American modernism

Matisse and Picasso’s Bathers Art and artists appear to be consistently striving forward to something new while still looking over their shoulder at what has come before. A clear example of this can be seen in a sequence of paintings from three different artists, each linked in some way with the prior and yet doing something new: Cézanne’s The Large Bathers, Matisse’s Bonheur de Vivre, and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. By examining each piece, I will show how one inspired the next and…

Discovery can encompass a philosophical and cognitive shift towards a new and deeper understanding of ones’ self and the world, this can occur through the results in a change in perceptions. (extending sentence - answer to Q. here) This transformation is examined in Simon Nasht’s 2004 documentary which follows the story of Australian ‘Frank Hurley - The Man Who Made History’ who was one of the last great imperial adventurers, who captured some of the greatest events of the 20th century and…

1. How would you describe the speaker’s work or practice? • Artist Mary Weatherford is one who creates a series of abstracted landscapes that painted on large canvas in combination with a neon light. She frequently uses tints of sapphire, pink and orange, and the neon signs on her paintings. 2. What seems to drive the speaker’s work/practice? • Artist Mary Weatherford believes the combination of colors and neon lights is motion. Since 2012, she created neon art inspired by the city, past, and…

Baotien T. Nguyen English 112 Professor Lin Nulman October 25, 2017 Surrealism Art Thesis statement: Surrealism is not only a form of art but also a cultural movement that was expressed through art, literature, and even politics. Brodskai︠a︡, N V. Surrealism: genesis of a revolution. New York: Parkstone International, 2012. Page 6-9. One thing cannot be doubted: Giorgio De Chirico’s paintings produced such an unforgettable impression that it became one of the most important sources in Surrealism…

to problems of organic form. As a result, those problems have become vastly more complicated than when a literary work as thought to invent its own sufficient language (The Ties That Bind: Race and Sex in Pudd’n Head Wilson by: Myra Johlen Source: American Literary History, Vol. 2, N0. 1, (Spring 1990), pp. 39-55, Published by: Oxford University Press).…

The authors explore the implications of colonialism on the shaping of space within Modernity. Discussing the various influences on Modernity, Penelope Edmonds explores the impact of Indigenous culture and history on colonialism and its impact on the development of the ‘new world’ of Melbourne. Similarly Sibel Bozdogan commends history and culture and its important role in influencing modern architecture. However Bozdogan also expresses the postcolonial criticism of modernity being wrongfully…

The name of the artwork is Art Beauty Shoppe, 1934, by Isaac Soyer and is a 42” x 49” oil on canvas, created in New York City. It is currently exhibited at the Dallas Museum of Art. Soyer discovers meaning and beauty in any place he goes. His goal as an artist was to describe human beings and everything that is around him at that moment in an admirable way. This painter used some of his childhood friends in this art piece, which is the woman in the foreground getting a manicure and the man, in…

Differentiating Musical Exoticism Musical exoticism comes from the influence of non-European elements, often imitating styles from other cultures as a way to differ from the customs of the audience and creators. The motives for exoticism lie on a spectrum, ranging from pure exoticism to transcultural composing. Pure exoticism includes “othering” a subject, labeling them as different from one’s own group (Lecture 5/16). On the other hand, transcultural composing uses both non-western and western…

Three pieces in the ICA’s Transcending Material Exhibition had a recurring motif each embodied a force of contemporaneity which Terry smith outlines as “Globalization…social inequity... (and a)culture (of) image economy” in the case of the infinitely reflected glass decanters (McElheny a commentary on globalized industrial manufacturing or the the two chairs and there functional replica’s challenge to value placed on art objects in a culture questioning the value of authenticity(McMakin)to the…

the choice to write in Swedish was made but what is obvious is that it served as a milestone for a very distinct change in the poetry that she wrote. Many critics now consider her Swedish language poetry to be of the avant-garde movement towards modernism across Europe, her German lyrics however do not show any great separation from the traditional forms and structures of Romantic poetry. Her first 200 poems, approximately, which were written in German held a very strict metre and rhyming…