Guillaume Apollinaire

Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Zvantseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well. Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. in 1911 Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia. In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the…

How do poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon present their ideas of war in their poems, Exposure and Does It Matter? Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon are two famous war time poets, who conveyed their first-hand experiences of war through the form of poems to enlighten people towards the reality of war, as shown in “Exposure” and “Does It Matter?”. Exposure is an emotionally powerful poem that expresses the reality of the brutal weather conditions that were endured by the soldiers in the…

Warm red, golden yellow, lush green, and deep blue work together in a surreal way. It is thought that Surrealism was a term invented to describe Chagall’s work by the poet Apollinaire. Chagall had created a similar painting just previous to this one with the same subject matter named, Hommage à Apollinaire, or Adam et Ève (study). The poet’s very words used for Chagall’s work, “supernatural” and “surreal”, were later used to name the Surrealism Movement. Before coming to Paris, Chagall was…

around the 10th century near Burgundy, east-central France and later discovered in the 14 century. Although the cantus firmus L’homme armé formed the basis for masses of the renaissance era, this French secular song continues to inspire composers of the 21st century. Guillaume DuFay (c.1397- 1474), a native of the Cambrai…

The Man, The Myth, The Legend: Guillaume de Machaut There are many unknown things can be about Guillaume de Machaut, but one thing for sure he embodied the 14th century artistically. Guillaume de Machaut was born around 1300 somewhere near Réthel in the Champagne of France. The ordinary mass has come a long way since it was created. Guillaume de Machaut created the first polyphonic cycle by a single composer, Messe de Nostre Dame was revolutionary not only because it was the first polyphonic…

The very first idea introduced in Guillaume Apollinaire’s poem “Le Pont Mirabeau” is the timeless image of the Seine river flowing under the pont Mirabeau, a bridge. This image appears on a first reading to have nothing in common with the rest of the poem, which discusses a past love. However, based on evidence from the text, the idea of the Seine continuing to flow is the unifying metaphor that describes the continuing passage of time that ties the poem together. The first stanza of the poem…

Travis Hogue-Smith Dr. Baumgartner MUS 595 May 11, 2018 Poulenc: A Literary Avant-Garde Composer INTRODUCTION Françis Poulenc was one of the most literary avant-garde composers of France and the middle 1900s. His works specifically share idealistic renderings of French contemporary poets such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Paul Éluard and Louis Aragon among many others involved in the Avant-Garde movement throughout France. In this paper, I will explore that Poulenc among his peers is one…

will include an analysis of “Cubist Manifesto” written by Guillaume Apollinaire, which…

mammy. It was his uncle, a medical named Don Salvador, that protect him. Doctors at that time habit to smoke big cigars, and my nunk was no disapprobation. When he saw me fabling there he blew fag into my face. To this I immediately reacted with a mouth and a clamor of fury” - Pablo Picasso. It 's like Picasso was born an artist: his first communication was "piz," short of l. His first major paint, an "academic" work is First Communion, featuring a description of his sire, mamma, and younger…

Founded in Belgium in 1889 and then published in Paris two years later, La Revue blanche disseminated work by avant-garde writers, critics, and artists such as Marcel Proust and Guillaume Apollinaire. The magazine also served as a means for the intelligentsia to discuss social and political issues of the day, most notably the Dreyfus Affair. Its financers were the Natanson brothers – Alexandre, Alfred, and Thadée – who befriended and patronized the Nabis. Bonnard, in particular, became close to…