Morisot painted what she experienced on a daily basis. Her paintings reflect the 19th-century cultural restrictions of her class and gender. She avoided urban and street scenes as well as the nude figure and‚ like her fellow female Impressionist Mary Cassatt‚ focused on domestic life and portraits in which she could use family and personal friends as models. Paintings like The Cradle‚ in which she depicted current trends for nursery furniture‚ reflect her sensitivity to fashion and advertising‚ both
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focused on the birth of the modern world. Describe in detail 3 key cultural‚ scientific‚ philosophical or political dimensions of the Enlightenment and 3 key aspects of the later Modernist movement. In your conclusion‚ compare the Enlightenment with Modernism. How were these movements similar and different? How did they shape modern Western culture? 2. The French Revolution was perhaps the single most important geopolitical event of the 18th and 19th centuries. Drawing on your secondary and primary
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Alvar Aalto The figurehead of modernism and leader of bringing architecture back to the human scale that once was‚ Alvar Aalto is now an architectural inspiration to us all. Aalto did not use his architecture as a learning tool but more as a gesture toward the emotional and physical needs of man. His architecture was meant to enrich the lives of those it served. Aalto focused on context in site in relation to the human body. Forms‚ light and shadow were inspired by the Finnish forests Aalto grew
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Maude Place Modernism 31C 4/12/13 Reading Response: Week 2 In Clement Greenberg’s essay‚ “Avant Guard and Kitsch‚” he divides art into two different categories: Kitsch and the Avant-Guard (genuine art or inauthentic works). He touches upon the marginalization of the Avant-Guard artists in the modern world because of the irresistible nature of Kitsch. Mass media being an art form developed from the industrial revolution is scrutinized within Greenberg’s essay for being of a lesser value
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William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin in 1865. He was born into a highly artistic family with his father being a talented painter and his sisters involved in the arts and craft movement. Yeats grew up under the nationalist revival of the late 19th century which disadvantaged his heritage and influenced his attitude and outlook for the rest of his life. In 1876 the Yeats family moved to England to benefit William’s fathers painting career. William was home schooled for while‚ then transferred to
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Man Ray’s career is distinctive above all for the success he achieved in both the United States and Europe. First maturing in the center of American modernism in the 1910s‚ he made Paris his home in the 1920s and 1930s‚ and in the 1940s he crossed the Atlantic once again‚ spending periods in New York and Hollywood. His art spanned painting‚ sculpture‚ film‚ prints and poetry‚ and in his long career he worked in styles influenced by Cubism‚ Futurism‚ Dada and Surrealism. He also successfully navigated
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Mouron Cassandre and Moholy Nagy as well as an understanding of line through the works of artists such as Paul Klee. Rand developed elements from these artists and fused them with the American Modernist Movement that grew out of the 1930’s. Modernism was a movement that continued to change and grow as the twentieth century progressed. During Rand’s time‚ modernist art expression started to merge with American pop culture. Other designers of the time‚ such as Lester Beall‚ Saul Bass and Bradbury
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themes. The assignment is broken down into four parts. Part 1: Choose a Romantic Poem Romantic literature champions the beauty of the world and the inherent goodness of human beings‚ and Romantic verse is highly structured and deeply traditional. Modernism frequently defines itself as a reaction against and a rejection of romanticism. Modernist poets viewed Romantic poetry as a remnant of the nineteenth century. Modernists did not think that writing as the Romantics did in the 1800s could effectively
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he left behind. He is exiled because of his writing freely about his culture‚ region. He wants to write especially primity‚ not modern society full with machines. He uses impressionistic language. MODERNISM Modernism is a 20th century literary‚ artistic and cultural movement. It is a reaction against historical and academic traditions conventions. Modernist writers think that new is good. Individuality and personal experiences are important. They believe
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William Butler Yeats On June 13‚ 1865 the erie town of Sandymount‚ Ireland welcomed William Butler Yeats‚ who later becomes a legend in modern English literature. In 1867 his family moved to London‚ but he frequently visited his grandparents in Northern Ireland. There he was immensely influenced by the folklore of the region. Eventually in 1881 his family returned to Dublin. There Yeats studied at the Metropolitan School of Art‚ getting increasingly more focused on literature‚ and later evolving
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