Garde Article Reviews Samples For Students

Part I: Using the questions in the Munro article, go through the two pieces of criticism by Greenberg and Rosenberg and write answers for each question posed by Munro.

In Greenberg’s “Towards a Newer Laocoon,” the work being criticized seemed to be art in general, and the struggle between all different types of art to become the dominant art form relative to its period. For the most part, Greenberg discusses avant-garde painting, and how it had and continue to has a purity that elevates itself above most art forms. He claims that there are no greater justifications for depicting nature ...

In his article, Multiplicitous and Inorganic Bodies, Lynn tackles the relevance of understanding the principles of proportional geometry. By incorporating this principles on architectural designs, architects can achieve harmony which results to a natural, well-crafted work (Lynn, 1992). As a professor of architecture, Lynn is thoroughly concerned with the spatial bodies of inanimate objects he refers to as ‘organisms’. Lynn argues that in order to better understand any object, destroying it would be the first option. Similarly, biological sciences attempt to study the vital functions of the organs through live dissection and open surgery. In architecture, creating a plan is also a simple ...

The article talks about one of the most provocative and refreshing movements of 20th century, the age of avant-garde art — Dada. It starts with the flashback to the beginning of it all in 1920, when the war was over and different versions of avant-gardism were still spreading in the world, in Russia and Germany, and, of course, the center of it all was Paris. Tristan Tzara, the head of the Dada movement, was drawn to Paris to seek for attention and his plan was to create «Dadaglobe», an anthology of avant-garde art with a great number of contributions from ...