Surrealism

While most films offer a sort of distraction from reality, musicals are often a utopia of wealth and happiness (Belton, 2009). Through dazzling song and dance, they make routine look like pageantry and loneliness feel like individuality. Even the most conservative of musicals transform the everyday into a spectacle, transitioning dramatic tensions into a melodic fanfare. Singing liberates the characters to express themselves in a way that mere words never could, giving them a freedom from the…

ANALYSES OF THE LOVELIEST TREES AND TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG BY HOUSMAN Alfred Edward Housman was an English poet and one of the greatest classical scholars of all time. In this essay, I will analyse two poems “The Loveliest Trees” and “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman from modern era in England. These poems call as modern poems. First of all, I want to mention about modernism, characteristics of modernism and characteristics of modern English poetry. Modernism is a literary movement…

Jean Baudrillard The Hyper-realism of Simulation In Baudrillard's essay “The Hyper-realism of Simulation (originally published in 1976), He stresses that the use of media, signs, and symbols has overloaded our culture to the point that “reality itself, as something separable from signs of it …vanished in the information-saturated, media-dominated contemporary world” (J.Baudrillard, 2006). Mass Media i.e television, photography, and advertising have shaped and our human interaction and…

Introduction The twentieth century’s art had a long and hard period of the development between the two World Wars. The early twentieth century started from the Fauvism movement that was led by Henri Matisse and his coloured way to define the reality. The avant-garde stream brought an art revolution that included Cubism and Dadaism. The Abstract Expressionism emerged in the U.S. after the chaos of the World War II. It became the first American movement that gained an international significance.…

America and Her Roots Through America's indigenous art form; jazz, to the works of American artists such as Jackson Pollock and Romare Bearden, and to the impact of famous works of literature such as The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald. America's culture has a unique identity that has been uprooted ever since the beginning of her history. Throughout her history, America "the great" has forged her cultural identity to be a land of progress, democracy, corruption, and a country full of…

The motif of the struggle between right and wrong, strong and weak also appeared long ago in human life. But, writing about evil, the fight against crime with repentance tormented the peak to the end of the vast literature of the nineteenth century, Dostoevsky. There is a world of the offense in Dostoevsky’s art, but also an aesthetic world neutralizes evil, evil will eradicate evil and build a human personality in his work. World of horrible crimes, horrors in Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky…

Modern art was revolutionary, in all senses of the word. It birthed artists such as Matisse, Picasso and Moore. Matisse, Picasso’s rival, made Fauvism popular and was inspired to do things differently to others. Picasso in turn, brought Cubism into the art industry, and became arguably one of the most famous and well known artists in the world. Moore was not as famous as the other two artists, but he also was unique, in the way that he used sculpture as his main medium. These three revolutionary…

In every book shop across America, individuals are confronted with the extreme inquiry of what book ought to be purchased. There are a great many books laying on racks all over the place however what makes a reader get a novel to purchase and read? Taking a gander at a book means individuals can get thoughts regarding what kind of book is in their grasp. Most books snatch their audience of people by the way that they look, all things considered. A wide range of writers and distributors pick…

and I” to Latin America’s Gabriela Mistral, who stood out for her the way should could emotionally display what was going on during her time period. Out of all of the standout choices. Pablo Neruda stood out the most. No, he did not bring back surrealism like Vincente Alexander but he tried to have an impact on the country in which he lived.…

The Harlem Renaissance (1919-1929) The Harlem Renaissance, originally known as the New Negro Movement, received its’ name from Harlem, a large neighborhood within Manhattan, New York. From 1917-1935, nearly 175,000 African Americans, mainly from the south, turned this neighborhood into the largest concentration of black people in the world. Out of this, came a cultural, social, artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that lit a new black cultural identity. Important Events • The…