark blue blazer?

Don’t be afraid of trying light colors such as light blue, light green or tan.

Ladies, do you not like to wear a blazer in a chic

way? Or do you not care about blazers? Because your blazer is on top, it doesn’t matter how fancy what you have under it is. Don’t spend too much money on what you wear under it. This summer, look carefully for fancy blazer that will complete your look.

Ladies, let’s go VINTAGE! Try look into mom’s or

grandma’s old closet. You might find some dress in there to fit you. Or look closer for a scarf. Any scarf can be useful. You can wear around your neck or you can simply tie on your bag. You can wear it around your neck or simply tie it on your bag.

Rui Lin

Fashion

Shoes Matter!!

Ladies, if a guy cannot deal with his footwear, he is not going to be a good date for you. �

Bad example of dress code. folded pants, dirty shoes.

Little bit dirty Little bit city Little bit suede Little bit chic So, here is a better example for dress code shoes.

Classic for Spring/Fall Question

Which TWO teachers are most likely to wear these?

Prep school rocking shoes Oxford shoes Classic shoes

Try with colors! Not borning black again.

Rui Lin

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hey look alike

Mr Bloomfield → Brian Eno

Mr Swanson → Kurtwood Smith

Mr Kindblom → Emilio Estevez

Mrs Norman → Glenn Close

Mr Dziura → Judd Nelson

Ms Decker → Shannon Elizabeth

Mr Whitcomb → Philip K. Dick

Hyunjung Ji

Hidden Artist

Mr. Stuart W hitcomb This issue’s Hidden Artist is Mr. Whitcomb!

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r. Whitcomb is an English 9 teacher in Wilbraham & Monson Academy. Many people suggest that he might be a wizard but he is actually an artist! Mr. Whitcomb constantly paints and draws in his free time. However, students are familiar with his fascinating doodles but not his painting works.

Teresa: So, Mr. Whitcomb, I’ve actually started seriously thinking the concept of the word “bridge.”

something you were interested in your whole life?

about painting and taking time to do it around eight years ago during my free periods. I would sit in on Advanced Painting in Binney, and worked with Mr. Lee-Davis, the art teacher at the time, painting with acrylics…I also fiddled around with watercolors.

W: One of the reasons I began was

T: What did the two of you paint?

heard that you paint.

Mr. Whitcomb: I do.

T: How did you start? Was it

that my wife and I couldn’t afford art, so I decided to paint what we W: There was one project we took wanted to decorate our house. I on that I really enjoyed, analyzing

Teresa Kennedy

We created eight paintings each looking at the different meanings of the word. They were very abstract—I find it easier to wrap my brain around abstraction. It was a great intellectual exercise…I had so much fun hanging out with students and Mr. Lee-Davis, being in class without the pressure of grades. We put on an art show in Binney during the summer, after everyone had left campus, showcasing our works.

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T: That sounds like so much fun! trees, because they are also very

forgiving; there is no perfect tree.

Painting cars or houses or humans more difficult because W: I can’t do it often—I’m crazy istheymuch are “perfect,” which is why busy. In the summer, my family I like the impressionist style so goes to Prince Edward Island in much.

Canada. There, I am able to play with watercolors when I get a free T: Was there anyone who really minute. influenced your painting?

A famous artist?

T: What do you like to paint?

People? Landscapes?

W: Well, I really like Van Gogh… was my inspiration when I W: I don’t paint people, but I he started looking at taking painting love landscapes, especially where seriously. I like impressionists…I there is little evidence of human don’t have a steady enough hand contact. Painting nature is much to paint in detail, and you don’t more forgiving than painting have to be perfect to achieve the people. There are also times when impressionist look. nature is so much more awesome than what you paint…if you did T: Do you mostly do watercolors? paint it, people wouldn’t believe it was real. I also really like to paint When do you paint now?

W: Yes. It’s so easy, because all

you need is water, a tray of paints, paper, and brushes. You can just drive somewhere and fiddle around. Sometimes, I bring images back from Prince Edward Island and paint them multiple times to see what I can do and what my brain works out, and then I’ll give them as gifts.

T: Who do you give them to?

W:

Many times it’s family members. After leaving WMA, I painted whenever I could. There was a slew of home purchases in my family on my wife’s side.

I painted impressionist versions of their homes and gave them as gifts. Looking back, they’re pretty clunky, but my heart was in the right place.

Teresa Kennedy

Hidden Artist

T: So, would you say that you have T: That is so neat. Do you find that improved since then? there are aspects of painting that are really difficult?

W:

I have, from practice. I see myself as a “sensitive Viking,” but W: I’m self taught, meaningthat I with a less delicate touch. have big limitations. I don’t know what I’m doing, but that also means that I have the freedom to “do whatever.” I don’t know if what I’m doing is wrong, I just paint by feel.

T: Was there anyone in your life that

impacted your work?

W:

My dad was actually an artist. He designed the outside of electronics, the part that makes them so appealing and useful.

When we waited for our food at restaurants, he would grab a place mat or a napkin and ask the kids in our family what they wanted, and he would draw it.

I just remember thinking that was the most awesome ability.

Teresa Kennedy

T: Have you had any good experiences tying art into your classes?

W:

One of my favorites was taking the 10th grade to MASS MoCA [art museum] up in North Adams, Massachusetts. I brought them the year after 9/11, and asked the students to take pictures of the photos they liked, and to take notes on them. They wrote poems on the pieces they viewed…their T: It’s amazing how talented best poetry, the best teaching you are without ever having experience, and the best writing been taught. Would you ever came from there. be interested in teaching an art The Muse: Thank you for course? participating, Mr. Whitcomb!

W: I lack the background in raw

art courses that art teachers have as their foundation. I know what I like to paint, but I wouldn’t want to do more than help out with a course.

However, the idea of facilitating an art class sounds like so much fun to me…more because I would want to see what the kids could do, rather than display what I have to share.

Photos of our beautiful campus.

Wilbraham & Monson Academy

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Casey Berg

Style of Art

Guillaume Apollinaire

Salvador Dali, Self Portrait

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Art, Words, Madness, and Dreams

Jean Cocteau

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ormed in the early 1920s, Surrealism is one of the most interesting of the art movements because it was formed shortly after an era of great destruction and turmoil, the First World War, and because of the length of its popularity. Art critic Guillaume Apollinaire first coined the word ‘surrealism’ to explain the style of his own play The Memory of Tiresias, and his contemporary Jean Cocteau’s ballet, Parade, in 1917. However Apollinaire’s meaning and interpretation of surrealism differed slightly from what we recognize as surreal today. ndré Breton, a French writer, served in a neurologically centered hospital during WWI. The usage of Freudian analytical interpretation led him to become interested in the meanings of dreams and thought. He started a literary journal in Paris which was a series of experimental writings, such as the flow of consciousness and the symbolism of dreams. n essence, surrealism began as a movement of literature and the power of words and the subconscious mind. The style then moved to visual arts, some of the most identifiable paintings today come from this time period and onward.

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Bethany Lyon, Evan Filkins

Andre Breton

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he characteristics of surrealism in paintings affect the viewer in a variety of ways. Generally a peculiar image displayed causes a feeling of anxiety or a shudder, which is called a sense of intense beauty. The subjects often seem to be of non-sequitur or surprising arrangement, giving the artwork a dream-like quality. ‘Marvelous’ became the word that many used to describe the eerie approach that reality and imagination had fused together. It was expressing ordinary objects realistically, but the arrangement and elements chosen to be placed together, was open to imagination, which gave the paintings irrational qualities. ax Ernst described surrealism to be “as beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine with an umbrella on a dissection table.” The intentional result is the combination of new realities or meanings revealed. Some important works of the period include Salvador Dali’s Persistence of Memory(1), Rene Magritte’s Time Transfixed(2), and Max Ernst’s Oedipus Rex(3). Many criticized this art movement in regards to the stereotypical symbols it attached to women, and the absurdities often portrayed, however surrealism and forms of surrealism have continued up until today.

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“There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.”__Salvador Dali

(3) Bethany Lyon, Evan Filkins

Music

S ummer Time Living is Easy

Do you have plans for summer yet?

Do you love concerts?

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elieve it or not, summer is right around the corner. Besides being a great time to relax and recharge, summer is also a great time to explore new places and try new things. For all you music and nature lovers out there, here is an option that will give you the best of both worlds.

Welcome to Tanglewood. Tanglewood, summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is a stunning outdoor music venue located in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in the beautiful Berkshires. An array of artists come from all over to perform their work including James Taylor, Yo-Yo Ma, James Galway and Itzhak Perlman. This summer’s line-up is packed with an array of different music genres—there is something for everyone. Just to give an idea of what to expect this summer, here are some highlighted dates: ✓June 25- Earth Wind & Fire 40th Anniversary World Tour ✓July 1- James Taylor and the Boston Pops ✓July 8- Official Opening Night with James Levine and the Boston Symphony Orchestra ✓July 26- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Steely Dan ✓August 8- Train ✓August 27- All-Beethoven Program with Itzhak Perlman

Brooke Mele

Concert tickets for popular artists like these are usually pretty pricey, but Tanglewood offers unique prices that are perfect for anyone; pay as much or as little as you want for a ticket depending on where you want to sit. Sitting on the lawn is an option where you can still see and hear the concert from your picnic blanket for as little as $9.00 to as much as $21.00 depending on performances. From there, depending on where in the “shed” you want to sit and which performances you wish to attend, tickets can range from $15.00 to over $2,000.

This summer, whether you are a music lover or not, consider adding Tanglewood on your list of things to do. Go out and enjoy the lovely Berkshires in the summer sun while listening to some great music.

For more information about Tanglewood, visit the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s website www.bso.org or ask Seayoon Park who participated in 2009.

Happy summer! :D

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A rts Enrichment Enrichment Credit

The importance of the Arts Enrichment Program here at WMA is to infuse an appreciation for the arts into our community. This process is twofold; supporting our friends and colleagues in their performances here on campus, as well as experiencing firsthand the gifts and talents of professional artists from around the world. It is the exposure to new experiences that takes us out of our comfort zone, thus allowing us to learn and grow. The various arts that are included in this are both from the visual and performing arts, as well as the literary arts.

Requirement:

We, WMA students, are required to attain two on-campus, and one

off-campus credits a year. If we want to join the weekend trips organized by the school to various museums and plays going on in our area, we can earn an off-campus credit without writing a paper. If we choose to earn a credit on our own or with our families, then we must write a three-paragraph responsive paper and email it to Ms. Feldheim.

Go Titans! Let’s enrich ourselves!

Scan it !

Did you miss Mosaic Harmony Pop Concert?

Here is Lucia Biggel’s solo from Pop Concert.

How to scan QR code.

1. Take out your internet accessible phones such as iPhone, BlackBerry or Android.

2. Download a QR code scanning application. Most of the applications are free.

3. Run the application and scan the QR code.

4. Enjoy~

Chi Zhang

Mosaic Harmony Pop Concert —Beginning Part

March Photo Contest Winner, Bobby Zhang’s Photo

Wilbraham & Monson Academy 423 Main St. Wilbraham, MA 01095

April Photo Contest Winner, Sunghyuk Seo’s Photo