Avant-garde

The Nutcracker and The Rite of Spring are some of the most influential ballets ever produced. In this paper, I will be describing the composers, what influenced the writers, what the ballets are about, and I will contrast the two works of art. Since these greats works of art are so influential, it is important to talk about them their importance when they were created and what impact they still have today. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky or better known as Peter Ilyich Tchaikovosky, was the man who…

fashion industry leads to the misrepresentation of the disabled community in society such as unintentional discrimination. An image portraying a female model wearing a prosthetic leg, posing on a fashion show runway displays an example of an almost avant-garde movement in fashion because of how disabled people are undermined by society. An image displays a woman posing with her left hand on her hip and her right arm in a sling. Her right leg is a grey prosthesis and she is standing on a runway…

It followed the avant-garde style movement before it, leading to the unique imagery it presents, but letting deeper meanings shine through. It was an outlet for the anger and depression that filled the German. By the time German Expressionism was introduced to the cinemas…

The range and extent of contributions within multiple fields of art and design were endless when it comes to the legacy of Herbert Bayer. The ADC Hall of Fame recognizes Bayer’s achievements in this quote from their 1975 biography, “If Herbert Bayer had produced nothing after the age of 28, his accomplishments to that point alone would make him one of the great pioneers in visual communication” (http://adcglobal.org/hall-of-fame/herbert-bayer/). Although Bayer was most passionate about graphic…

The article, “Regressive Reproduction and Throwaway Conscience” by Donald Kuspit, begins the author statement, “That a new kind of social realism/neo-revolutionary or would be revolutionary art, does not presume to be our conscience. Yet it certainly sounds like the voice of conscience, bluntly speaking paradoxical truths that are hard to bring to consciousness and troubling to hear”. The author first focuses on Barbara Kruger, who makes a political point addressed to men. Kruger is stating…

Allen Ginsberg, along with a few of his close friends, founded the movement that we know today as the Beat Generation. Ginsberg wrote about many topics, including gay rights, the decriminalization of drugs, free speech, and the general perversion of America’s political system. He wrote directly from his experience of being a homosexual man living in a time of challenging the traditional authorities and rules that once governed our lives. Ginsberg never wondered if what he wrote was too raw or…

Busby Berkley was a choreographer and a director starting in the 1920’s. As well with both choreographing and directing, he was considered the showman of his era. Busby did not have training in dance as everyone else so he had taught himself. During the Great Depression, he was able to lift up the hearts of Americans, mainly because he had used females in his works and centered on their beauty and was able to use them as his muse Busby Berkley was born as Berkley William Enos in Los Angeles in…

Design is born when individuals revolt against the norms and rules placed on them by history, artist, and the want and needs of society in any given time period. Learning about these limitations and their origins in an attempt to change what is already set in stone, this is the life style of a designer; to think outside of the box while considering the parameters onto which one feels comfortable, able, and ready. Often going against rules on purpose to express freedom and demand change, which…

Introduction: Much of?the current debate revolves around?the origin of the modality system upon which the roles of both men and women were based. Almost all the gender based issues and classic stereotypes related to men and women throughout history up to now find their origins in the classical period and were then either adapted or rejuvenated in medieval and Renaissance periods. Some of the issues that were addressed were women?s speech, women?s participation in politics, and…

HOW DID THE ‘SWINGING’ 60S IMPACT ON MODEN BRITISH GRAPHIC DESIGN? The central theme to this essay is to discuss and prove how the ‘Swinging’ 60s has impacted modern British design; this will be achieved through extensive research into the culture and artists that were prominent in the decade. In this essay I will analyse and compare two British artists/designers that I believe were at their prime in the 1960s. The 1960s was a colourful decade for Britain, following the aftermath of the…