Surrealism

influenced by leftist policies which allowed personal experience to be a great influence on their work (Wolfee). There were multiple philosophical movements at the time that are said to have inspired the Abstract Expressionist movement. These include surrealism and existentialism because of the psychological implications that were prevalent in American society. Namely, with existentialism, the idea of isolation and anxiety at the time was also common among the American peoples including these…

American Graffiti is set in 1962 in small town U.S.A and is filmed almost exclusively at night. It is aurally accompanied by a late 1950s and early 1960s rock ‘n’ roll sound montage and also the bizarre verbal ramblings of radio Disc Jockey Wolfman Jack. The text follows the fragmented quests[3] of four male youths at the tail end of this 1950s style youth culture before the advent of America’s full involvement in the Vietnam War, the rise of new left radicalism and spread of the Hippie movement…

Crop, which most resembled a man 's haircut. This hair-do was often cut just below the ears in length and slicked back with gel. According to Jacqueline Herald, author of Fashion of a Decade: The 1920’s, fashion was also influenced by cubism and surrealism art. Fashion designers took elements from paintings by Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali (23). These influences resulted in brighter colors and geometric patterned fabrics. Other influences in fashion came from different cultures around the…

in American Modernism Art. Georgia O’Keeffe was an iconic figure in the 1920’s, known for her innovative works of art, her independent spirit and as a female role model. Although her works show elements of various modernist movements including Surrealism and Precisionism, her work became uniquely her own style. O’Keeffe received remarkable acceptance as a strong female artists from the fine art world as a result of her powerful, graphic images. She was influential to artists of the Feminist…

Absurdity and Counterculture: The Orange Alternative in Communist Poland Of the dissident movements in communist Poland, collective memory only remembers the work of the movement Solidarity and the Catholic Church. What about the people who did not fit into this narrative? The outsiders, the rebels, the artists; what about their story? The Orange Alternative exemplifies the movement of said outsiders; a blend of artistic expression and political defiance. It was a movement made up of “rebellious…

Throughout Jean Rouch’s filmic career he experiments with cinema, pushing the boundaries of ethnographic film, showcasing a range of styles. Chronicle of a Summer embarks on the simple journey of asking strangers if they are happy in order to explore how camera’s change behavior. This film epitomizes Rouch’s exploration of cinematic truth, however, I am left questioning if it is the camera or Rouch who provokes his subjects into performance. Rouch’s exploratory career can be tracked through…

intimate biography hopper. London: University of California Press retrieved from https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6Dh2gFK-lecC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=fal se. Levis, G., & Hopper E. (1996). "Nighthawks", Surrealism, and the War. Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies. 22(2) 180-200. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4104321 Accessed: 12-05-2015 17:13 UTC. Millard, W. (1989). The Hudson Review. Autumn. 34(3),…

non-representational. Briefly, we learned about different artists and their technics and different ways of expressing their paintings. Such as De Kooning creating series of women looking like monsters showed the realistic representational art to abstract surrealism. There’s also Franz Klain who’s brush would hit the canvas different ways in no telling how or where he started. Jackson Pollock would drip pain a certain way and wouldn’t stroke a brush, instead he would use the wooden tip of the…

states “I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be” (Warhol 27), and he wanted to change that. He used mundane objects like his famous Campbell’s soup can and can make it into art and evoke emotion and questions from it. It is through surrealism Warhol is able to capture the viewers attention with his abstract and creative ways of showing something that is already overused. Warhol states in his book, POPism, “When you do something exactly wrong, you always turn up something”…

At some given point in history politics, religion and art inter-collide and create new vision for society to engage in. Artist Gianlorenzo Bernini created St. Teresa of Avila in Ecstasy during the Baroque ca. 1600-1700 CE. The sculpture, made with white marble, has gilded bronze rays with illuminating light that descends and brightens the figure from a hidden window above. It depicts a playful with smirky smile angel whom opens Teresa’s robe and aims with an arrow at her breast. It represents…