Question

TEXT: describe 3 examples of modernism as an assault on tradition: Picasso, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," Stein, "How She Bowed to Her Brother," and "Le Sacre du Printemps," composed by Stravinsky and choreographed by Nijinsky. For each example, identify the medium, describe the content, and discuss in detail the form. Be sure to refer to the elements of art for each discipline

Answer 1

• It is the huge oil painting by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso in 1907. In this work five nude prostitutes in the brothel on Career de avinyo in Barcelona. This painting contains Iberian and African mask-like style.
• How he bow to her brother was written in late 1931, Paris. In this poem, the poet shows the emotions after the separation from her brother.
• Le Sacre du Printemps is choreographed by Vas Nijinsky, in Paris, at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees.In it, young girls dance till to death for sacrifice in dance ritual of the pagan tribe.

From late 19th century to early 20th century a philosophical movement that changed the cultural trends in societies of the Western world is known as modernism. Modern society(industrial) and cities with rapidly increasing growth played important role in the development of modernism.

Modernism rejected religious beliefs and concept of enlightenment.

Modernism contains self-consciousness, new experimental forms, new techniques in painting, literature, architecture, music etc.

It also rejects the realism way of thinking by introducing new concept, techniques and methods.