...“Modern Times” In Charlie Chaplin’s “Modern Times” there is an unusual love affair between a factory working man (Chaplin) and a woman (Gamin) that just lost her family and is orphaned. Chaplin and the Gamin have a love like no other in which they both share a common dream that brings them together. Chaplin and the Gamin idealize the “American dream”. They witness a happy husband and wife and make it their dream to someday live as they are. This dream includes a husband, a wife, a house and everything that comes with it except the responsibility. In a particular scene in the movie Chaplin fantasizes about life with Gamin. His fantasy includes a cow milking itself. In the fantasy Chaplin wipes his hands on the curtain and throws an apple with a carefree sense, showing he holds no values. He takes the house for granted. Idealistically, when someone has a house they would do the opposite and value every aspect of it. These images from Chaplin display his lack of education. The Gamin also displays a lack of education when she finds a shack and turns it into a mini home. Based upon what she thinks should be, the Gamin foolishly creates her version of a husband and wife scenario. The Gamin makes a meal for herself and Chaplin from bread and meat she most likely stole seeing as earlier in the film she steals bananas from a boat to provide for her family. If the Gamin had any sense of education she would have preserved some food for another time knowing that they...
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...Modern Art History Modern art represents the headiest period in all of art history--a span of no more than 110 years that saw an explosion of movements from Realism, to Impressionism, to Cubism, to Abstract Expressionism to Pop and Op, with dozens of others in between and around the world. Hard-Edge Painting: Art History Basics 101 Hard-Edge Painting emphasizes the flat surface of the canvas or paper with clean, clear abstract shapes and surrounding fields of colors. These shapes and fields can be rendered in black and white or brilliant colors. The unity of the composition creates a unified presentation in the art work itself. Color Field Painting: Art History 101 Basics Color Field Painting is a branch of Abstract Expressionism that concentrates on colorful shapes and expanses of color which emphasize the literal flatness of the canvas or paper. Cubism - Art History Basics 101 An early twentieth century art movement that rebelled against Renaissance one-point perspective and illusionism through an emphasis on geometricity, simultaneity, and passage. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque pioneered Cubism's ideas and style. Abstract Expressionism - Art History 101 Basics Abstract Expressionism or "AbEx" (a.k.a. Action Painting; a.k.a. The New York School) exploded onto the art scene after World War II with its characteristic messiness and extremely energetic applications of paint. To the contemporary audience, the whole enterprise seemed like youthful antagonism--hardly...
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...Deep in the canyons of Studio 5 several weeks ago, the cast of ABC’s hit series “Modern Family” was busy filming an episode. As crew members huddled around the monitors, Cam, the portly, gay Mr. Dad portrayed by Eric Stonestreet, learned some bad news. His partner, Mitchell, had failed to mail out invitations to a fund-raiser in their home that night. Cam had ordered the crab cakes and rented the harps, but he had no guests. “Get me Mitchell!” Cam shouted to his nephew, Luke. What followed was a high-tech version of “Who’s on First?” Luke doesn’t know Mitchell’s number. Cam grabs the phone and presses speed dial. Mitchell lets the call go to voice mail. Luke doesn’t know how to press redial. Cam snatches the receiver and gets twisted in his headset. We’ve had five back-and-forths in 10 seconds and still nobody has managed to communicate. Shakespeare used mistaken identities to flummox his lovers. “Modern Family” uses dropped Skype connections. In the last two years, “Modern Family” has ridden timely premises like this to surging viewership and six Emmys, including outstanding comedy series. In a rare concurrence, the darling of the critics is one of the highest rated comedies on television, and is the 20th rated show over all this season. This unusual success for a family comedy raises questions: What aspects of contemporary life has it tapped into? What does “Modern Family” say about modern families? From the beginning, the creators Steve Levitan and Christopher Lloyd...
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...Modernism and the Visual Arts Must Knows I.Jane Avril II.Toulouse Lautrec III.Post Impressionism (France) 1. This artist embraced the concept of the Demi-Monde which was the late night meeting place of the intellectuals and the emotionally troubled and as well upper class social society and lower class social society. 2.Inspired by Japanese print making and Manet’s summery modelling, this artist revolutionized commercial advertising art and brought the common poster into the ranks of high classical comparison. I.Starry Night II.Van Gogh III.Impressionism (France) 1.This artist largely self taught continues the angst occupied ideas of the biblical so called doomsday philosophy typical of the last 2 decades of each century in western culture for more than 1000 years 2. The artists passionate style looks forward to the birth of expressionism in the 20th century and his subconscience death related symbolism looks forward to the birth of a symbolist movement in the 20th century. The artist is therefor called both a proto expressionist and a proto symbolist I.Mount Sainte Victoire II.Cezanne III.Post impressionism (France) 1.On the one hand Cezanne flattens out the picture plane by largely using Manet’s idea of summery modelling and it emphasizes the concept of art for arts sake simply defining a painting as being pigment on a 2 demential surface. 2.Cezanne returns the illusion of 3 dimensional space by using the theory of advancing and receiving...
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...Paper Assignment II Art and Society: Renaissance to Modern Art University of Houston Dr. Sandra Zalman Due: November 13 by midnight via turnitin on Blackboard - http://www.uh.edu/blackboard/ This paper asks you to compare two works of art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, to consider how nineteenth-century artists departed from past academic works to take interest in the new urban spaces of modernity. Go the MFAH and find the following two paintings: Berthe Morisot, The Basket Chair, 1885 (Room 222) Gustave Caillebotte, The Orange Trees, 1878 (Room 222) In your paper, you will analyze the visual relationship between modernism, class and gender, considering both the formal characteristics and subject matter of the paintings you will examine. While attending to the formal characteristics of each work, analyze the ways in which gender and class may play a role in relation to subject matter, composition, and the intended audience. How are the spaces of modernity depicted in these scenes? If the flânuer is the quintessential modern artist, but cannot be embodied by a woman, what is the role of gender in these works? How does the representation of gender factor into the aims of these artists? Construct your argument based on a visual analysis of these two paintings, paying particular attention to how the artist constructs the spaces of modernity, who is depicted and in what way, and how the viewer is, or is not, accounted for. In your a conclusion, consider...
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...1. What is Modern Art? What does it mean to you? Though it would be difficult to decide the starting point, generally modern art movement is regarded to have started since the twentieth century. Before that, art was primarily concentrated on ‘painting,’ which carries out the role of depicting the real world. So, for instance, an artist was considered to be a good painter if his drawing had resembled an object or landscape like that of photography. With the advent of photography, however, this traditional value of a good art has radically changed. Art to reproduce the real world merely had significance any more. Thereby, art has been progressing into various directions with a focus on the essence of an object, rather than the physicality of it. Modern art has become conceptual and philosophical. Many artists express their ideas with preposterous materials and methods. Some artists do not even express an idea explicitly because they emphasize the philosophical idea and thus de-emphasize the actual act of depicting. When I go to modern art museums, I often see art pieces that seem to require very little artwork. Looking at an aluminum scrap installed in the center of the exhibition room, people say “I could do it too. I can pick up an aluminum scrap from a trash heap, and bring it here. And, people say it is art. It does not seem that difficult at all to become an artist!” This is the thought I once had, as well....
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...theory to this multifaceted change. Multifaceted because it effected a diverse range of innovative and experimental practices in the visual arts, literature, design and architecture. New genres and styles were being invented and combined to push preconceived ideas and traditions. As society started to accept these changes, the world saw a rapid growth in urbanisation and industrialisation. In fact Wallace. J, wrote ‘ in examine the spaces of modernism, the city is an almost obligatory starting point’ (2011). The many new technologies that were were being invented during the early 20th Century increased the development and manufacturing of cities sevenfold. Changing cities meant changing cultures. People were living like never before. The modern city was a exceptional space for its facilitation of new forms of culture. After the second world war, the art world witnessed the styles and creative practices of European culture shift to America. American modernism like modernism in most areas of the world is a trend of thought that humans have the power to create, shape and improve their environment. Foster, .R did state ‘What distinguishes American modernism is the unifying theme of a conscious search for identity” (2003). Meaning artists and architectures searched for what it meant to be American? What would set the United States apart from Europe and the rest of the world? America’s economic and technological progress throughout the 1920’s ‘gave rise to widespread utopianism’...
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...Ballet and Modern Dance Dancing is considered to be a form of expression and is known to be one of the most exquisite and expressive forms of art. Dancers use body movements to create stories and send emotions to their audience. Some dancers perform ballet, while others perform modern dance. Ballet and modern dance are two forms of dance that have strongly influenced the development of other various styles of dance, and can express emotions such as love, joy, anger and sorrow. Conoley-Paladino (2012), “In the very beginning, modern dance was considered to be an expressional dance and ballet was considered to be a technical dance. However, the two forms have since merged.” (para. 2). Ballet began in Italy in the 14th century and was introduced to France by Catherin de’ Medici. The first ballet with music, props, and movement took place in France, in front of Catherin and the courts. (apollolibrary.com, 2013) The term “ballet” comes from France and traces back to Italy, which means “to dance”. Ballet continued to develop throughout the 15th and 16th centuries, and well into the 20th century, where different styles of ballet soon developed. (balletdancersguide.com, 2014) Ballet can tell a story, express feelings, or reflect music, and is usually performed in front of an audience. Ballet is a very graceful dance, in which dancers perform unnatural body movements, such as leg extensions above their head. However, these movements look natural when done correctly. ...
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...Efficient portfolio & Stock market efficiency Prepared by: Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Zaki Nofal Submitted to: Dr.Tarek el Domiaty Modern portfolio theory Modern portfolio theory (MPT) is a theory of finance which attempts to maximize portfolio expected return for a given amount of portfolio risk, or equivalently minimize risk for a given level of expected return, by carefully choosing the proportions of various assets. Although MPT is widely used in practice in the financial industry and several of its creators won a Nobel memorial prize[1] for the theory, in recent years the basic assumptions of MPT have been widely challenged by fields such as behavioral economics. MPT is a mathematical formulation of the concept of diversification in investing, with the aim of selecting a collection of investment assets that has collectively lower risk than any individual asset. That this is possible can be seen intuitively because different types of assets often change in value in opposite ways. For example, to the extent prices in the stock market move differently from prices in the bond market, a collection of both types of assets can in theory face lower overall risk than either individually. But diversification lowers risk even if assets' returns are not negatively correlated—indeed, even if they are positively correlated More technically, MPT models an asset's return as a normally distributed function (or more generally as an elliptically distributed random...
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...Modern age is an age of science. Modern science is nothing but a skill magician. It has made our life easy and comfortable. One after one, it is providing the mankind with wonders. It has absolutely conquered the indomitable forces of nature. The wonders of modern science are not fully illustrated in a short composition. Electricity is the first wonder of modern science. It is the first driving force of modern civilization. Electric-power is used for various purposes. Without it, the advancement of modern science is Impossible. Computer is a fairly recent invention. It has now become an essential part of modern life. It is often contribution of modern science. There is hardly any sector in our life where we do not use computer. In agricultural, medical, educational, communication and transportation sectors, we have been able to attain great achievements with the help of computer. Science has done miracle in the field of medical science. It has enabled men to fight diseases effectively. In our time everyone hopes to live longer than his forefathers Biopsy and Ultrasonography, E.C.G, Ultra-Violet Ray, X-Ray and Penicillin are the wonders of modern science in the field of medical science. Besides, there are many other inventions of modern science against many other fatal diseases. Science has created wonders in the fields of communication. Telephone, telex, fax, wireless, telegram, E-mail etc. are great wonders. They have brought the world closer to us. We can send news...
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...10 Must-know Moderns from the Indian Subcontinent Art is incomplete without the inclusion of Modern Artists of the Indian sub-continent. The moderns have an interesting way to express all pertaining to the modern plagues and pleasures. Artsome lists 15 artists that have made global impact with their contributions to the artistic world. 1. Jagdish Chander (1954 to present) Jagdish Chander’s art is an obsession with the figure which reflects an outlook which places humankind at the center of the universe. Jagdish Chander's works highlight a statement that he repeats-'My struggle and ambitions have been for aesthetic and artistic integrity rather than personal fame'. 2. Achuthan Kudallur (1945 to present) One of India's foremost abstract artists, Achuthan, a Kerala born artist, translates the sounds and sights of his native village of Kudallur into calligraphic chromatic strokes. 1. Absolute colors lead to absolute light”according to Achuthan Kudallur 3. Prabhakar M Kolte (1946 to present) Prabhakar M Kolte’s work is distinguishable by the presence of one dominant color in the background on which he placed more complex forms. “Something out of Nothing but Not of Something.” According to Kolte. 3. NS Harsha (1969 to present) Harsha skillfully portrays people occupied with their daily tasks. His paintings are narrative, and are known for the numerous figures that inhabit them, painted with immense precision and skill. NS Harsha: Acrylic on...
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...Evolution of Modern State in Europe Introduction A break was marked in 1989 in the history of Europe. That year stands for the revolutions, breaking up of empires along with the re-ordering of the influence spheres. However, these changes happened in the established framework of the balance between the sovereign independent state and the power. However, 1989 has been unique, along with brining dramatic changes such as the re-ordering of alliances and the revolutions; it resulted in the change in the State system of Europe (Cooper, n.d.). Historically, the proper point of comparison is the year 1648 when after thirty years of war a system of modern European state was emerged in Westphalia. The same type of break point was marked in Europe in 1989. Moreover, it has resulted in not just the re-arrangement of the previous system but the formation of a new system. It is based on new forms of statehood in which the states are behaving differently as compared to the past. Furthermore, alliances, interference with the domestic affairs of one another along with the acceptance of the international court’s jurisdiction has highlighted that the present states are less absolute in terms of their independence and sovereignty (Cooper, n.d.). Furthermore, the first and second world war along with the Cold War resulted in devastation in Europe without any form of historical precedent. Moreover, it also froze Europe for almost forty years which allowed new systems and new ideas to emerge...
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...what we know as the modern movement, it was somewhat shunned, or touted as being inferior to traditionalist styles. My research paper will focus specifically on the difference between modern and traditional styles of art, the dynamic between them, and how both styles contributed to how we view art today, as well as the vilification of modern art in the eyes of the art world. My interest in this topic mainly stems from my own personal interest in art, because it’s what i want to...
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...Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date Modern trends and the local traditions What is the thesis statement of the essay? The arrival of the modern attitudes and the movement is characterized by the gradual shift in the subject matter, application of the new styles and most importantly the change in the outlook of the artists in looking onto the arts. The visible signs of the modification are depicted by the tastes of the artists to distort, exaggerate, or eliminate selectively specific parts for the common or normal existing forms or to deviate from the established style in the work based on the realism. However, the school of realism unlike elsewhere has had a relatively short history and remains impressive and powerful (Nepali Art 147). This has taken roots especially with the arrival of the two pioneers Tej Bahadur Chitrakar and C.M Mackey with the art education of the western in Calcutta. How the thesis statement is supported by the arguments and major points In the context of the Nepali art, since the ancient times to present, Kathmandu Valley has in many cases remained a hub and the center of all the creative exercise of the entire country. With the emergence of the modern western education on art, Lainsigh Bandel, who is a domicile Nepali from the Darjeeling hills in India having no roots in the valley of Kathmandu when he appeared when he make an appearance with the distorted forms of humans described as the inspired form the past impressionistic influences...
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...trends such as the increasing pace of life, the accelerating rate at which new information is being pedalled forth, and the ubiquity of the effects of capitalism have driven people to become more efficient. The by-product of such phenomena is that Man is taken as its slave, and only the interests of the market are considered, instead of the individual. Unfortunately, this has dealt a severe blow to the significance of the book in modern society. All indicators seem to point out that the book is unworthy of its more efficient counterparts like the personal computer or tablet. Yet, the book holds a special place in our hearts: its final trump card. We should not be too quick to oust the book out of our lives even with the proliferation of suitable alternatives, for there is still indeed worth of the hard copy even in the frenzy of modern society. Evolution seems to have taken mankind back to square one, where the modern man (like his ancestors thousands of years ago) worries about his next meal, appointment or payment. "Next" seems like the buzzword of modern society, with people constantly looking for the next opportunity. As the pace of everyday life picks up, libraries appear to be caught in a time warp. With each passing day, the library grows quieter, the librarians grow more ancient, and the library air grows staler. Fiction or non-fiction, the regressive state of the ultimate bookhouse is reflective of our attitudes to the book today. We have lesser time for reading, and people...
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