MODERNISM: The Aesthetics of Abstract Expressionism Project Prepared for Donald McIntyre Professor‚ DeVry University Project Prepared by Colleen Mitchell Student‚ DeVry University June 7‚ 2009 Modernism is one of the cultural movements which took place in the nineteenth to the twentieth century. This movement was sure to draw attention to the artists’ work of art mainly because of the complexity of the artist’s creativity and breaking away from the more traditional works. Abstract
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be a sign of modernity. Traditions‚ quite often‚ keep us United‚ but modernity‚ usually‚ takes us apart from each other. A tradition implies belief or custom‚ passed on to us by our ancestors. Much of what we do today has its roots in the past. Modernism is in total contras with the ideas or methods of the traditional ones. Old‚ it is said‚ is gold and should be preserved carefully. But it is also an unavoidable fact that old is to be given up for good to enter the New Era. There is a lot in our
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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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Modernist writing is also very self-reflexive and deals with inner thoughts and feelings. A broken narrative can be present which is when the narrative stops completely or utilizes flashbacks and often picks up on different threads of thought. Modernism also holds a huge concern for tradition. I believe that modernist writer‚ Wallace Stevens‚ utilizes all the above aspects in his poem‚ “Sunday Morning.” The fragmentary thoughts are very apparent throughout Steven Wallace’s poem because the work
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Tarantino’s style taught that if done right you could draw any emotion you wanted to out of the audience at any moment during the film. This is why we find all these situations amusing. I think that Baudrillard summed up Pulp Fiction and postmodernism perfectly when he sad this in 1993; Disneyland is there to conceal the fact that it is the ’real country‚ all of ’real’ America‚ which is Disneyland (just as prisons are there to conceal the fact it is the social in its entirety‚ in all its
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Nijinsky’s Contribution to Modernism Vaslav Nijinsky was a famous dancer turned choreographer with the Russian ballet company the Ballets Russes during the early 1900’s (Nijinsky). Though he spent only a few short years as a choreographer with the Ballets Russes‚ Nijinksy helped propel ballet into the modern era with a new form of movement that would influence dancers for many‚ many generations to come. Nijinsky’s presentation of new sexual identities held within the choreography of his ballets
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GEOFFREY SCOTT AND ARCHITECTURAL MODERNISM 2 3 Introduction In Geoffrey Scott’s book The Architecture of Humanism (1914) formulates a series of arguments against a number of theoretical positions. Scott identifies these theoretical positions as fallacies underlying architectural theory which is not proper to architecture. The four types of fallacy he distinguishes are the ‘Romantic Fallacy’‚ the ‘Mechanical Fallacy’‚ the ‘Ethical Fallacy’ and the ‘Biological Fallacy’. This paper is to
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“The importance of Modernism was in its ability to unite the masses by illuminating common feelings of disillusionment and rebellion through artistic forms.” Argue with reference to two poems of T.S Eliot and one additional text of you choosing. Rebellion and Disillusionment were fundamental feelings expressed by Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They came about as a result of a myriad of factors including; industrialisation‚ urbanisation‚ technological advances‚ militaristic
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Modernism in Earnest Hemingway’s Literature “The Old Man and the Sea” Introduction: 1. The definition of Modernism 2. The definition of Realism 3. The definition of terms 4. The significance of the study Chapter one: 1. The theory of Modernism 2.1. Stream of consciousness 2.2. Internal monologue 2. Realism as a literary technique 3.3. Internal realism Chapter two: 1. the implication of American modernism through the main characters
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What is Modernism? This term was usually referred to as the literature era of the 1920’s. During the “Roaring Twenties”‚ as most would say‚ was the time of flappers‚ gangsters‚ and the beginning of some of the most renowned literature known to the United States. One of the famous books written in this time was The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. Included in the Modernism Era were the focus on trends and the extreme effect materialism makes on the society of the 1920’s. With
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