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Modernism is a broad term which refers to the graphic design style which lasted from the late 1920s to the early 1960s. The Great Depression, World War II, and the Korean War all occurred during this time. Also, color TV was introduced and Disneyland was opened in California. The two main genres of modernism were Swiss Design and the Bauhaus movement. Swiss Design focused on cleanliness and readability while the Bauhaus sought to unite creativity and manufacturing in order to emphasize…

Modernism means “integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity.” This quote by Paul Rand demonstrates the bias towards modernism. However, there are pros and cons for both traditionalism and modernism. While traditionalism holds to conventional morals and ideas, modernism explores new concepts and leaves room for imagination. This is shown by the vaccine controversy, the short story “Everyday Use," and…

J Buchanan Activity 6 V1 Edwards Weston’s ‘Pepper No.30’ fits into ‘Modernism’ because: This new way of expression through the medium of photography rejected emotional intent and painterly effects for real, sharp actual images. The change was due to society thinking the past was outdated a new social and political emergence of the industrial world was reshaping our outlook on life. A group of American Modernist photographers called themselves the F64 club. F64 relating to long exposure…

Merging the Traditional and the Modern Introduction Throughout the history of art, a variety of artists made contributions in expanding the definition of art. Some dedicated their energy in a restrained way as a personal practice, some devoted their energy into fiercely challenging the society’s current aesthetic conventions. The two artists I am going to discuss in this essay are Marcel Duchamp and Gerhard Richter. Even though they lived in different time periods, they are both influential to…

What distinguishes the power of a click versus the power of a stroke? In “What is Cinema” by André Bazin, Bazin examines the role of photography in this history of art. With the introduction of photography, painting and illustration were regarded as inferior art forms to replicate the world. Bazin argues that there is no way for a handmade visual art to produce the same realistic encounter as a photograph (8). In addition, Bazin elaborated on the ability of photographs to “transfer(s) reality…

Introduction Magical realism captures the fantastic side of reality ,and it achieves its effect by mixing elements associated with realism and elements related with fantasy. These two worlds undergo a merging and become one. The term “magical realism” was first introduced by German art critic Franz Roh who considered magical realism an art category. Roh influenced many writers around the world ,and one of them is Lois Lowry. This paper will discuss some major characteristic of magical…

‘Sailing to Byzantium’ is first published in 1928 as part of Yeast’s collection and it contains four stanzas. The poem ‘sailing to Byzantium’ is mainly about different between art and ordinary life. In the poem poet transform himself into work of art and he explores his thought and musing on how immortality art and the human spirit may converge. The poem ‘Sailing to Byzantium’in particular is its rich symbolism. Symbols are essentially words which are not merely connotative but also suggestive,…

Modernism is not something that is constrained to conservative ideals, but instead moves to break from conventionalism. Rather then being stagnant, habitual, or traditional, Modernism is an attribute of thought and a form of expression. The concept is most closely associated with the Roman Catholic Church in the late 19th and early 20th century, and signified a break from traditional beliefs and conformity into a new era of modern ideas. This signifies that as culture changes, values and beliefs…

Salvador Dali Salvador Dali The Persistence of Memory Metamorphosis of Narcissus The Ecumenical Council Surrealism was a time period that started in 1924 and ended in 1966. It scorned the idea of rationalism or writings of realism, and heavily used psychoanalysis. They had elements of primitivism and mythism as well as they went to treat the unconcious mind. They thought that rationality was a…

One of Dix’s controversial work which going to be analysed in this essay is “Trench” (fig.1). The medium was oil on canvas, with unknown location, since the works was seized during Nazi regime. This painting made from 1920 in Dresden and finished in 1923 where has moved to Dusseldorf, during the Weimar Republic. “Trench” portrayed war that he experienced. The annual exhibition of this work was in Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne in December 1923. At that time, there were no visual arts that…