All of these various styles responded to the industrialization of Europe in their own unique fashions, and resulted in a strange conglomeration of art, ideals, and themes. The earliest and perhaps greatest response to industrialization was the era or Romanticism. Disgusted by the squalor and pollution produced by industry, many artists and writers turned to Romanticism, glorifying nature over civilized society and emotion over reason. Romanticism prized natural beauty and despised the materialistic ideals of the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution. Romantic art tended to revolve around nature or some heroic deed, ignoring or tuning away from industry and logic, and when it did not, it reviled it.
They used nature to express the ideas they had and troubles going on in society. The painting of storms and ruins from William Constable and JMW Turner (The Cornfield, The Fighting Termeraire) gave us an example of how they viewed the revolutions taking place and what it was doing to the rest of society. They showed nature as something dark or confused, which examples on what they were thinking about the Industrial Revolution and changes taking place within social classes. Nature is an unpredictable power, just like the way the government is with the rest of the people. Paintings were powerful because they could depict any image or idea going through the artists
These fads impact our world in great ways by promoting self confidence and by developing jobs through out the world. As many people know, history is a forever changing subject. Through history we talk about wars, presidents, celebrities, law, and rights. When people think
Here he met the father of cubism, Pablo Picasso. I’m sure Diego was influenced by his friend Modigliani but it was here in Paris where Diego became fascinated with Cubism. After his cubism era, Rivera began painting in the style of post-impressionism, inspired by Paul Cézanne. The change of styles would bring attention to Diego and he began to display them in galleries and exhibitions. This would become his permanent form of art.
The world is what demands technical advances, which influences materials used in the portraits for the Archibald. As the world often sets guidelines to what is acceptable and not, back in 1943 an artist named William Dobell with a portrait of artist Joshua Smith won the Archibald Prize, but was explicitly battled in court as the portrait was viewed as distorted and caricatured formed. In spite of Dobell’s response to the challenge generating debate he declares “a sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is... a living thing”. This influenced him to create a work in the sculptural setting – and so built it up as a sculptor builds up any form. This culminated in the few aspects of how argument towards the contest is evident.
How do the metamorphosis and the fly reflect the forms and concerns of modernism? The modernist movement came at the turn of the century and presented a dramatic change in the views of literature. This new view was extremely affected by the new perception of the world because of WW1 and the looming threat of WW2. Franz Kafka’s metamorphosis (1915) is indicative of the modernist movement with a surreal story laced throughout with the themes of modernism. Katherine Mansfield’s the fly, (1922) presents the notion of a higher power controlling our lives and the dehumanising impacts of war.
As a result the war not only affects the land on which it is fought but also in the minds of those fighting. Hemingway’s goal is to demonstrate this principle of the negative effects of war. In order to demonstrate the negative effects of war, Hemmingway’s characters are lost generation members searching for entertainment, either through the nightlife in Paris or in the bullfighting arenas in Spain. The novel begins from the perspective of Jake, an American expatriate, in Paris working as a writer for a newspaper. A fellow writer along with Jake, Robert Cohn, is Jake’s friend and also an expatriate, as are all of Jake’s friends.
The audience know, because they are living after 1945 that a couple of years after Mr Birling says this, war does break out. This creates dramatic irony and makes Mr Birling look foolish which will entertain the audience. ‘An Inspector Calls’ is a didactic play; a play that tries to teach you something or put across a moral message. The message that J.B Preistley was trying to get across to the audience is the importance of community and how it is important not to just look after your own. However, because J.B Preistley was writing a play for the commercial theatre, he knew that people coming to watch it wouldn't simply want to be lectured about the importance of the community in which they lived.
“Why Don’t We Complain” Analysis We don’t complain enough. Is the simply and unique argument that Buckley is presenting in his essay. The purpose of this essay is to convince Americans that it’s time to start complaining. Instead of simply pushing aside the issues that are present to us on a daily bases Buckley wants us to confront them head on and to simply speak up. Instead of dealing with hot trains, an unfocused movie screen and long line that is caused from a supposedly lazy worker, we should speak up because we have the power to change the little problems.
One may ask, “Why all the fuss? How could this ballet possibly apply to me or today’s society?” For starters, Theodor Adorno, a 20th century sociologist, wrote extensively on what he considered to be “popular music”. He even went so far as to say that this “popular music”—which includes The Rite of Spring—could lead to positivism, which then leads to fascism (“What National Socialism Has Done to the Arts” 378). Adorno backs up this rather bold statement by claiming that family values have decreased, which contributes to a belief in positivism among younger generations. Because this belief is the first step to Adorno’s idea of a fascist society, my argument will focus on positivism.