THE 1920’s: MODERNISM Main writers from this period Oscar Wilde Joseph Conrad W.B. Yeats Henry James Arnold Bennett John Galsworthy H.G. Wells Modernism first came to England at the end of 19th century in the work of Oscar Wilde‚ the early W.B. Yeats and Joseph Conrad and later‚ Henry James. But in the first decade and a half of the century there is a reaction against the avant-garde movement and there is a return to a more realistic and traditional kind of writing (Arnold Bennett
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The work of the Spanish painter Paco Pomet (Granada‚ 1970) inserts itself against the flow in the contemporary visual culture of intensive production of images vindicating the use of the imagination to challenge the common‚ and obsolete‚ perception of reality. For the execution of his paintings‚ the artist selects anonymous images‚ usually from photographic archives‚ and reproduces them with astonishing accuracy and exceptional technical mastery. Along with this operation‚ Pomet distorts the meaning
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Born in Hanover‚ Germany in 1887 was the artist Kurt Schwitters. Swhwitters’ is known for his unique contribution to twentieth-century art and literature. In 1908 he began his study of art and of writing poetry. Between 1908 and 1914 he attended various art schools including Kunstschule in Hannover‚ Germany‚ and the Berliner Akademie de Kunste.1 He was labeled untalented in traditional academic art because of his influence from Dadaism‚ Cubism‚ German Expressionism‚ and similar avant-garde movements
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The aftermath of World War II‚ The Holocaust‚ and the age of the atomic bomb instilled in the sculpture of the mid-1940s a sense that art should return to its pre-cultural and pre-rational origins. In the literature of the day‚ writers such as Jean-Paul Sartre advocated a similar reductive philosophy.[36] At an introductory speech in New York City for an exhibition of one of the finest modernist sculptors‚ Alberto Giacometti‚ Sartre spoke of "The beginning and the end of history".[37] Moore’s sense
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Robert Hobbs tells us in his article Early Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism‚ that over the years the Abstract Expressionists were stumbling through a number of half understood truths about modern art and attempting to find a way to communicate their feelings about the apocalyptic state of the world. The Abstract Expressionism movement is similar in many ways to the 1920’s Surrealism movement. There are similarities and differences between the two styles. Hobbs tells us that although both Surrealism
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Modernism was a time when the definition of what was considered art drastically changed. A piece of art used to relate to how realistic that piece looked. Now art can be anything and could be distorted from reality to express a message. One artist at that time was Lyonel Feininger. Feininger was inspired by the Gothic style and his first trip to Germany in 1906 led to paintings of two medieval churches(“Regler Church‚ Erfurt.”). Lyonel first made a charcoal drawing of Regler Church in Erfurt Germany
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By the time Surrealism emerged as a recognized artistic movement‚ several influential film genres had begun their push into a global cinematic conscience. Such genre-defining films as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and Nosferatu (1922) for German Expressionism‚ and Battleship Potemkin (1925) for Soviet Montage‚ were all released within a few years of Andre Breton’s First Manifesto of Surrealism in 1924. But Surrealism itself would not see its first film with popular recognition until later in
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sister. He used to call her Mai. Gopal did not have an impressive personality in his childhood. He was very thin and not properly dressed in his childhood. He was accompanied by his elder sister on their way to school. Still she was in his order. Dada did not accompany us on our way to school. Both of us go to school- myself and Mai. There was a big bag around my neck. All books were kept in it. The ink pot was entangled in the left-hand fingers. Loose half pant. Cotton buttons‚ a collarless shirt
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The Art Scab George Grosz‚ Berlin Dada‚ and the Spartacus League I. Introduction A. Topic During post World War I Germany‚ the Weimar Republic was established as bourgeois capitalistic democracy. However‚ the period was plagued with income inequality‚ corruption‚ and authoritarianism. At the start of this period‚ the German Revolution spread around the country. In Berlin‚ the Spartacus League‚ founded as a communist alternative to the Socialist Democrats of Germany party‚ was pushing for
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2. Dada embraced self-expression‚ impulse‚ spontaneity and imagination. Why were these particular qualities appealing to Dadaists as artists and social commentators? Ciaran Bullen. The World at War. To appreciate Dada‚ one must first know the context of its time. To truly understand Dada‚ one must understand the deep pain of the artists‚ the ferocity of the disgust toward the bestiality of their supposedly modern world‚ and the deep longing for change at the hearts of its various contributors
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