CHECK THESE SAMPLES OF Formalist Critism
...of filmic explication as it eschews formalist interference for what he believes is the unencumbered expression of reality. While exploring many of the same foundational elements regarding the objective of filmmaking as Bazin, Kracauer discussed realistic versus formative filmic tendencies and theorized their most effective uses. Kracauer traces the roots of the realist and formalist divide in the very earliest silent film productions. He argues that the Lumiere films, with their direct depictions of daily life, represent the realistic tendency in film. While Kracauer doesn’t openly deride the Lumiere films, he attributes their eminence not to artistic legitimacy, but instead to the newness of the medium....
5 Pages(1250 words)Essay
...? READER-RESPONSE AND FORMALIST CRITICISMS: ENHANCEMENT AND USEFULNESS IN READING A FAREWELL TO ARMS John Deane number Teacher Reader-Response and Formalist Criticisms: Enhancement and Usefulness in Reading A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms truly captivates my attention, especially the conversations between Frederic Henry and Count Greffi, and between the main protagonist and the priest. Such conversations greatly arouse my sense of spirituality, of how I view the world in relation to the Supreme Being or the Absolute. In fact, their dialogues strikingly resemble metaphysical and ontological discourses (e.g., Plato’s philosophy). For instance, the concept of wisdom remarkably rivets...
2 Pages(500 words)Research Paper
...Ruscha - Formalist analysis Ed Ruscha's Large Trademark with Eight Spotlights (1962) relies on strong directional lines to create a feeling of momentum and imposition within the artwork's frame. Roughly divided into two triangular shapes, the image presents a graduating and expanding white, opaque space that grows in width from the bottom right hand corner - the point of its genesis - to a location near the top left hand corner where it merges into the large slogan that forms the piece's focal point.
The background against which the light and wording is set is reminiscent of night - but with the total blackness of its landscape lightened to greyness by the imposing luminescence of the dominant light projection. The...
5 Pages(1250 words)Essay
...Formalist and critical perspectives in Herman Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener. Bartleby the Scrivener was written by Herman Melville in1853. This essay explores the ways in which Bartleby the Scrivener can be examined using the critical perspectives of formalism, transcendentalism, existentialism and absurdist in literature.
The formalist perspective uses critical analysis to examine the structure for meanings in Bartleby the Scrivener. Bartleby's practice of transcendentalism and existentialism disagrees with his employer's Marxist capitalism. He refuses to work because he chooses to remain faithful to his beliefs and dies a martyr. Castle says that; 'The pathos of the story depends in part on the gap...
5 Pages(1250 words)Book Report/Review
...Formalist and Expressionist Concepts of Art as Viewed in the Works of Caravaggio, Norman Rockwell, Edouard Manet, and Barnett Newman Undoubtedly, reaching a formal definition of art has been one of the most contentious points for artists, art critics, and scholars alike. This is evident in the tumultous paradigm shifts in art history that have from formalism to expressionism, institutional art to the avant-garde, that have shaped, altered, defined, and changed human understanding and practice of art production and appreciation. Hence, it would be worthy to examine the influence of two of the most dominant perspectives in art, formalism and expressionism, on both artists and viewers alike as represented in the works of...
6 Pages(1500 words)Essay
...Modernism/Postmodernism The article criticizes the formalist critics and their view and attitude towards art. According to the formalist critics, an artist has to present art in a certain way while the observer has to view the art from one point of view. In addition, the outlook towards art is limited to merely one fixation. The author gives the views of the formalist critics and at the same time gives different outlook and view towards the same piece of art. The author believes that there is a vast distinction between art of the Old Masters and contemporary painting, which wholly depends on the viewer’s personal understanding of the artwork. He punctures the narrow-minded formalism that...
1 Pages(250 words)Article
...Formalism, Modernism, and the Connection to Sociological Discussion In formalism, context of a work of art is second to the form in which the work reveals its meaning. Roger Fry and Clive Bell discuss the nature of emotions as they relate to the development of the viewer response. The worlds of the artist separated in to two natures, according to Fry, while Bell discusses that a split between the responses through the intellectual and the emotional. In examining the writings that others have created on the topic of aesthetics and the formalist criticism, it is clear that the development of art that was more about meaning than representation changed the way in which intellectual discovery of art was made. Formalism is the...
7 Pages(1750 words)Book Report/Review
... by peers, this type of critism helps learners to improve. Use of rubrics also makes the students aware of the learning targets, this way they can work in a manner that increases their chances of hitting them and so getting better grades.
REFERENCE:
Hafner, J. C., & Hafner, P. M. (2004). Quantitative analysis of the rubric as an assessment
tool: An empirical study of student peer- group rating. International Journal of
Science Education, 25(12), 1509-1528.... refers to the use of a selected set of criteria that is used to assess performance and for each set criteria there is a certain level of potential achievement and may include performance samples in each criteria, this can be measured in numerical scores and to find the student...
1 Pages(250 words)Assignment
3 Pages(750 words)Assignment
...Literacy Criticism Literary criticism is an inevitable process in the interpretation of literature and should continueto give readers multiple perspectives when reading books. Therefore, literary criticism should borrow from different facets of life without necessarily confining itself to formalist perspective. This is a perspective that limits its interpretation to the syntax and grammar while ignoring socio-cultural and political aspects that usually define a work of art. In, An Inspector Calls, a play by J.B. Priestley, different issues emerge that could be analyzed using this perspective in spite its defects (Bertens 133). They include plot and character development including the use of language to convey meaning....
4 Pages(1000 words)Research Paper