influenced by the prominence of fine arts (e.g. painting) movements‚ referred to collectively as Avant-garde. Avant-grade contained styles that rejected the realistic depiction of a concrete world‚ movements such as German Expressionism and Soviet Montage. German Expressionism attempted to express raw‚ extreme emotions‚ in painting through garish colors and distortion and in theatre through “emphasized gestures‚ loud declamation of lines‚ staring eyes‚ and choreographed movements” (Thompson and
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Abstract Expressionism Art Movement History By: Sharmé Jackson Abstract Expressionism started in America as a post-World War II art movement. It was the first avant-garde art movement that arose from America. Never before in the history of art‚ the personality of an artist took such central stage and became both an inspiration and the subject of his/her own art. It is challenging to narrow down such multifaceted phenomenon as Abstract Expressionism‚ to distil the core of this intricate style
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Expressionism in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg‚ Ohio According to Webster’s New World Dictionary‚ expressionism is “a 20th-c movement in art‚ literature...seeking to give symbolic‚ objective expression to inner experience.” In his essay‚ “Anderson’s Expressionist Art‚” David Stouck writes‚ The Winesburg stories accumulate power from those exaggerated‚ stylized gestures by which a character is revealed or through which a scream of suffering is made to be heard. “Expressionism” is the formal term
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Mark Antliff‚ “The Fourth Dimension and Futurism: A Politicized Space‚” The Art Bulletin‚ Vol. 82‚ No. 4 (Dec. 2000)‚ pp. 720-733. 1. What does Antliff explore‚ with respect to the Futurists’ incorporation of aesthetic theories of time and space? Whose notions of temporality and intuitive consciousness does the author analyze? (p. 720) Antliff explores the futurists’ incorporations of aesthetic theories of time and space into a utopian campaign to transform the consciousness of the Italian
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According to the Tate Gallery’s exposition (1979) Cubism has remained the most important and influential movement of the 20th century‚ notwithstanding the movement’s short duration. According to Read (1994) the major period for Cubism was from 1907 to 1914‚ with Picasso and Braque as the main originators of the movement. The rationale for the Tate’s statement is given as “the artists associated with [Cubism] took some of the most decisive steps towards abstraction”‚ and this extreme development
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Since Cubism “had been prevalent in Paris for a decade before American soldiers got there‚” Darl would have been exposed to this style in France while serving in the war (Branch 42). Exposure to cubism provides Darl with a new means of conceiving reality. Cubism was an influential art style that emphasized two-dimensionality‚ fractured objects‚ geometric forms‚ and multiple vantage
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Cubism and Multiplicity of Narration in The Waste Land Abstract The aim of this essay is to consider the multiplicity of narration in The Waste Land and its relationship in enrichment of content and meaning in the poem. There is an attempt to convey the Cubist traits and find concrete examples in the poem. This study will try to specify evidences for conformity of cubism and multiplicity of narration in the poem. While Eliot juxtaposed so many perspectives in seemingly set of disjointed images‚
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Pop Art vs. Abstract Expressionism • Characteristics of Abstract Expressionist Paintings-optical buzz‚ all-over composition‚ Matisse sometimes painted images on large canvases‚ as did Picasso but paintings still retained an object like character- the viewer needed to stand back to see the complete composition. Abstract expressionist paintings‚ on the other hand‚ draw the spectator into them. The field of vision is thus larger than the field of vision of the spectator‚ who finds himself in a world
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German Expressionism: “Nosferatu” vs. “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” German expressionism is a movement that started post World War 1‚ and before the Second World War. It used a unique technique of shadowing and distinctive camera angles. The films during the movement told stories that mimicked the forbidding reality of the German’s life. For example‚ in “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari‚” the set design was painted to get the specific diagonals and claustrophobic atmosphere. Throughout the film‚ the
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The Cubist painter renounced the work of artists who drew only what society wanted to view as art. Instead of painting for the appraisers of conventional art‚ Cubist painters assembled shapes and movement from different angles to create a completely innovative artistic perspective. Like the Cubist artist‚ Gertrude Stein‚ a modernist writer of the 20th century‚ rejected the expectations of a society that required writing to model the speech of the English language just as it required art to model
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