Avant-garde

Paul Gauguin was a prominent figure for the French avant-garde. His career was teeming with work that was much different to the previous Impressionists. His Post-Impressionist art showed new explorations of color. These discoveries had vast reviews from art critics– mainly after his passing in May of 1903. Gauguin studied and practiced numerous techniques during his investigations. These studies consisted of Delacroix’s use and application of color, chromo-therapy, Cloisonnism, Seurat’s…

Mundt’s work transcends the specialized limitations subject to contemporary painters, extending in both materiality and environment through the integration of everyday objects as the primary foundation. While the subject matters of the paintings vary from paradisiacal landscapes to female figures, the constant interaction between verticality and horizontality, portrait and landscape, subject and object is coherently recognized throughout. Her work is not only visually idyllic, but also…

Humans, by nature, have the desire to expand their knowledge to extents greater than they can believe. Specifically the desire to create an artificial man has been expressed since the old ages. As technology and thought advances the desire to learn can be put into action, as seen by the character Victor Frankenstein in Frankenstein. Another figure related to Shelley’s Frankenstein, Prometheus from Greek mythology, also expressed his desire to create an artificial man and both characters…

There are distinct images that come to mind when the term biennial is used — sheer number of artworks displayed, intellectual discourse, avant-garde, grand openings and a crowd of visitors that temporarily takes over sites and public spaces that host these biennials. These iconic events which recur at every predetermined number of years render a feeling of happening — a redefinition of the contemporary art scene. But do these images conjured correspond to the reality of biennial events? What…

began to take sail, the artist sat down and answered questions about his art at a special place in the new American art scene. Without any doubt, Pollock's work has invented a new pictorial language not only in America, but also became the newest Avant Garde in the world. When talking about Pollock, the term action painting or drip painting has become the peak of his cereer; however, such success came from a tremendous stylistic development before 1947. The work such as Pasiphae (1943) informed…

and Merchandizing Elsa Schiaparelli: Elsa Schiaparelli was an Italian fashion designer (1890-1973).She is best known for her revolutionary boldness. She is one of the most prominent figures between the Two World Wars. She was best known for her Avant-garde designs and artistic sense of style. Critical Review of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Work: Schiaparelli was an Italian designer, who was immensely renowned in her time, who created fashion pieces as a work of art, whose work is now mostly seen in…

Edward Estlin Cummings: The Master of Art Genealogy and geography, along with numerous other circumstances molded Edward Estlin Cummings into an innovative poet and painter of the modernism movement. The inescapable presence of Harvard, and the desire to live up to his father's legacy as a Unitarian minister, Harvard Graduate , and Professor, played a major role in Cummings’ rebellious attitude towards his father’s traditional world. Cumming’s desire to find his own voice and reject societal…

The History of Rap/Hip-Hop Rapping, also known as rhyming, spitting, and emceeing it is still referred to as rap and hip-hop. But, it seems that nobody ever talks about the story of how rap and hip-hop started. The history of rap and hip-hop was not only the start of a genre but, something new and creative. Rap and Hip-hop has an interesting origin story, has influenced by different genres of music, and created a new movement of freedom of speech. Dating back to the 60s and 70s in the South…

published in the U.S. The book had been banned in the Soviet Union but still won the Nobel Prize for Literature that same year. Boris Pasternak was born in Russia in 1890 and by the time the Russian Revolution broke out he had become a well-known avant-garde poet. His work was frowned upon during the 1920s and 1930s when under the communist regime Joseph Stalin put strict censorship on Russian art and literature. It was during this time that Pasternak made a living as a translator. The novel…

Cultural Frame In 1917, the wealthy male French artist, Marcel Duchamp created the revolutionary masterpiece named Fountain which challenged the meaning of what art is and the necessity of the manual labour required to make art. This masterpiece was influenced by the Dada movement, World War 1 and cubism. The dada movement was a movement which, was launched in 1916 in Zurich, was a direct reaction to the slaughter, propaganda and inanity of World War 1. In 1905, Marcel Duchamp began his…