Marcel Mauss

Superior writers use a vast number of well-used elements. It is key to use exceptional elements if you thrive to be a great writer. An example of a writer with higher-level elements is Ray Bradbury. Bradbury has a famous short story called "The Pedestrian." The "Pedestrian" is a futuristic story about a man who is not involved with the world. Bradbury uses setting, figurative language, and symbolism to affect the overall succession of the story. First, Bradbury uses figurative language to…

Abstract Expressionism is like nonrepresentational art in that did not portray a clear defined picture. This type of art was made popular by Jackson Pollock; One example of his art is, “number 1” made in 1949. This type of art used heavy brush strokes or a drip technique used by Jackson Pollock. This movement was a rebellion against cubism, nonrepresentational, surrealism, and dada. It started in New York in the early 1900’s after world war 2 as a new way to look art. Bauhaus…

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 and then Dadaism come from. The term anti-art, a precursor to Dada, was coined by Marcel…

Up is a story about a 78-year-old balloon salesman, Carl Fredricksen, trying to fulfill a lifelong dream. He ties a plethora of balloons to his house to fly away to South America, but he finds a stowaway in the form of a small child named Russell. Through this adventure, Up explores adulthood and how it is achieved. The transformation of Carl in Up proves that adulthood is not achieved until one accepts parenthood; Carl, therefore, represents our human aversion towards responsibility as well as…

Its purpose was to ridicule the supposed meaninglessness of the modern world. It peaked in 1916 to 1922, with early centers in Zürich, Switzerland at the Cabaret Voltaire. It favored being against normal societal actions. Artists of Dadaism included Marcel Duchamp, Antonin Artaud, Max Ernst, and Salvador Dali. “Dada is what you can make out of yourself” (Hausmann, 1968) “Dada is a state of mind that can be revealed in any conversation whatever, so that you are compelled to say: this man is a…

this author believes that Dada shows a sense of rationality. Surrounding the irrational thought of the war’s insurmountable deaths, artists took to verse and canvas in order to create a lucid thought of anarchy. Prior to World War 1, visual artists Marcel Duchamp and Salvador Dali were part of the Futuristic movement, but post-war dystopia fueled the direction of their craft to an iconoclastic realm of metaphor and realm of…

photography are Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Cindy Sherman, Yasumasa Morimura, Linda Nochlin, Carrie Mae Weems, Robert Mapplethorpe, and many others. Two famous photos that showed and went against gender roles in their time are Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp’s Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Selavy (1921) and Yasumasa Morimura’s Portrait (Futago) or Olympia (1999) More than one photo was created of Marcel Duchamp’s alter ego Rrose Selavy. Photographer Man Ray was the one who took the famous photo Marcel Duchamp…

not just one ideal way to paint and there is not a set of individuals that you are supposed to paint. An example that most of the individuals that were present at the exhibit were shocked at was the, “Nude Descending a Staircase” which was done by Marcel Duchamp, {Kleiner, 751}. This was one of the many paintings that received a lot of terrible reviews and hatred. Even though a good handful of the wealthy and the commoners laughed and said bad things about the art, it was actually a successful…

Not Just a Waste Fountain, a porcelain urinal created in 1917, signed R. Mutt, was “made” by Marcel Duchamp (Howarth). The piece was aimed at the general public. Duchamp wanted to outrage the people and force them to question what art really was (Lewer 184). Even with these harsh circumstances, Duchamp still managed to become extremely important and influential to other Dada artists. Duchamp was one of the most famous Dada artists during his time and he coined the term “ready-made” which is…

Throughout the being this class I have learned about many artists, their specific genres, and how they contributed to the art society as a whole. Some of the major artists that have made a space in my mind, that I had no knowledge of knowing before are Marcel Duchamp, Jason Pollack, Marina Abramović, and Julian Beveer. These artist are mentioned in the textbook relating them to the type of artwork they do. Nevertheless, I have pick chapters 4.5 Art and Illusion and 4.7 Art and War. Just with the…