It’s rare that a single work of art can change the course of art history in such a concrete and dramatic way. Marcel Duchamp’s painting "Nude Descending a Staircase (No.2)" is one rare piece that has perplexed and awed many critics. It was widely regarded as a Modernist classic and has become one of the most famous of its time. In this essay‚ this piece of work will be analyzed‚ not only for its famous creator‚ but also for its form as well as its foundations of cubism and futuristic aspects. When
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Undeniable Respect In a time where gangsta rap swamped the hip hop industry and the east coast against west coast rappers strived for the topmost spot in the music industry. Tupac took a major risk and released his new song “Keep Ya Head Up”. This song also focuses on a man’s softer side and arguably is one of his best individual performances ever. The poem is an important piece of work because while the rappers in 1993 were referring to women as “hoes” and “bitches”‚ Tupac chose to honor women
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Vengeance is forbidden. Vengeance should never be on anyone’s mind. Vengeance is akin to a four letter word yet there are some who will admit that there is a certain allure‚ satisfaction‚ and fulfillment that comes with vengeance. A woman who “feeds” her vengeance would make her anger disappear‚ as Emily Dickinson once wrote in her poem “Mine Enemy is Growing Old”‚ “Anger as soon as fed is dead. ’T is starving makes it fat.” Vengeance feeds the anger but you will never get enough while choosing
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at the end of the nineteenth century‚ and that a new visual vocabulary was required to treat formal painting elements – ‘form‚ space‚ colour‚ and technique’ with fresh eyes.2 The Cubist movement is contemporarily regarded as twentieth-century classicism‚ and is so influential that it changed how art is viewed‚ perceived and created ever since.3 This essay hopes to provide a detailed description of Cubism. It will focus on the Cubist paintings of both artists‚ mapping the movement from 1907 –
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Phillis Wheatley‚ one of America’s most profound writers‚ has contributed greatly to American literature‚ not only as a writer‚ but as an African American woman‚ who has influenced many African Americans by enriching their knowledge of and exposure to their Negro heritage and Negro literature. As one of America’s most renown writers‚ Wheatley‚ said to be the mother of African American Literature‚ is best known for her sympathetic portrayals of African American thought. Wheatley’s literary contributions
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Christina Kiaer has described the main aim of the constructivist movement as ‘to mass produce transparent utilitarian things for use in everyday life’. How adequate is this description? Constructivism is primarily an art movement that was based in Russia in the early 20th century. It had a considerable link to the Russian Communist Revolution. They merged the arts with modern technological rationalism for political and ideological uses‚ being essentially a form of Soviet propaganda. The theory
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PURITAN LITERATURE three main points "Of Plymouth Plantation" by William Bradford Summary: Bradford describes life in the new Puritan (1)’city upon a hill’. The Puritans thanked God for bringing them to the new land and built their lives around him. Although‚ in the beginning‚ (2) they had to push through disease and harsh weather. Bradford also describes how lonely the Pilgrims felt‚ because no one could ’greet them’ and they were in a place in which they knew nothing about. He knew that
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The movie‚ Dead Poets Society directed by Peter Weir is set in an American private school during a time of romanticism in the first half of the twentieth century. Dead Poet’s Society negotiates the transition of poetry and life as an unconventional English teacher encourages a group of private school boys to seize the day. The boys intimidate the teachers youth by reforming the dead poet’s society and getting in touch with romanticism and their true inner life. However a fathers controlling nature
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7) In G. J. Finch’s (n.d) "Wordsworth‚ Keats and language of sense" he decodes the role played by the ’senses’ on their poetry. In the first half he discusses Wordsworth’s utilization of sight and hearing. The latter was of the opinion that ’senses...are interpreters of private language we share with Nature’. Furthermore Finch claims that the poet attempted to "seek meaning" via the "world of sight" as for him Nature offered pearls of wisdom that could be found by those that looked for it. This perspective
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Joni Mitchell is an accomplished musician‚ songwriter‚ poet and painter. In her own words: “I looked like a folksinger‚ even though the moment I began to write‚ my music was not folk music. It was something else that had elements of romantic classicism to it.” Hard to classify‚ Mitchell has pursued her ways of self-expression‚ heedless of commercial outcomes. She connected with a huge audience in the mid-Seventies when a series of albums – Court and Spark (1974)‚ The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975)
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