Early modern Europe

Contemporary world History Christina Cagol EXAM 1 September 8, 2014 1. Pablo Picasso and George Braque founded cubism in the early 20th century in Paris. It was an artwork to be considered as the first radical approach in expressing visual reality. According to Cubist, any perception of an object was a composite of simultaneous and different perspectives. Cubism tries to help one understand the world around them in a different way by changing their perspective on a certain subject.…

Gaelic League was to protect and promote traditional Irish language and culture. The members of the Gaelic League were fearful that the youth of Ireland was becoming “anglicized” or over influenced by the culture of England, Scotland, and mainland Europe. In an effort to preserve what was left of Irish culture, a series of laws were enforced to promote traditional Irish culture and restrict any outside influence. The Gaelic League had great success in promoting and preserving the traditional…

By definition, the term “cubism” is explained as: “an early 20th century style and movement in art, especially painting, in which perspective with a single view point was abandoned and use was made of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and later, collage.” Cubism was, in fact, one of the most influential visual art styles of the early twentieth century. While the Spaniard Pablo Picasso (1181-1973) and the Frenchman Georges Braque (1882-1963) created the idea behind cubism, it was the…

Throughout history, a variety of foods have allowed the modern world to gain a historical understanding on the big history and world history of our modern world. The Sichuan cuisine originating from China is a great example showing the impact of food culture and identity in our current society. The Sichuan pepper, is called huajiao in Chinese, meaning flower pepper, and the Sichuan cuisine is undisputedly the most popular cuisine known to China to this current date. Through evaluating the big…

changing world, the early modernist revolution saw drastic departures from traditional forms of art, literature, architecture, religion, philosophy, social values, and the sciences. Moreover, among the many factors that shape modernist art and literature specifically, they can be characterized by a deliberate rejection of the styles of the past; emphasizing instead innovation and experimentation in forms, materials, and techniques in order to create artworks that better reflected the modern…

participate in the performance with the music in celebration events in the court. A century later, an Italian noblewoman, Catherine de Medici, who was the wife of King Henry II of France, and she was a patron of art as she began to introduce ballet of early dance style into the French court (Atlanta Ballet). In the 17th century, King Louis XIV invited…

few practices/practioners who contributed to the roots of physical theatre. Greek theatre Greek theatre spanned from 600BC-600AD and it began with festivals honouring Greek Gods. Plays were only allowed to be presented at the Dionysia festival. At early Greek festivals actors, directors and dramatists were the same person however, after a while only three actors were allowed to perform in the plays. Then they later decided to have a few more non speaking were also allowed to perform on the…

and freedom of expression extremely complement each other. The freedom to express anything through art has been around longer than the freedom to express through writing. New ways of making art are being created all the time for instance around the early 1900 's when printmaking first started; one of its many uses was to be used as political awareness. For example, many people in the towns of Mexico were illiterate, so these satirical illustrations socially engaged the viewer by using skulls to…

“Like Britain itself, British dance has been informed by different waves of immigration”, says dance history professor Ramsay Burt (Roy). Ballet “took root” through a determined Polish woman, Marie Rambert, and Irishwoman, Ninette de Valois (Roy). Modern dance was arranged by exiles form Germany in the 1930s and visitors from America in the 1950s and 1960s (Roy). The stories and history of black British dancers however, tends to be left out of British dance history. His or her stories deserve to…

writers such as Alejo Carpentier in their works during 1940s and after that in 1955 the term was employed by Latin American writersAngel Flores and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and gradually it drew worldwide attention. Although the term took its root in Europe later it revolutionized Latin America. Therefore all the periods are inter-linked with the mode of literary art. Magical Realism: The term defined The gradual growth of Magical Realism turned it as multi-featured term. It is treated…