Modernismo

Chama-se genericamente modernismo (ou movimento moderno) o conjunto de movimentos culturais, escolas e estilos que permearam as artes e o design da primeira metade do século XX. Apesar de ser possível encontrar pontos de convergência entre os vários movimentos, eles em geral se diferenciam e até mesmo se antagonizam.
Encaixam-se nesta classificação a literatura, a arquitetura, design, pintura, escultura e a música modernas.
O movimento moderno baseou-se na idéia de que as formas "tradicionais" das artes plásticas, literatura, design, organização social e da vida cotidiana tornaram-se ultrapassados, e que fazia-se fundamental deixá-los de lado e criar no lugar uma nova cultura. Esta constatação apoiou a idéia de re-examinar cada aspecto da existência, do comércio à filosofia, com o objetivo de achar o que seriam as "marcas antigas" e substituí-las por novas formas, e possivelmente melhores, de se chegar ao "progresso". Em essência, o movimento moderno argumentava que as novas realidades do século XX eram permanentes e iminentes, e que as pessoas deveriam se adaptar as suas visões-de-mundo a fim de aceitar que o que era novo era também bom e belo.
A Semana de Arte Moderna foi um marco para o movimento modernista e ocorreu em São Paulo no ano de 1922 no período entre 11 e 18 de fevereiro no Teatro Municipal da cidade. Durante os sete dias ocorreu uma exposição modernista no Teatro e nas noites dos dias 13, 15 de fevereiro e 17 ocorreram apresentações de poesia, música e palestras sobre a modernidade.
Representou uma verdadeira renovação da linguagem, na busca de experimentação, na liberdade criadora e na ruptura com o passado. O evento marcou época ao apresentar novas idéias e conceitos artísticos. A nova poesia através da declamação. A nova música por meio de concertos. A nova arte plástica exibida em telas, esculturas e maquetes de arquitetura. O adjetivo "novo", marcando todas estas manifestações, propunha algo a ser recebido com curiosidade ou interesse.
Participaram da Semana nomes consagrados do Modernismo brasileiro, como Mário e Oswald de Andrade, Víctor Brecheret, Anita Malfatti, Menotti Del Pichia.

A nossa obra é o "Sono" de Tarsila do Amaral e está relacionado com a fase antropológica da artista, fase onde a mesma rompe sua relação com o mundo real usando cores teluricas, unindo o fantástico com o primitivista que se deformam e se confundem com o sono.
Nossa obra usa desses elementos como base, as cores teluricas como o vermelho e o verdo, são nossos elementos principais.


fonte: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernismo

Componentes:
Gabriela nº 13
Karoline nº 22
Lucas nº26
Maristella nº 28
Tais nº 43

Bon Jovi

Full name: John Bongiovi Frank, jr.

Date of birth: March 2, 1962.

Hobbies: Buying and collecting classic cars.

Favorite Food: Big Mac's.

Favorite Drink: "Muff Dive," invented by the same.

His mother, a former miss, adentrarle tries in the music world, but the issue was not attracted to several years later, after attending some concerts.
He began singing at age 15. His first concerts were just festivals in New Jersey and college dances. Soon he left school and decided to get fully into the world of music.
Start playing in a band rhythm 'n' blues, 'Atlantic City Expressway', known in the musical environment of New Jersey. You know Dave Bryan, who will collaborate on projects after wider.
A few years later, Jon came in the group 'The Rest', but problems with the head of the group make it stop soon.
Then decided to go to New York to work around known recording studios. Here you can see to save the greatest artists of the moment and learn from them. Get record a demo with a song, 'Runaway', after which time it would be a great success.
Along with Dave Bryan creates a group, 'Wild Ones', which turned out to be a failure in his live performance and was not able to obtain the sponsorship of any record.
Thanks to the success of 'Runaway', Polygram was set at Jon and he made a great contract, giving absolute freedom to hire musicians wishing for a new group. Then contacted David Bryan and hired Alen John Such, Tico Torres, as a battery, and as a guitarist Richie Sambora.
The first disc, 'Bon Jovi', was released in 1984 and the first single was precisely 'Runaway', his first hit. They managed a remarkable result in sales, despite being a hard rock band, less accustomed to sell.
The second album,'7800 º Fahrenheit 'had a more discreet and it was not until the third album, "Slippery When Wet', to see the final triumph of the group. With this work got to get to number one on the lists of successes and led a tour of more than a year worldwide.
In 1988 publishes' New Jersey ', a repeat of the formula used in previous disc and they served to repeat with a resounding success.
In 1990 come to light 'Blaze Of Glory', the soundtrack from the movie 'Young Gun', which Jon opted for an Oscar in Hollywood and with which he won the prize for best single of the awards Award.
In 1991, after change of manager, published 'Keep The Faith', a new success for the group, reaching back to be number one and perhaps the best of the group. The pace is a little hardened and lyrics matured.
Thereafter, we have published a compilation record, 'Crossroad', and an album of study, 'These Days'. His latest works have so far been 'Destination Anywhere' and 'Crush'.
In 2002 published a new album entitled 'Bounce'. 12 new compositions, both ballads as topics rockers make use of narrative and music from past successes of the group. Recorded in the group's native state, New Jersey, the highly awaited "Bounce" shows Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora as producers alongside Luke Ebbin, which produced "Crush", which was double platinum album in the USA and sold more than 8 million copies worldwide.

Bibliography: www.cade.com.br
http://orbita.starmedia.com/~mundocio/bonjovi.htm
http://www.musicadirecto.com/musica/artistas/Bon-Jovi/


Group:

Maytê Marques Feiteiro Nº: 30 3ºC
Natana Braga Alves Nº: 33
Rodrigo Meggiolaro Nº: 40
Samanta Cavinati Nº: 41
Yuri Nº: 45

Tarsila do Amaral

Tarsila do Amaral: "Abaporu"

Tarsila do Amaral foi uma modernista: pintou o Brasil, desrespeitou normas clássicas da pintura tradicional e encheu suas telas de cores, muitas cores. Tarsila conseguiu traduzir em cores vibrantes todas as sombras de um país.
País este que, segundo a visão apurada e singular da pintora, também é caipira, interiorano, quase rústico. País que Tarsila, em viagem feita a Minas Gerais, descobriu em pessoas, casas, ruas e aridez. A artista não traz apenas a beleza exemplar brasileira, mas ao contrário, denota suas silhuetas e contornos mais obscuros e, talvez por isso, mais interessantes.
Um modelo clássico do que se fala é sua obra mais conhecida, a pintura Abaporu. Neste quadro, segundo a descrição da própria artista, “há uma figura solitária monstruosa, pés imensos, sentada sobre uma planície verde, o braço dobrado repousando num joelho, a mão sustentando o leve peso da minúscula cabeça. Em frente, um cactus explodindo em uma enorme flor.”
Essa representação é o homem, plantado na terra; é a figura de pés grandes, plantados no chão brasileiro, sugerindo a idéia da terra, do homem nativo, selvagem, antropófago. Como o próprio nome Abaporu indica em tupi-guarani, aba: homem, poru: que come.
Tarsila do Amaral foi a representante do movimento Pau-Brasil que, subdividido nas fases construtivo, exótico e metafísico/onírico, representa o cúmulo da brasilidade, traduzida não somente em seus temas humanos e nacionais, como também nas cores vivas até então rejeitadas por uma academia retrógrada e passadista.
Seus tons, de intensidade e força absurdas, são reminiscências de infância da pintora nascida em Capivari, interior de São Paulo. Desde então, Tarsila adota de forma quase que rebelde e contestadora, cada colorido excessivo para, assim, melhor representar um país-aquarela.
Engana-se, no entanto, quem acredita ser Tarsila do Amaral uma pintora estritamente rural. Não. É ela, isso sim, uma artista brasileira, modernista, bem-humorada, arraigada à nacionalidade brasileira. Pintou telas urbanas como São Paulo (1924) e Morro da favela (1924), retratou figuras humanas como o famoso quadro A Negra (1923) e A caipirinha (1923), registrou o interior brasileiro como em Cartão Postal (1929) e Sol poente (1929) e inaugurou a pintura social em Operários (1933).
Tarsila do Amaral, a modernista brasileira, a brasilidade moderna e colorida.

Bibliografia: http://www.efgarte.com/biografiatarsiladoamaral.htm

Nomes: Adriana de Santana - n°01 3°C

Cinthia Alves - n°05

Kamila L. T. Filareto - n°21

Lucas Barbosa - n°24

Marcos A. Franco Jr. - n°27

John Lennon

John Lennon

Biograpy


John Winston Lennon was born on the evening of 9 October 1940 during the height of Germany's Blitz on Britain. He inherited his mother's reddish-blonde hair and his father's slightly squinted eyes and prominent nose. Both of his parents had musical background and experience, though neither pursued it seriously. John Lennon's childhood years were tinged with tragedy. He lived with his parents in Liverpool until his father Fred Lennon, a merchant seaman, walked out on the family. His mother, Julia, then decided that she was unable to care for John as well as she should and so gave him to her sister, Mimi, who resided nearby at 251 Menlove Avenue. Roles were reversed as the socially class-concious, strict but loving Aunt Mimi became mother to John, while his true mother Julia acted more like a free-willed aunt who visited regularly and spoiled the lad.


Role in the Beatles
John Lennon


As a member of The Beatles, Lennon had a profound influence on rock and roll and in expanding the genre's boundaries during the 1960s. He is widely considered, along with fellow-writing partner Paul McCartney, as one of the most influential singer-songwriter-musicians of the 20th century. Of the two, Lennon is generally viewed as the better lyricist, while McCartney is seen as the more accomplished composer. Though overly simplistic, this view does have some truth as much of the songs credited to Lennon-McCartney, but actually inspired by Lennon himself are more developed, introspective pieces often in the first-person and dealing with more personal issues. Lennon's lyrics are also often the more lyrical, due to his love of word-play, double-meaning and strange words. His most surreal pieces of songwriting, Strawberry Fields Forever and I Am the Walrus are fine example of his unique style. Lennon's partnership in songwriting with McCartney many times involved him in complementing and counterbalancing McCartney's upbeat, positive outlook with the other side of the coin, as one of their songs, Getting Better demonstrates:McCartney: I have to admit it's gettin' better, it's gettin' better all the time.Lennon: It couldn't get much worse!John Lennon often spoke his mind freely. On March 4, 1966, in an interview for the London Evening Standard with Maureen Cleave, he made the following statement:"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now. I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."While the statement is certianly an odd one to make about one of the world's major religions, many view it as taken out of context. It should be noted that, like the other major religions, Christianity has been around for milennia and has shown no hint of decline. Regardless, when read in the proper context of the article, Lennon sounds actually saddened that a rock group such as The Beatles became more important to many people than spirituality. Though the article was unnoticed in the UK, there was a severe backlash by conservative religious groups in the U.S. Radio stations banned the group's recordings, and their albums and other products were burned and destroyed. Spain and the Vatican denounced Lennon's words, and South Africa banned Beatles music from the radio. Lennon seems to have been quite distressed by this row and later admitted that he didn't like having introduced more hate into the world. On August 11, 1966, he held a press conference in Chicago in order to address the growing furor. He told reporters "I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this."The Vatican accepted his apology. He was often misquoted as saying "bigger than Jesus", which led many to believe that he meant that the Beatles were better than Jesus. Whether he thought that (at the time anyway) is not clear, but he certainly did not say that.On November 9, 1966, after their final tour ended and right after he had wrapped up filming a minor role in the film How I Won the War, Lennon visited an art exhibit of Yoko Ono's at the Indica art gallery in London. The Beatle was impressed by Ono's art, most notably a piece consisting of a small word which could only be read with a magnifying glass from a ladder. The word was "yes". "It was positive!" he enthusiastically told Rolling Stone magazine in 1970. Ono and Lennon, both married, immediately made an impression on each other. They occasionally made contact with each other during the period of Sergeant Pepper and the "Summer of Love."Finally in the spring of 1968, after returning disenchanted from a transcendental meditation retreat in India, Lennon began his love affair with Ono, and revealed the fact to his increasingly estranged wife Cynthia. Cynthia Lennon filed for divorce later that year, while Lennon and Ono from then on were inseperable in public and private, as well as during Beatles recording sessions. This new development led to obvious friction with the other members of the group, and heightened the tension during the 1968 White Album sessions.Undue blame has been heavily placed on Ono as the sole cause of the group's fracture, as they were already diverging shortly after the death of their manager, Brian Epstein, in 1967. Lennon's immediate reaction to Epstein's death had been, "The Beatles are finished." What he saw as misguided leadership from McCartney after this seems to have had a lot to do with the fracture between them.At the end of 1968, Lennon and Ono performed as Dirty Mac on the The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus.During his last two years as member of The Beatles, Lennon remained as vocal as ever, spending much of his time with Yoko on public displays speaking out against the Vietnam War, and for peace. He sent back the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) he got from the Queen of England, reportedly "with love", to protest British support of the Vietnam War and their involvement in African affairs. On March 20, 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono were married in Gibraltar, and spent their honeymoon in Amsterdam in a "bed-in" for peace. John and Yoko followed up their honeymoon with another "bed-in" for peace this time held in Montreal. During the second "bed-in" the couple recorded "Give Peace a Chance". They were mainly patronized as a couple of eccentrics by the media, but still were important figures in the anti-war movement. Shortly after, John changed his middle name from Winston to Ono to show his "oneness" with Yoko. Lennon wrote "The Ballad of John and Yoko" about his marriage and the press's take on it all.
They were mainly patronized as a couple of eccentrics by the media, yet they did a great deal for the peace movement, as well as for other pet causes, such as women's liberation and racial harmony. As with the "Bed-In" campaign, Lennon and Ono usually advocated their causes with whimsical demonstrations, such as Bagism, first introduced during a Vienna press conference. Shortly after, Lennon changed his middle name from Winston to Ono to show his "oneness" with his new wife. Lennon wrote "The Ballad of John and Yoko" about his marriage and the subsequent press it generated.After both being injured in the summer of 1969 in a car accident in Scotland, Lennon arranged for Yoko to be constantly with him in the studio as he recorded his last album with The Beatles, Abbey Road. A full-sized bed was rolled into the studio so that Lennon would not be separated from Ono. Abbey Road was the last polished, united effort by the group, and after its release in the autumn of 1969, it seemed the four members had made a peaceful parting of ways. But the release of the rough, and over-orchestrated "Let It Be" album in May, 1970 had acrimonious results. While the group managed to hang together to produce it, soon thereafter business issues related to Apple Corps came between them.The failed Get Back/Let It Be recording/filming sessions did nothing to improve relations within the band. Lennon decided to quit the Beatles but was talked out of saying anything publically. Phil Spector's involvement in trying to revive the Let It Be material then drove a further wedge between Lennon (who supported Spector) and McCartney (who opposed him.). Though the split would only become legally final some time later, Lennon and McCartney's partnership had come to a bitter and definite end.McCartney soon made a press announcement, declaring he had quit the Beatles, and promoting his new solo record.

Solo career

Of the four former Beatles, Lennon had perhaps the most varied recording career, often reflecting the vicissitudes of his personality. While he was still a Beatle, Lennon and Ono recorded three albums of experimental and difficult electronic music, Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins, Unfinished Music No. 2: Life With The Lions, and Wedding Album. His first 'solo' album of popular music was Live Peace In Toronto, recorded in 1969 (prior to the breakup of the Beatles) at the Rock 'n' Roll Festival in Toronto with a Plastic Ono Band including Eric Clapton and Klaus Voormann. He also recorded three singles in his initial solo phase, the anti-war anthem Give Peace a Chance, "Cold Turkey" (about his struggles with heroin) and "Instant Karma!".Following the Beatles' split in 1970, he released the Plastic Ono Band album, a raw, honest record, heavily influenced by Arthur Janov's Primal therapy, which Lennon had undergone previously. This was followed by Imagine, his most successful solo album, which dealt with some of the same themes. The title track is a lovely song which has become an anthem for world harmony, but Lennon himself was later dismissive of it, claiming he had "sugar coated" his message. Certainly there is irony in Lennon, a prodigious shopper, urging his fans to imagine life with "no possessions." "Imagine" was Lennon's most memorable song, a song that still inspires generations of peace builders today.Perhaps in reaction, his next album, Sometime In New York City, was loud, raucous, and explicitly political, with songs about prison riots, racial and sexual relations, the British role in the sectarian troubles in Northern Ireland, and his own problems in obtaining a United States Green Card.Throughout his solo career, he appeared on his own albums (as well as those of other artists like Elton John) under such pseudonyms as Dr. Winston O'Boogie, Mel Torrment, and The Reverend Fred Gherkin.Two more albums of personal songs, Mind Games and Walls And Bridges, and one of cover versions of rock and roll songs of his youth, came before 1975 when, following a fourteen-month split from Ono during which he had an extramarital affair with Ono's former secretary May Pang, he retired to concentrate on his family life.The retirement lasted until 1980, when he and Ono produced Double Fantasy, a concept album dealing with their relationship. He also started work on Milk and Honey which he left unfinished. It was some time before Ono could bring herself to complete it.Lennon's son with Cynthia, Julian Lennon, enjoys a notable recording career of his own, as does his son with Yoko, Sean Lennon.

Memorials and tributes
Main article: List of John Lennon tributes


On 14 December 1980, millions of people across the world responded to Ono's request to pause for ten minutes of silence to remember Lennon. Thirty thousand gathered in Liverpool, and the largest group - over 100,000 - converged on New York's Central Park, close to the scene of the shooting.[153]
On January 22, 1981, an Annie Leibovitz photo of Lennon, taken on the day he died, appeared on the cover of the Rolling Stone magazine (Issue #335). In October 2005 it was voted their best ever magazine cover. [154]
Lennon continues to be mourned throughout the world and has been the subject of numerous memorials and tributes, principally New York City's Strawberry Fields[155] — a memorial garden area in Central Park, across the street from the Dakota building. Shortly after his death, Yoko Ono donated $1 million for its maintenance. It has become a gathering place for tributes on Lennon's birthday and on the anniversary of his death, as well as at other times of mourning, such as after the September 11, 2001 attacks and following George Harrison's death in November 2001.
On October 9, 2007, Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, dedicated a new memorial called the Imagine Peace Tower, located on the island of Videy, off the coast of Iceland. Each year, between October 9 and December 8, it will project a vertical beam of light high into the sky.

Most important songs of John Lennon
1. Imagine
2. womam
3. Happy

4. Working
5. Class Hero
6. Give Peace a Chance
7. Power to the people
8. Oh Yoko!

Bibliography: www.wikipedia.com.br
www.johnlennon.it



Group: Adriana de Santana - n° 01 3°C
Cinthia Alves - n° 05
Kamila L. T. Filareto- n° 21
Lucas Barbosa - n° 24
Marcos A. Franco Jr. - n° 27

Di Cavalcanti

Nascido no Rio de Janeiro em 1897, estreou como desenhista no salão das Humoristas em 1916. Após se mudar para São Paulo em 1917, conviveu com Mário e Oswald de Andrade, Tarsila do Amaral, Anita Mafalti e Brecheret. Freqüentou também o ateliê do pintor impressionista alemão George Elpons.

Foi dele a idéia da Semana de Arte Moderna, que aconteceu no Teatro Municipal de 1922. Era uma época de muitas novidades, como o carro, a fotografia e o cinema mudo. Então a vida das pessoas estava mudando muito rápido, mas a poesia e a pintura contivuavam a seguir as antigas regras, em sua maioria francesas.

Di Cavalcanti foi também um intelectual bem informado sobre as vanguardas artísticas de seu tempo. Em 1921, foi convidado a ilustrar o livro "Balada do Cárcere de Reading", de Oscar Wilde, um dos mais renomados escritores da época. Neste mesmo ano se casa com Maria, sua prima em segundo grau.

A semana de 22 foi uma espécie de festival em que modernistas brasileiros mostraram seus trabalhos. Além de expor suas telas, Di Cavalcanti desenhou o programa e os convites da mostra. Em seguida, em 1923, viajou para a Europa para estudar e lá conheceu e conviveu com grandes mestres da pintura, como Picasso, Braque, Matisse e Léger. Di Cavalcanti também teve influências de Paul Gauguin, de Delacroix e dos muralistas mexicanos. O contato que teve com o cubismo de Picasso, o expressionismo e outras correntes artísticas de vanguarda, contribuiu para aumentar sua disposição em quebrar paradigmas e inovar em sua arte, sem perder de vista uma estética que abordava a sensualidade tropical.

Na volta ao Brasil, retratou temas nacionais e populares, como favelas, operários, soldados, marinheiros e festas populares. Também ficou conhecido por seus belos retratos de mulatas, fase em que consagrou a modelo e atriz Marina Montini.

Em 1926, já no Brasil, ingressa no Partido Comunista e continua a fazer ilustrações. Após nova viagem a Paris, faz os painéis de decoração do Teatro João Caetano do Rio de Janeiro. Em 1932, durante a Revolução Constitucionalista, Di Cavalcanti é preso pela primeira vez. Após ser libertado, se casa com Noêmia Mourão, sua segunda esposa.

O pintor recebeu prêmios importantes, como a "Medalha de Ouro" na exposição de Paris (1937) e o título de "Melhor Pintor Brasileiro" na II Bienal de São Paulo (1953), junto com Volpi.

Di Cavalcanti era um artista de muitas habilidades. Além de quadros e ilustrações para revistas, fez desenhos para jóias, tapetes e painéis. Morreu na sua cidade natal em 1976.

Fonte: pt.wikipedia.org

Grupo:
Danilo 07
Ester 09
Gabriela 14
Helder 16

Modernismo

Comentário sobre o trabalho do abajur.

Obra: O lago de Tarsila do Amaral.

Comentário (obra e peça):A peça é uma reprodução de uma maravilhosa tela com o colorido e o tema tão típico de Tarsila.Na obra a pintora abandona a profundidade abstrata de distância e revela uma paisagem estilizada e fantástica tomando concretude sensual e exuberante.

Na peça a iluminação representa a sabedoria em contraste às águas representada na obra, que ilustram a vida.A torre de palitos dá destaque a estrutura que temos em nossas vidas sempre pensando em subir e aumentar suas expectativas, mas ao mesmo tempo, tão frágil quanto uma madeira.Apaisagem da obra tão colorida enfatiza as alegorias da vida, mesmo quando estamos à um passo de afundar nela.

Caroline Soares N°04

Deise Carolina N°08

Igor Mesquita N°18

Natalia Trucolo N°32

Justin Biography

Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981[1]) is an American pop and R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor. He came to fame as one of the lead singers of pop boy band 'N Sync and has won four Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award. In 2002, he released his debut solo album, Justified, which sold over seven million copies worldwide. Timberlake's second solo release, FutureSex/LoveSounds, was released in 2006 with the U.S. number-one hit singles "SexyBack", "My Love", and "What Goes Around... Comes Around". With his first two albums, Timberlake has sold over 15 million albums worldwide. He has started a record label called Tennman Records and a fashion label, William Rast.

Life and music career
Early life

Timberlake was born in Memphis, Tennessee to Randall Timberlake and Lynn (née Bomar). He has British ancestry. His paternal grandfather, Charles L. Timberlake, was a Baptist minister, and Timberlake was raised in the Baptist religion, although he considers himself more "spiritual than religious", though still a Christian. His parents divorced about 1985 and both have remarried; his mother, who now runs an entertainment company called Just-in Time Entertainment, remarried to Paul Harless, a banker, when Justin was aged 5; while his father, a choir director at a Baptist church, has two children, Jonathan and Stephen, from his second marriage to Lisa. A half-sister, Laura Chwieseni, died shortly after birth in 1997 and is mentioned on one of Timberlake's record acknowledgments as "My Angel in Heaven". Timberlake grew up in Millington, a small town just north of Memphis. His first attempts at a singing career saw him singing country music songs on Star Search as "Justin Randall".In 1993, he got a real taste of fame when he joined the ranks of The Mickey Mouse Club. There he met future girlfriend and pop superstar Britney Spears, future tourmate Christina Aguilera, and future bandmate JC Chasez. When the show ended in 1995, Timberlake recruited Chasez to be in a new all-male singing group Lou Pearlman (an Orlando swindler, now indicted on criminal charges of investment fraud) was forming with Chris Kirkpatrick. The group would come to be known as *NSYNC. In 1999 Justin acted as Jason Sharpe in the made-for-TV movie Model Behavior.

1995–2002: 'N Sync

Timberlake was a member of the popular 1990s boy band, 'N Sync, and was considered a teen idol. The group formed in 1995 and started their career 1996 in Germany and hit it big in the States two years later in 1998, eventually releasing the fastest-selling album of all time, No Strings Attached in 2000.In 2002, after the completion of their Celebrity Tour and release of "Girlfriend", the third single from their 2001 album Celebrity, the group decided to take time off, at which point Timberlake began work on his first solo album. The album signaled a transition from his squeaky-clean boy band image to a sexier, more mature look and feel.Looking back at those days concerning the management by Lou Pearlman, Timberlake said 24 September 2006 in an interview with magazine Rolling Stone: "I was being monetarily raped by a Svengali"

2002–2004: Justified and Super Bowl

In August 2002, after months of recording the album, Timberlake performed at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards, where he premiered his first single, "Like I Love You", a sparse dance track produced by The Neptunes. The song reached number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100. Following the single, Timberlake released his debut solo album, Justified, on November 5, 2002. The album was also a success, despite selling considerably less than previous 'N Sync efforts. It debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 album chart, selling 439,000 copies in its first week of release. It eventually went on to sell over three million copies in the U.S. and over seven million copies worldwide. The album also received critical acclaim, thanks to its heavy R&B influence provided by hip-hop producers The Neptunes and Timbaland. It spun off hits throughout late 2002 and 2003, including the top ten singles "Cry Me a River" and "Rock Your Body".Timberlake supported the album by co-headlining the Justified/Stripped Tour with Christina Aguilera in the summer of 2003. By the end of the year, Timberlake recorded a song entitled "I'm Lovin' It". It was used by McDonald's as the theme to their "I'm Lovin' It" campaign. The deal with McDonald's earned Timberlake an estimated $6 million.

2004–2006: Collaborations and acting

Timberlake put his recording career on hold in an attempt to jumpstart his acting career. He had a few minor acting roles during his early music career, including a bit part as a model in the 2000 made-for-television film Model Behavior, and a cameo in the 2001 film On the Line, but was seeking more substantial roles. The first role he took during this time was as a journalist in the thriller Edison Force. He also appeared in the films Alpha Dog, Black Snake Moan, Richard Kelly's Southland Tales, and voiced a young King Arthur in the animated film Shrek the Third, released on May 18, 2007. He also appeared as a young Elton John, in the video for John's song "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore".Timberlake discovered a throat condition. Nodules were subsequently removed from his throat in an operation that took place on May 5, 2005. He was advised not to sing or speak loudly for at least a few months. In the summer of 2005, Timberlake started his own record company, JayTee Records.

2006–present: 'FutureSex/LoveSounds'

Timberlake had a cameo in the video for Nelly Furtado and Timbaland's single "Promiscuous". He released his second solo album, FutureSex/LoveSounds in 2006. The album, which Timberlake created in 2005, debuted in the number one position on the Billboard chart, selling 684,000 copies its first week. It is the biggest album for pre-orders on iTunes, and beat Coldplay's record for the biggest one-week sales of a digital album. A studio representative described it as being "all about sexiness" and aiming for "an adult feel".The album's lead single, "SexyBack", reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, where it remained for seven consecutive weeks. "My Love", the album's second single, reached number one on the Hot 100, as did third single "What Goes Around.../...Comes Around Interlude". In October 2006, Timberlake said that he would focus on his music career rather than his film roles, specifying that leaving the music industry would be a "dumb thing to do at this point". He was the special guest performer at the 2006 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show for being where he sung Sexyback. In January 2007, Timberlake embarked on the FutureSex/LoveShow tour. "SummerLove/Set the Mood Prelude" was the fourth U.S. single off the album, and the next single in the UK was "LoveStoned/I Think She Knows Interlude". The song "Give It to Me", a Timbaland single on which Timberlake guests with Nelly Furtado, reached the Hot 100 number-one spot.

Personal life

Timberlake entered a high-profile celebrity relationship with fellow pop singer Britney Spears, with whom he had worked on the New Mickey Mouse Club. This ended abruptly in March 2002, amidst allegations of Spears' infidelity with choreographer Wade Robson, a mutual friend of Spears and Timberlake. The breakup influenced the lyrics and theme of Timberlake's hit "Cry Me A River", one of the most popular singles from Justified.Timberlake the began dating actress Cameron Diaz soon after they met at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards in April 2003. Regular rumours of break-ups reported in the tabloid press were invariably denied, but in 2007 they really ended their romantic relationship.In January 2007, Timberlake was linked to Jessica Biel when pictures surfaced of the two snowboarding in Park City, Utah during the Sundance Film Festival.

Bibliography: http://www.wikipedia.com/

Caroline Soares nº04

Deise Carolina nº08

Igor Mesquita nº18

Natália Trucolo nº32

Biography 50Cent

More than any type of music from the blues, hip hop is primarily made up of major stories. And that is intended to create and run large trajectories which follows the 50 Cent. He was born Curtis Jackson, 26 years ago, and was created in Southside Jamaica, in Queens, poor neighborhood in New York (USA). He is a man of the streets, fully familiar with its codes and its violence. Forgotten your mother, drogada, with only eight years and then was abandoned by his father, that has to be created by the grandmother. Early began their involvement with drugs and crime, which earned him several passages by imprisonment. However, his life begins to change in 1996, when knows Jam Master Jay, the popular band Run DMC. He gave him a tape with beats and asked her improvisasse rap on top. Impressed with the ability of the boy, took him to his label, the JMJ Records. Despite this first agreement had not given much result, 50 Cent followed his career by the underground hip-hop New York at the same time we fed a street life. He was shot nine times and is involved in numerous confusion. After his association with Eminem, came the overwhelming success. His album "Get Rich or Die Trying" sold more than six million copies in America alone. The single "21 Questions", starring Nate Dogg, has been the most played in the North American radios. The rapper also was the big winner of the American Billboard Awards Radio Network of Urban Music 2003, what happened in Miami, and honors the biggest names of rhythm and blues and hip hop from the United States. The success of the rapper theatrically worldwide and tends to increase, but it is not known to what extent the potential of the artist to engage in large and serious confusion at the same time that it serves as an efficient marketing staff, will have no more serious consequences.

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Modernismo

Modernismo da segunda fase. Olhai os Lírios do Campo é dividido em duas partes de doze capítulos cada. Na primeira parte Eugênio, o personagem principal, vai tendo flashbacks de seu passado enquanto se dirige ao hospital onde está Olívia. Vai lembrando sua infância pobre, quando tinha pena de seu pai e era humilhado na escola por sua condição social, a escola de Medicina .Na faculdade conhece Olívia, que se torna uma grande amiga e com quem tem uma noite de amor no dia do estopim da Revolução de 30. Eugênio conhece a futura esposa, Eunice, num atendimento a uma empregada desta e casa-se com ela apenas para ascender socialmente, sem ter nenhum amor. Preso num casamento sem amor, num emprego de fachada na fábrica do sogro rico e com uma amante a quem não ama, Eugênio reencontra Olívia, que estava numa colônia de italianos. Ela apresenta-lhe Anamaria, sua filha. No presente, ao chegar ao hospital já mais otimista sobre o estado de saúde de Olívia do que na partida, Eugênio recebe a notícia de que ela morreu. A Segunda parte, passada no presente após a morte de Olívia, é no presente e intercalada por partes de algumas das cartas que Olívia escreveu para Eugênio e nunca lhe enviou. Eugênio toma coragem e separa-se da esposa, abandona a amante, vai viver com a filha e volta a clinicar para os pobres. Eugênio vai assim, sempre com a memória de Olívia, mesmo que ela vá desaparecendo aos poucos, redimindo-se e vendo melhor a pobreza de que sempre tinha tanto asco. Mas não sem seus momentos negros, como o caso de Simão e Dora. Dora é a filha de sua amante com um engenheiro fascista e workaholic que dá mais importância ao prédio que está construindo do que a ela. Ela se apaixona por Simão, um jovem e pobre estudante judeu. A união é desaprovada pelos pais e ela acaba morrendo num aborto feito por uma parteira após Eugênio negar-lhes o ato. Mas por todo o tempo Eugênio vai se ligando a uma vida mais simples, a amigos mais simples e verdadeiros como o céptico Dr. Seixas a quem admirava quando criança. A história acaba com ele e Anamaria saindo para passear num ensolarado dia de verão de Porto Alegre.


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Grupo: Brunno nº03; Flávia nº12; Greicielle nº15; Paolla nº34; Renato nº39.

Modernismo no Brasil

O modernismo no Brasil tem como marco simbólico a Semana de Arte Moderna, realizada em São Paulo, no ano de 1922, considerada um divisor de águas na história da cultura brasileira. O evento - organizado por um grupo de intelectuais e artistas por ocasião do Centenário da Independência - declara o rompimento com o tradicionalismo cultural associado às correntes literárias e artísticas anteriores: o parnasianismo, o simbolismo e a arte acadêmica. A defesa de um novo ponto de vista estético e o compromisso com a independência cultural do país fazem do modernismo sinônimo de "estilo novo", diretamente associado à produção realizada sob a influência de 1922. Heitor Villa- Lobos (1887 - 1958) na música; Mário de Andrade (1893 - 1945) e Oswald de Andrade (1890 - 1954), na literatura; Victor Brecheret (1894 - 1955), na escultura; Anita Malfatti (1889 - 1964) e Di Cavalcanti (1897 - 1976), na pintura, são alguns dos participantes da Semana, realçando sua abrangência e heterogeneidade. Os estudiosos tendem a considerar o período de 1922 a 1930, como a fase em que se evidencia um compromisso primeiro dos artistas com a renovação estética, beneficiada pelo contato estreito com as vanguardas européias (cubismo, futurismo, surrealismo etc.). Tal esforço de redefinição da linguagem artística se articula a um forte interesse pelas questões nacionais, que ganham acento destacado a partir da década de 1930, quando os ideais de 1922 se difundem e se normalizam. Ainda que o modernismo no Brasil deva ser pensado a partir de suas expressões múltiplas - no Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Pernambuco etc. - a Semana de Arte Moderna é um fenômeno eminentemente urbano e paulista, conectado ao crescimento de São Paulo na década de 1920, à industrialização, à migração maciça de estrangeiros e à urbanização.
Apesar da força literária do grupo modernista, as artes plásticas estão na base do movimento. O impulso teria vindo da pintura, da atuação de Di Cavalcanti à frente da organização do evento, das esculturas de Brecheret e, sobretudo, da exposição de Anita Malfatti, em 1917. Os trabalhos de Anita desse período (O Homem Amarelo, a Estudante Russa, A Mulher de Cabelos Verdes, A Índia, A Boba, O Japonês etc.) apresentam um compromisso com os ensinamentos da arte moderna: a pincelada livre, a problematização da relação figura/fundo, o trato da luz sem o convencional claro-escuro. A obra de Di Cavalcanti segue outra direção. Autodidata, Di Cavalcanti trabalha como ilustrador e caricaturista. O traço simples e estilizado se tornará a marca de sua linguagem gráfica. A pintura, iniciada em 1917, não apresenta orientação definida. Suas obras revelam certo ecletismo, alternando o tom romântico e "penumbrista" (Boêmios, 1921) com as inspirações em Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973), Georges Braque (1882 - 1963 e Paul Cézanne (1839 - 1906), que o levam à geometrização da forma e à exploração da cor (Samba e Modelo no Ateliê, ambas de 1925). Os contrastes cromáticos e os elementos ornamentais da pintura de Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954), por sua vez, estão na raiz de trabalhos como Mulher e Paisagem (1931). A formação italiana e a experiência francesa marcam as esculturas de Brecheret. Autor da maquete do Monumento às Bandeiras (1920), e de 12 peças expostas na Semana (entre elas, Cabeça de Cristo, Daisy e Torso), Brecheret é o escultor do grupo modernista, comparado aos escultores franceses Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917) e Emile Antoine Bourdelle (1861 - 1929) pelos críticos da época.
Tarsila do Amaral (1886 - 1973) não esteve presente ao evento de 1922, o que não tira o seu lugar de grande expoente do modernismo brasileiro. Associando a experiência francesa - e o aprendizado com André Lhote (1885 - 1962), Albert Gleizes (1881 - 1953) e Fernand Léger (1881 - 1955) - aos temas nacionais, a pintora produz uma obra emblemática das preocupações do grupo modernista. Da pintura francesa, especialmente das "paisagens animadas" de Léger, Tarsila retira a imagem da máquina como ícone da sociedade industrial e moderna. As engrenagens produzem efeito estético preciso, fornecendo uma linguagem aos trabalhos: seus contornos, cores e planos modulados introduzem movimento às telas, como em E.F.C.B. (1924) e A Gare (1925). A essa primeira fase "pau-brasil", caracterizada pelas paisagens nativas e figurações líricas, segue-se um curto período antropofágico, 1927-1929, que eclode com Abaporu (1928). A redução de cores e de elementos, as imagens oníricas e a atmosfera surrealista (por exemplo, Urutu, O Touro e O Sono, de 1928) marcam os traços essenciais desse momento. A viagem à URSS, em 1931, está na origem de uma guinada social na obra de Tarsila (Operários, 1933), que coincide com a inflexão nacionalista do período, exemplarmente representada por Candido Portinari (1903 - 1962). Portinari pode ser tomado como expressão típica do modernismo de 1930. À pesquisa de temas nacionais e ao forte acento social e político dos trabalhos associam-se o cubismo de Picasso, o muralismo mexicano e a Escola de Paris (entre outros, Mestiço, 1934, Mulher com Criança, 1938 e O Lavrador de Café, 1939). Lasar Segall (1891 - 1957), formado no léxico expressionista alemão, aproxima-se dos modernistas em 1923, quando se instala no país. Parte de sua obra, ampla e diversificada, registra a paisagem e as figuras locais em sintonia com as preocupações modernistas (Mulato 1, 1924, O Bebedouro e Bananal, 1927).
Ainda que o termo modernismo remeta diretamente à produção realizada sob a égide de 1922 - na qual se incluem também os nomes de Vicente do Rego Monteiro (1899 - 1970), Antonio Gomide (1895 - 1967), John Graz (1891 - 1980) e Zina Aita (1900 - 1967) - a produção moderna no país deve ser pensada em chave ampliada, incluindo obras anteriores à década de 1920 - as de Eliseu Visconti (1866 - 1944) e Castagneto (1851 - 1900), por exemplo -, e pesquisas que passaram ao largo da Semana de Arte Moderna, como as dos artistas ligados ao Grupo Santa Helena (Francisco Rebolo (1902 - 1980), Alfredo Volpi (1896 - 1988), Clóvis Graciano (1907 - 1988) etc.).

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Mayara 29
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A Semana de Arte Moderna

A Semana de Arte moderna, evento de 1922 que representa uma renovação de linguagem, a busca de experimentação, a liberdade criadora e a ruptura com o passado.
Oficialmente, o movimento modernista irrompe, no Brasil, com a Semana de Arte Moderna que, em de três festivais realizados no Teatro Municipal de São Paulo, apresenta as novas idéias artísticas. A nova poesia através da declamação. A nova música por meio de concertos. A nova arte plástica exibida em telas, esculturas e maquetes de arquitetura. O adjetivo "novo", marcando todas estas manifestações, propunha algo a ser recebido com curiosidade ou interesse.
Não foi assim. Na principal noite da semana, a segunda, enquanto Menotti Del Picchia expunha as linhas e objetivos do movimento e Mário de Andrade recitava sua Paulicéia desvairada, inclusive a Ode ao burguês, a vaia era tão grande que não se ouvia, do palco, o que Paulo Prado gritava da primeira fila da platéia. O mesmo aconteceu com Os sapos, de Manuel Bandeira, que criticava o parnasianismo. Sob um coro de relinchos e miados, gente latindo como cachorro ou cantando como galo, Sérgio Milliet nem conseguiu falar. Oswald de Andrade debochou do fato, afirmando que, naquela ocasião, revelaram-se "algumas vocações de terra-nova e galinha d'angola muito aproveitáveis".
A semana era o ápice, ruidoso e espetacular, de uma não menos ruidosa e provocativa tomada de posição de jovens intelectuais paulistas contra as práticas artísticas dominantes no país. Práticas que, embora aceitas e mantidas, mostravam-se esgotadas para expressar o tempo de mudanças em que viviam. A fala de Menotti del Picchia, afirmando que a estética do grupo era de reação e, como tal, guerreira, não deixava margem à dúvidas: "Queremos luz, ar, ventiladores, aeroplanos, reivindicações obreiras, idealismos, motores, chaminés de fábricas, sangue, velocidade, sonho em nossa arte. Que o rufo de um automóvel, nos trilhos de dois versos, espante da poesia o último deus homérico, que ficou anacronicamente a dormir e a sonhar, na era do jazz band e do cinema, com a flauta dos pastores da Arcádia e os seios divinos de Helena".

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Nomes: Maytê Marques (30) Natana Braga(33), Rodrigo Meggiolaro(40), Samanta Cavinati(41) e Yuri Habermann(45)

Biography of Mamonas Assassinas

We were in the year of 1995 and already it made a good time that the Rock was not more the sensation of the moment. But five youngsters would come to change the musical scene of the time. In a meteoric career, never a band made as much success in so little time. The Mamonas Assassinas had been responsible for one of the biggest record sales in Brazil. In a short space of time they venderam 1 million of copies more than and had reached a thundering success. Before the fame, Julio Rasec, Blessed Hinoto and the brothers Samuel Reoli and Sergio Reoli, they formed in Guarulhos - SP, a band called Utopia specialized in covers Rush and Urban Legion. During a presentation in a gymnasium of the city the public asked for so that they made to cover of the band Guns N'Roses. As none of them wise person the letter, had called somebody the auditorium to go up to palco and to sing. A youngster who took care of for Dinho if presented, but it also not wise person the letter of music. He took the public to the outbursts of laughter with the palhaçadas ones that he made, with this finished being invited to be part of the band. The Utopia started to make periodic presentations for the city of São Paulo. They had participated of regional televising programs and they had arrived until recording a record that did not vendeu more than one hundred copies. The Utopia if characterized for the seriousness of its musics, but as they had not obtained to reach the waited success had decided to invest in a radical change. It was not a difficult task, therefore all already had for nature a joking spirit and also already they had written diverse musics with funny letters to play with friends and relatives. The first step was to modify the name of the band. Between options as the Cangaceiros Of Your Father, Coraçõezinhos Pressed, an Inspector of Red Zé and Tangas, had finished choosing Mamonas Assassinas, there fore according to vocalista it was the name that more made them to laugh. Who is deceived thinks that the name was inspired in those green and espinhentas celebrities frutinhas. In the truth the name meant seios great as it can be identified in the name in English who had created for the band: The Killer Big Breasts. They had recorded a ribbon demon and they had sent for diverse recorders. Of beginning all, but Rafael had been rejected by To sound, friend of the band, baterista of the group Cosmic Dribble, were son of the artistic director of EMI-Odeon, August João To sound, and were through it that João knew the sound of the Mamonas and decided to invest in that irreverent group. They had signed contract and in April of 95 they had launched the first and only auto-intitled record, where piadinhas was enclosed of musics until gratefulness in encarte. With the work of an assessor of the press contracted for the entrepreneur of the group (and practically the sixth Mamona) Rick Bonadio, they had made its first appearance for Brazil in the program Jô Soares Eleven and Half one. From the success it was inevitable there. The record started to vender as water due to the success of the band "Vira-Vira", a music that counts the sexual adventures of a Portuguese couple in a parody of the singer, also Portuguese, Loyal Robert. This was first music to blow up, but it did not delay very so that all the bands of the record were in the mouth of all. "Bare in Saints", "Chopis Centis", "Animal World", "Robocop Gay", "Saturday of Sun", among others were executed the exhaustion in the radios of all Brazil. In diverse Dinho musics it made perfect imitations of famous Brazilian singers, as Belchior na band "a Arlinda Woman". They were in average five shows per week, were in the layers of the magazines most important of Brazil and the presentations in television programs if they had become frequent. Clearly that the critical musical comedy was horrified with the success of a band as the Mamonas Assassinas. Ridicule and clowns of music were tachados of, but the public was not there nor. With a noise pop/rock that in some songs they mixed diverse elements of other musical styles, passed of hard rock to heavy metal without difficulties. Creative arrangements, escrachadas and amused letters had conquered young, adults, aged and children. But a fatídico accident would come to interrupt the career of the young of Guarulhos. In 2 of March of 1996 the band came back of its last presentation in the country, in Brasilia, of where they would leave for one turnê in Portugal, when the Learjet airplane where they travelled if shocked with the Mountain range of the Cantareira in São Paulo. This event shocked Brazil. As much sadness in the country of this was not seen almost the death of pilot Ayrton Senna two years behind. Millions of people had folloied everything for the TV, since the rescue of the bodies until the burial in the city of Guarulhos. In the velório they had been thousand of people if espremendo to give the last good bye that if they had become ídolos national. After this the Mamonas they had launched dolls, books, CD-ROM, album of figurinhas and an unknown coletânea with versions to the living creature of some musics and bands. The Titãs had arrived to record to cover Ten More of music "Bare in Saints" in the album "". Until today critical studious musical comedies and of the society if they ask as it was that a Assassinas group as the Mamonas reached as much success between all the etárias and social bands of our population. All look an explanation for the thundering fame that the group reached. It would be the musical style? They would be the letters of musics? It would be the irreverência of its integrant ones? He will be that the people was needing joy? She will be that they were only one fashion passenger? But they had become a myth due to the accident that interrupted its lives drastically?


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Grupo: Brunno nº03; Flávia nº12; Greicielle nº15; Paolla nº34 e Renato nº39.

Alex Kapranos (Franz Ferdinand)
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Alex Kapranos (born Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley, March 20, 1972 in Almondsbury, Gloucestershire), is a British musician of Greek descent. He is the lead singer and guitarist of the Glasgow band Franz Ferdinand.

Early life
Kapranos is the son of a Greek father who had been adopted by a British family named "Huntley". He had lived in Greece until he was two, when his mother decided the heat was unbearable. The family moved to the north-east of England. Such switch in climate caused Alex to become asthmatic.
As a child, Alex found himself to be useless at football. Alex was never a physical child, his grandma described him as “A weedy child who disliked sports”. However, Alex developed a strong interest in music. His grandma recalls, “He was always into his music and always fancied playing the guitar and had piano lessons when he was a child. His dad was always quite musical as well”
Alex worked in every detestable job that he could find, despite liking the delivery boy job for Mother India’s café. He got a free meal, which left him with a chilli habit.
The big problem with these dead end jobs was not so much the poor pay as how it curtailed his involvement in Glasgow’s thriving underground music scene. He began working as a promoter for the downmarket 13th Note Club. Alex ran two club nights per week: The Kazoo Club and the 99p Club. The latter was named such because, Alex would charge a pound per person as an entrance fee. He recalls “The idea was the bands would come down for a bit of beer and people wouldn’t have to pay and we’d give ‘em amps and stuff to play with… It was a good scene”.

Music Before Franz Ferdinand
Alex was now a talented musician, teaching himself how to play the Guitar and the Bass, joined in with many bands at the 13th Note. He played with groups such as the 10p Invaders and the Amphetameanies. He appeared on Glasgow group Quin
He formed his first band in 1996 as the lead singer, going under the name Alex Huntley. The band were named The Blisters but renamed themselves as The Karelia, they released their only album, Divorce at High Noon in 1997.
Other members of the group included Franz Ferdinand tour manager Glen Thomson, the project collapsed as their label Roadrunner Records. Alex then joined the ‘’Yummy Fur’’, named after the Canadian comic strip, in 1998.
The Yummy Fur were already a well established Glaswegian cult band before Alex had joined, he once again used the adopted name of Huntley. The band were described as ‘pop-punk groovy din’ by Twee Kitten.com and compared to The Fall by the NME[2]. He is also known to have contributed to Urusei Yatsura and Lungleg recordings.

Franz Ferdinand
Sometime around the end of 2001, Bob Hardy was sitting in Alex's kitchen in Glasgow. Alex had just been given a bass by his friend Mick, on the condition that he did 'something useful' with it. So he asked Bob if he'd like to learn how to play it. "Do you want to learn to play the bass then, Bob?", to which he replied, "No, I'm an artist, not a musician." Alex responded, saying, "It's the same thing", which eventually led to them play music together.
This led to the band Franz Ferdinand being formed.
The band comprises Kapranos, Nick McCarthy (guitar, keyboard, backup vocals), Paul Thomson (drums, backup vocals, sometimes guitar) and Bob Hardy (bass). Eight singles, two albums and an EP have charted in the United Kingdom to date, and their eponymous debut album won the 2004 Mercury Music Prize, two BRIT Awards, an Breakthrough Video MTV Award and an Ivor Novello Award

Writing
In September 2005, Kapranos began Soundbites[1], a weekly food column for G2 in the Guardian newspaper, which detailed his culinary adventures as Franz Ferdinand traversed the globe on their world tour. Sound Bites, a book of the column and unreleased material illustrated by Andy Knowles was released in 2006.
Sound Bites: Eating on Tour with Franz Ferdinand was read by Alex Kapranos on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week 4-8 December 2006, described as "his account about what he ate while touring the world."

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