Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance were a period of time where the writing style changed from traditional to artists expressing themselves in new ways. From 1910 to 1940‚ America changed drastically. The Great War‚ roaring 20s‚ and the Great Depression were such an example of a few influences for the writers and artists of this time. Langston Hughes is one of the most famous writer and poet known from the Harlem Renaissance. In his writings‚ African American life was the subject. Hughes’ family
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Georgia O’Keeffe was an artist. Her main media was oil painting and she expressed abstraction and modernism in her artwork. Georgia used the environment all around her for inspiration. Her most profound works were painted between the years 1929 and 1972‚ when she lived in New Mexico. Many of her pieces featured desert landscapes‚ animal bones‚ and flowers. She was her own person and her talent and ambition helped create a new place for women in the world of art. Georgia’s parents‚ Francis and Ida
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1- Where? This Project‚ just as many other Richard Meier projects‚ is built within a heavily contrasting context of nature‚ hovering over the shores of lake Michigan. The white reinforced concrete and glass are easily distinguishable from it’s exuberant background heavy in shades of green which invokes a sense of being deep within a forest‚ away from all man made things‚ making the project all the more contrasting and also creating a sense of privacy for the entire property which is seldom achieved
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The blackbird is the only element in nature which is aesthetically compatible with bleak light and bare limbs: he is‚ we may say‚ a certain kind of language‚ opposed to euphony‚ to those "noble accents and lucid inescapable rhythms" which Stevens used so memorably elsewhere in Harmonium. … There are thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird because thirteen is the eccentric number; Stevens is almost medieval in his relish for external form. This poetry will be one of inflection and innuendo; the inflections
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critical criticism on fine art values. Pop Art started around early 1960s‚ mostly associated with New York artists such as Andy Warhol‚ Claes Oldenburg‚ Roy Lichtenstein. Pop Art’s reestablishment was a huge transformation for the direction of modernism. They
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The song outlines how Bowie strives to change his path‚ to change the outcome – I look life and right‚ yet the same outcome keeps happening‚ he continues to crash the car. Always Crashing in the Same Car becomes a recognition that although he is yearning to change is course and stop making the same mistake he known that it is a yearning that will not come to pass. As Bowie will continue to crash in the same car the song truly outline the notion of future nostalgia. As the song outlines the wishing
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measures to get noticed‚ hence Chris Burden’s Shoot and so on. If Xiao Yu had have put his dead female fetus head in an artwork forty years ago he would have been arrested immediately. However‚ it would be silly to suggest that all artists from modernism onward‚ seek only to shock or disgust their audience. Some‚ such as Kiki Smith‚ seek to get people to re-evaluate their stance with the natural world‚ and whether or not we are doing enough to look after it. Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain in 1917‚
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The material Marcus uses to draw or paint‚ seems as a thick outline and you could almost touch it (well you know that you are able to touch it‚ but you are not allowed to touch it because of the museum rules). Also‚ Marcus created two sculptures and they were impressive. One of them was titled Lolly made from serpentine and it was the like the outline of a head of a women and it could be viewed only from two sides‚ if you saw her from the front it was a
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Architect Patrick Hodgkinson‚ who worked for the likes of Alvor Aalto and Leslie Martin‚ designed the Brunswick Centre‚ often described as a ‘Superblock’ or ‘Mega structure’ located in the heart of Bloomsbury. Hodgkinson gained recognition for his completion of this building‚ which he inherited from Leslie Martin. The raw concrete bunker‚ built in 1968-1972‚ became one of the most controversial structures in London of the time. With Hodgkinson’s original design somewhat compromised‚ the project fell
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Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf Modernism is a literary movement in which writers believed new forms of expression were necessary to relay the realities of a modern and fractured world. The modernist movement was concerned with creating works of art relevant to a rapidly changing world in which institutions such as religion‚ capitalism‚ and social order were thrown into question by new and confusing ideas‚ technologies and world events such as World War I. Virginia Woolf‚ one of the most eminent
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