Yeats, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, was en of those responsible for the famed Irish Literary Renaissance movement (Hailstorm). One of Yeats’ greatest works is The Land of Heart’s Desire, a magical fairy poetry that is both dramatically fine, and fresh and dreamy in its melody. This work well represents the Irish Revival not only because Of its poetic fineness but as well, for its theme of Midsummer Eve’s fairies, which derives from Irish traditional legends.
Literature: Robert Newton Peashooter influential 20th century literary figure is Robert Uneven Peck. He is a celebrated American award-winning author who as published over 60 novels and poetry, children’s and young adult works in particular. He is most famous for his first and auto-biographical novel A Day No Pigs would Die, an unsentimental portrayal of his youth’s farm living. The novel is among the top eight most popular young adult novels (HAY) during a 1989 survey of HAY literature professors, high school teachers, librarians and publishers.
A Day No Pigs Would Die well reflects the realism and pervading call of later 20th century, with its use tot both elderly and slang languages, and its candid portrayal f life’s harsh realities (Sheridan Ill). Visual Arts: Jackson Pollock the world of painting, an influential figure is American abstract painter Jackson Pollock. Dubbed by influential critics to be the leader of the American Abstract Expressionism movement, Pollock utilized Action Painting, a dripping process with house paint.
He stressed the expressive power of the gestures, tools and materials of the artist. Pollock’s oil on canvas Greyer Rainbow perhaps best represents his movement because its intertwining, expanding and retracting splashes Of White and black coil reflect the artist’s unique experimentation and assertion of his own style using tubes and cans of color and swift wrist movements to weave art out Of paint drippings (Jackson 2004 and wan 1999).
Music: Elvis Prosperously-wise, Elvis Presley is among the most important and defining personae of the 20th century He is one of the bestselling entertainers in popular music history-in terms of recording and movie sales, TOW ratings and concert ticket sales. Presley, became the icon of rockabilly, an intense, revolutionary, rhythm-driven style that symbolized personal liberation and redeem from inhibition (Presley 2007). The Hound Dog, perhaps his most famous song, symbolizes the rockabilly Presley ushered in and stood for.
Parsley’s version of Hound Dog came with his freely expressive “grunt and groin’ gyrations and topped the chart for II straight weeks to symbolize how America adored the man despite moral criticisms of his style. Dance: Anna Pavlov the world of dance, Russian ballerina Anna Pavlov is one of the most influential and most famous ballet dancer not only of the 20th century but rather, of all time. Pavlov toured with the Ballets Ruses during the iris decade of the sass but later set up her own company in London after the Russian Revolution.
She promoted, and persisted in, classical-style ballet with her performances marked by pathos, daintiness, lyricism and wittiness. Her most important work is her performances of her role in The Dying Swan, which typifies how she brought emotion into her light and delicate dances (Senora-t 2001 and Anna Pavlov). Many different artists with a variety of media formats went on to influence, sculpt and change society in the 20th century. These great artists’ work can be forever tidied, debated and appreciated in an effort to let their unique visions live on for future generations.
