Multiple Authors, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Video: Expressionism Coming from Germany in the early 1900’s, Expressionism was best known for drawing or painting something with a single perspective or view. These paintings would be very distorted (not normal, strange) to show whatever emotion the artist wanted At home, you are going to …
Lindy Hop Dancers Video: The Birth Of Jazz Coming from ragtime, jazz was a musical sensation that took over the mind of America through its infectious rhythm and, at the time, shocking, dance moves. People like John Philip Sousa and Chuck Berry have become Icons in America that have lasted all the way until …
Your Destination: It’s been a long road full of a lot of new concepts and often complicated ideas. This final lesson is all about hearing from you. I want to see what you took away from all of this and if any of it has left an impact on you. At …
Your Destination: Predating Rock n Roll, Traditional Pop refers to post-big band music. Traditional pop drew from an assortment of songs written by professional songwriters and were often performed by a vocalist that was supported by either an orchestra or a small band. In traditional pop, the song is the key. …
Your Destination: An art movement coming from the avant-garde European art scene in the early ’20s, Dadaism was developed as a reaction to WWI, and during this time the gap between the wealthy and the poor in the word was becoming more and more obvious. The Dadaism movement was made up of artists …
Your Destination: From its origins, folk music has been the music of the working class. It is community-focused and has rarely enjoyed commercial success. By definition, it’s something that can be enjoyed by everyone, something that everyone can understand. Folk subjects include war, work, and civil rights to nonsense, parody, and …
Your Destination: Growing from Surrealism, Abstract expressionism combines the emotional intensity of expressionism with the abstract European forms of art like Cubism, Futurism and Bauhaus. The term applied to new forms of abstract art developed by American painters such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning in the 1940’s and 1950’s. It is often recognized by emotional brush-strokes or mark-making, …
Your Destination: Best known for its comparison of uncommon things, Surrealism consisted of uncomfortable, illogical scenes and creatures made from everyday objects, painted in photo-like detail, with the main idea being the merging of the awake and the dream world, creating something that exists in between both. Using the handout, you can create your own trippy …
