Russian avant-garde

landforms. Russian Military The Russian Military is large and forceful. It is broken into three sectors: Ground Forces, Russian Air Force and the Russian Navy. The Ground Forces is considerably the largest force in the military and includes artillery, infantry, rocket troops, tanks, air defense, and reconnaissance. Protecting the borders, aggressors through dry land, occupying territories and defeating enemy

Dmitri Shostakovich and Johann Sebastian Bach Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) was one of the greatest composers of Soviet Russia. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) is regarded today as the father of Western music. They came from opposite ends of music history and lived in entirely different environments, but Shostakovich was undoubtedly influenced by Bach’s music, and their respective musical styles came from the same core tradition of Western music. But most importantly, underneath the obvious

lyrical fairy tales of Jewish mysticism, the stories of the Bible, and the Rabbis and scholars who surrounded him in his childhood come out onto his work. When he went to art school in St. Petersburg it was the period when he became exposed to the avant-garde movement in art. With Leon Bakst he saw the reproductions of Fauve canvases, the sketches of Van Gogh and of Cezzanne his ambition to go to Paris was

Paula Scher is an American graphic designer who was born October 6, 1948 in Virginia and grew up in both Philadelphia and Washington D.C. She is not only a graphic designer but a painter, art educator in design and also the first female principle at Pentagram. She has been working in the industry for over three decades and is well known for her work in identity design, packaging design, publication design and environmental graphics. Her father was an engineer for the US Geological Survey and through

Chapter 33 – Early 20th Century Multiple Choice Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Throughout history, artists have regularly served political ends by using their art to make visual statements. Which of the following artists has created an overtly political statement with his/her work? |a. |Dorothea Lange | |b. |John

The Movement of Protest 1) “It was a decade of extremes, of transformational change and bizarre contrasts: flower children and assassins, idealism and alienation, rebellion and backlash. For many in the massive post-World War II baby boom generation, it was both the best of times and the worst of times.” (K. Walsh) a. Historians nostalgically described the sixties as a counterculture and revolution in social norms, such as: art, sexuality, formalities, and philosophy. The decade was also called

Cinema is seen as being a sort of art form, especially in European culture. Although Hollywood became the movie capital of the world, directors in Europe made a huge impact on the cinemas of the world. Not even war could stop Europe’s groundbreaking films, in fact, it may as well have provided directors with the willpower to create such dynamic works all over European countries. First, let’s take a look at the beginnings of the cinemas in general. Motion pictures began with Eadward Muybridge’s

circles or a loss of destination between separate levels of discourse, which are all symptoms of the language disorders of postmodernist fictions. The postmodern novel may be summed up as: • Late modernism. • Anti-modernism. • Not avant-garde tendency (may be avant-garde within a literary period). • Emphasizes plot than character. • Characters are fragmented/multiple. • Experimental. • Misogynist. • Denigration of female writers. • Matter of packaging. •

Dance, Music, and Performance "The Joy of Life" Introduction In the nineteenth century some of the greatest innovations come from artists who strove to discover if art could work on the same level as music. I have decided to research the relationship between art, dance, and music. The interpretation of dance and music in art continually developed during the twentieth century. Firstly dance as a subject matter, drawn narratively and may have a symbolic meaning. This then moved on to dance interpreted

The innovative and passionate presence in both Jackson Pollock’s and Wassily Kandinsky avant-garde paintings exemplifies the redefinition of boundaries throughout their art making practices. Both artists challenged traditions both materially and conceptually using innovative and diverse approaches to materials and techniques when painting. Wassily Kandinsky goes against traditions and academies to create vivid, sensual and symbolic large-scale semi abstract expressionist oil paintings in a heightened