Avant-garde

the years 1904-1909, and the love of Scriabin’s piano works showed in Prokofiev’s early piano pieces. He imitated some of Scriabin’s pianistic techniques in his early piano works like the “repeated-note arpeggios” and “wide-ranging bass”. But he soon turned to seek more radical musical language that completely departs from the romanticism, and during the years 1909-1914 he finished his composition classes and began his course to train as a pianist and conductor. It is in this time he gradually…

The Great Depression Two sides of fashion • Poor vs very rich • Economic depression of Western world vs • 1930’s elegance, clothing trends determined by very wealthy, movie stars, celebrities, Hollywood • Combination: Simplicity & elegance The Great Depression on women’s fashion • Modesty both economically and culturally/fashionably • People felt less frivolous and adventurous with their clothing when enduring hard times; practical garments for daily wear • "Thrift is the spirit of the day.…

Through his portrait of Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce suggests that being an artist is difficult because one must rebel against societal standards, values and ideals. This includes the rejection of religion, politics, and sexual morality among many others. In To the Lighthouse, Woolf agrees with Joyce that there are certain values and morals that the artist figure must reject, however, Woolf shows that female artists have more obstacles to overcome, mainly…

the amusing internet has blurred that line. Openness and bluntness advance to happier agents and barter and colleagues. No amount how small or huge your organization, you should collaborate with others every day. Letting others shine, auspicious avant-garde ideas, practicing humility, and afterward added rules for alive in teams will advice you become an added absorbing leader. Great leader are responsive to their peers, employees and team. Leaders have to be adjustable in managing alteration…

The interaction between the flâneur and worker suggest an underlying class conflict present in contemporary Paris. The setting of the painting, notable as an engineering marvel, is also historically important because it is where “different social classes [come] into daily contact,” despite its past as the “scene of heavy fighting during the Commune” (Fried 21). While the bloody history of Paris is still fresh, the calmness of the bridge suggests that class relations are evolving and perhaps…

Carolee Schneemann: Kinetic Painting Review Xiao Xiong On May 13, 2017, Carolee Schneemann(American, b.1939) was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Fifty-Seventh Venice Biennale - “VIVA ARTE VIVA”. For more than sixty years, Schneemann has made the groundbreaking innovations in the field of photography, performance, film, video, mixed media, and installations, she has constantly broken the boundaries and challenged the limits of contemporary art. As one of the most…

It’s a well-known fact that books have the power to transport you across time and space, but sometimes you finish a great read and you aren’t quite sure where it’s taken you. While this trippy sensation probably isn’t for the Jojo Moyes lovers out there, it is a thrill for readers who crave the bizarre, the outlandish and the flat-out confusing. If you’re all about absurdists like Beckett, Murakami and Pynchon, then you need to get to a bookstore (or open Amazon in a tab if that’s your…

Modern art was born ugly. "It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly," an American critic wrote, describing the 1910 Salon des Indépendents in Paris. "The drawing was crude past all belief, the colour was as atrocious as the subject. Had a new era of art begun?" Even Henri Matisse himself was sometimes shocked by his creations. According to his biographer Hilary Spurling, "His own paintings filled him with perturbation. At some point in 1901 or 1902 he slashed…

The Ugly Utopia in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) At the end, John says "I ate civilization. It poisoned me"(Huxley 255). The dystopian society refers to the anti-utopian one. It symbolizes an ugly place in which the government controls everything and people have no freedom to think or create. The society is also controlled by technology and science. In a dystopian society people are also afraid of the outside society. In addition, dystopian society is a hierarchical society in…

Redeeming the madman artist: 60 years of a misinterpreted Lo “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.” With thoughts like that, Nabokov’s Humbert Humbert cannot be the abhorrent pedophile it was once believed, or at least, not only that. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, of pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom, was born on Shakepseare’s birthday on 1899. At the –not so young- age of 60, the émigré became not only a recognized author, but an adjective, through the succes de scandale of…