Avant-garde

Terrence Malick’s film The Tree of Life uses a unique mixture of linear and avant-garde techniques to prove his philosophy that everything in the universe is formed through both nature and through grace. On one hand, the film explores the dynamics of a family living in 1950’s American Suburbia, yet it also explores the vastness of the universe, from its mysterious creation to its glorious demise, and countless moments in between. Though a linear Hollywood film might make these events out to be…

Lewis also included inflections of jazz or popular music within their pieces for live performance. Yet, there are composers like Jacob Ter Veldhuis (1951) that seem to be in a league of their own. Ter Veldhuis, also known as Jacob TV, is a Dutch avant-garde composer whose background in composition and electronic music training from the Groningen Conservatory and as a rock and roll musician had a base in much of the thirty years of compositions with traditional and electronic mediums. After…

definition of American Expressionism. An artistic movement that highlighted the unconscious self expression of the artist at the time, rather than the dynamic and realistic form of the event itself. The movement peaked in New York, being apart of the avant-garde, and continued to spread. The impact of World War II created the unconscious self expression between action painting and color field painting, the movement to other American artists and European immigrants, and it’s vast array of…

Art never occurs in a vacuum; there are always contextual clues as to why artists create, which derive from social and political history. Artists in completely different eras can experience similar events that potentially create analogous products. An artist connection that I find interesting is Marcel Duchamp’s influence on the choreographer, Merce Cunningham. Duchamp, as a Dada master of the early 19th century inspired Cunningham’s work, Walkaround Time. The set design and the overall movement…

El Rapto de las Mulatas, made in 1938, is a painting by Cuban avant-garde artist Carlos Enriquez. It translates to “The Abduction of the Mulatas,” where mulatas are mixed race women in Cuba. The painting portrays a scenario that is described very literally in the title: a pair of mulatas being abducted and raped by two men who seem to be guajiros, Cuban countrymen. There are varying theories pertaining to what exactly the painting really represents, but most of these theories are centered around…

It quickly developed into an anarchistic type of highly avant-garde art whose aim was to subvert and undermine the value system of the ruling establishment which had allowed the war to occur, including the arts movements establishment which they displayed as inextricably linked to the discredited socio-political…

the United Stated in the early 2000’s, Cabral never lost touch with the deep roots that exist in Brazilian music. This deep connection permeates throughout her debut, self-titled album, which Cabral also produced. In it she draws on modern jazz, avant-garde and classical influences to breathe new life into seemingly bygone eras of traditional and popular Brazilian music. Cabral studied at The California Jazz Conservatory with mentor Marcos Silva. She is also a member of the group…

Modern and Contemporary Conceptual Art “I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.” Marcel Duchamp. As I personally have never been one to make conceptual art work with ease; I have decided to explore the conceptual. My exploration starts with Marcel Duchamp. It is said that Marcel Duchamp’s ready-mades changed the way we think about art. Duchamp argued that aesthetics and skill were not what made art, it was the artists idea that mattered. This idea is where the ready-mades…

1. Introduction Geoffrey B Small is a pioneer in avant-garde fashion design and making clothes by hand. Recently he has become an activist for environmental causes and civil right causes. He is the first avant-garde designer from America to show in Paris. Geoffrey thinks that it is more imperative to concentrate on incredible item and extraordinary service, value to the client, and communicating with the client genuinely. The content that I am going to write in this report is about the issue…

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