User talk:StefaniHijazi

March 2013
Please refrain from making test edits in Wikipedia pages, such as those you made to Talk:Main Page, even if you intend to fix them later. Your edits do not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you.  freshacconci  talk talk  16:50, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Alberto Burri
Hi Stefani,

I took a look at your contributions to Alberto Burri. Looks like a good start, but you're not using the citations quite right. Here's an example of a citation that you added:

Here, you haven't even given the title of the author. Also, compare the URL of this citation to the one above. The citation above has an address at jstor.org, this one has an address of jstor.org.ezproxymfa.flo.org. This is an important difference. ezproxymfa.flo.org is a special server that lets people with access to the MFA's network view JSTOR articles. However, when I (or anyone else not at the MFA) tries to go to that URL I get a message saying: "Museum of Fine Arts EZproxy remote resource access Your borrower status must be verified before you can access this resource." So this URL is not going to work for anyone outside the MFA. You can't just copy the URL from your address bar. You need to do what you did with the citation above - look at the right-hand side of the JSTOR page under the article title and find where it says Article Stable URL. That's the URL to copy to Wikipedia. Also, of course you have to provide additional details such as the article title, journal title, volume and issue, date and page numbers just like you would for any bibliography.

You can see some examples of how to use the citation templates here: Citation templates

Anyway, good start and I look forward to seeing you improve this article some more. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Best, GabrielF (talk) 20:43, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for your feedback. I will work on my citations again tonight

File permission problem with File:GrandeRossoP18Burri.jpg
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File permission problem with File:GrandeSaccoBurri.jpg
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Alberto Burri Edits & Explanation
I choose to edit the page on artist Alberto Burri because he was so influential to the preceding generation of Italian artists who would establish the Arte Povera movement and as an artist myself I too found his work especially inspiring. The original article on Burri was underdeveloped in the brief background information it included and minimal detail on his work and the experimental and innovative methods and materials he used. It also did not relate his work to the Arte Povera movement. I divided the information into sections of Burri’s early life and background, the early and late works of his artistic career including details on his artist techniques and methods, his personal vision, in contrast to the view of critics, followed by the awards and recognition he received and finally his influence on preceding artists of Arte Povera and internationally. To the section “Early life” I contributed to the information on his education, including his specialization in tropical medicine, and then his involvement in World War II and particularly his internment in the prisoner of war camp where he began painting. I focused on the style of his first paintings, in order to compare it with his later styles and to show his evolution as an artist. I also added the image of Burri himself, an example of one of his sacchi compositions, and one of my personal favorites, Grande Rosso P.N. 18, a plastic combustion on Cellotex to exemplify his unconventional processes and materials I describe in detail in the next section I titled “Career”. My cited sources included the articles “Burri Makes a Picture” by Milton Gendel, “Alberto Burri and Niki de Saint Phalle: Relief sculpture and violence in the 1960s” Jo Applin, the reviews of his first major retrospective “Alberto Burri: Form and Matter” in London recently by the New York Times and by the Guardian, as well as the readings from class “Making Art Matter” and “Thrust into the Whirlwind: Italian Art before Arte Fontana”. By referencing sources published during the artists lifetime to articles written as recently as 2012, I intended to provide a thorough perspective and emphasis his significant, lasting influence and importance not only on the Arte Povera movement but also in the contemporary art world.

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