American modernism

them. They enter where the young woman laid in pain and he realize this was some much bigger than he expect. The young mother was in labor two days prior to doctor 's arrival. He was unprepared and had to perform an emergency c-section on the Native American woman using a finishing knife with no anesthetic. After the baby was born the doctor notice that the father of the child cut his throat from ear to ear, laying in a pool of blood. After leaving the camp Nick and his father set out on the…

The piece shows a bouquet of flowers, sitting on a table, in, what seems like, an empty room. Alfred Maurer, also an American artist born in the late 1860s, created Still Life with Flowers also in 1915 using oil on card. His piece, like Glackens, shows a bouquet of flowers in a vase, sitting on a table, in, what seems like, an empty room. Both Glackens and Maurer accommodate…

quickly as Pop Art. “Pop Art was inspired by mass consumerism and popular culture. Its roots can be traced back to the late fifties, but it wasn’t until the following decade that it achieved the status of a design style (“Raimes”).” It rejected Modernism, and openly questioned the precepts of good design. Pop Art is popularly recognized by its bright, flashy, and bold colors. The designers in this genre were looking to bring ironic and critical response to mass media. Humor was added to design,…

traveler within their story, because they are Americans who have found themselves part of the Paris scene. Compared to most of those that are mentioned earlier in this paper, both Stein and Toklas have found a place where the traveler has a more permanent place. Compared to where they originally come from. Both Stein and Toklas are travelers who are certainly not tourist because they have found a permanent place in society. They instead become American exiles who inspire others to become…

These many folk structures are the soil, natural. Though often slight, their virtue is intimately related to environment and the heart-life of people” (Frank Lloyd Wright). Sheeler used his photography to combine the new American Machine Age’s with its roots. Sheeler’s paintings do not feel outdated fifty years later. Their lack of a personal signature or human figure keep them relevant. At first glance, Sheeler’s works are angler and cold, but these forms capture the beauty…

The final time period is the Modern or Contemporary Era, which to some began right after Queen Victoria died in 1901, right before the start of the First World War, but Most view the beginning of Modernism as the start of World War I. A major characteristic of the Modern Era is revolution and chaos. Key players of the Modern Era are W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Earnest Hemingway. Love in the Modern Era was expressed through history and mythology much like…

The appearance of forms that for decades were forbidden: pediments and arches, towers and domes, appear again during the postmodernism era. As Christian Norberg-Schulz stated, “Aren’t they just the manifestation of superficial nostalgia?”.1 Postmodernism came as a protest against the sterile emptiness of ‘late modern’ architecture, which lacks the satisfactory reference to everyday world of things. Modern architecture was always abstract and drew away from reality. It became non-figurative, as…

work, Pynchon uses two main characters to represent the diversity of the world in terms of closed systems, while pointing out the ironic flaws of the consumerist at the same time. By purposely leaving gaps in his story, Pynchon disputes the idea of modernism and shows his readers the benefits of silencing his own influence, allowing them to create their own. Therefore, through close analysis of Pynchon’s short story “Entropy,” postmodern texts can be easily categorized as open systems full of…

“The Painter” By John Ashbrey Introduction: The painter, by Ashbery sheds light on art in general and imitative art in particular, and touched some modern movements such as imagism, which depended on concrete images instead of poetic diction, so many critical views have been presented to interpret this piece of art. Ashbery endeavors to depict the beautiful vision of artist’s mind by focusing on the proclamation “as is painting, so is verse". Through verse he commends and praises the…

was literally in another country, which I believe is the main purpose of the exhibition. The exhibition felt and look so real, it literally made me appreciate and acknowledge the Japanese culture. Another of my favorite section was the Mexican Modernism 1910-1950. This section included paintings and small statues that were displayed against the wall. The small statues were inside a clear glass stand for protection. There was one statue that grabs my attention the statue of a “Mother with a…