Early Modern English

While parts of architecture in the 1950s were reflective of the Cold War conformity, art was an opportunity for people to embrace their individual expression and rebel against the overwhelming pressures to attune to a simplistic lifestyle in response to the government's fear of communism. One of the major movements of this decade was known as Abstract Expressionism. This art style was non-objective and represented no actual objects, rather the artist represents there thoughts through color and…

In the 1920’s there was an art movement that changed the way art was defined, this was known as the surrealist art movement. Surrealism originated in the late 1910s and early 20s as a literary movement that experimented with a new form of expression called automatic writing or automatism. In Paris in 1924 the publication of the manifesto of surrealism by poet, Andre Breton made surrealism an international and political movement. Many artists and poets such as Louis Aragon (1897–1982), Paul…

reaction of the masses towards art, the reactionary attitude toward a Picasso painting changes into the progressive reaction toward a Chaplin movie” (p.45). As mentioned above traditional works of art are viewed through distance contemplation. As more modern cultural forms came into play such as film, photographs, and even TV shows, they all lead to the demise of contemplation with information overload. They are something that the viewer would experience as agitating or taxing to experience.…

history. It is the in efforts of the people that orchestrate the course of events that will eventually shape not only our modern world, but the course of human history. But why is that, throughout history, certain societies were able to dominate the historical stage, and other societies cannot help but go extinct? For example, Europe and China both had a “Golden Age”, but in the modern world, Europe becomes the “sole power”, and China lives in just a corner of the world. Same mankind, but why…

crossword from finishing the puzzle in his own residence. In many ways though they do not because they also want to live their live in the glow that Baudelaire saw in the renovations of Paris. Present day people want to also live in the progress of the modern world. In these cities it goes beyond the changing in social interaction. Berman wrote that in Paris, “the Napoleon-Haussmann boulevards created new bases-economic, social, aesthetic-for bringing enormous numbers of people together.” Yes,…

the early to mid twentieth century, 1960s-1980s, and of course the twenty-first century. It is important to understand the evolution of how modern dance evolved. It provides us a history and background, so we can grasp a better understanding on what it is we are learning or performing. In the earlier days, modern was just modern and then it molded into postmodern and finally, postmodern contemporary. Choreographers like Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, and David Parsons have impacted the way modern…

Pina Bausch’s Vollmond is very unique. This piece has choreographers dancing in water and is a must see piece. The dance is made up of many movements physically and abstractly, these movements express certain meaning and have a purpose. After watching “Vollmond”, you will realize the true meaning behind the complex movements and motions of their hands and bodies. This meaning being the complexity of life and all the struggles but also the happiness of life and all its excitement that comes with…

After his return from the war he joined his mentor Doris Humphrey in starting Limon Dance Company. Jose Limon started his company in 1947 in New York, NY. When Limón began his company, he asked Humphrey to be the artistic director, making it the first modern dance company to have an artistic director who was not also the founder. While working with Humphrey, Limón developed his repertory with Doris Humphrey and established the principles of the style that was to become the Limón technique. In…

Modern art is complex, fluid, and constantly challenged when it comes to defining what makes it art. Modern art is made up of expressionism and Impressionism. It is comprised of Dada agricultural and industrial design as well as surrealism. Modern art can even be described as being site specific to a certain location or needing human interaction to be a finished piece. I define art as being anything an artist claims to be art, and I believe that anyone can call themselves an artist. An artist…

Pop Art is an art movement that started in Britain in the 1950's and came to America in the late 1950's. Pop art is a style of art that enhances objects and figures by using bright colors to extenuate the focus points in the piece. There were many great artist's in this era such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Andy Warhol is famously known for painting the Campbell's Soup can but he didn't stop there, he created some of the most famous pieces of pop art today. Andy Warhol was born in…