Humanities Chapters 31, 32, 33

Chapter 31 1. no He stated, Progress is merely a juvenile idea, that is, a pretended ideal. The European of today is vastly inferior in value to the European of the Renaissance further development is altogether not according to any(prenominal) necessity in the direction of elevation, enhancement, or strength. 2. A. ) Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Stephane Mallarme, & Maurice Maeterlinck. B. ) To find a language that embraced the mystical, the erotic, and the ineffable valet of the senses. 3. A faun is p dodge man, p cunning beast. A nymph is a beautiful forest maiden.They boast an erotic encounter. 4. They carry on the romantic fascination with nature and the Realist preoccupation with daily life. They idealized nature. They were enkindle in sensation and the sensory experience. They tried to record an instantaneous muckle of their world, sacrificing the details of perceived objects in order to capture the effects of lax and atmosphere. Some painted ca nvases that offered a glimpse into the pleasures of 19th century urban life. 5. Bergson viewed life as a vital impulse that evolved creatively, much alike a work of art.True to Bergsons theory of duration, experience becomes a rain cats and dogs of sensations in which past and present merge. 6. Reliquaries, masks, and freestanding sculptures were among the power objects workd to high guidance the spirits of ancestors, celebrate rites of passage, and ensure the well-being of the community. Beadwork using root beads and wood carving with hammered brass were unique features. 7. Post- impressionistic paintings were a broad reaction against Impressionism. The works continued to use the bright Impressionist palette, but rejected the Impressionisms emphasis on the spontaneous transcription of light and color.Post-Impressionists sought to create art with a greater point in time of formal order and structure. The new ardors they created, Georges Seurats divisionist technique and Vince nt van van Goghs brushwork, led to more abstract styles that would prove highly potent for the development of modernist painting in the azoic twentieth century. Post-Impressionist compositions focused on the personal experience of the painter, versus fidelity to the object like in Impressionism the style of the work, developing a new method of paint application or viewing the piece from multiple angles, was more important than subject matter. . The art of Paul Gauguin developed out of similar Impressionist foundations, but he too dispensed with Impressionistic attainling of pigment and imagery in exchange for an approach characterized by solid patches of color and clearly define forms, which he used to depict exotic themes and images of private and religious symbolism. Gauguin looked toward removed destinations where he could live easily and paint the purity of the country and its inhabitants. Chapter 32 1. A. ) Imagists were a group of poets who were leaders in the search for a more concentrated style of expression. B. Verbal compression, formal precision and economy of expression were the goals of the imagists. 2. A. ) The work portrays five nude female prostitutes from a brothel on Avinyo Street in Barcelona. Each figure is depicted in a disconcerting confrontational manner and none be conventionally feminine. The women issue as slightly menacing and rendered with angular and disjointed body shapes. Picasso Africanizes the dickens pink (white European) bodies of the cardinal prostitutes who are seen on the right hand valet face of the picture and the other three faces he evokes an Iberian style of Picassos inbred Spain, giving them a savage aura.This creates an effect of cultural confrontation divergence is explicitly present and causes uncomfortableness. B. ) French imperialism in Africa and the Pacific was at its peak, with boats and transaction steamers bringing back ritual carvings and masks as curiosities. While the African carvings had a kind of quirky otherness, becoming very collectible in France, the habitual view of Africa was the symbol of savagery. Unlike most Europeans, however, Picasso saw this savagery as a source of vitality and renewal that he valued to mix for himself and for European painting.His interpretation of African art, in the mask-like faces of the figures on the right hand side, was based on this idea of African savagery the brush-strokes which create them have a stabbing violent flavour to them. 3. A. ) Analytic Cubanism is a multiplicity of viewpoints that replaced 1-point perspective. B. ) Synthetic Cubanism is the late phase of cubism, characterized chiefly by an increased use of color and the imitation or introduction of a wide clutch of textures and material into painting. 4.Machine technology of speed, electric lighting, and the new phenomenon of moving pictures. 5. A. ) Nonobjective art is art that lacks recognizable subject matter. B. ) Kandinsky was deeply influenced by the F auves, the Symbolists, and by Russian folk art. Malevich arrived at nonrepresentational art not by way of Fauvism but through the influence of Analytic Cubanism, which asserted the value of musical note over color. Mondrian was inclined to discover geometric order in the landscape of his native country. 6. Thomas Edison was the first American to project moving images on a screen.In France the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere perfected the process by which cellulose film ran smoothly in a commercial projector. 7. Frank Lloyd Wright invested the techniques of glass and steel technology and the operative principle of the cantilever with the aesthetics of Japanese art to create a modern style of domestic architecture. Le Corbusier introduced some of the classic elements of modern urban architecture, including the open floor plan, the flat roof, and the use of glass supply walls. 8.Atonality, polytonality, and polyrhythm as formal alternatives to the time-honored Western traditions of pleasing harmonies and uniform meter. Chapter 33 1. The id is the seat of human instincts and the source of all human desires, including nourishment and inner satisfaction. It is the compelling force of the unconscious realm. The ego is the administrator or double-decker that attempts to adapt the needs of the id to the real world. The superego is the moral monitor commonly called the conscience. It monitors human behavior according to the principles inculcated by parents, teachers, and other authority figures. . Freud states that when any event that is desired by the pleasure principle is prolonged, then it creates a speck of mild contentment. Thus or possibilities of happiness is restricted by the law. legion(predicate) of humankinds primitive instincts (for example, the desire to kill and the insatiable craving for internal gratification) are clearly harmful to the well-being of a human community. As a result, civilization creates laws that prohibit killing, rape, and a dultery, and it implements severe punishments if such rules are broken.This process, argues Freud, is an inherent quality of civilization that instills perpetual feelings of discontent in its citizens. Freuds theory is based on the notion that humans have certain characteristic instincts that are immutable. virtually notable are the desires for sex, and the predisposition to violent aggression towards authority figures and towards sexual competitors, which both obstruct the gratification of a persons instincts. 3. A piece of streak soaked in tea. 4. The themes of insecurity and vulnerability reflect the mood that prevailed during the early decades of the century.The main character wakes up one morning and realizes that he has been sullen into a large insect. 5. A brand new car. 6. Dresdan, Munich 7. World war I they dedicated themselves to spreading the gospel of irrationality because they believed WWI was evidence that the world had gone mad. 8. The group aimed to revolutionize human experience, in its personal, cultural, social, and political aspects. They wanted to free people from false rationality, and restrictive customs and structures. Breton proclaimed that the straight aim of Surrealism was long live the social revolution and it alone To this goal, at various times Surrealists aligned with communism and anarchism. There are devil composers who were greatly influenced by Surrealism like Erik Satie. He wrote the score for a ballade order which had a great influence on other composers like Guillaume Apollinaire. He coined the term and made compositions based on it. 9. There are two composers who were greatly influenced by Surrealism like Erik Satie. He wrote the score for a ballade sight which had a great influence on other composers like Guillaume Apollinaire. He coined the term and made compositions based on it.