Avant-garde

“Then came 1980: The year it became obligatory to wear the veil at school” (Satrapi, 3). Marjane Satrapi in the book Persepolis faces many difficulties in life during the Islamic Revolution. She is forced to lose her childhood innocence at a young age, face gender inequality like most if not all women in Iran at the time, and loses her faith in God due to the cruelty in the time of the revolution. At a young age children were separated by gender and the girls were forced to wear veils unlike the…

Modern art can be abstract and alluring, simple and complex, provocative and soothing, but as pointed out in chapter four of Why a Painting Is Like a Pizza: A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Modern Art, some people love to hate it. Hate, as it seems, is not nearly a strong enough appellation to encapsulate the contempt experienced by ordinary people and art critics alike when faced with an original work of modern art. As in the case of Georges Braque’s 1907 oil on canvas Landscape at La…

Pollock, would use a variety of colors and materials. Pollock’s art was not about the end product of the work, but instead more about the process and technique of the piece. Unlike any other artist at the time, Pollock had a specialized and very avant-garde approach to his artworks. Pollock went against all art traditions to create his action paintings. Instead of using an easel Pollock would stand on or next to his paintings, and with large sweeping gestures he would splash the paint onto the…

Intrigued by what it meant to embody an “Other” in the context of the quincentenary of the events that took place in 1492 and led by an honest curiosity of whether racial dynamics had evolved throughout those 500 years, Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña put together “A Couple in a Cage.” The performance depicted them as undiscovered Amerindians from an island in the Gulf of Mexico and made its way throughout the United States and countries such as Spain and England. The experiences of the…

They strated illustrating some of their books and magazines for progressive Soviet writers such as LEF and NOVYI LEF. Then Joseph Stalin came to power & by the middle of the 1930s quashed all forms of free-spirited avant-garde aesthetic & Rodchenko fell out of grace with the Communist Party. Rodchenko's paintings and designs were publicly condemned by the authorities for alleged "formalism." Rodchenko then passed to photojournalism. His photographic images illustrated…

English saxophonist Paul Dunmall has built strong reputation in the European free jazz scene throughout the years. From soliloquies to large ensembles, Dunmall never ceases to surprise through his dashing improvised statements and writing skills. Among his successful past collaborations, saxophonist Elton Dean and drummer Tony Bianco come first in the list, while the improvising quartet Mujician with pianist Keith Tippett, bassist Paul Rogers, and percussionist Tony Levin will be always…

At the age of seventeen my mother’s confession of being sexually assaulted as a child, made the world fall out from under me, and I scrambled for several years to find an to explain the exploitation she suffered. My introduction the avant-garde field of criminology two years later utterly altered my perception of the effects of crime and justice presented me with answers. Curtailing my education and life pursuits to explore the psychosocial effects of victimization. My undergraduate research…

John Cage was an American composer that experimented with the very nature of sound and developed new ways of notating music. Cage’s ideas on composition influenced many artists such as painters, musicians, and chorographers. Cage questioned the musical preconceptions that was left from the 19th century. Arnold Schoenberg, a teacher of John Cage, called Cage “not a composer, but an inventor of genius” (Hicks, 1990). Many musicians, and to much of the public, thought Cage’s compositions…

The “Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge” by Mary Cassatt is a 19th century French painting. Mary Cassatt uses oil on canvas to bring out the rich colors in the painting. The subject in the painting is likely Mary Cassatt’s sister who is having a night out at the Paris Opéra House. Cassatt is portraying the modern woman sitting in an “elite” booth enjoying herself. As you can see from the painting she is able to capture the current moment of her sister during an intermission of the play. You…

Columbus was a count of the crusading ambition of the Restoration age, a parson panhandler, whose diary were astonishing. He sailed west and How he did note vindicate it to the Acclimatize Indies, he did undertaking continents formerly unassimilable to the Europeans. The era to come put in an appearance and zooid succession revolutionized the savoir faire of Europeans, Asians, and Africans. Historians solicit to this encounter as the "Columbian Rotation." The Interchange impacted the aged and…