Avant-garde

Do you know how many advertisements the average American child is exposed to in a year? Advertising has been around forever but the advertising to youth has increased greatly. How do Advertisers deliberately target youth? Advertisers deliberately target youth by using specific techniques and placement because youth has great spending power. Advertisers target youth be using specific techniques to hook or catch the consumer's attention. To start off, in The Myth of Choice: How Junk-Food…

Chick Corea Spain 1971 Corea (Rhodes electric piano), Airto Moreira (drums), Flora Purim (vocals and percussion), Stanley Clarke (bass), and Joe Farrell (flute) Jazz is a music style with its origin stemming from the black communities living in the US in the twentieth century. Jazz has musical styles from European music, as well as the brass and stringed instruments. It is a mixture of US and Europe music culture. Like its origin, Jazz-Rock fusion is the epitome of the characteristic of…

Using avant-garde techniques, Nichols sought to focus on a controversial topic, a mother seducing her friend’s son who recently graduated from college. While the historical context of the film does seem to impact the feelings and emotions the characters convey, the…

Marcel Duchamp made a huge impact on twenty-century art. Duchamp shayed away from conventional methods of making art and developed a new type of art called “readymade”. According to the textbook, “His invention in 1913 of the “readymade,” defined by the Surrealist André Breton as “manufactured objects promoted to the dignity of art through the choice of the artist” (Arnason 220). Duchamp stated, “His selection of common “found” objects was guided by complete visual indifference, or “anaesthesia”…

whereas many gifted painters executed numerous sensational works of art that not only shock the world, but also started an aesthetic revolution which represented a landmark in art history. It was headed by Fauvism leader Paul Cézanne, and then avant-garde artist Henri Matisse, as well as the pioneering Cubist Pablo Picasso. In my opinion, Paul Cézanne was the true begetter of modern art and a major influence in inspiring the other two masters to create their epoch-making piece of works, for…

He made his proposition a decade earlier in his Marxist essay titled ‘Avant-Garde and Kitsch’ (1939) in which he argued that the economic profits of easily consumable Kitsch remained a temptation for serious artists and he claimed that ambitious artists and writers who came under the pressure of Kitsch modified their work and…

Everybody with a sibling can tell you that as children there were many fights. Most of the time it would end with some sort of punishment, like being forced to sit it time out or being grounded. Yet we have all seen our parents fight and they never get punished for it. The conflict of parent and child, and many other conflicts, are seen in Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. This graphic novel tells of Satrapi’s tween years, where she lived through the Iranian Revolution and struggled against both…

While the anti-fascist movement initiated by the Popular Front did not directly end the spread of fascism, it achieved its goal in uniting artists for a political cause and set the precedent for the abstract expressionism movement to do the same against communism. Immediately following the Second World War, the United States experienced a major shift away from the progressive New Deal era to a more conservative era. The ideology of social responsibility ushered in by the various reform programs…

Both The Thin Blue Line by Errol Morris and La Jetée by Chris Marker are movies whose diegesis revolves around their respective filmmaker’s unique theories on memory. My argument for this paper is that Morris’ stance on memory paints it out to be a fluid, changing subject and he does so through his use of highly stylized elements of mise-en-scene, sound, and straying from the codes and conventions of documentary-making. Chris Marker, on the other hand, portrays memory as a solid, immobile…

The short extract from ‘Smoke, lilies and Jade’ by Richard Bruce Nugent is from a Bildungsroman play foretelling the plight of Alex - a 19-year-old, black, male facing internal conflicts and confusion in regards to his sexuality. Therefore, taking this context into consideration, the extract naturally issues an underlying, thematic patterning of fragmentation, uncertainty, and tension. From a close reading, these themes spill out through the content, the form, as well as the diction. In more…