{"id":2674,"date":"2024-05-01T13:57:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T13:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2024-05-01T13:57:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T13:57:06","slug":"journal-4-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/05\/01\/journal-4-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal 4\/29"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In today&#8217;s class we wrapped up our discussion of early 20th-century art, closing with a discussion of Analytical and Synthetic Cubism, looking at the works of Picasso, and also discussing the burgeoning movement of Futurism. We then shifted focus to Post-WWI, which involved a large amount of discussion on one of the more amusing art movements in history, Dada. This art movement exceeds all others in the absolute absurdity and bizarreness it entails, as Dada artists worked to push the boundaries of art farther than ever expected. This was highlighted greatly by Marcel Duchamp&#8217;s <em>Fountain<\/em>, which is simply a urinal put on its side with a signature. Other works, like Man Ray&#8217;s <em>The Gift<\/em>, provide great amusement, as they are items that are used in everyday life which have been altered to remove all usability. We closed with a brief discussion of Surrealism, looking at works by Salvador Dali. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s class we wrapped up our discussion of early 20th-century art, closing with a discussion of Analytical and Synthetic Cubism, looking at the works of Picasso, and also discussing the burgeoning movement of Futurism. We then shifted focus to Post-WWI, which involved a large amount of discussion on one of the more amusing art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11932,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11932"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2675,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions\/2675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}