Dadaism & Surrealism has helped to educate and shape the way people today view art and has led to a new form of expression in the modern world. ... It emerged largely in response to the atrocities and insanity, "the disillusion, defeatism, and insane butchery of World War 1" (William, Flemming, Arts & Ideas, 6th Edition, Syracuse New York, pp 423) and wanting to find, and experiment with new forms of expression attempting to revive the creative act. ... Where society valued rational the Dadaist embraced the irrational. ... One individual, Salvador Dali, helped put out surrealism on the ...

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Eliot noted: "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality." [3] One cannot spend life supressing all emotions and behaving in a rational manner. ... If anything, it helps a person to stay stable headed. ...

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The term art can also be used to designate one of several forms of expression such as filmmaking, painting, music, dance, architecture, sculptures, literature, and many other modes of aesthetic expression. Aesthetic expression has been present throughout history. Prime examples of ancient aesthetic expression are the pyramids. ... We can see the usage of pyramids in literature, movies, videos, plays and several other forms of aesthetic expression. ... The latter are concerned with skill of expression in language, speech, and reasoning. ...

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In 1884 he helped to establish the Socialist League, editing and contributing to its organ the Commonweal. ... He proposed a form of society in which people could enjoy craftsmanship and simplicity of expression. ... These criteria were interpreted in a variety of styles, ranging from rational and geometric to romantic or naturalistic, Whether abstract, stylized, or realistically treated, the consistent theme in all Arts and Crafts design is nature. ...

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In a way, it might have begun with the Age of Enlightenment and its drive toward a mastery of nature and society, with human reason at the center of everything, since which rationality had been considered the key to justice, morality, control, organization, understanding and happiness. ... It completely changed the way artist used form, style, content, genre, expression, etc. ...

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And for many years abstract expressionism would be the odd end to this quest, at least that is, until young Leo Steinberg took abstract expressionism and with the help of a few other critics opened everyone's eyes to the fact that they had it all wrong. ... One had to step over the line of realism and rationality and into the odd world the critics and artists had created to be able to understand the art finally. ...

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