Personal Cultural Heritage
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arge part of my cultural heritage includes the love and respect for the United States. While we are not a military family, we admire our country. We are all proud to be part of such a diverse nation. Our freedom to believe what we want and say what we feel is essential to being an American. This is a quality that is passed down from one generation to another. Quintin Perez depicts this patriotism in his art. He includes history, nature and freedom.
United States
Quintin Perez
January 30, 2009
http://www.artelista.com/en/artwork/5475624867699523-proyectodelmuralunityindiversity.html
Family dinners have always been important throughout my childhood. On Sundays my grandmother cooked dinner for her whole family. My aunts and uncles would all be there. My mom also felt it was important to gather together for dinner. Growing up, she cooked dinner almost every night and we were all expected to be home in time to eat. She often made extras in case we had friends with us. No one was ever excluded from our dinner table. Bob Dornbert’s Family Dinner depicts this special time so well. To this day my mom cooks dinner for all of us at least once a month. This is a tradition that I will continue for my family and hopefully they will as well.
Family Dinner
Bob Dornbert
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Bathroom Selfie reveals the real life of a married couple. The glamorous ideals that is portrayed in society is not realistic of the day-to-day activities of married couples. The comfort that is felt between committed partners can create some strange situations. There is so much truth in this portrait. This realism is found throughout my family. We don’t live with idealistic views of what life is about. You definitely do not ask a question if you don’t want the truth spoken. This genuineness is throughout my family and undeniably our culture.
Bathroom Selfie
James Needham
2016
I really liked that these were three works of art I’ve never seen before! And “bathroom selfie” is really out of the box thinking!
I love the last one – funny and honest! These are great choices – I enjoyed reading what you had to say about each and think you did a great job communicating the most important aspects of your personal heritage.