Harlem Renaissance: Black Creativity and Modernism
Black Creativity and Modernism
- Black Creativity was seen as a response to Modernist Eurocentrism.
- They were occurring at the same time, but their relation was complex.
- Modernism was a largely European white movement brought to America, and it focused on questions of alienation, marginality, the use of folk primitive materials, and the problem of writing for an elite audience.
- The Harlem Renaissance shows and proves that the center and the margins of the culture were always subject to redefinition.
- Modernism
Cretan-Mycenaean and Greek Architecture
Cretan-Mycenaean Art Greek art is the product of a long training process in which some fundamental influences are nearby. These include the Minoan civilization and the Mycenaean civilization. They were based on important maritime trade, which led to contact with other worlds, like the Egyptian.
Cretan-Mycenaean architecture uses elements that will then be assimilated by Greek art:
- Essential material: stone
- Architraves structures used with large entablature
- Aegean column: on a rectangular base, a downward-
Flemish and Romanesque Art: Painting, Architecture, Sculpture
Gothic Flemish Painting
Oil painting is a technique that allows for careful and detailed representation. Characters in the foreground are neatly represented, and the main thematic object of the work achieves extraordinary realism. The use of oil painting was key to this style.
Van Eyck
The most representative painter of this style, Van Eyck was the first to use the oil technique. He gave importance to detail and three-dimensional space. Notable works include the Arnolfini Portrait and the Ghent Altarpiece
Read MoreJournalistic Text Features and Structures
**Morphosyntactic Features of Journalistic Texts**
§ Propensity to longer sentences through different mechanisms: circumlocution, appositions, subsections, explanatory sentences (adverbial, prepositional, and conjunctive).
§ Abundance of the passive voice.
§ Tendency to place the subject at the end.
§ Mix of direct and indirect style.
§ Use of barbarisms, especially Anglicisms and Gallicisms: A + infinitive in the adjacent function of a noun: duties to fulfill.
§ Periphrasis be + being + participle:
Read MoreFilm Production, Formats, and Literary Analysis
Film Production: A Comprehensive Overview
In film production, there are three primary phases:
1. Planning
This phase includes the script-writing process and pre-production activities.
2. Filming (or Formation)
This involves capturing images through a series of technical procedures.
- Takes: These are repetitions filmed on set, each one signed off.
- Map: Represents a portion of reality shown on the screen and its duration.
- Scene: A fragment that develops a narrative action within a single stage. The chronological
Baroque Sculpture: Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Masterpieces
General Features of Baroque Sculpture
Baroque statues played an important role in architectural decoration, both internal and external. Unlike the axially balanced Renaissance sculptures, they seem to perch on their stone bases, ready to leave at any moment. The faces are suffering, struggling, with tight lips or mouths open in a moan. Muscles are tense, throbbing veins appear under the skin, and even hair and beards, unkempt, capture a mood.
Movement became a real obsession of the Baroque sculptor.
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