Armory show:
What makes this modern? focus on two or three works of art – – sculpture or painting – – that seem particularly related to the poetry and prose that we’ve read.
Within our readings in class and the artwork in the Armory show, there is a connection of darkness and isolation, marking both of these forms of art modern. In Our Time reveals a strong tone of isolation by the shootings in chapter 3 which leave the reader feeling disconnected and depressed by the disconnect all the characters feel from one another. T.S. Elliot also creates great discomfort in relation to others as he talks about walking around London and people stare at the ground in sorrow, not wanting to communicate with one another. In the Armory show, Lucifer is a distorted and wrapped version of a human, which places it in the modern category.
When an author talks about close relationships, he attempts to make the reader feel connected through his description of other deep relationships. Hemingway attempts exactly the opposite as he emphasizes the grotesque distortion of distant human relationships. When the narrator is waiting in the garden with others to shoot the german soldiers coming over, there is an extreme discomfort with the inhumane distoration of the relationship between those in the garden and the german soldiers.
The sculpture called Lucifer is a man like face that is extremely distorted. All pieces of the face are like a human, but the nose is off, the eye is misplace, the chin not correct, etc. This is the way the humans are perceived in In Our Time as they are mostly human, but there is something off and distorted about them. Similar to the scene where the mother is giving birth in in our time and the child is helping her and crying. The scene is mildly normal ( as someone is giving birth), but extremely distorted because a child is helping her give birth. This resembles to Lucifer is well with the distortion of his what seems to be normal face.
Similarly, Moonlit cove reflects an abounded place of darkness and solitude. This painting resembles the wasteland as a place of complete disconnect from people and a lack relationship. As the narrator of the wasteland walks through the streets of London alone, he feels there is a darkness amongst people that he did not know was so widely spread. This darkness is evident also in the moonlit cove. Also, it's off discoloration reflects that of a normal, yet slight distortion of the moder writing.
