Russian avant-garde

To understand and obey any law forcing individuals to change their way of life causes resistance. In the graphic novel Persepolis, although she effectively remembers those who suffered, Marjane Satrapi excels in showing Iranians as very ordinary but interesting people. Satrapi illustrates their normalcy through everyday activities and their responses to the situation they face within their country. Although Persepolis is a graphic novel, it portrays issues of politics through the innocence and lightheartedness

In exploring the textual concerns of both Lang’s post-war German expressionist film Metropolis (1927) and Orwell’s cold-war dystopian novel 1984 (1949), it is apparent that their differing contexts provide starkly contrasting commentaries on the power of the human spirit to rise above oppression. The impetus for both texts reflects the immediate contextual concerns of each composer’s time, where Lang’s depiction of a futuristic mechanised world reflected Germany’s post-war climate and the incessant

as an essentially mechanical and technological tool” (Artsy.net) So to begin the first Photographer I looked at was Alexander Rodchenko, Rodchenko “was a Russian artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer” (Wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander) He “was one of the most versatile constructivist and productive artists to emerge after the Russian revolution, he worked as a painter and graphic designer

the circle of avant-garde writers and artists with whom Edwards associated. During the 1920s Chanel herself hosted parties for these intellectuals as well as for the wealthiest and best-known members of European and American society. In 1924 she designed the costumes for Diaghilev's ballet Train Bleu, for which Cocteau had written the story and Picasso had designed sets. During the 1920s and early 1930s Chanel also formed intense but generally brief liaisons with fascinating men: Russian Grand Duke

Aaron Copland was born November 14th 1900 in Brooklyn, New York. He is the youngest of five children to Sarah Mittenthal, his mother and Harris Copland, his father. He had two brothers, Ralph and Leon and two sisters Laurine and Josephine. As early as the age of nine, he began making up songs on the piano and two years later, his older sister Laurine began giving him piano lessons. In 1914, Copland began studying with his first professional piano teacher, Ludwig Wolfsohn in Brooklyn, New York

Puchko, Kristy. "15 Things You Should Know about Caravaggio's 'The Calling of St. Matthew'" Mental Floss. 13 Aug. 2015. Web. 30 Nov. 2015. This is a painting by Caravaggio. It is a representation of Jesus Christ walking into a room and pointing at St. Matthew. St. Matthew was a tax collector and all he cared about was friends and money. In this painting god addresses St Matthew by pointing at him and the light reflects on his face from christ’s direction. God is choosing St. Matthew in the

and even optics. Not only is this argument sparked by the opinion, (although these opinionated critics are never directly named), that photomontage did not have future potential but, importantly, that it had also become too commercial for the avant-garde. Photomontage had begun to gain primary popularity in advertising, used for popular film and even fashion. This widespread use in advertising simplified the respected method and initial motivations for the medium, supposedly diluting critical high

The novel “The Rites of Spring” is written by a Modris Ekstein is a Latvian author whose family was negatively impacted by the German occupation during the war. This literary work is based on the Ekstein’s claims about modernisms influence in the cause of World War 1. He divides the book into the acts similar to the play in that is the books namesake. Throughout this work, Ekstein argues that the ideology of modernism, which is primarily concerned with “introspection, death, emancipation, primitivism

modern avant-garde writer, while Weaver provided Joyce with enough money to cease working his day jobs and focus exclusively on writing. He is arguably best known for his novel Ulysses, which examines a single day in the life of its main characters. In this novel, Joyce famously cycles through various story telling styles, including drama, parody, and stream-of-consciousness, switching from one viewpoint to another rapidly and without smooth transitions. The work of an advanced writer, Russian-American

scenes. The non-explicit public scenes exemplified life in the painter’s point-of-view, not necessarily showing it just from the privileged side, which offered a more rounded audience of the arts. The Impressionists gave light to “the new phase in avant-garde painting” and from this emerged the Post-Impressionist period (Samu