About English classes and Duane Hanson

Well, right now we're studying stereotypes. Two classes ago we started that topic and as exercise we found weird stereotypes about the Brazilians and the French. For example: "People who live on France are stinky" or "Brazilians are uneducated".
Stereotypes are ways of including people in a same group, they can be positive or negative, but one thing is for sure: they are never true. We simply can't define
and over-generalize people like this.

Today, we pursued our epic discussion about the famous stereotypes!
We saw this great guy that makes sculptures about every-day people called Duane Hanson. He was born in Minnesota,USA on January the 17th 1925 and died on January 6th 1996 in Boca Raton, Florida.
He describes the masses, their loneliness, their isolation
and despair, with deeply sorrowful humour.
"The 'people'(sculptures) are so ordinary and living such ordinary lives that are
borderline boring. This aspect is what makes them so incredible.
they are mostly overweight, unattractive, and dirty."
http://www.broward.org/library/bienes/lii08200.htm

I found some sites about Duane Hanson and his work it's worth to check them out.
Here they are:

http://www.broward.org/library/bienes/lii08200.htm (about D. Hanson)
http://www.designboom.com/eng/funclub/duanehanson.html (some pictures about his work)
http://www.psmuseum.org. (other pictures and explanation about Hanson's art)

That's it for today!