The era of invention and jazz age Both the era of invention and jazz age had their fair of social changes around the world and the United States, The creative’s response to the rationalist practices and perspectives of new lives and ideas provided by the technogical advances of the industrial age caused society to manifest itself into in new ways compared to the past. Artists such, as Matisse, Kandinsky, and Klee helped show us these new developments in this era. Two of the richest eras during the 20th century would have to be the jazz age and the era of invention. As disccussed in class during the 1920s urbanization continued to accelerate, for the first time more Americans lived in cites than in rural areas. Naturally Americans
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In the online article second sight: Les Demoiselles by Arthur I. Miller we are told that the picture is laid out like a motion picture in five frames. It is well know that this painting helped mark the birth of cubism exactly one century before the painting was created. However it is less known that much of Picasso’s inspiration came from science, technology, and mathematics (Miller 50). In composing Les Demoiselles Picasso employed these revelations. The images resembled nothing we see in the world, but are assembled from body parts seen from different perspectives or as a result of multiple actions caught on a single frame (Miller 50). Picasso’s notion of viewing an object from several perspectives at once grew out his fascination with four-dimensional geometry. In another painting called The Prodigal son by Aaron Douglas helped highlight the jazz age in America. The two dimensional silhouetted figures would become the signature style of Harlem Renaissance art, in which a sense of rhythmic movement and sound is created by abrupt shifts in the direction of line and mass ( Sayre 102). The painting was inspired by the poem of the same name. In
In the online article second sight: Les Demoiselles by Arthur I. Miller we are told that the picture is laid out like a motion picture in five frames. It is well know that this painting helped mark the birth of cubism exactly one century before the painting was created. However it is less known that much of Picasso’s inspiration came from science, technology, and mathematics (Miller 50). In composing Les Demoiselles Picasso employed these revelations. The images resembled nothing we see in the world, but are assembled from body parts seen from different perspectives or as a result of multiple actions caught on a single frame (Miller 50). Picasso’s notion of viewing an object from several perspectives at once grew out his fascination with four-dimensional geometry. In another painting called The Prodigal son by Aaron Douglas helped highlight the jazz age in America. The two dimensional silhouetted figures would become the signature style of Harlem Renaissance art, in which a sense of rhythmic movement and sound is created by abrupt shifts in the direction of line and mass ( Sayre 102). The painting was inspired by the poem of the same name. In