The Art of War

At the beginning of the 20th century, World War 1 had begun and with it came a new feeling for life and art. The question that had come about in life was, what exactly makes art...art? During each of the different artistic eras there are always transitional artists, those who lead the world into another direction. An example during the early 20th century is Marcel DuChamp (1887-1968). DuChamp spoke his mind and looked beyond the visual constraints that artists were placing on themselves at that…

| |d. |Max Beckmann | ____ 34. A painting that was done in reaction to World War I was __________. |a. |Ernst Kirchner's Street, Berlin | |b. |Wassily Kandinsky's Improvisation 28…

‘The notion of the sublime did not, however, explicitly engage Rothko states Anna Chave in her book Mark Rothko; subjects in abstraction (Chave, 1989, p. 17). Rothko distrusted high-flown approaches to his paintings and preferred to talk about his art work in his own terms of the emotions. Rothko was interested in the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, specifically the Birth of tragedy. Mark Rothko cites Nietzsche to provide a way to describe his own sense of modern tragedy as he felt that his…

Going to my arts classes on school always was my favorite part of the day. I got a break from the day while still practicing a skill. Take band for example, you get an entire period of playing music, that 's insanely awesome. Band is not the only class like this, there are many others of the same nature. Some examples are art, dance, and drama and all of their respective specifics. Some people think that these "extra" classes are not beneficial in any way to the wellbeing of a student. That…

cinema was born out of a ravaged post-World War I Europe in the 1920s. Various visual artists and writers took upon themselves to deride and challenge the conventional notions of plot, character, and setting, as they saw them as limiting and bourgeois. The aim of these artists was to point out how narrative films were artificial as well as contest the notion that there was only one way of filmmaking. “We should also add that internationally, experimental art was at that time closely connected…

myth of Aeneas was told through Virgil’s The Aeneid which was arguably the most popular poem of Ancient Rome and it has long been considered the national epic of the Roman Empire. The tale of Aeneas, a Trojan hero who fought the Greeks in the Trojan War, fled Troy when it was attacked by the Greeks. After he and his crew experienced a long trip they eventually landed in Latium (modern day Tuscany). Aeneas then married the daughter of King Latinus, which made King Turnus of Rutuli very angry…

military developed a reconstruction program. It helped to rehabilitate injured soldiers from the war, so they could return to active military duty or be employed. In early 1918 on a trial basis, the program started at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, DC. There were a group of physiotherapy aides and occupational therapy aides who used arts and crafts to treat the mind and body. OTs worked with both orthopedic and psychiatric patients. The program was also implemented…

reconstruction of Athens included the Athenian temple. When the Persian wars ended, Athens was thrust into a new age. The Golden Age marked a magnificent time for innovation and new temple of Athena. The Golden Age of Athens, which was part of the Classical Period of Greece, was not a peaceful time. One would think that the Greeks would cease to fight once the Persian wars were over, but that was not the case whatsoever. The Peloponnesian wars began during this Golden Age. No amount of…

1) Compare the two Greek sculptures in the video. Explain contrapposto in detail. Contrapposto is originated by the ancient Greeks. In the visual arts, it is a term that define a standing human figure is poised, which the sculpture has to look comfortable and natural. For example, put all the body weight on one leg, twist shoulders and arms, bent at the knee, etc. After watching the video, I can tell that the two sculptures have a lot differences, even though they both from Greece. The…

Title WWI was one of the deadliest wars in history; a global war between the Allies and Central Powers. This world war was the innovator for new technology advances, and political revolutions. Following WWI, the Weimar Republic underwent economic depression as well as political pressures due to the amounts of political parties trying to take power; insecurity of the people is reflected in the culture through music and visual art movements. High unemployment and war debt contributed to the…