Avant-garde

saxophonist Wes Hunn featured many technical runs that called out homage to Charlie Parker, alto saxophonist Stephen May had a bluesy approach that took influence from Cannonball Adderly, and strangest of all, alto saxophonist carried a very angular avant-garde approach seemingly influenced by latter-day John Coltrane and pianist Thelonious Monk. These differing stylings helped created a cohesive narrative of instrumental voices that kept each song extremely interesting throughout, which proved…

Rhinoceros, written 1958, and published 1959 is one of Ionesco’s most popularized plays. It opens on a usual Sunday in a town, where abruptly a rhinoceros is sighted twice by the townspeople. Initially some wonderment is expressed about the strangeness of this happening, but eventually a great deal of discussion is devoted to whether the two sightings were of the same rhino or of two different ones, and whether the rhino(s) belonged to the African or Asian species. Soon it becomes evident that…

and introduced Harvey to the cast and director of the show “Hair” in San Francisco. Upon meeting like minded people, Harvey decided to move to the Bay area himself. Living a double life, Harvey was a financial analyst by day, and a progressive avant garde beatnick by night. Taking the world progressively by storm, the gay rights movement caused many to get arrested, one being Harvey. After getting arrested he knew he needed to go back to New York, but his friends new his heart belonged in San…

Sometimes performance can be purely spontaneous or scripted, it can involve other pieces of work, sound, music and sculpture. Performance art has origins in the early 20th century and has links in the progress of the avant-garde, futurism, dada, surrealism. Before the movement was called ‘Performance art’ it was known as ‘Happenings’, this term came from artist Allan Kaprow who in 1959 coined the term Happenings in his work ‘18 Happenings in 6 parts’ stating “You will…

Rebecca Wilson 11/6/17 Humanities II The Keno Future Revolutions cause whole societies to call to question all they know of as their everyday. They can change the way people view their government, and affect their manner of working. Revolutionaries are those who voice these opinions. Vertov’s Manifesto and the Kino Eye’s vision was came up with after the Russian civil war, when their government was in constant upheaval. Their vision for film translates into a vision for life, a vision for a…

Adversity is a normality. Neither looked down upon, nor viewed as a worthy experience. It is commonly found, flourishing in our lives, whether in our roots, or in our branches, birthed with us, or haphazardly appearing throughout our lives. It strains the human mind and soul, yet is not treated like so. Physical and mental tolls are taken, but a cry for help is desperate, and often, one finds themselves neglecting or overlooking another’s adversity. Yet, we, as a society, still expect epiphanies…

planned Brasília, the main capital of Brazil, in 1956 after winning a design competition. His plan involved a city organized around the intersection of a monumental axis and a residential axis (James-Chakraborty). Throughout this time European avant-garde modernism was gaining foothold in South America, with focus mainly on creating an appropriate image of modern architecture for their non-affluent tropical setting. The completed Brasília offers reflectance of both the acceptance and rejection…

"Growing up" is very confusing yet pivotal for learning, self-discovery, and development. It is difficult to maneuver through this time under "average" circumstances. However in The Complete Persepolis, the author Marjane Satrapi recounts her childhood spent in Iran during the Iranian Revolution, her teen years spent in Austria in asylum from the Iran-Iraq War, and her return to Iran after gaining global perspective. Throughout the graphic novel Marjane is required to adapt to her ever-changing…

Iconic. Indubitable. Inspirational. These words could describe the artist Leonardo da Vinci or his masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, or both. It is arguably the best-known painting in the world “attracting six-million visitors a year.” The eccentric artist, curious history, unprecedented style, and ever-changing context of the Mona Lisa are as intriguing as her mysterious smile. Leonardo da Vinci was born illegitimately to a peasant woman in 1452 in “Vinci in the Tuscan country side, thirty miles…

What is surrealism? Surrealism is not only a revolution, but also an “attack of conscience,” “pure psychic automatism,” and a “new mode of pure expression,” according to its founder André Breton. The term was originally coined by Guillaume Apollinaire but Breton and his colleague, Philippe Soupault gave it new meaning. In his declarative and comprehensive texts, Manifestoes of Surrealism, Breton defines for us surrealism and explains the phenomenon in detail so that more can become aware and…