Modernism as a movement was a response to the horrors of World War-I and to the rising industrial societies and growth of cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It challenged the harmony and the rationality of the Enlightenment and sought to reinvent art and literature of the age. To do so‚ it broke away from the works of the past and conventions that were earlier held at a pedestal. The conception that reality could be easily be comprehended was replaced by modernism with a more
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HISTORY CHANGES LITERATURE Every single act or fact that occurs during the life of an author affects how they think and of course‚ how they write. During the early XVII century‚ Shakespeare was influenced by the ideas of inventors and thinkers like Diderot‚ Rousseau‚ and others. Other authors have also been influenced by the historic events and people of their time. Ernest Hemingway is one of these authors. Hemingway was influenced by his experience during WWI‚ and used it to write his most famous
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as muses for artists and is also a subject of desire. On the other hand 3. What were the ideas of Cubism‚ Futurism and Dada? Cubism An early-20th-century avant-garde art movement pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. Cubism began as an idea and then it became a style. Based on Paul Cézanne’s three main ingredients: geometrically‚ simultaneity (multiple views) and passage - Cubism tried to describe‚ in visual terms‚ the concept of the Fourth Dimension. Futurism An artistic and social
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scene with five prostitutes‚ violently painted women‚ reminiscent of African tribal masks and his own new Cubist inventions. Analytic cubism‚ the first clear manifestation of cubism‚ was followed by synthetic cubism‚ practised by Braque‚ Picasso‚ Fernand Léger‚ Juan Gris‚ Albert Gleizes‚ Marcel Duchamp and countless other artists into the 1920s. Synthetic cubism is characterized by: • The introduction of different textures • Surfaces • Collage elements • Papier collé • Large variety of
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1880 - 1905 France Van Gogh Henri Rousseau A late 19th-century reaction to Impressionism‚ Emphasizing on one hand the emotional aspect of painting and on the other a return to formal structure The first led to Expressionism; the second‚ to Cubism. Art Nouveau 1890 - 1910 France Alphonse Mucha Jules Cheret Henri Toulouse Subtle light‚ feminine figures‚ fluent dresses‚ geometric details‚ colorful new shapes. Decorative art form‚ consumer mentality instead of necessity. A style
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it was known as “cubism”. This movement marked the beginning of modernism. Marcel Duchamp has been known for his rebellious ideas and actions in the 20th century. He was born in France but moved to the USA‚ and became a US citizen in 1955. His works were known as “Ready-mades”. Duchamp’s ready-mades changed what art meant. He bought elements that would never have been regarded as art. Some people saw it as less art and more “putting together”. This movement was called “Dadaism”. This essay will
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and of writing poetry. Between 1908 and 1914 he attended various art schools including Kunstschule in Hannover‚ Germany‚ and the Berliner Akademie de Kunste.1 He was labeled untalented in traditional academic art because of his influence from Dadaism‚ Cubism‚ German Expressionism‚ and similar avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century that was reflected onto his work. Starting post World War I‚ Schwitters’ offered his personal vision of middle-class culture of the time in the form of collage
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significantly on spectatorship. The rhythm of the sound‚ movement and editing conspire to produce the effect of a trance film” (Keller). This sort of artistic expression within her film could have been the creative vision and influence from cubism‚ conceptual art and dadaism. Deren openly admired Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp‚ with the latter being casted in one of her unfinished films titled Witch’s Cradle (1943). This collaboration with Marcel Duchamp was to produce a film that exhibited the choreographed
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Question: Write a short note on Modernism with special reference to Literature Almost every generation of society has a habit of reacting against the past by declaring itself “modern.” This quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns is a cyclical phenomenon. Modernism was a similar trend that spanned all of the arts and even spilled into politics and philosophy during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Anyone who looks at the evolution of western culture must note a distinct change
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Dadaism and Surrealism Western Governors University Dadaism and Surrealism The Dadaism art movement is part of history now. The movement began in Zurich and New York around the time of the First World War. ("Dada‚" n.d.) Dadaism was aimed at the artists who felt art created spiritual values. There was a focus on the failure of this by the endless days of war‚ the art of previous era’s had done nothing to create spiritual values in the followers mind. Dada was a protest against what
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