Marcel Weyland

Nationalism is defined as "loyalty and devotion to a nation; a sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups" in the Merriam Webster's Dictionary. This is a reoccurring theme in both Pan Tadeusz and Gone With the Wind. Adam Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz is an epic poem that takes place in Poland in the years of 1811 and 1812 while Gone With the Wind

Each artist of the Dada era had a new way of expressing Freud?s ideas. They also felt that art was a powerful means of self-revelation, and that the images came from ones subconscious mind had a truth of its own. As Marcel Duchamp mocked the Mona Lisa by drawing a Padilla 3 mustache on her, stated that the painting was a lewd message set by the conventional way of thinking. Since the Dada artist did not believe in western culture this made sense, because people only

The Whitney Museum of American Art has often been referred to a citadel of American Art, partially due to the museums façade, a striking granite building (Figure 1), designed by Bauhaus trained architect Marcel Breuer. The museum perpetuates this reference through its biennial review of contemporary American Art, which the Whitney has become most famous for. The biennial has become since its inception a measure of the state of contemporary art in America today. Since the Museum's opening in 1931

Many times in society, life is sometimes influenced by art and during other times art is imitated by life. Art being able to imitate life means that the brush strokes of a painter or the innovative ideas of an architect are influenced by the world around him or her. During the years of 1900-1917 the United States was going through a number of changes. These changes helped to indentify the period as the Reformation Era. During the Reformation era the United States was becoming reshaped politically

world, Marcel Duchamp changed the way we look at and produce art today. Marcel Duchamp was by far, one of the most controversial figures in art. Two of the most well known and talked about pieces by him are The Fountain and The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even . Duchamp created many other pieces that caught the attention of critics, other artists, and the population in a negative way; however, these two pieces alone, brought about the greatest amount of controversy. In 1917, Marcel Duchamp

These guidelines are based on my experience, influenced by other designers and mainly taught from my University. As examples I will use two projects, that I have done throughout my second year of the Bachelor degree, Living Image – Marcel Duchamp ‘Sonata’ and Design for dance – ‘SkingCage’. I chose those two because they have some similarities and some differences that I can use in order to explain my beliefs on how a performance designing team works, the journey that is needed to

It’s the year 2014. We have discovered flight, we have been to outer space, we have the Internet. We even have GPS shoes for those who can’t read a map. What more is there to learn, to discover, to create? Yet we are never satisfied, constantly hungry for more answers to our questions. For writers like Leo Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf, understanding the world and its intricacies is essential. However, their approaches to truth differ: Tolstoy argues in “The Death of Ivan Ilych” that there is a clear

There have been some controversy during the early 20th century during the world wars. Art lost its meaning during this time and the only way to give it meaning again was to make it different, to offend people to help to make a point. This is similar to the artist/rapper Eminem, how his use of profane language draws attention to his work and its controversy makes it a topic of conversation. After the rise of abstract art rose a new style called Dada art. This was one of the most unusual time in part

“We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give” (Winston Churchill). While money is necessary, an abundance isn’t required to be happy. Attaining happiness comes through serving others. The Necklace and The Gift of the Magi share a valuable lesson about materialism. However, both stories have a different outlook. In The Necklace, Madame Loisel’s materialism is selfishness. In The Gift of The Magi, Della and Jim’s materialism selflessness. The placing of value on materialistic goods

Week four’s essay finds inspiration from the anti-intellectual movement. The essay titled Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter defines the anti-intellectual movement. The anti-intellectual movement began in the 1950’s “primarily as McCarthyism the belief that the mind was at ruinous discount” (Hofstadter 3). Additionally, Merriam-Webster.com further defines the anti-intellectual movement as “opposing or hostile to intellectuals or an intellectual view or approach” (Merriam-Webster)