This image is a photograph taken from one of Schawinsky’s performance art pieces as a part of his experimental multimedia project Spectrodrama from 1936 to 1938, this particular one is called Danse Macabre. Surrealism, which became popular in the 1920s when Schawinsky was in Germany studying at Bauhaus, is the art genre most heavily drawn…
This image is a photograph of one of Schawinsky’s theater sets as a part of Spectrodrama which existed from 1936 to 1938; it was an experimental multimedia theater set project that is by most standards Schawinsky’s most prominent and enduring collection of works. Schawinksy was fascinated by how light, color, motion, and time intersected and…
Alexander “Xanti” Schawinsky was born in Switzerland in 1904 and showed immense creativity from a young age. Schawinsky originally aimed to become an architect but had many varied interests. He eventually became known for his interest in photography, painting, and performance art, including stage art and set design. He was one of the founding members…
As an avid fan of the Netflix miniseries The Queen’s Gambit starring Anna Taylor-Joy, I was thrilled to get to analyze the opening sequence of the series. But the opening sequence doesn’t actually come until the end of the last episode. Instead, the viewers get two title stamps spliced with the first few minutes of…
The place I chose to navigate is the JC Raulston Arboretum which is essentially a research garden under the purview of NC State while still being a separate entity. It is easy to see the influence of NC State here, both with the prevalence of bricks in the paving and building of the walkways and…
U.S. war posters from the First and Second World Wars, Library of Congress. Retrieved from https://streetsofsalem.com/tag/joan-of-arc/ The first image that caught my eye, was the dual posters from the first and second world wars respectively. The poster on the left shows a beautiful young woman clad in armor with a sword raised high against a…