Russian avant-garde Essays

  • Russian Avant-Garde

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    Russian Avant-Garde was born at the start of the 20th century out of intellectual and cultural turmoil. Through the analysis of artworks by Aleksandr Rodchenko and El Lissitzky this essay attempts to explore the freedom experienced by artists after the Russian Revolution in 1917. This avant-garde movement was among the boldest and most advanced in Europe. It signified for many artists an end to the past academic conventions as they began to experiment with the notions of space, following the basic

  • Suprematism And The Russian Avant-Garde

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    The Russian avant-garde was an influential upsurge of radically creative modern art that was central to the development of a new Russian Empire from 1890 until approximately 1930. From the separate experimental art forms that are inextricably homologous, Suprematism to the greatest degree had ambiguously aspired to generate new art to accommodate a period of great upheaval in Russia. The term suprematism, by definition refers to art based on the supremacy of pure artistic feeling. During the 19th

  • The Dada Movement - Russian Avant-Garde on the Internet

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    The Dada Movement - Russian Avant-Garde on the World Wide Web Russia witnessed an artistic revolution during the turn of the 20th century that attempted to overturn art's place in society. Today, we are witnessing a new revolution that is growing at an alarming rate and attracting a variety of people every day. This phenomenon is known as the Internet. The World Wide Web is more than a medium for education and research, but serves as a tool for preserving and glorifying the treasures of art. This

  • Vladimir Tatlin and Naum Gabo Modern Art

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    This paper will explore Vladimir Tatlin and Naum Gabo differences on the role of the Avant-Garde artists and how their beliefs influence the kind of work they produced. A pioneer of Russian design Vladimir Tatlin is a representative of Russian Realism. He left home when he was fifteen and served on the shipboard. When he became a painter, he often represented sailors in his pictures Art and culture in Russia after Revolution was a tool for creating industrially aesthetical reality. Tatlin’s project

  • The Major Catalysts in the Formation of the Internet and Digital World

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    constructivism (early twentieth century) have formed the aesthetic and more directly interactive part of the internet. Manovich's Argument "The techniques developed by the artistic avant-garde of the 1920's became embedded in the commands and interface metaphors of computer software. In short, the avant-garde vision became materialized in a computer."(1) Manovich declares that there are three main developmental stages in the historical context of visual reasoning; I believe Cook's description

  • Difference Between Constructivism And Cold War Constructivism

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    The Cold War changed the meaning of the Constructivism art movement, and created two parts to it. Not only did these movements occur during two different decades. The ideology behind what became known, as Cold War Constructivism and Soviet Constructivism was vastly different. Soviet Constructivism came after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 in efforts to reconstruct the Soviet Union. The ideology behind Soviet Constructivism was to reject art, and use their skills for social and political purposes

  • Dimitri Shostakovich

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    by composers as diverse as Tchaikovsky, Paul Hindemith, and Sergey Prokofiev. The cultural climate in the Soviet Union was, compared to the Soviet Union at its peak, free at the time. Even the music of Igor Stravinsky and Alban Berg, then in the avant-garde, was played. Bela Bartok and Paul Hindemith visited Russia to perform their own works, and Shostakovich toyed openly with these novelties. His first opera, The Nose, based on the satiric Nikolay Gogol story, displayed a thorough understanding of

  • The Guggenheim Museum

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    forsakes literal representation, it is merely to get at the subconscious, at things that cannot otherwise be expressed - surely there is something to be said for that! Still, he said and we let it go.) Shoulder rub, ticket stub: we were in! Avant-Garde Art is Borne ... ... middle of paper ... ...r je veux pas le juger, I write on the napkin. This time I want a goodbye. At least a goodbye. I am thinking back to the day before. I am thinking back to a conversation both of us had right

  • Kasimir Malevich

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    Kasimir Malevich Kasimir Malevich, a Russian painter and designer, was born near Kiev on February 26, 1878 (Guggeheimcollection.org) and was “one of six children from Russified Poles” (Articons.co.uk). While living in Ukraine, he became absorbed into art during his teens, “largely teaching himself” the basics (Articons.co.uk). After saving his money “from his job as a railroad clerk” (Articons.co.uk), Malevich enrolled in the Moscow Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in 1903

  • Comparing Dziga Vertov's Film, Man with a Movie Camera and Run Lola Run

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    Vertov , Manifesto The Council of Three (1923) The innovative theories and filmmaking techniques of Dziga Vertov revolutionized the way films are made today. Man With a Movie Camera (1929), a documentary that represented the peak of the Soviet avant-garde film movement in the twenties, displayed techniques in montage, creative camera angles, rich imagery, but most importantly allowed him to express his theories of his writings of Kino-eye (the camera). The film has a very simple plot that describes

  • Malevicth red square

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    Malevicth red square The painting Red Square by Russian painter Kasimir Malevich is a particularly interesting piece. It is simple red square on a white background representing a peasant woman. It is an example of the Malevich's unique style of suprematism, which focuses on motion and feeling. The painting was done near the beginning of the twentieth century when science was developing at a rapid rate. Einstein's Theory of Relativity was gaining ground at the time. Malevich's painting seemed

  • Man With The Movie Camera: Shot Change Constructs A New Perspective

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    Man with The Movie Camera: Shot Change constructs a New Perspective Avant Garde Film Midterm 11395 Question #4 Time was used by Vertov as an important factor in editing as well as in the daily lives of humans. With editing he utilized the essence of time to his advantage. Vertov wanted a certain rhythm of cuts to exist in the movie. He desired a choppy effect. The cameras, themselves, were supposed to produce a rithym in movements, too. The point was he wanted to make as many cuts and rigid motions

  • Modernism And Modernism

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    Modernism can be defined as the post-industrial revolutionary era, where which the western world began to see a change in all spheres of living. The effects of the industrial revolution became prevalent towards the end of the nineteenth century and the modernist movement drew inspiration from this widespread change. Artists, writers, architects, designers and musicians, all began to embrace the changing world and denounce their pre-taught doctrines and previous ways of producing work. Society felt

  • Non-Objective Art and Spirituality

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    The following paper will look at non-objective art and at how Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian viewed the relationship between this type of art and spirituality. Specifically, while it is evident that both men saw the important ways in which intellectual and cognitive transcendence could be achieved through non-objective art, Malevich seems the more explicit of the two men when it comes to linking non-objective artwork with western, organized religion; for his part, Mondrian favors a more diffuse

  • Film Distrubution Channels in Indonesia

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    commercial distribution links for alternative film in Indonesia for present and future. Although in big scale alternative film is within the area of non-commercial terms and obviously need external support (because its characteristic as an important avant-garde in culture development and film expression), but if we try to see on commercial distribution side from these films, they can be one supporting factor to the alternative film development world in Indonesia, it also open the possibility of alternative

  • Paul Valéry's Le Situation de Baudelaire

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    This then would be the place of contemporary poetry, its situation. But to speak of contemporary poetry is already to demarcate too vast a place. You have to give this situation more specificity, but the proper vocabulary escapes me. The term "avant-garde" seems presumptuous if not anachronistic; "experimental" writing, all writing is experimental; "linguistically innovative" risks eliding visual, semantic, and other material and perceptual innovations; post-so-called-language writing, with all the

  • The Avant-Garde Die First

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    The Avant-Garde Die First In the 19th century, under the suffocating weight of a centuries long tradition in academic art, artists began to break free. Tired of meaningless imitation and decoration, the avant-garde artists pushed for drastic revolutions in aesthetic and social taste. This experimentation rapidly grew less and less controlled, and new technique and new style, which shocked and enraged the critics and public, stopped being experimental and started desiring the side effects of

  • Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle

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    only available in English in a so-called "pirate" edition published by Black & Red, and its informative, perhaps essential, critique of modern society languished in the sort of obscurity familiar to political radicals and the avant-garde. Originally published in France in 1967, it rarely receives more than passing mention in some of the fields most heavily influenced by its ideasÑmedia studies, social theory, economics, and political science. A new translation by

  • The Power of Horace McCoy’s They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

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    The Power of Horace McCoy’s They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Professor’s Comment: The premise of this essay is to highlight the capacity of Noir literature to defy Modernist values and pioneer later avant-garde literary movements. This student produced a focused, organized, well supported essay. Nearly half a century has passed since most films and texts in the Noir tradition were created, yet one may wonder how much is really known about these popular American products. Scholars remain fascinated

  • Controversial Advertising

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    Connection. By investigating two campaigns it will be shown that the only form of subversion that might be claimed for advertising could possibly be described as a temporary phenomenon of charming subversion. Controversial advertising : subversive avant-garde or variations of conformity? The notion „subversive“ has been associated with political issues and revolutionary activities intending to change the entire political, economic and hence societal order by slowly destroying the present system from