Surrealism

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz first a book is a well-known story about a girl name Dorthey who an orphaned girl. Who one day when a tornado swept her and her little dog Toto into the world far from Kansas called the kingdom of Oz. There she met a straw Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and coward Lion, who help her find her way to home. Many see the Wizard of Oz and think of it as just another movie meant to entertain families. However, very few actually understand the political concept and symbolism behind…

Thirty years is considered to be the pearl years in marriage. In this case however the bride is a camera and the groom Jonathan Becker. Jonathan Becker is originally a New Yorker but at the age of 20 he left and went to apprentice for the ever so infamous Brassai in Paris, France; this year is being celebrated for his 30 year stint at Vanity Fair. Becker has photographed everyone from Madonna to Calvin Klein to Ben Affleck and everywhere from Beijing to Palm Beach to Aspen. To celebrate this…

reality for the viewer. One of the many intentions of a psychedelic film is to emphasize on the imagery, which is put together as a sequence to disrupt the viewer 's understanding of a normal reality. The films used in this screening focus on and uses surrealism and intense object disfiguration, while incorporating a variety of bright colors in order to reach unthinkable outcomes. This screening focuses on Psychedelic films and how they changed between 1961-2011. Psychedelic films changed…

English Vorticism are generally considered to be Modernist movements. Indeed, literary scholar Peter Childs includes Futurism and Vorticism in his seminal book aptly titled Modernism, placing them amongst other Modernist movements like Expressionism, Surrealism, and Dadaism (14). In one of Childs’s many definitions of Modernism, he argues that the movement is imbued with “radical aesthetics, technical experimentation, spatial or rhythmic rather than chronological form, self-conscious…

Frida Kahlo is a very well known painter and political activist who had a very troubling life. She is known for painting about her physical appearance without making herself more beautiful and about very personal matters. During her life she had many health problems and was married twice to the same man, Diego Rivera. Her art was influenced by her beliefs; therefore, she would paint about her personal problems and her political ideas. Along with that her paintings are reflecting her personal…

Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter who was best known for the self-portraiture work which she created during her career (Fridakahlo.org, 2014). Early on in her life it was her ambition not to become a painter but rather a doctor. This ambition was however quashed when at the age of 18 the bus she and her boyfriend were traveling on was struck by a tram. As a result of this horrific accident Frida Kahlo had to spend one year in a hospital bed, recovering from the massive injuries to her body. Over…

Heck, That’ll Do As I sit in class, the teacher 's words pierce my ears making them seem as if they are bleeding. I gnaw on the end of my pencil to pass the time and ease my anxiety to leave this class. All I’ve been thinking about for the past few month is the word every senior hates, college. All my friends are accepted into the colleges of their dreams, so why aren’t I? It seems like eons have passed since I finalized my college applications. Waiting there hoping class will end soon, I…

For all that, feminist theorists are more interested in theorizing than in tensions evoked by the body. Gender is done or constructed by the person and others in his society. Contrary to this established idea, Judith Butler, in her book Undoing Gender, sees that gender can be done by resisting and escaping from the clutches of the social norm through which gender is recognized. She argues: “I may feel that without some recognizability I cannot live. But I may also feel that…

Sometimes performance can be purely spontaneous or scripted, it can involve other pieces of work, sound, music and sculpture. Performance art has origins in the early 20th century and has links in the progress of the avant-garde, futurism, dada, surrealism. Before the movement was called ‘Performance art’ it was known as ‘Happenings’, this term came from artist Allan Kaprow who in 1959 coined the term Happenings in his work ‘18 Happenings in 6 parts’ stating “You will become a part of the…

On October 14th, 1894, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Rebecca Haswell and Edward Cummings gave birth to Edward Estlin Cummings. However, the world would ultimately know him as E. E. Cummings, the poet that wandered away from the norms of modern society and made astonishing innovations in the realm of poetry through his experimentations with syntax, grammar, punctuation, spacing, and typography. Like every notable literary figure, E.E. Cummings applied his life experiences and influences to his…