Marcel Weyland

‘Mrs. Dalloway’ by Virginia Woolf is centered around post World War One disillusionment- memories of past relationships, the disappointment and suffering born from a failed system, and the struggle to adjust to a new normal. In her novel, Virginia Woolf uses several motifs that hold significance for each character they are focalized through-the tolling of Big Ben, or the event of the town car riding past the shops, for example. One powerful motif that Woolf uses is water. Water as a symbol is focalized

The desire for perfection is also noticeable in Virginia Woolf's character from The Hours. Woolf's perfection is evident not only in the novel she is writing, but also in the way she would like to interact with her servants. She is a perfectionist and would like the interaction to be perfect with her servants, but she does not know how to engage with them in the proper way. She struggles internally with feelings of inadequacy and often compares herself to her sister. After a brief conversation with

For a moment, let’s consider the changing American Landscape. In order to accomplish this, we have to look at how our landscape has changed both naturally and culturally over time. When describing our current landscape we use words such as urban jungle, the other side of the tracks, mountain folks, lowlands, diverse and high society, but can you image being described as “gentle and primitive.” (Redd, 2012) One can begin discussing this topic by going all the way back to when “The Clovis People”

I. Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968): Marcel Duchamp (hereinafter referred to as ‘Duchamp’), was a 20th century French artist. He is considered to be of the era in which Art and particularly Paintings were influenced by elements such as constant change, transition, fluidity, movement and distance etc. He’s considered as a pioneer of ‘DADA’, a movement that questioned the deep rooted assumptions about ‘what art should be’ and ‘how it should be made’ . He himself was intrigued by the concept of a fourth

Marcel Duchamp revolutionized the art world with his readymade works of art. He took objects from everyday life and turned them into works of art. He posed the question of what can be considered art and who gets to decide what art is. Duchamp believed it was the viewer who by giving meaning the object decided it was a work of art. He took art into the realm of ideas and thoughts by ignoring the rules of aesthetic and what is considered to be beautiful works of art. In Duchamp’s first readymade Bycicle

builds on the Duchampian tradition of ready-made materials in the production of art. Koons brings the art objects out of mainstream culture and pushes them to their ultimate limit, compared to the ordinary and frequently mass produced objects that Marcel Duchamp reimagined as art objects such as the bicycle wheel and the urinal. For Duchamp however, this act was one of supreme skepticism. As the New York Review of Books art critic Jed Perl explains in his critique of Jeff Koons’ Whitney Museum Retrospective

R Mutt’s Fountain, is considered one of Duchamp’s most famous works, and “is widely seen as an icon of twentieth century art” . The original, which is lost, consisted of a standard urinal, presented on its back, with “R Mutt 1917” written on the side of it. Although the original was lost, 17 known replicas have been made from glazed earthenware, painted to resemble the original porcelain. R Mutt’s Fountain has been seen as an ultimate example of what Duchamp called a ‘readymade’; an ordinary manufactured

ReadyMade was a do-it-yourself magazine targeting adults in their 20’s and 30’s (millennials). This group of individuals want to express their creativity with new hip trendy ideas. ReadyMade gave it to them, by showing how to do things themselves by individualizing products and saving them money at the same time. Also, the readers contributed a lot of ideas to ReadyMade. Millennials are more apt to go green, so they are finding ways to reuse materials they already have and yet be creative in