Avant-garde

August Strindberg’s play ‘Miss Julie’ is a master playwright that has been the basis of critical controversy. Written during summer in 1888, the play was censored entirely in Europe during the late Nineteenth Century. The play was believed to deal with situations that were deemed as socially offensive. As much as the play presents a dramatic method which is characterised by an urge to experiment, the innovation Strindberg sought to cultivate were designed with having a social and moral agenda in…

With art, comes many different variables and interpretation. Subjectivity through art reveals ideas influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions. It may be used as a form of expression, hobbies, comfort or even a cultural ritual. Art can tell stories of the past that are significant to the person and allow people to develop communication skills, a positive self- image and stability with their emotions, without verbally having to tell a story and communicate them to other people.…

The book Persepolis tells the story of young Marjane Satrapi and her experience during the Islamic Revolution. At ten years old, she is very naive and innocent at the beginning of this war, but it soon gives her knowledge on more serious topics of discussion. Marjane Satrapi’s perspective in Persepolis affected her view on religion, her loss of innocents, and her knowledge on social classes. Loss of innocence is something that everybody goes through, but having it occur at ten years old is rare…

He is covered with modern technology from the 1980’s — specifically, there is a robotic arm attached above his right arm. The wires cover his body, with various energy sources and objects fixed to himself. [IB5] The overall impression is very avant-garde, and it is a form of performance art, down to the…

5 Innovative Technologies That Could Replace Car Keys Are the Days of Car Keys Numbered? With the rapid rate the automotive industry is advancing, there is no wonder that avant-garde innovations are gradually replacing older creations, such as car keys. That is right! A few cars already feature replacements to traditional key fobs, so it is a likely possibility that, one day, we may only see keys in museums. If this happens, will the auto locksmith craft become defunct as well? Or maybe adapt…

artists and designers wanted to reject the old methods of art. However; whilst coexisting with these movements, it wasn’t until the 1960s that the modern version of art was widely accepted by the public. Frank Lloyd Wright was known for many of his avant-garde style of designs…

which as I mentioned earlier, I find to be the most important concept of design. Artists like Viktor and Rolf, Iris van Herpen, and Rune Guneriussen are whom I admire and respect as they create sometimes playful, always elegant, and without fail avant-garde, distinct works of art. My future, as I have envisioned it, is comprised of a degree hard earned from CSM, a design career in the industry under a brand with the same vision and passion for the combination of haute couture and conceptual art,…

This is where his art began to take on the style that would make him famous. He discovers Impressionists and Post Impressionists, discussing art with some of the most avant-garde and influential artists of his time – painters like Gauguin, Bernard, and Toulouse-Lautrec. He was using more color, applying the paint with thick, bold brushstrokes, and painted all that surrounded him. Van Gogh arranged to show his work, to positive reviews, but was still unable to sell any pieces. Vincent lived in…

belief in the beauty of highly differentiated execution.” This could lead to the creation of designs that would stimulate international demand for German products, rather than forcing the form upon people to be accepted. The leaders of the avante-garde movement also stressed the expression and necessary creative role of the individual artist; “‘[a]rt for art’s sake ’and ‘pure poetry’ appear, and subject matter or content becomes something to be avoided like a plague.” The poets or artists of…

The Bauhaus school was founded in Weimar by the German architect Walter Gropius in 1919 with a modern agenda that included the unification of the arts and the elimination of the distinction between artist and craftsperson. In an essay on the Bauhaus written in 1923, Gropius acknowledged the sources that shaped the foundation of the Bauhaus school, sources which included William Morris and John Ruskin in England, Henry Van der Velde in Belgium, as well as Peter Behrens and the Deutsche Werkbund…