Daiana and Valentina - assignment part 2

Links to the videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHQaUTSFPNA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQzkD9rAV8o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoM1hYqpRSI

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Art in the 19th and early 20th century

The term Impressionism derives from Claude Monet's painting "Impression Sunrise" (1872)

You can read an interesting chronology of this movement and look at some paintings here.

For an overview of French painting in the 19th century, go to the USA National Gallery of Art, where you will also find a discussion of Post-Impressionism.

Post-Impressionism can be exemplified by Georges Seurat's "The Lighthouse at Honfleur" (1886)

Cubism started in Paris in 1908, reached its peak in 1914, and continued into the 20's. Go to the London Tate Gallery for an explanation of its features or read this other discussion

Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907) forecasts the new style.

Virginia Woolf dates the change in "human nature" to December 1910, when the first exhibition of French Post-Impressionist and Cubist painting took place in London.

Can you suggest what elements in common you can find with modernism?

This is an optional activity.

Modernism and James Joyce

Some general characteristics of the movement in different fields

Modernism In Literature

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and more specific details regarding literature.

Turning to James Joyce, you can find out about Bloomsday celebrations this year, and about the "Ulysses Meets Twitter" project, of which there is a sample below:

Predictions: Eveline, our next story (optional)

If you go to http://www.wordle.net

you can generate word clouds from text that you provide which give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

Look at the Wordle I have created for Joyce's story (click on it or go to http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3580841/Eveline_by_James_Joyce for a larger version).

What do you expect the story to be about? Who may be the characters? What about the setting?

Tell us in the comments below.

Deadline: May 17th.

Here you can see a static image, in case your computer did not allow you to see the previous one.

Note: This is an optional activity which you can do for extra credits. Particularly suitable for those who started later, missed lessons or failed to do other activities.