Surrealism and Radically New Approach

Surrealism and Radically New Approach

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1. Use the words relativity and uncertainty in a paragraph that describes the revolution in modern physics that took place in the early twentieth century. Modern physicists found, however, that at the physical extremes of nature-the microcosmic realm of atomic particles and the macrocosmic world of heavy astronomical bodies-the laws of Newton’s principia did not apply. German physicist, Albert Einstein, made public his special theory of relativity, a radically new approach to the new concepts of time, space, motion, and light.

Building on Einstein’s theories, Werner Heisenberg theorized that since the very act of measuring subatomic phenomena altered them, the position and the velocity of a subatomic particle could not be measured simultaneously with absolute accuracy. His principle of uncertainty the more precisely the position of a particle is determined, the less precisely its momentum can be known-replaced the absolute and rationalist model of the universe with one whose exact mechanisms at the subatomic level are indeterminate. 3.Between 1900 and 1925, traditional norms were violated or abandoned in art, music, and literature.

What factors might have brought about this situation? Offer specific examples to illustrate your general statements (think of Picasso, Matisse, Brancusi, and Mondrian). Traditional norms such as classical music transformed into more passionate pieces such as the rise of jazz music. This could be due to the rise of the Harlem Renaissance, something that focused on the black atheistic, or the African American rise of creative expression.

Authors of the time period were authors Gwendolyn Brooks or Langston Hughes- the importance of these authors was their ability to give a voice to/unify African Americans who had little or no voice in our culture at the time. Authors began writing in a more colloquial style, the language spoken by most literate people, to reach a larger base of people to get their theme across- instead of focusing on a very educated group of elites. Authors broke out of the very formal style of previous literary eras. 5.How did the media of photography and film respond to the modernist aesthetic? Photography was an ideal medium with which to explore the payers of the unconscious mind.

Modernist photographers experimented with double exposure and unusual new effects similar to those of visionary Surrealist painters and sculptors. A champion of the technique, Raoul Hausmann, called photomontage “the ‘alienation’ of photography”. By this, he implied that photomontage destroyed the role of photography as a medium of recreating physical reality.

But the statement also suggests that by its dependence on fragmentation and dislocation, photomontage offered a visually and conceptually new image of the chaos of an age of war and revolution. 7. Create a stream-of-consciousness diary entry of your experiences since you awoke this morning. Does your entry capture these experiences more effectively than a narrative description of them might? When I woke up in the morning, first thing I have to do is go to bathroom. During that time I bring my cellphone inside and check my E-mail, facebook and so on.All of my friends are in China, because of time difference, I always check it in the morning.

I still remember the

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time that I spend with my friends in China, we can do anything we want. One time, we drink all night in my friend house, everyone got drunk and we just like the movie, which is “hangover”. I really like this movie, it’s so funny. I watched this movie with my girlfriend, it makes us laugh for a long time. 9. Find specific examples in contemporary advertising (magazines, television, etc.) in which the influence of surrealism is apparent (provide pictures of the ones you select).

A movement in art and literature originated in Paris (1924) by Breton. Formulated at a time when phsychoanalysis was gaining ground, surrealism aimed to liberate into the creative act the image-forming powers of the unconscious and so transcend reality as it is conceived by the day-to-day intelligence. Surrealism emerged out of dada, and it claimed writers, including de Quincey, Rimbaud and Lautreamont, as its precursors. It found direction and method in Breton’s manifestos and his development of automatism, and it was furthered in the writings esp.

of Eluard, Aragon and

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