Secondary modern school

authentic motives for making art. A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality is one of the most important documents in the history of modern art. It explains Kandinsky’s own theory of painting and crystallizes the great ideas that were influencing many other modern artists. Kandinsky’s words were written in the period between the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the consumer society, ring with remarkable poignancy today. Kandinsky’s ideas…

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,…

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 has changed by their movement,…

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…

Jose Limon was born on January 12, 1908 in Culiacan, Mexico. His family immigrated to America during the Mexican Revolution. After graduating from Lincoln High school, Limon attended UCLA as an art major. He moved to New York City in 1928 to study at the New York school of design. There he was inspired to begin training as a dancer after he attended a dance production by Yvonne Georgi and Harald Kreutzberg. He trained with Charles Weidman and Doris Humphrey at the Humphrey-Weidman Studio and…

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…