Marcel Breuer

The two art pieces I chose when visiting the Detroit Institute of Arts are Cotopaxi by artist Frederic Edwin Church in 1862 and the Tomb of the Golden Engenderers by Carl Andre in 1976. The painting Cotopaxi was my favorite piece at the art museum. When I first saw it I was blown away by the beauty and skill of the painting. It is an oil canvas of the landscape in Ecuador named after the volcano Cotopaxi, showing an erupting volcano belching smoke and debris. It looked as if you were viewing the

After reading chapters 6 and 7 in our text book I am starting to appreciate artist and art itself more and more. Though after reading about the beat generation I felt like there was a lot happening. From what I read this generation bloomed in the early 1950’s. It was inspired by a group of people, writers I believe who helped to shape the definition of art up until today. It caught peoples/artist interest and helped them into the idea of being open to new experiences. In these chapters they did mention

1930's France saw the growth of a small film movement known as Poetic Realism. The tenants of this movement were loose at best and mostly consisted as a tendency that a handful of independent filmmakers used in their films. Their influences came primarily from literature of the time and the fantastic styles of Impressionism and Surrealism. From great literature came the scripts and stories for this movements. Great writers like Emil Zola and Leo Tolstoy had their tales appear on the screens of French

Surrealism: The Global Impact of the Puzzling Art Movement Imagine having the ability to observe an entirely new universe not yet explored by the human eye. Visualize having the ability to completely free your imagination, letting your thoughts and desires wander to form exotic scenes or locations. These unfamiliar worlds lay deep inside of the brain as subconscious thoughts, usually undetected by the person with them in his or her possession. With the help of the intriguing art movement known as

The early twentieth century represented a turbulent and changing time, socially and in respect to art, for the majority of the western world. Specifically, during and Post World War I the art culture was radically morphing into a completely polar form. As artists utilized new methods and represented emerging movements such Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, “suprematism”, The Readymade, Dada, and Surrealism they all relied in the same belief of rebellion. This rebellion varied depending upon the

Virginia Woolf is a prominent female writer, and is regarded as a skilled exponent of the stream of consciousness technique in English literature of the twentieth century. Being uninterested in the traditional way of novel writing, she made great efforts on the experiment and innovation of novel writing and rebelled against some of the British novelists of her era, including Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy and H. G. Wells. By trying out her technical experiments with fiction in her earlier sketches

Modernism is characterized by the rejection of tradition. Creatives of the Modernist era questioned what came before, looking for fresh ways to interpret familiar subjects, rejecting historical themes while searching for a means to understand and communicate the present (Medina 1995). Furthermore, Belting (2003, 17) states Modernism embraced “all the crises and schisms of the modern world”. The key points of this paper will be ascertained through the evaluation of four European Modernist artworks

This study examines the different ideas by Truman Capote in his novel, Breakfast at Tiffany's. The novel exposes the readers to the different escapades of the characters that are faced with conditions and situations that influence their actions and behaviors. While doing so, the study seeks to explore different themes and stylistic devices that the author used to communicate the ideas in the novel. Importantly, the novel exposes the readers to a psychological struggle ensue in the need to establish

completely rejecting the standard ideas of art since the mid-1960’s. Since then, many artists have made a name for themselves by self-consciously expanding the boundaries of art. Many of these artists have said they’ve linked their work to artist Marcel Duchamp. Damien Hirst for example has pushed boundaries with his unconventional use of materials, using objects such as whole dead sharks, a cows head and human teeth. Unlike other pieces of Conceptual art which at time can seem difficult to understand

Virginia Woolf’s “To the lighthouse” has many themes that can be discussed, especially those related to art, life, reality and time. Some critics argue that there is a life-art relationship in the novel, “perceived relations of equivalence between emotional experience and aesthetic (con)figuration, between ‘life’ on the one hand, and shape, trope, structure on the other” (Koppen, 375). However, one must analyze the novel in order to find if it can be true what these critics say. If it is true that