Avant-garde

The second piece of work that I am going to discuss is Candy Apple Chick II by James Gill. This piece consists of a portrait of a woman looking up, repeated three times along the top 1/3 of the canvas. She is surrounded by a flat but loud orange, trimmed in a rich blue. The remaining 2/3 of the canvas is the lower half of a woman from her shoulders down, stepping out of a car. This portion of the image is sectioned off in the shape of a rectangle, and flooded with a blue-green. It is…

Citizen Kane is perhaps known around the world (and especially in the United States) as one the greatest American films ever made, and created by one of America’s greatest film directors that ever lived, his bold style and unconventional techniques made him a maverick, a genius, and rebel in the entertainment industry, and like the character portrayed in the film, director Orson Welles also had his rise and fall to fame. The film begins among the desolate landscape and remains of Xanadu…

Paul advises God’s followers to live worthy lives in Christ (4:1). “I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called.” Ephesians 4:1-6 are the first verses following the preceding half of the book. Similar to how one would plan to write an essay or dissertation, Paul uses the first verses of the second half to operate as a mock thesis statement for the rest of the book. In this short excerpt, Paul highlights the principle of…

Mr. Lee is now a millionaire in the education industry in Tian Jin China. He started a small tutoring center in the 1986. In 1997 he established H School which later becomes the third largest tutoring school in Tian Jin. In Mr.Lee’s career there are two important incidents which marks the highlight of his career as the leader of he H School. Both incidents were big obstacles to many tutor schools in the industry; however, Mr. Lee managed to turn potential fiasco into two big turning points for…

ii. Between Perceived risk and Impulse behavior Prior studies (Huddleston, Ford, & Bickle, 1993; Goldsmith, Moore, & Beaudoin, 1999; Muzinich et al., 2003; Beaudoin, Lachance, & Robitaille, 2003), states that it is very important to investigate the purchase behavior of fashion innovators as they play a major role in influencing the fashion followers. Moreover, fashion innovators are concerned to be very important market segmentation for the marketers and fashion researches because they are the…

named time and time again as one of the best restaurants in the world and has three Michelin Guide stars. Joan has been hailed as one of the best Spanish chefs and one of the most influential chefs in the world. Joan Roca i Fontané defines the word avant-garde in Spanish culinary. 7. René…

Chinese culture. Since firstly publicly exhibited in 1988, the installation has triggered many discussions at home and abroad. This essay would firstly discuss how Book from the Sky challenges Chinese traditions in a seemingly traditional, meanwhile avant-garde way, and possibly makes linguistic, cultural and political stances. Then it will move to evaluate its effectiveness and limits in doing so. Finally, a conclusion would be given. Considered with the long Chinese history, where literary…

In my research I was interested in the creative collaborations of Merce Cunningham. One could expect for a collaboration to be an intimate process between composers, designers, and choreographers and you could expect for Merce experience to be the same do to his exposure in Martha Graham’s company. In Martha Graham’s company, Cunningham was exposed to dance, sets, narrative and lighting being interdependent, but Cunningham decided to take the opposite approach in his work. He abandoned the…

The Chrysler Building, seen in figure 1, was built for Walter Chrysler to be the headquarters for the automobile company, the Chrysler Corporation. It was built on 405 Lexington Avenue, New York, in the United States of America. Put into historical context the construction began on the 19th of September 1928, a few months prior to the stock market crash of 1929. It was the age of ‘flapper girls’, jazz music, prohibition and ‘speak-easies’. “Throughout the 1920s a long boom took stock prices to…

The famous and iconic surrealist painter, Salvador Dalí was born on May 11, 1904, in Figueres, Spain. Ever since his skills were noticed at a young age, Dalí was encouraged to practice them which would eventually lead him to go on to study at an art academy in Madrid. In the 1920s, he went to Paris, France and started interacting with artists such as Picasso, Magritte and Miró; this would lead to Dalí's first Surrealist phase. During this phase, he creates one of his pieces that he is perhaps…