TECHNE

In This Issue

What is art?

Did you know...

Profiles about famous art-

ists

What is acting?

Word scramble

Summary from:

“Museums Turn Technolo-

gy to boost attendance by

millennials.”

In this magazine we will talk about Art and acting. You will read

about famous people and how they become artist, fun facts, article

about art and acting. The name of the magazine is Techne which

is a word from ancient Greek and means craft or craftsmanship.

There where two writers that worked on this magazine and we are

really proud of it. We hope that you dear reader will like it.

March 2015

Authors:

Page 1—Sandra Mjöll Þorbjörnsdóttir

Page 2— Margrét Marís Sveinbjörnsdóttir

Art

What is art ?

I think that you can´t put boundaries on art. You can´t say that some art isn’t art, like you see

just an ordinary chair you can´t say that isn´t art because it is a design that someone did. So

you can say that everything that humans make or do can be art.

The first things you think about when you hear the word art, is music, artwork and theater.

These three things have always existed. You don´t even think about how much you use it.

You listen to music in your car, you turn on your tv to watch your favorite movie or tv-show and

every picture you see is an artwork. But think about if those three things never existed, you

never had listended to music never seen a movie or a tv-show and never seen a picture. It ´s

even harder to think about it. Okay you wont die if you never see or hear art, but it would´nt be

as fun living life without it.

How I see artists, is that everyone of them are talented and have imagination, but some

have more imagination than talent or have more talent than imagination. Like, if you take the

art that “everybody can do” like De Stijl ,which is an art movement using only vertical and

horizontal lines, and primary colors along with black and white, that is more imagination than

talent. Yes everybody can do that but it is still beautiful. Just like what Monet could do or even

Michelangelo.

If you want to pursue art as a carrier, there are so many ways to go. You can be a singer, a

dancer, a actor, a painter. But you need to have real talent for each of them plus it´s really

hard to get famous or even noticed doing them so in every artform you have to work hard to

get noticed. And who nows maybe you will be one of the legends that we have idolized for

hundreds of years.

Sandra Mjöll Þorbjörnsdóttir .

Did you know....

….Vincent van Gogh

did not cut off his ear.

He only cut off a small

portion of his ear lobe

….It is estimated that

Picasso produced

50,000 pieces of art

which include paintings,

sculptures, ceramics,

drawings, prints,

tapestries and rugs.

…..On 13,000 pages of

journal drawings and

notes, Leonard

recorded all the things

that sparked his

interest.

…..More of Picasso’s

paintings have been

stolen than those of any

other artist.

…..Because of his

vegetarianism,

Leonardo da Vinci had

a habit of purchasing

caged birds and then

releasing them into the

wild.

…..Vincent van Gogh

only sold one painting

during his lifetime and

only became famous

after his death

Oscar-Claude Monet

(1840 -1926)

Painter

Style:Impressionism,

Modern art

Was a founder of French

Impressionist painting

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (1452-1519)

Style: High Renaissance painter

He was a: polymath, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins

(1988 )

Singer, songwriter

Genres:Soul, blue-

eyedsoul, R&B

10 Grammys

De Stijl

Bauhaus, cubism, dada, futurism, Impressionism, rococo

Museums Turn Technology to boost attendance by millennials

There is a new app that will make your museum trip more convenient. When you stand in

front of an artwork the app knows where you are and gives you the information about that

artwork including audio talks, videos and reviews. This year many museums will install a

new form of Bluetooth technology known as beacons so people that download the

smartphone app can be tracked within a few feet as they wander the galleries. Boston

Athenaeum will begin using beacons in time for a show on the Marquis de Lafayette in

June.

By michael Channell

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/arts/artsspecial/museums-turn-to-technology-to-boost-

attendance-by-millennials.html?src=me

Acting What is acting

Acting is defined by the dictionary as the art or profession of performing the role of a

character in a play, movie and etc. Which is all correct, acting is a form of art, made by

people and played by people. To be an actor you must be skilled in some things that are

important in acting such as improvisation, vocal projection, clarity of speech and the

ability to interpret drama. All this can be taught in drama schools all around the world.

But actually many known actors like Jim Carrey, Brad Pitt and Meg Ryan are not

professionally taught actors.

Now what an actor does is he takes on a character and communicates that character

through speech, body language and movement to an audience. This can be done on

stage, in a movie or a television show, also through voice acting and so on. Being an

actor can be an extremely hard job since it often follows long times of unemployment.

Possible career options for acting are Theatre acting, Movie acting, Television acting,

voice acting, commercial acting, Teaching and ect.

I like acting because it gives you a chance to let yourself go and take on the role of

someone or something else. Acting is just such a great way to tell a story. Actors are

often shy but when they are up on stage or in front of the camera the shyness just goes

away, they become someone else. This is why acting is often suitable for shy people.

You can get people from all over the world, get them together and let them watch a

movie and they can all connect. The language barriers hardly matter if it’s a truly good

movie with good acting.

Did you know…

...Tom Hanks is an avid collector of

antique typewriters. He owns over

80 that he has purchased from all

over the world.

....Cate Blanchett has played Bob

Dylan in the Todd Haynes movie

“I’m Not There” that deal with

different stories put together

showcasing Dylan’s different

personalities.

....At age 65, Morgan Freeman

earned a private pilot's license. He

owns or has owned at least three

private aircraft and he is certified to

fly all of them.

Robin McLaurin Williams was born

on the 21st of july, 1951 and died on

the 11th of august 2014. He was

an American actor and comedian.

Starting as a stand-up

comedian in San Francisco and Los

Angeles in the mid-1970s, he is

credited with leading San

Francisco's comedy renaissance.

After rising to fame as Mork in the

sitcom Mork & Mindy (1978–82),

Williams went on to establish a

career in both stand-up comedy and

feature film acting. He was known

for his improvisational skills. In 1998,

Williams won the Academy Award

for Best Supporting Actor for his

performance as Dr. Sean Maguire

in Good Will Hunting. He also

received two Primetime Emmy

Awards, six Golden Globe Awards,

two Screen Actors Guild Awards,

and four Grammy

Awards throughout his career.

Meryl Streep was born june 22,

1949. She is an American

actress and producer. A three-

time Academy Award winner, she

is widely regarded as one of the

greatest film actors of all time.[1]

[2][3] Streep made her

professional stage debut in The

Playboy of Seville in 1971, and

went on to receive a 1976 Tony

Award nomination for Best

Featured Actress in a Play for A

Memory of Two Mondays/27

Wagons Full of Cotton. In 1978,

she won an Emmy Award for her

role in the miniseries Holocaust,

and received the first of her 19

Academy Award nominations

for The Deer Hunter. She has

more Academy Award

nominations than any actor or

actress in history, winning Best

Supporting Actress for Kramer

vs. Kramer (1979) and Best

Actress for Sophie's

Choice (1982) and The Iron

Lady (2011).

William Shakespeare was born

on the 26 of April 1564 and died

the 23 April in 1616. He was an

English poet, playwright, and

actor, widely regarded as the

greatest writer in the English

language and the world's pre-

eminent dramatist. His extant

works, including

some collaborations consist of

about 38 plays,154 sonnets, two

long narrative poems and a few

other verses, of which the

authorship of some is uncertain.

His plays have been translated

into every major living language

and are performed more often

than those of any other

playwright.

Word list

Accentuation

Sensory Process

Externals

Method acting

Repertory

Thespian

The swing

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Rococo

Waterliles

Claude Monet

impresonism

Campell´s soup

Andy Warhole

Pop art

les demoiselles d'avignon

Paplo Picasso

Cubism and modern art