WHAT IS ART??????

Art History.

This piece is titled "Of Kings and Presidents" and is done with a mixture of inks and color pencils. It is part of Manifest Hope:DC and also part of a new youtube video of Obama on the etch a sketch.

We feel this is part of history as history as been made with Obama as the first black president.

History. Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1898 in Atchison, Kansas. Her father was a lawyer and her mother the daughter of a wealthy judge. Her parent's difficult marriage had a profound effect on Amelia Earhart's philosophy of life. Amelia saw her father's frustration and unhappiness and determined that she would be an independent woman who could share responsibilities equally with a man and not be dependent on him. She graduated from Chicago's Hyde Park High School on time in 1916 despite the numerous different schools she'd been moved through. Exactly five years after Lindbergh, she soloed from Newfoundland to Ireland and became the first woman to fly the Atlantic alone. This earned her audiences with princes, kings and presidents. She became the first woman to be honored with the Distinguished Flying Cross. Three months later she broke the woman's non-stop transcontinental speed record by flying from Los Angeles, California to Newark, New Jersey, a distance of 2448 miles in 19 hours and five minutes. In 1933 she broke the record again by repeating the trip in 17 hours, 7 minutes and 30 seconds. In 1935 she became the first pilot, man or woman, to solo from Hawaii to California. Three months later she became the first to solo from Los Angeles to Mexico City. Then three weeks later she again soloed from Mexico City to Newark, New Jersey.

Controversial Art! The Beatles

Yesterday and Today (rendered as "Yesterday" …and Today on the record label and in most published discographies) is the tenth Capitol release by the The Beatles and the twelfth overall U.S. release. It was issued only in the United States and Canada. The album is remembered primarily for the controversy surrounding its original cover image, the "butcher cover" featuring the band dressed in white smocks and covered with decapitated baby dolls and pieces of meat. In the United States, Capitol Records printed approximately 750,000 copies of "Yesterday" …and Today with the same photograph as "Paperback Writer".

Controversial Art! The Beautiful South

Welcome to the Beautiful South was the debut album by The Beautiful South released in August 1989. Jan Saudek's album cover originally depicted two pictures, one of a woman with a gun in her mouth, and another with a man smoking. Both people are African-Americans, as the pictures were intended to highlight the plight of blacks in the American South during the 1980s. Woolworths refused to stock the album because of its cover, therefore, an alternate cover featuring a picture of a stuffed toy rabbit and a teddy bear was made.