Art Timeline

Art Timeline

ART/101

1. Metropolis (1927). The film created by Fritz Lang is set in the future which has two separate classes of people the thinkers and the workers. The film describes the struggles of each as the workers are depicted as human cattle being assigned to complete mundane tasks in an underground machine that can be related to the Bull of the Sun or Moloch the God Balaal from Carthaginian culture. The workers live above in a ever evolving world that is testament to mans achievements. The opposites rely on each other as the city could not function without the workers and without the thinkers creating an utopia they workers would not be needed.

2. Top Hat (1935). The film by Mark Sandrich and starring Fred Astaire was about an American dancer who goes to London to...