The article "On Not Going Home" by James Wood describes the complex web of shared language‚ senses‚ and cultural landmarks as the things that connect characters‚ or perhaps us‚ to a feeling of home. The usage of English Thomas Tallis’ choral composition “O Nata Lux” serves as a moving remembrance of home for the people. Tallis’s work‚ which is rich in both literary and cultural value‚ was specifically chosen to convey close bonds to the past. The ongoing development of culture represented by such
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construction to poster designs and paintings. Early 20th century “new art” design was very ornate‚ sometimes gothic or organic and very flamboyant. Next‚ was the Art Deco period from about 1920-1945. Art Deco was influenced partially by Art Nouveau‚ Cubism and Italian Futurism. Deco designs are influenced by sweeping curves and the geometric shapes. The technology of the time period such as aviation and the automobile employed a “streamlined” effect in almost ever design. Art Deco seems to draw from
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artists‚ from their techniques to their choice of color. Kandinsky uses the technique of abstraction‚ using irregular shapes‚ unorganized‚ and dull colors‚ therefore making it harder to understand. On the other hand‚ Picasso uses the technique of cubism‚ using more vivid warm colors and definite geometric shapes such as squares‚ triangles‚ rectangles‚ etc. In Picasso’s artwork‚ you can easily distinguish the images of the women compare to Kandinsky’s artwork‚ only the attentive viewer will be able
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Pablo Picasso and Leonardo Da Vinci ‚ are two great painters. These two artist interest me the most because of their popularity even years after their death. To-date‚ we still talk about the Mona lisa smile ‚ and the Vitruvian man with reference to the painting. These two paintings were done by Da Vinci and Picasso respectively. Picasso was a Spanish Painter who dominated Western art in the 20th century. He acquired the skill of drawing and painting at a very young age. He did many art works
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Appropriation in art is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them. The use of appropriation has played a significant role in the history of the arts . In the visual arts‚ to appropriate means to properly adopt‚ borrow‚ recycle or sample aspects of human-made visual culture. Notable in this respect are the Readymades of Marcel Duchamp. Inherent in our understanding of appropriation is the concept that the new work recontextualizes whatever it borrows
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method allowed art to be possible in the epistemologically unstable modern world. Indeed‚ with the development of modernism came dramatic shifts in the aesthetic paradigm for both visual and literary artists; similar to the new aesthetic schools of cubism‚ futurism‚ and surrealism inspired by redefinitions of time and space by scientists and philosophers of the twentieth-century‚ Eliot argued that the mythical method provided poets with a technique to reconcile present ideas with older linear conceptions
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Crawford’s work mainly consisted of architectural and industrial aspects made of precise lines and shapes‚ which some would say caused this piece to be considered part of the Cubism‚ Crawford’s creativity that makes this piece part of the Surrealist movement. His creativity influenced his piece Whitestone Bridge because it allowed him to achieve a realistic looking bridge while still creating a piece that displays imagine through
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Heart of Darkness: Modernism and Its Historians Author(s): Robert Wohl Reviewed work(s): Source: The Journal of Modern History‚ Vol. 74‚ No. 3 (September 2002)‚ pp. 573-621 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/345112 . Accessed: 30/09/2012 11:34 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service
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Andrea Proimos ENG 220-003 Final Essay SVONKIN Gertrude Stein and Cubist Poetry In the essay‚ “Spreading the Difference: One Way to Read Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons” Pamela Hadas describes the meaning behind Gertrude Stein’s unusual work Tender Buttons. While Pamela Hadas sees a two dimensional meaning in Stein’s work I argue that there is a modernist style used in Gertrude Stein’s work that is inspired from the cubist movement in art and philosophy. Pamela Hadas does not find Gertrude
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He used different materials such as fabric‚ magazines and newspapers blended with paint to create semi-abstract collages. His style was inspired by Cubism. “Bearden arranged his collages on paper or board and then glued them down” (National Gallery of Art). Most of his work depicts a story about African-American life and/or culture. “His works’ complexity lies in their poetic abstraction‚ in which
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