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It has been over a century since Mademoiselle Chanel, determined to reform the concept of femininity as much in style as in the essence, commissioned the chemist Ernest Beaux to develop what will become the symbol of international perfumery. Chanel No. 5 is unquestionably the most legendary ever made fragrance, described as an opera of olfactory art. Independent, unconventional, and provocative, Coco Chanel transformed her unfamiliar name into an obligatory reference point for fashion design of the

Introduction The two movements, with more or less abstract tendencies, that first influenced the majority of experimental artists in this country, beginning about 1913 when both movements were at their altitude. Cubism and Futurism, both of which had a great influence in the United States derives from the researches of Cezanne and Seurat. The beginnings of Cubism date back to about 1908 under the twin aeg Cubism The 20th-century style and movement in art, particularly painting, in which perspective

according to MOMA Burton was fascinated to stop-motion animation since his beginnings in filmmaking; because it could bring something that Burton had previously only imagined into vivid life (Jenny). Before Burton, stop motion animation was a thing of the past to but

Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles D’Avignon is considered by many to be a revolutionary breakthrough in the history of modern art. Demoiselles is a “great manifesto of modernist painting” as Picasso had abandoned all known form of traditional art, a radical break from the Western tradition that very much led to the Cubism movement (Bishop, 2002). What made Demoiselles revolutionary was that "in it Picasso broke away from the two central characteristics of European painting since the Renaissance: the

after World War II. The art that Kiefer created focused on a reconciliation with the shame and horror surrounding the holocaust, aimed aimed to redefine what it meant to be German in a “post-Nazi World (Smith).” The piece I studied is located at the MoMa in San Francisco and is entitled “Shulamite”. “Shulamite” is a historical painting of a Nazi Memorial Site, which Kiefer created it in 1983. In this painting, Kiefer transformed the architecture of a site which was meant to honor Nazi heroes into a

Chanel No. 5: a masterpiece of olfactory art It has been over a century since Mademoiselle Chanel, determined to reform the concept of femininity as much in style as in the essence, commissioned at the chemist Ernest Beaux what will become the symbol of the international perfumery. Chanel No. 5 is unquestionably the most legendary ever made fragrance, described as an opera of olfactory art. Independent, unconventional, and provocative Coco Chanel transformed her unfamiliar name in an obligatory reference

xiaoyu feng1000667281 The 4’33’’(“Four, minutes, thirty-three seconds”) is a three-movement composition composed by John Cage(1912-1992) who was an experimental American composer. The basic description of this composition is that all the performers of any instruments not to play their instruments during the entire duration of the piece throughout the three movements which makes it become one of the most important and meaningful musical compositions of the 20th century. Until now, it is still an

Marcel Duchamp’s Fresh Widow was created in 1920, and is on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Fresh Widow is a bluish green miniature French window, which he constructed with wood and leather. The Fresh Widow is considered to be a part of the Dadaist period and retains qualities of dadaism in that it is a stand alone object, that has been completely stripped of its utility and function. In addition, across the window sill, Duchamp wrote “COPYRIGHT” in capitalized black letters referring

Abrams has had experience working on exhibitions at both the Met and MoMA, and joined MCA Denver in 2010. After providing a road map of the interview, I asked about the advantages and disadvantages associated with being a non-collecting museum. Mrs. Abrams thinks the biggest advantage is that a non-collecting museum can

When I first began my research into Marina Abramovic, I was shocked yet interested. Her work, “Art must be beautiful, Artist must be beautiful” (1975) perplexed me. When I looked at the image from that piece, the title struck me as ironic; especially after watching a video of her speaking about her early works that I found on www.mai-hudson.org/about-mai. In the piece she is brushing her hair with a brush in one hand and a comb in the other, while repeating “Art must be beautiful, Artist must beautiful”