Avant-garde

According to Kandinsky’s book Concerning the Spiritual in Art written in 1912, “music and art are the first and most sensitive spheres in which this spiritual revolution makes itself felt.” (Kandinsky, part 1, Section 3) Kandinsky correlates specific colors with definite emotions, such as blue, a heavenly color, while black is the color of grief that is hardly human (Fineberg, 94). Kandinsky links color and music in his book by saying, “Generally speaking, color is a power which directly…

In visual Artwork an important component is the usage of colors. Color usage in visual art can either portray meaning in a piece, provide an emotion from the piece, display the piece’s subject in particular detail, allow for strategy in the pattern on how someone may look at the piece, provide an interesting perspective of the subject, and as well certain colors may just be used because the artist does not have access to other colors in their medium on or available to them or for that medium.…

Art during the 1800s represented reality and detail. Artists were concerned with the fine finishing and details of the subjects they painted. Salons had conservative juries who screened and approved artwork that could be displayed for the public. In Paris, artists like Édouard Manet and Claude Monet would begin to challenge the status quo of art during the1860s. They influenced art in a movement that would be called impressionism. Impressionist wanted to capture the changes in the…

violent horrors of WWII many, European artists escaped to the states, where they continued to work. This included, Anni and Joseph Albers, Mondrian, Andre Masson, and Max Ernst, while bringing their innovative methods of abstraction. The intrusion of Avant-Garde ideology is believed to be the stepping stone that led to the success of the Abstract Expressionist in New York in the 1940’s-50’s. Artists of the AB-EX movement looked at works by archaic civilizations in search for eternal…

Throughout my educational career I have been to three high schools including this one. Two out of the three were in New York, one was a fashion high school in Manhattan and the other was my zoned school in Queens. Although their education techniques were slightly different, their dress code rules were exactly the same, there wasn't one. Then when I transferred to the amazing town of Flower Mound Texas, I found out that the dress code here is actually enforced and very strict. Whenever I hear…

And her outfit is so radically different from Japanese traditional kimono She has the heavy make-up on: scarlet red lip matches with heavy purple eye shadows and bright blushes. Speaking of gestures, she is holding a very Avant-Garde cell phone. Her slightly open lips suggest that she is questioning something. I can tell her confusions while she is looking somewhere outside the picture while " calling " to someone else. The young's energy, self-awareness and norm-breaking attitude…

“They could could be a straight R&B band; an avant-garde ensemble on the outer peripheries of music; a light melodic pop combo; a haunting wave of noise designed to complement Nico’s occasionally over-strident vocals; or any combination of the above.” They played EPI for several months in New York before…

20th Century Avant Garde is a period in which art was in an unexpected, experimental form that was abnormal compared to art before it’s time. Pablo Picasso, a Spanish painter created Fan, Salt Box, Melon during this time period. Additionally, French painter Georges Braque created, Guitar and Bottle of Marc on a Table during the same time period. Although these two artworks possess numerous similar features because of the time period and style, they have extremely unique differences as well.…

wrote a poem a day, experimenting with many traditional forms of poetry. Cummings studied Latin and Greek at the Cambridge Latin High School, and then went to Harvard University. He first started writing modern poetry at Harvard, where he wrote avant-garde poems that ignored conventional punctuation and syntax. Cummings received his bachelor’s degree in arts in 1915, and he obtained his master’s degree of arts the following year. After his graduation, Cummings worked for a mail-order book…

I am American drummer and composer Gene Jackson. This letter is on behalf of my colleague multi-talented pianist and composer Gabriel Guerrero in support of his visa application. I had been a world renowned successful professional musician for the last 37 years. My career has allowed me to share stage and recordings with the most prominent musicians of the recent era. My broad touring and recording credentials include Oscar Academy Award Winner and 14-time Grammy Award Winner pianist Herbie…