Weekly Assignment: The Modern World

Watch one or both film clips from Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (1936). What statement does it make about early 20th century life? Does the movie suggest that technology makes our lives easier or better? Do you agree? Use examples from the film to support your ideas.

Some Historical Context

Telephone Invented: 1876

Lightbulb Invented: 1879
First Motion Picture Film: 1895
First Airplane Flight: 1903
Ford Model T first produced: 1908

Image Bank: Impressionism to Modernism

Here is the image bank for this unit.

Weekly Assignment: Gertrude Stein & Pablo Picasso

cub·ism/ˈkyo͞obizəm/

Noun: An early 20th-century style and movement in art, esp. painting, in which perspective with a single viewpoint was abandoned and use was made of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and, later, collage. It was created by Picasso and Braque.

Listen to Gertrude Stein's poem "If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso".

What parallels can you find between the experience of listening to Stein's poem and the experience of viewing this painting by Picasso? What aspects of Picasso's painting style are echoed in Stein's language? Include observations about both works in your responses.

Picasso: Portrait of Ambrose Vollard, 1910