American modernism

Modernism was introduced to western society as a new way to visualize the world in a simple and innovative way. According to Nigel Wheale, “modernity is defined as the social condition brought about by the development of the Western world’s characteristic economic formation” (Wheale 10). This development occurred after the end of the first World War when people were ready for change as poverty was rapidly increasing and new cost effective ways to design were needed. Modernism was the solution to…

himself. The Metamorphosis takes place in an apartment, in an unknown city, and unknown time. We can assume that this takes place in Prague during the 20th century because that was the time he wrote it. During the 20th century, existentialism and modernism was having an influence over writers and artists. Existentialism is a philosophical theory, emphasizing the existence of individuality and having total control…

Marianne Moore. Her poems consisted of linguistic precisions and descriptive wordings throughout her writings. Moore’s poems had a theme of common things that had to do with the American lifestyles. Some examples of the American life include baseball, poetry, and Christmas. Furthermore, Moore writes about the all American sport, baseball. Titled as ‘Baseball and Writing”.…

My first time at the Art Institute went better than I anticipated. My friend went with me and we had a great time. We started off with Folk Art and then went to European Art. We ended up in the Doctrine and Devotion exhibition, and it was really interesting how the religious art from different parts of the world such as, Germany, France, Italy, and Peru were very similar to each other. I thought it was pretty cool how art can be very similar, when it comes to the same themes even if it has to do…

Intro The purpose of this paper is to state the definitions and establish my opinions on the following topics: PCC’s definition of art, the bibliosophy of art, and Dr. Francis Schaeffer’s criteria for art. These topics can useful to not only artists, but for anyone critiquing art. They also can serve as guidelines or standards for an artist when creating a work of art. Art should not be arbitrary as it influences the cultures and societies around us. PCC’s Definition of Art The first…

Merging the Traditional and the Modern Introduction Throughout the history of art, a variety of artists made contributions in expanding the definition of art. Some dedicated their energy in a restrained way as a personal practice, some devoted their energy into fiercely challenging the society’s current aesthetic conventions. The two artists I am going to discuss in this essay are Marcel Duchamp and Gerhard Richter. Even though they lived in different time periods, they are both influential to…

Do Ho Suh “I want to carry my house with me all the time. Like a snail.” (Suh) That’s the kind of whimsical thoughts behind Do-Ho Suh’s art. Suh was raised in Korea and came to America in an attempt to pursue his art career and make a name for himself apart from his father, who was already a successful artist. Upon his arrival in New York though, he found himself missing his home and family. Suh later said, “The experience of leaving home is what made me think and become aware for the…

three poets lived in a time of big changes such as the I World War and many technological processes. They felt stuck in the tradition and while the world was moving faster they created this new literary movement that ended up affecting English and American poetry to escape from the old…

Time has been important both in modern literature and Virginia Woolf’s novels. Writers before her understood time as a linear chain of past, present and future, therefore the structure of such novels would be created out of a chronological succession of events. Literary emphasis on time resurfaced during the Renaissance and from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which led the way to scientific and technological advances, to the twentieth century, the way of interpreting time in…

The Seduction of Yusuf created by Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād. The Seduction of Yusuf is a flat plain painting, with numerous decorative patterns for your eye to follow throughout the image, while the artist try to tell a story with in its context. The artist uses vivid colors, numerous use of geometric shapes in the image itself and has a wide use of multiple patterns for your eye to look at as it moves from one side of the image to another and you’re never being completely being drawn in by the…