Avant-garde

The fragmented figure and stark linear structural framework highlights Duchamp's interest in machinery and its connection to the body's movement through space. His work reflects his attraction to avant-garde notions of the artist respect with one of his early heroes, symbolist painter and graphic artist, Odilon Redon. He challenged audiences through his representations of traditional subjects in a surprising manner as he developed his interest for symbolist…

Simply put modernism in a sense, is the resisting of the norm. Artists of the time who strayed away from the norm and used non-conventional techniques were seen as rebels. The use of avant-garde settings, tools, techniques and models, caused a rift in the emerging society, which essentially was the rise of modernism. Artists like Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet all help with the formation of the new world with their new techniques and ideas. Gustave Courbet was what some would look at as a…

John Cage was an incredibly impactful and controversial American composer of the 20th century. He was the forerunner for the avant-garde, significantly developing nonstandard styles of music such as electroacoustic music and aleatoric music (chance-controlled). His musical developments were largely influenced by Indian philosophies like Buddhism, and his internal anarchy was influenced by Henry David Thoreau. This and his works with modern dance, helped to distinguish him as a very pivotal…

The pop art movement beginning in the mid-1950s was one of the biggest modern art movements ever. Pop art is often associated with comics and different vibrant colors. Roy lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, when it comes to both of these artists everyone instantly thinks of Pop Art, it’s the work of this pair that immediately jumps to mind. Both artists are in separate art worlds in their own interesting ways. Pop art is an art movement that emerged in Britain and the United States during the mid to…

for the University of Massachusetts system. If recent graduates found incentive to stay close to where they went to school and build connections within the valley, Holyoke could very well increase its’ population of millenials. There are already avant-garde art museums in dilapidated warehouses, apartments that resemble the dorms of Mount Holyoke, and beautiful parks near the canals. The only issue is that there are few housing and economic options, so the government needs to intervene. If the…

help as a stepping stone for The Beatles in their animated endeavors. They left the cartoon show and instead focused on making a full length animated movie “Yellow Submarine” (Mcgasko, Joe). The way that they changed the music scene itself was avant garde like. They had first album of anybody in the music industry to have only original compositions ("The Beatles."). They also liked to experiment with the actual sound and texture of their music. For example, An Indian sitar would have a key role…

How Chinese Culture is Shaped by Mao Zedong and the Great Leap Forward Through the passage of time, China, one of the four earliest civilizations on earth, has been through many different changes in its 5000 years of recorded history. China started out as numerous nomadic tribes who merged to become the seven small kingdoms that battled each other for the control of China, then Qin Shi Huang united China and imposed a uniform currency, scale and language. 19 dynasties followed Qin, each met…

The value of higher education, in today's society, is almost exclusively judged by the prospect of attaining a job upon graduation. This evaluation, however, is not unbiased, as it does not account for skills, connections, and other benefits that are obtained through higher education. Exemplifying that a college experience is not purely vocational training and cannot be quantified solely on such a restricting basis. "My View: Should Everyone Go to College?" by Mike Rose–a professor at…

This essay convenes the work of two Austrian artists, Gustav Klimt and his former student Egon Schiele. Both twentieth century artists and both independent in their style, their work together embodies common idiosyncrasies. The two share many qualities in their work, especially a kind of anxiety. Although stylistically, Klimt 's work is formally ordered and decorative while Schiele 's work is unforgiving in its brutality. An example that displays this duality in their work and similar…

I have been in school for 15 years, and from a young age I was always interested in art of all mediums. I grew up drawing and practicing all the time. Everyday I drew something in a notebook instead of going outside or playing video games. These early years of my life would be the stepping stones for what I wanted to be when I got older which was an “artist.” At the time I was not sure what I wanted to do specifically, but I knew it had something to do with art. Growing up I had always excelled…