Design Influences 1920s The economic glory days of the 1920s is renowned for its luxury items and art movements but was this just for an elitist sect to the decade known as the golden era? The ’roaring twenties ’ was a period of striking change and social upheaval. The period was of dramatic technological advancements as the 1920s witnessed new discoveries and inventions that became the foundation of prosperous businesses in virtually every field. The Great War had hastened development
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Jooss’ The Green Table Expressionism can be described as a movement in the fine arts that emphasized the expression of inner experience rather than realistic portrayal‚ looking to obtain not objective reality‚ but the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse in the artist. Several characteristics of expressionism are distortion‚ exaggeration‚ primitivism‚ and fantasy. “The Green Table‚” a ballet by Kurt Jooss‚ 1932‚ is an ideal example of expressionism because it depicts the
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people will go to the extreme to convince us of their ways even when it comes to the most harmless and minuscule of things. The musical accomplish this by creating a mashup of theatrical styles and isms‚ such as using both high and low comedy‚ expressionism‚ and realism. First off‚ the musical had many elements of farce which is one of the forms of low
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Murnau‚ a film loosely based on Dracula‚ gained worldwide fame. These films were designed to stir emotions and feelings amongst the audiences using dark shadows; unusual camera angles and intense lighting and they were also part of the expressionism genre. These and other films were symbolic of the experimental and imaginative nature of German film production in the 1920s. There was a theatre called ‘The Agitprop theatre’. It was a named over a combination of the words "tension" and "propaganda"
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Expressionism started as a visual art form for an antidote to the beauty of impressionism. The point was to deny immediate perceptions of things‚ to analyse things then send them back as a pure but different view of that thing (it?s sometimes called ?anti-realism). I can give you a very simple example of expressionism: If I showed an impressionist a vase of flowers‚ they might produce something akin to ?A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers? by Edgar Degas. An expressionist might show you something
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painted in 1943. Even though it was produced roughly thirty years after the Cubist collage movement‚ it is still constructed in the way that presents it as if it was created during that time period. Abstract is presented in the form of a Synthetic Cubism piece where images are built up from outside elements and shapes. Wilson uses shapes and colors more like a designer than a representational painter. The art explores the simple geometric shapes of the built environment. An important thing to consider
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Picasso’s works were influenced by Yaneris Turbi de Hernandez Professor Michael Cain English Composition II April 10‚ 2013 Picasso’s works were influenced by Many of Picasso’s works are influenced by his father who was a painter‚ for the death of his close friend Carlos Casagemas‚ and also for the World War I (Spanish civil war-Guernica). Picasso’s love for art was somewhat genetic. His father‚ Jose Ruiz Blasco‚ was a painter as well and he loved art. Picasso was quick to express his desire
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Fauvism - is the style of les Fauves (French for "the wild beasts")‚ a loose group of early twentieth-century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism. Green Stripe- In 1905‚ Matisse painted a unique oil and tempera painting of his wife‚ Amélie Noellie Matisse-Parayre. (Amelia). The infamous green stripe creates a shadow line down her oval face. The divide provides an illusion of a dark and
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Dali was influenced by many different arts in his lifetime. A Few of those included Surrealism‚ Metaphysical and cubism. However‚ he did not completely understand the cubism movement in the beginning. Dali joined the surrealist movement in 1926. This movement was to explore the world between reality and dreams. (Salvador Dali) Many would probably agree that Dali being a surrealist was
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as Pablo Picasso‚ Born 25 October 1881 in Malaga Spain and died 8 April 1973‚ aged 91 in Mougins‚ France was one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. Picasso is known for bringing the cubist movement into the world of art. Cubism was a movement in the 20th century in which the perspective was changed from a single viewpoint and the natural forms of things were turned abstract; simple geometric structures with vibrant colors were placed together to create a picture. When Picasso
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