A Modern Instance

Graceshous Shearon For me, when things stopped being considered as art, is pretty much sprinkled throughout most of America’s art history and it is sadly at the end of European’s art history. So, for both America and Europe there was not a long period where things did not seem like art. For America, it was more a sprinkling of finding a sort of identity through the wreckage and for Europe it was more for a rebellion and change of heart after the war. I do not think it ever stopped not being art…

What distinguishes the power of a click versus the power of a stroke? In “What is Cinema” by André Bazin, Bazin examines the role of photography in this history of art. With the introduction of photography, painting and illustration were regarded as inferior art forms to replicate the world. Bazin argues that there is no way for a handmade visual art to produce the same realistic encounter as a photograph (8). In addition, Bazin elaborated on the ability of photographs to “transfer(s) reality…

Misty Copeland and Her Extraordinary Story “Finding ballet was like finding a missing piece of myself.” This quote explains how ballet helped Misty Copeland find who she really is and what her passion in life is. Misty Copeland is an important and influential figure in history that had a positive impact on the world because she inspires other dancers to believe in themselves and not to let your race or your figure effect that. Misty Copeland was born on September 10, 1982 in Kansas, Missouri…

With the technique and experience he learned from Horton Alvin Ailey developed his own dance company, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, in 1958 and it included 8 Black dancers. In his modern style dances Ailey incorporates lively feelings and situations that people go through. Although his style was modern he never strictly choreographed his…

Kodak Time to change…. George Eastman decides to take the photography world to a new level when the frustration of dealing with the mess and weight of the wet plates. By 1879 he has patent an emulsion-coating which can mass produce dry plates. This leads to the creation of the company, The Eastman Dry Plate Company. In 1884 the join of Strong leads to the company taking on 14 shareholders, and Eastman introduces Negative Paper. Kodak becomes a house hold name when it is registered in 1888…

authentic motives for making art. A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality is one of the most important documents in the history of modern art. It explains Kandinsky’s own theory of painting and crystallizes the great ideas that were influencing many other modern artists. Kandinsky’s words were written in the period between the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the consumer society, ring with remarkable poignancy today. Kandinsky’s ideas…

While parts of architecture in the 1950s were reflective of the Cold War conformity, art was an opportunity for people to embrace their individual expression and rebel against the overwhelming pressures to attune to a simplistic lifestyle in response to the government's fear of communism. One of the major movements of this decade was known as Abstract Expressionism. This art style was non-objective and represented no actual objects, rather the artist represents there thoughts through color and…

In the 1920’s there was an art movement that changed the way art was defined, this was known as the surrealist art movement. Surrealism originated in the late 1910s and early 20s as a literary movement that experimented with a new form of expression called automatic writing or automatism. In Paris in 1924 the publication of the manifesto of surrealism by poet, Andre Breton made surrealism an international and political movement. Many artists and poets such as Louis Aragon (1897–1982), Paul…

history. It is the in efforts of the people that orchestrate the course of events that will eventually shape not only our modern world, but the course of human history. But why is that, throughout history, certain societies were able to dominate the historical stage, and other societies cannot help but go extinct? For example, Europe and China both had a “Golden Age”, but in the modern world, Europe becomes the “sole power”, and China lives in just a corner of the world. Same mankind, but why…

crossword from finishing the puzzle in his own residence. In many ways though they do not because they also want to live their live in the glow that Baudelaire saw in the renovations of Paris. Present day people want to also live in the progress of the modern world. In these cities it goes beyond the changing in social interaction. Berman wrote that in Paris, “the Napoleon-Haussmann boulevards created new bases-economic, social, aesthetic-for bringing enormous numbers of people together.” Yes,…