Himillsy In The Monkeys

"Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs." (Pablo Picasso, 1870) When one looks at a piece that they believe to be art, they stare, they admire, they criticize and then they move on to the next piece. Not everyone will say that the same thing is art, just like not all people believe rap is actual music. Art is what you make of it; it's what's inside ones soul. Himillsy, in The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd, followed her own soul in everything including art, and taking anyone she felt worthy enough along for the ride. Himillsy Dodd takes art because she can. She drops the classes the teacher is ‘too hard' or
The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs." (Leonardo da Vinci, 1515) While most believe da Vinci was one of the greatest painters of all time, one of his quotes needs fixing in a good painter. What is a good painter, Leonardo? While one person may believe Picasso is fantastic, another may believe his work is complete crap. Is he still a good painter? Himillsy would say no, but Himillsy always says no just to be different and stand out. Chip Kidd's novel alone is a work of art, not in just the words he cunningly put together, but in the appearance of the novel itself. The binding contains the words ‘Good is Dead' and ‘Do You See?' when one bends the books pages back and forth. The cover itself is art. It contains no words, just drawings to depict the title of the book, The Cheese Monkeys. Once the first few pages of Kidd's novel are opened, there are things backwards, things said sarcastically, things that make someone think for once. Even without reading the blurb for the book, it intrigues one to pick it up just by its look; that is what art
It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine." (Magdalena Abakanowicz) To imagine, one must be able to picture things. To picture things one must know what the basis of the image looks like. To know this there must be a work of art like a painting, drawing, or a sculpture. If art was not there, there would be no imaginations, no writers, and no history for our nation. The pictures in the history books are what are the most touching and most memorable, like photographs from the Great Depression, any of the wars, and what the countryside used to look like. Art, Himillsy would not think this was art because it is ‘normal', is what makes us remember, it is what makes our