F2F Class Notes (Raph)[W]

Vocabulary

Piracy (n): 1- the act of attacking ships in order to steal from them. 2- the act of illegally copying a computer program, music, a film, etc. and selling it.
E.g.: Piracy is alive and flourishing on the world’s commercial sea lanes.
E.g.: The police is taking steps to fight media piracy.

Meme (n): 1- an idea, image, video, etc. that is spread very quickly on the internet.
E.g.: Take a look at the top ten internet memes for this past year.

Undergrowth (n): 1- a mass of bushes, small trees, and plants, especially growing under the trees in a forest.
E.g.: Police discovered the body hidden in thick undergrowth.

Oppression (n): 1- to govern people in an unfair and cruel way and prevent them from having opportunities and freedom. (Adj: Oppressed)
E.g.: For years now, the people have been oppressed by a ruthless dictator.

Dense (adj): 1- difficult to understand or follow because of being closely packed with ideas or complexities of style. 2- having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact. 3- stupid.
E.g.: The article is very dense and difficult to read.
E.g.: She got lost in an area that is covered by a very dense forest, which made it hard to find her.
E.g.: I wasn’t sure if he was really dense or if I was just not expressing myself very clearly.

Writing exercise

http://joancornella.net/about

Original:
Last Sunday, I went to see a solo exhibition by Joan Cornellà with my friend. I never knew this Spanish artist before, but I grew immediate interest in his works during the small event. Upon first sight, I was quickly attracted by his use of bright colors, simple and playful figures, but soon later I just felt a little strange when I found all the figures were weirdly smiling, and the images were bringing a dark energy to me. For example, the famous one is a man taking selfie with a gun. Many of his works are black humorous comic strips, such as a man goes to a cosmetic surgeon with a photo of a handsome guy inside his phone, in the next picture, the surgeon cuts off the man’s head and puts the phone with the photo on his neck.
Cornellà’s work has often been described as disturbing or flat-out offensive. But I think the artist is trying to use his great power of imagination and the artistic creation to remind people of the bleak side of human nature.

Edited:
Last Sunday, I went to see a solo exhibition by Joan Cornellà with my friend. I never knew this Spanish artist before, but I grew immediate interest in his works during the small event. Upon first sight, I was quickly attracted by his use of bright colors, simple and playful figures, but soon felt a little strange when I noticed that all the figures were weirdly smiling, and the images brought a dark energy to me. Many of his works are black humorous comic strips and pictures. In one of his most famous pieces he shows a man taking selfie with a gun. In another one, a man goes to a cosmetic surgeon with a photo of a handsome guy on his phone, in the next picture, the surgeon cuts off the man’s head and puts the phone with the photo on his neck.
Cornellà’s work has often been described as disturbing or flat-out offensive. But I think the artist is trying to use his great power of imagination and the artistic creation to remind people of the bleak side of human nature.


Book – Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (www.sanskritdocuments.org/marathi/ebooks/S1.pdf)