Character-Inspired+Art

Impress your classmates and I with your creativity 8th graders!
====Find or create your own piece of art, a symbol/logo to represent a scene or character in the novel. Be creative! A photograph, collage, painting, drawing, or sculpture are all possibilities! ====

Please include the following in your post:

 * ====Picture of the piece of art (Photograph, painting, drawing, collage, sculpture) ====
 * ====Title of artwork and artist ====
 * ====Scene or character your art symbolizes ====
 * ====Your reasoning for choosing the piece of art ====

**//Recommended Art Site (please add any you find helpful)//**:
====[|Art.com]Look here for artists you like. This site doesn't let you copy any images, so I recommend typing the artist's name in Google Images and finding a photo of the art. ====

Painting by Morris Lewis-- Title unknown
====I chose the painting above to represent Grandmother Spirit's personality. She is portrayed in the novel as a free spirit. Like the variety of bright colors in the painting, she is tolerant of differences and embraces diversity. Her love of pow wows and dancing also were another reason for my selection of this painting. If a pow wow were put into an art form-- it would be filled with bright-colored dancing lines, just like this painting. ====

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====My collage represents some of the major themes in the book, Pedro and Me. I used a “neon colored” theme for all the pictures to represent light in a dark situation—Pedro having HIV. Pedro’s decision to be an HIV education advocate for young adults after he was diagnosed, displays his determination to make the best of his life. The large neon heart in the center of the collage represents the major theme of love depicted throughout the novel. Everything Pedro does, he does with love. The heart is made up of cell-like round shapes that represent the HIV virus. The heart shape made out of hands in the center of the neon “cell” heart, signify using the gifts you are given to spread love to others. At the top of the collage, I have snowflakes pictured with the quote from the book, “…It’s slow. It’s lush. And when everything is covered, it all looks perfect.” This is one of my favorite lines of the book—the part when Pedro is describing the experience of falling in love. He describes it as being similar to seeing a snowfall. The other images in the collage also symbolize various aspects of the book. The homosexual couple kissing in the bottom left corner represent Pedro and Sean’s relationship. The Golden Gate Bridge in the top left corner represents the setting of the book, San Francisco. The candle on the left side represents hope. The bottom right corner is a neon outline of heart-shaped balloons floating up into the sky. This signifies the moment after the death of Pedro dies. His life is being celebrated because of the positive impact he has had on the lives of others. ====