Guillaume Apollinaire Essays

EXPLORE HOW CHANGE IS SHOWN IN THE “DISABLED” POEM The theme of war and its consequences were explored through many poems and novels in the past. However the poem “Disabled” talks about how the war has influenced one soldier in particular physically and mentally. It talks about the major change in his life and his points of view on the situation. This poem is an anti- war poem and it within it, Wilfred Owen wants to remind the young people of the consequences of the war and how life changing it

Disney Cruise 3 months ago I can’t believe we won the lottery and won 1 million dollars. My parents told us that we were going to go on a trip but we don’t think that we are actually going to go on a trip anywhere. It was still super exciting to win the lottery and all of that money. At dinner we our parents tell us we are going on a trip. We ask where but they say it is going to be a surprise. Later me and my sister try to guess where we are going to go. We guess a lot of different places but are

Juan Gris was a Spanish painter and sculptor born in Madrid, Spain on March 23, 1887. Originally, his name was Jose Victoriano Gonzalez-Perez. He was known for his paintings in the Cubist style and producing sculptures. His works are praised by art critics as being some of the finest examples of cubist painting. In his paintings, he emphasized that every element of each painting should be considered with classical quality and balanced colors. Being born the thirteenth child of fourteen by father

Picasso, one of the most recognized figures of the 20th century art. He helped create such art styles as Cubism and Surrealism. He was also among the most innovative, influential, and prolific artists ever. He was born Pablo Ruiz Picasso on October 6, 1881, in Malaga, Spain. He was the first child of Jose Ruiz y Blasco and Maria Picasso y Lopez. His father was an artist and professor of art at the School of Fine Arts, and also a curator of museum in Malaga, Spain. Picasso began studying art under

The purpose of this essay is to investigate the Modernism in English literature especially in The Translator (a novel written by Leila Aboulela). Modernist literature is a major English genre of fiction writing, popular from the 1910s into the 1960s. After the end of the reign of Queen Victoria in 1901, the industrialization and globalization are increasing. New technology and the horrifying events of both World Wars (but specifically World War I and atomic bomb) made many people question the future

“In his twenties, he attended adaption of Raymond Roussel’s Impression d’Afrique with Picadbia and Guillaume Apollinaire.” From this experience, which made deep impression on Duchamp. Duchamp noticed that the first time he “felt that as painter it was much better to be influenced by a writer than by another painter” this would influence him to develop an eclectic

Very few artists can say have changed the course of art history in a way that Marcel Duchamp did. By challenging the thought of what is art, his first "readymades" sent shock waves across the art world that can still be felt today. Duchamp's growing amusement with the desire of sexual identity as well as his affection for wordplay aligns his work with that of Surrealists, although he firmly refused to be affiliated with any specific artistic movement. In his desire that art should be driven by ideas

In this essay I am going to be discussing how surrealism has proven to be such a popular style in advertising. Surrealism comes from Guillaume Apollinaire a French poet. Surrealism is identified from Dadaism which started in the early 20th century. Dada is created by chaotic disruption for the sake of it, well-known for violating the normal legibility. They are made to not make sense and to intentionally be badly designed, often forming crude drawings and images. Pierre Molinier is an artist who

attention since its early days. It started as a revolutionary cultural movement born in response to the social, economical and political crisis which engulfed society during the beginning of the 20th century. The term ‘surrealist’ was coined by Guillaume Apollinaire thanks to his play ´les Mamelles de Tirésias’ 1917. I. Surrealism evolved out of the ‘anti-establishment’ and “anti-art" Dada movement based in Paris, most of whose members became surrealists during the early post-war years, forming two groups

It happened two years ago as I lay sprawled out on the floor of the library lounge at the Universite de Grenoble in Grenoble, France. I was working on an explication du texte of Guillaume Apollinaire' poem "La Loreley" for my Poemes et Proses du XXe Siecle class when I suddenly put it together: this was my approach to literature. Close reading, formalism. Staying close, very close, to the text. I was certain. Certainty, however, proved rather unstable. I knew it was important not to close myself

Have you ever seen any written documentations that record the complicated interchange of the conversation that only took place between Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque? Are you not curious the terminology that they use during their discussion as they explore further and further into a brand new direction of art at the time? After reading "The Shared Vision,"1 I was surprised to know more information from the aspect of the more reality side of the artist, that Picasso and Braque have very distinct

contradictions between reality and dream. Artists painted illogical, unnerving landscape with photographic exactness and created weird figures from normal objects. Surrealist works portray features of surprise and unexpected juxtaposition. Guillaume Apollinaire coined the term Surrealist in 1903, but the term was applied as from 1917 (Caws, 2004).Picasso went to Italy in February 1917, where he was influenced to create work in a neoclassical style. Picasso painted using neoclassical style to recall

Technology has changed every aspect of life. People are now attached to an electronic device that they can hardly take their eyes off to have an actual conversation. Technology has also changed art and the way people look at it today. Art began with cave paintings and from there has evolved to have many mediums, and those mediums are constantly evolving with how artists want to express themselves. When photography started to develop, many artists didn’t consider it art. They thought it didn’t capture

accepted ideas of reality” and present an image from un-normal worlds such as dreams, fantasies and held back feelings and free their minds from logical sense. The term ‘surreal’ or ‘surrealism’ was first openly used by the French critique Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-918) in a play titled ‘Les Mamellaes De Tirèscias’ and a ballet titles ‘Parade’. The term is also later used in the journal ‘Litterature’, which is written by the French writer and poet, André Breton (1896-1966). To discuss the philosophy

Gustave Eiffel was born December 15th, 1832 in Dijon, France. He graduated from the École Polytechnique and later the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, as a civil engineer and created a number of bridges for the French Railway Network. However, his name became known after becoming the main man in creating,designing, and constructing the Eiffel Tower. Eiffel was the first born child of Alexandre Eiffel and Catherine-Melanie. While his Mother was a heiress to a charcoal company, his Father

INSPIRE!!! ASPIRE FOR ASSERTIVENESS..... By Vincent Happy Mnisi This book is dedicated to my family and friends… Contents PAGE 1) Introduction 5 2) GOOD LIFE… 10 3) The company we keep… 33 4) God, you and the world… 50 5) Love!!! 78 6) Fate&Destiny 97 Chapter 1: Intro Good day to you, may your life be at peace with it 's self