and shavers” (Hoovers). The founder of BIC was Baron Marcel Bich, and has begun his company in 1953 with his partner Edouard Buffard, they didn't truly invent the pen, Hungarian Ladislao Bir was the creator of the parts, so Bich had purchased it off Bir (Los Angeles Times). Edouard Buffard was the... “executive Vice President and Director of Société BIC” (BIC Group). In Italy a “Baron” was dominant and was powerful in the middle ages. Marcel Bich used to work in an ink company and had quit to begin
The BIC for Her Women's Day ad is from BIC, a family owned, global company. BIC was created in 1944 by Marcel Bich and Edouard Buffard in Clinchy, France to make writing instruments (BIC, 2017). This company's first product was a ballpoint pen in 1950 and their focus was on making simple, reliable products that are easy to use for everyday needs (BIC, 2017). Throughout the 1950s and 1960s the company greatly expanded all around the world (BIC, 2017). Since then, the company has continued to expand
Reader Response to Woolf’s To The Lighthouse There is a saying that the worth of a man’s life is best measured by the degree to which he has if he has touched the lives of others and not by the quantity of worldly possessions that he has acquired. It is important to keep this in mind when considering Virginia Woolf’s novel, To The Lighthouse. Throughout the novel, it seems as though the characters, mainly Mr. And Mrs. Ramsay, are trying to find worth in their lives. As a first time reader of
Over the last few decades, the practice of radically appropriating works of other artists has become common. The central tenet in appropriation art is to incorporate ideas and images from mass media, popular culture, advertising, and from other artists into a new work. Indeed, appropriating art is not new since borrowing from other artists is an age-old practice. For instance, painters have regularly repainted the paintings of other artists with an aim of exploring the application of their artistic
The Whitney Museum of American Art has often been referred to a citadel of American Art, partially due to the museums façade, a striking granite building (Figure 1), designed by Bauhaus trained architect Marcel Breuer. The museum perpetuates this reference through its biennial review of contemporary American Art, which the Whitney has become most famous for. The biennial has become since its inception a measure of the state of contemporary art in America today. Since the Museum's opening in 1931
There are endless styles and themes in which artists can decide to paint in. Surrealism is a well known art movement that started in the 1900s. Surrealism was created to “change life” said Rimbaud or to “transform the world” said Marx and essentially that’s what it did. By eliminating logic, new boundaries were opened and a new focus was demonstrated by some artists. Surrealism was first seen in writing so this movement didn’t necessarily begin in the art field. But, it did help artists enhance their
Art encompasses everything. It is such a broad subject that it can be found in the most bizarre places - like a house's structural wall built out of beer cans. Artists are always trying to push boundaries and think outside the canvas, as it were. After all, why create art that has already been done? The inherent problem with this is that now, because so much has already been done, everyone wants the excuse to call anything art. Worse – society's etiquette teaches us that we should be accepting of
of art history in such a concrete and dramatic way. In fact it could be argued that all contemporary art owes its very existence to one painting: Marcel Duchamp‘s Nude Descending a Staircase. A painting that is considered to be the most influential development in modern visual narrative and what is considered innovative in art” (Naumann, 2013). “Marcel Duchamp rejected “retinal art” meaning attractive to the eye. He focused more on the intellectual ideas of his work and interpretations that people
Everything has a price and is given in exchange for something else––that is, barring a seemingly glaring exception: the gift. One might surmise that presents are given out of love or the goodness of one’s heart, but in The Gift, French sociologist Marcel Mauss (1950) asserts that “[while] in theory these are voluntary, in reality they are given and reciprocated obligatorily” (3). Gifting is rather much more complicated than simple goodwill; with gifting comes “honor [and] prestige” from exhibiting
Greene's Exploration of the Paradox ofThe Sinner is Often the Saint "The Sinner is often the Saint" - In order to come to terms with this paradox the reader must be aware of the definitions of the words 'sinner' and 'saint'. As it is understood today, a 'saint' is one who transgresses God's known will. Greene uses the character of Scobie in his novel 'The Heart of the Matter' to explore the paradox in the above statement. However, once the reader is quite aware of these
Gift giving can be found in societies around the world. These exchanges are done for multiple reasons and intents behind gift giving can vary between cultures and traditions. Anthropologists have tried to look into gift giving within cultures to see the intent behind gifts, what a gift giver may expect in return and what the recipient values in the gift. In Peter M. Whiteley’s article Ties That Bind (2004), Whiteley has examined how gift giving in the Hopi society functions as a central connection
Dadaism was a form of art. Dadaism allowed for people to express themselves and take a chance. It was meant to stand out and confuse people. Dadaism took place in the early 20th century in Zurich, Switzerland. Many artists created art in their reaction to the World War I. The artists that participated in this movement rejected logic and society. I think that dadaism was so important because even if you werent good in art, it didnt matter. Dadaism took its peak in 1916 and died down until it was forgotten
trapped in the cage of society, constantly being judged and interpreted regardless of the artist’s intent. There is no escaping it, however, there are ways to manage and manipulate the cage. Two such examples are Kandinsky 's Little Pleasures, and Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain. Both pieces were very controversial and judged for being so different in their time, but they also had very specific ways of handling the criticism and even used it to their advantage. We will be looking at the motivations for
In 1916, in a small nightclub named the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, the European Dada movement was born. Founded by Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings, the purpose of their nightly shows was to comment on the futility of war while operating as a safe haven away from war. By 1918 Dada had reached Germany, which at the time had just lost the war and was on the verge of an economic upheaval and a social revolution (Hoskins, 11). The Berlin Dadaists, as they came to be known, saw the effects of war, and produced
"Children on Their Birthdays" by Truman Capote Truman Capote created a character in "Children on Their Birthdays" who is the definition of a dreamer. Her name is Miss Bobbit and although she is only a child, everyone who knew her addressed her as Miss Bobbit because "she had a certain magic, whatever she did she did it with completeness, and so directly , so solemnly, that there was nothing to do but accept it". When she introduced herself as Miss Bobbit people would "snicker", yet she was still
Memory takes centre stage in this novel, which departs from the traditional Nineteenth Century novel in that the narrative does not follow one protagonist throughout. In ‘Swann’s Way’ the protagonist is Marcel, but Proust, a modernist writer uses ‘distancing’ to create “an art of multiplication with regard to the representation of person ... creating aesthetics of deception for the autobiographical novel.” (Nalbantian, 1997, p.63). Also Proust referred to his narrator as the one who says ‘I’ and
heart. Marcel, when he hears of Albertine’s departure, says, “I had believed that I was leaving nothing out of account, like a rigorous analyst; I had believed that I knew the state of my own heart” (Nussbaum, 162). Marcel believes that he is not in love with Albertine, but it requires “this sort of scrutiny…for the requisite self-knowledge” (Nussbaum, 162) for him to come to terms with the truth of his heart. The scrutiny described is a form of self-deception, Nussbaum says. Marcel had to go
Marcel Proust Defines the Self in Remembrance of Things Past Proust seems to be unique among the twentieth century authors in that his denial of rational thought is through the use of sensation to respond to the problem--instead of experience, for example--by defining the self as a retrievable essence comprised of all past experiences. Our human condition is defined by mortality, contingency, and discontentment. This reality combined with the new outlooks of relationships between our lives
In the following paragraphs I will be discussing the impact of Barthes’ ‘Death of the Author’ and its interpretive impact in contemporary art; discussing why and how we establish meaning within contemporary art. Is it upon our own back? Or through the eyes of the artist. Do we follow the artist’s line of thought? Or do we create an interpretation of our own? allowing our self’s to subtract the artist as a significant figure with in the art. Allowing it to create countless voices within art; is it
In the early 20th century, there was a rise in a multitude of new artistic movements, which took place during the first World War. One of the movements called the Dada movement originated in Zürich, Switzerland and expressed both anti-art and anti-war sentiments. The amount of time it was prevalent was for a total of eight years from 1916 to 1924. Its aim was to evoke an emotion within the audience by expressing mockery in relation to art, materialism, and nationalism. Moreover, Dada art included