Man Ray
Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a
painter, a filmmaker, a poet, an essayist, a philosopher, and a leader
of American modernism. Known for documenting the cultural elite living
in France, Man Ray spent much of his time fighting the formal
constraints of the visual arts. Ray’s life and art were always
provocative, engaging, and challenging.
Born Emanuel Rabinovitch in 1890, Man Ray spent most of his young life
in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The eldest child of an immigrant Jewish
tailor, he was a mediocre student who shunned college for the bohemian
artistic life in nearby Manhattan. In New York he began to work as an
artist, meeting many of the most important figures of the time. He
learned the rudiments of photography from the art dealer and
photographer, Alfred Stieglitz, and began to experiment on his own.
In 1914, Man Ray married the Belgian poet, Adon Lacroix, and soon
after met the experimental artist Marcel Duchamp. Duchamp was to be
one of Man Ray’s greatest influences as well as a close friend and
collaborator. Together the two attempted to bring some of the verve of
the European experimental art movements to America. The most energetic
of these movements was "dada." Dada was an attempt to create work so
absurd it confused the viewer’s sense of reality. The dadaists would
take everyday objects and present them as if they were finished works
of art. For Man Ray, dada’s experimentation was no match for the wild
and chaotic streets of New York, and he wrote "Dada cannot live in New
York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival."
Having broken with his wife, Man Ray left New York for Paris in
1921—marking a continuous stream of tempestuous and often doomed
5. Man Ray experimented tirelessly with new photographic techniques, multiple exposure, rayography, and solarization being some of his most famous.
Ray Budds is an antagonist. An antagonist is a character in a story(movie) who causes trouble for the protagonist(s) which Ray did. In the movie Ray asked Julius, a protagonist, if black people had fathers too and if they can afford anything. This supports my statement because it shows that Ray says things to purposely hurt people like Julius, a black person that Ray doesn’t like. During the movie in one of the games Ray purposely missed a block, so the opposing football player could tackle the quarterback Pete, a black person. This evidence supports my statement because it shows that Ray has a thing against black people and would like to cause problems for them. When Gerry just became friends with the black people in the movie Ray came by
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Ray Charles one of the greatest African-American artists of all time. He left a legacy of hits and Grammy awards, but the musicians he influenced were very diverse in genre as the music he wrote, arranged, performed, and recorded. Ray Charles died at the age of 73 on June 10, 2004 from acute liver disease. Months after his death on October 29, 2004 the movie Ray was released to the U.S on a budget of forty million dollars. The film went on to become a box-office hit, earning over $100 million dollars with an additional $75 million internationally. It ended up with a worldwide gross of over $175 million.
The various ways in which manhood appear and emerge within cultures has an extensive examination and definition of the meaning of a man and how a man needs to be. The notion of manhood and masculinity is shown in the main characters of the works of J. M. Coetzee and Toni Morrison. Boyhood: Scenes from a Provincial Life by J. M. Coetzee and Home by Toni Morrison are both set in different places with different cultures which result in different meanings of what a man is. Coetzee’s autobiographical fiction novel, Boyhood, takes place in South Africa during the time of the conflicts of cultural identity and race. Boyhood tells the story of the main character John, a young boy who is smart, intellectual and sensitive. John always feels unique and different, he always thinks about himself and about his uniqueness. His uniqueness and alienation from his environment cuts him off as a child and affects his growing conditions and manhood. On the other hand, Morrison’s, Home, tells the story of the aftermath of the main character, Frank Money’s, life. Money, 24 year-old, participated in the Korean War and then got discharged from the Army. During the war Money, killed many lives, including the soul of a young Korean girl that he never forgets; Money’s two best friends were both killed during the period of the war. These events left Money with a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which affected his sanity and manhood. While the literature shows how culture, race, people and events, can affect manhood this paper will study and explore the theme of manhood differently between the main characters Coetzee and Money.
It's no secret, some day we all must die and face the challenges that go along with knowing your time is up. Throughout history and modern day literature, authors and play writers have used and continue to use life experiences as well imagery such as death to help the reader to relate to the narrative. The author of the morality play Everyman helps the audience to understand that at some point all of mankind must die and when they do, they must face God on "judgment day." Throughout this paper, I the writer will attempt to evaluate and analyze the perception as well as the treatment of death in Everyman. I will also explain and compare the Christian faith with use of biblical scriptures.
Ever since I first went Scuba Diving I have always wanted to see a manta ray up close. I have heard so many stories about them, and how awesome it was to dive with them. People have told me, "manta rays are very gentle creatures, and their size is overwhelming. They will come up to you as if you had called them like a dog, and soar gracefully over your head as you stare at them in disbelief." Right after I heard this I knew that I had to dive with, and learn everything about them. In order for me to dive with them I'm going to need to know when the best time is to see one, and where I can see one. It also couldn't hurt to know some general knowledge about them because I wouldn't want to disturb or mess up anything that is taking place.
In the early 20th century, there was a rise in a multitude of new artistic movements, which took place during the first World War. One of the movements called the Dada movement originated in Zürich, Switzerland and expressed both anti-art and anti-war sentiments. The amount of time it was prevalent was for a total of eight years from 1916 to 1924. Its aim was to evoke an emotion within the audience by expressing mockery in relation to art, materialism, and nationalism.
They ridded the demands of the art community by not requiring great technical skill for something to be beautiful, and because of the lack of talent and thought that went into the art of their time period, there is only some pieces that I could consider true art. Traditions and encounters even stated that, ““Although the origin of the name Dada is unclear, it is believed to be a deliberately nonsensical word.” This quote shows that the artists didn’t want their work to fit into a previous category, and were often trying to prove that art can arise from anything. Dada pieces were unlike any art made, because they rejected using the precise technique and detail in their art, but what made this movement so unique was that it, “declared an all-out assault on the unquestioning conformity of culture and thought (T&E).” The idea of changing politics and long held views by art and not words was a drastic change for the art
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René Magritte was a surrealist artist that created many beautiful works of art. He was well known for a number of captivating paintings. Magritte depicted mundane objects in unorthodox situations, and his work is well known for its unconventional perceptions of reality. Magritte is famous for a lot of unsettling works such as The Son of Man, Le Blanc Seing and the infamous pipe that is not a pipe in The Treachery of Images. Also, in the 1950s, Magritte created a series of works he titled The Empire of Lights also known as L’Empire des lumières or, The Dominion of Light in which Magritte uses the conflicting settings of day and night to create a wonderfully but unsettling feeling of confusion when first glancing upon the painting. He creates
Street art is understood to be a subculture of graffiti, but cannot be simply defined as one form (Hughs). “Street art, originally coined by Allan Schwartzman in 1985 (Lewisohn, 2008),
In popular entertainment, if not in literature, yesterday's avant garde is often tomorrow's mainstream, so the term can function as a label simply identifying the next trend. As the American poet John Ashbery pointed out in an influential 1968 essay on the nature of the avant garde, where once an innovative artist had to wait a whole career to see their work absorbed into m...
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