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2019 Brandes- Score 4
This document contains an AP Art student's portfolio submission. It includes descriptions of their concentration exploring the progression from despair to joy in children in Zambia. Photos are presented showing subjects who seem lonely at first but gradually open up and find community and hope. Advice is given to future AP Art students to not procrastinate their concentration, listen to their teacher, and keep organized journals and hall passes.
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- 15. Concentration Statement • Iexplore the progression from despair to joy in the children in Zambia. Inspired by the raw portrait style of David Yarrow, I wanted to examine this poverty-stricken community and the joy that they despite suffering. At the beginning of my concentration, I show the way that difficult times can cause people to close themselves off, but as it develops, they begin to open up and realize that perseverance, hope, and community are necessary to find contentment in the midst of adversity. • In order to develop my concentration, I used balance and value to emphasize my subjects faces and surroundings. I begin in C#1, by photographing a child that I met on the street in Zambia, who was encircled by her friends. Although she seems enveloped in community, she emanates loneliness through her countenance of despair. Throughout C#2-C#5, I develop this loneliness by depicting subjects who are together, but seem detached. In C#2, a child holding her younger sibling struggles to walk down the street. In C#6-C#8, my subjects begin to open up. In C#7, a young girl in the street doing laundry seems sad, but still she is dancing, showing her strength and courage and in C#8, a young boy blows a bubble surrounded by friends and seems to be developing a sense of joy. Finally in C#9-C#11, the subjects have found joy in their hardships through perseverance and community. Finally, in C#12, the entire community is infected with joy after just a few people persevere.
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- 29. Advice to FutureAP Art Students • Don’t procrastinate your concentration! At the very least, have some kind of idea of what you want to do before you get started, but its ok to spend some time figuring it out. • Listen to Prof Robson! • The journals are not busy work, it just feels like it. Actually, they will help you later when you are rushing to get everything done before you turn in your portfolio. • Save your hall passes!