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i'm giving my senior project speech tomorrow. its not so hard except that i can't speak and make sense at the same time
hopefully rotoli will think i'm not a native speaker, and it'll be okay
the fashion design & illustration course i created is so well planned out by now, and though its not really helping me out in the long ( Read more... )
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to Julia and tell me waht you think tomorrow?
Art Nouveau is apparently this completely deffinitionless movement.
Adolphe
Rette (I dont know who this guy is) said about it “we are living in a
storm
where a hundred contradictory elements collide; debris fromt he past,
scraps
of the present, seds of the future, swirling, combining, separating
under
the imperious wind of destiny.” Very nice quote, I think, and a
litterary
quote of the time. Apparently, this is the motive for this type of
art: the
cumulation of all different eras and stuff. The reaction to it
popularly
was mixed. Some loved it, some hated it. It “inspired moral
manifestos
dedicated to the future good of society, while providing the imagery of
erotic theatre and pulp pornography.” So it has a wide range of what
it
looks like and what it affects. There is no real consensus of what it
looks
like, but it is agreed upon that it usually “has as its main theme a
long,
sensitive, sinuous line that reminds us of seaweed or of creeping
plants.”
Many see the intellectual underpinning for art nouveau as being “a
conciously mystical and illogical continuation of the Romantic
tradition.”
However, others see it as “a logical opposition with rationalist
foundation,
firmly rooted in scientific achievements of the nineteenth century.”
So
everyone thinks differently of where this stuff comes from and what it
means.
It is a style centreally concerned with public life.
All these varied points of view apparently do not result in the
failings or
the subject ficklness of the movement, rather they all point to the
fact
that it is a “multi-faceted, complex phenomenon that defies any attempt
to
reduce it to singular meanings and moments.”
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