Avant-garde

Luxottica: How vertical integration has made it the world leader in eyewear Luxottica with revenues of €8.8 billion clearly emerged as the market leader in Televisory’s previous blog on the eyewear industry. In addition, the blog emphasised on the operational and financial position of the selected key players. In this blog, Televisory analysed Luxottica’s vertically integrated business model, that enabled it to acquire more than 50% of the market share. The company not only designs and…

“Bizarreries cubiques” a statement used by a french critic to describe the very first works of a soon to be movement. This soon to be contemporary movement would become the most influential movement of the first half of the twentieth century. That statement was used to describe a cubist painters work. Cubism was so revolutionizing because it moved away from the general art form of that time. Not fully abstract but abstracted from the norm, cubism went against the traditional view of the artist…

The novels "The Jurassic Park" and "The War of the Worlds" were written by Michael Crichton and H.G. Wells respectively. The former was published in 1990 and the latter in 1898. Both novels belong to the science fiction genre and deal with issues related to survival of mankind. Wells's novel might have influenced the film version of "The Jurassic Park (1993)" although there is almost a century difference between their creations. An interesting fact is that Steven Spielberg, the director of the…

Advertisements may seem straightforward to the consumer, but many actually require extensive curation, as subtle details like color scheme, setting, and strategic placement of the brand name are used to appeal to consumers’ underlying desires for popularity or success and this make the product more enticing. These trends are especially prevalent in ads for luxury items, which carry with them a mystique of sorts in addition to their practical function. Two major high-end fashion houses, Dolce &…

The female nude, a longstanding western tradition in art is used to express ideas of beauty. It soon became a site to address the immediate changes in the modern industrial world, representing the female nude as a vessel to address the urban modernization of the roles of women. The portrayal of the female nude in Henri Matisse’s Bathers by a River uses the nude to express his frustrations with the Battle of Verdun. Initially, it was conceived in 1909 as a scene of arcadian leisure, but then…

Introduction: Marketing is the core of any successful business. It assists in spreading awareness about the company’s product to its customers, potential customers and the community by advertising and promoting the company’s good or service. A very fundamental part of marketing is branding. Branding provides the company’s products with the opportunity of being uniquely recognized; and distinguished between it and other companies’ products as well as acquiring a respectable reputation among…

during the 1920’s. This decade of implementation of the New Economic Policy (NEP), which will serve as the period of reference for this essay, remains one of the most socially liberal and artistically prolific periods in the Russian history. An avant-garde…

could do and paint and this remained the same for Cassatt, but, she was more accepted than previous female artists. She was even invited to join the Impressionists and her work fit the style of the Impressionists as it was considered to be very avant-garde at the time (Yeh 359). The themes of her works were mainly centered on the social issues of women and children. And these subjects were so easily available to her because she was a woman herself. She was able to see the side of women that the…

Living a life faced with adversity it is truly remarkable the lasting impact Billy Strayhorn was capable of having on the development of jazz. He is acknowledged for being an exceptional pianist, composer, arranger and possessing one of the greatest compositional voices in the 20th century. He was truly an under appreciated revolutionary force decades ahead of his time, even while being the first closeted then out black gay man in a particularly homophobic environment of an all black male jazz…

The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens’ Archipenko: A Modern Legacy, on view from January 28 to April 17, 2016 in Jacksonville, Fl, was organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, D.C., in collaboration with the Archipenko Foundation. Featuring approximately 50 sculptures, mixed media reliefs and works on paper, Archipenko: A Modern Legacy offers a comprehensive assessment of Alexander Archipenko's artistic career. Organized chronologically to walk the viewer through the artistic…