Juan Tejeda

Robert Elizalde

April 20, 2008

Humanities

Juan Tejeda

Juan Tejeda is a musician that has his own band. I think it is great for someone to have there own band. It takes real charisma and talent. I really like music and can not live with out it. Is it like it is part of me and I think that Juan Tejeda is probably the same way. Juan Tejeda is a Mexican-American and is now a Chicano but he calls it Xicano. I thought that was really funny and creative. I means the Indians who lived the Americans before anybody. This first includes the tribes such as the Nahuati and the Aztecs. Juan Tejeda does Conjunto music. Conjunto is a mix between German and Mexican style music. It is mostly popular with the Mexican people though. This music comes from the history of the working class music. Juan Tejeda was telling us the history all about his race and Conjunto music. He said there are only three different races. The races can be described as Mexican, Latinos, Hispanic, and even Americans. In all I think that Juan Tejeda is a great composer and I am glad that we had him speak here in class. I really enjoyed his presence and his music most of all.

Interview Of The Artists

Robert Elizalde

April 8, 2008

Humanities

Art Interview

My first artist I interviewed was my good pal Adrian Lopez. He has been painting and creating art works for a while now. He has been doing art for about thirteen years now. He gets his inspiration from the artist Dave Kinsey and is one of favorite artists too. But another one of his favorite painters is Any Warhol. Adrian Lopez like to imitate both of there work but also had his own twist to them, making them a little more modern. Like Andy Warhol painting of a banana Adrian painted also but added dollar signs around it making it to where kids today will like it also. Adrian Lopez has done many works like that. He does most of his paintings for fun because he enjoys it thoroughly. Adrian most used medium is mostly pencil or ink. He is even known to use oil pastels on some drawings, but his favorite medium is pencil. Adrian has sold some of his pieces on Myspace.com for an amount from fifty to hundred dollars. I have seen his work in person and there are really good. Adrian Lopez is a great artist and I think he will make an impact on the art seen in San Antonio Soon.

The next artist I am going to interview is my friend Jesus. I think he is an amazing artist. Jesus mostly uses pencil and marker, but he can also do some good drawing on the program paint on the computer. Everything he does comes out great. He is currently enrolled at Palo Alto College and is taking some art classes even though it is not his major. He likes to mostly draw famous people or comics like spider man or alien Vs. Predator. His self portraits of him self are really good. He had this drawing were he is half Venom form spider man and half himself. Jesus medium is pencil and marker because he likes to shade a lot. A lot of our friends ask him to draw tattoos for them. But like Adrian, Jesus does what he does for fun. I think he can really take it to the next level and be noticed.

My last Artist is Adrian’s friends Ruben. Ruben’s medium is color pencil but also can use a regular pencil very well. Most of his work has really good coloring, and most of his work is unrealistic. But that is not all he does he can do a lot of realistic work also that is the same quality. He was a state competition winner a couple years in a row in high school. He also sells some of his art in first Friday and also on Myspace.com. In total all of these artists are amazing. In think all the artist I choose for my interview can make a big impact on the art seen in San Antonio.

Graffiti Art

Robert Elizalde

April 2, 2008

Humanities

Graffiti Art

Well I did graffiti art. It’s not the same as a painting on a canvas. I think that it takes a little bit harder work. Every one in this class was probably going to do some kind of famous painting by a person we all know. So I choose something that no one knows who did it. It makes it a little harder to interpret the work and what it means but the work it’s self is pretty awesome. The building that the graffiti is on is on the corer of San Pedro Street. It is right when you exit off the high way 35.

The art is all over the building, places you think people can not even reach. They even repaint it ever so often so when you come it’s not always the same thing. The last time before I came this time it was something totally different. I liked this time around because it had like three separate paintings but then connecting them it looked kind of like a snake but the face was in the middle. There was stuff all around, there was an angel and even another angel was a harp. There were also fishes near some door. In all this is a great was to show off art. It takes a lot of hard work and dedication to pull off stuff like this. People should think that art work is more the just paint and a canvas. This here proves that theory.