Edger Allen Poe: Master of the Macabre Regarded as the inventor of the modern detective story‚ the pioneer of the science fictions‚ such as the time travel stories‚ and the author of tales of imaginations and mysteries‚ the name of Edger Allen Poe shines like a brightest star in the American author’s universe. He was well-known for his horror and frightening stories. His personal life was also a legend of dejection‚ dreadfulness and sorrow itself. His personality was full of morbid fascination because
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practice on the basis of one work” (Art world Magazine) The works of both Picasso and Kahlo are recognised worldwide and are typified by their unique styles that portray their expressive meaning‚ both artists worked in the modern art movement of Surrealism fusing the dream world with reality. Their lives were intrinsically linked to their conceptual frameworks which related to world events‚ politics and life experiences. Both artists explore a variety of concepts through their works and it is difficult
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Continuum The moon rolls over the roof and falls behind my house‚ and the moon does neither of these things‚ I am talking about myself. It’s not possible to get off to sleep or the subject or the planet‚ nor to think thoughts. Better barefoot it out the front. door and lean from the porch across the privets and the palms into the washed-out creation‚ a dark place with two particular bright clouds dusted (query) by the moon‚ one’s mine the other’s an adversary‚ which may depend on the
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Stephen Crane wrote many short stories‚ one of which was Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. His stories contained various aspects of Naturalism‚ a literary movement that sought to replicate a believable everyday reality‚ as opposed to Romanticism or Surrealism‚ in which subjects may receive highly symbolic‚ idealistic‚ or even supernatural treatment. Poverty‚ abuse and a survival of the fittest way of life created an environment which Maggie was negatively influenced by. Her environment is made up of
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inspiration. Since cameras were invented and there was no need for people to draw realistic images that could be captured using a camera. Instead they wanted to draw totally different realities that came from the unconscious mind. This movement was called Surrealism. It was developed in Paris in 1924 and was inspired by Freud’s discoveries. One of the artist during this movement was Joan Miro and his masterpiece titled‚ “The Birth of the World”. He said that for this painting he wanted to create “the amorphous
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"The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless." (Pablo Picasso) What is cubism? Cubism is essentially the art of creating abstract shapes of three dimensional objects on a two dimensional surface. In cubist artwork‚ objects are analyzed‚ broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form rather than portraying objects from one point of view‚ the artist portrays the
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AAS COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE Department of Art Design & Performance Course: Historical Contextual Studies Semester: Second Module: DD1000 Student Name: Smaragda Kalliga Tutor Name: Anastasia Mavromati (James P. Battersby) ESSAY: Chose a designer who was influencial in the development of ‘Modernism’ in America‚ and discuss their work. The master designer Paul Rand provided the best Modernist definition of graphic desegn: ‘To design is much more than simply to assemble
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Marc Chagall was a Russian born French artist born on July 7‚1887 in Vitebk (Russian Empire). He was a surrealism and expressionism artist who lived through both world wars. Chagall was raised as a devoted Jew who was degraded and discriminated during World War 2. The Nazi officials mocked his art. During the Nazi campaigns against modern art Chagall was in
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Frida Kahlo was born on July 6‚ 1907‚ as Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón. Three years after Kahlo’s birth the Mexican Revolution began. This was a major event in Mexican history as well as an influence on much of Kahlo’s art. She was a surrealist painter which means that she expressed her deepest feelings and thoughts through her paintings. The public viewed her as a high spirited yet rebellious woman who liked to paint what she knew. Her daily life was reflected into most if not all of her
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As stated in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ “the course of love never did run smooth.” The majority have experienced hardships within relationships and are aware that‚ in many cases‚ it is these individualistic quirks that form the adhesives to a healthy and strong long-lasting love. The word ‘love’ itself could be seen as merely an umbrella term‚ which houses much unconventionality on many levels. However‚ something with such intense depth and hazard has many potential outcomes‚ and not
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