Avant-Garde "Splattered paint on a puppy in a zoo by a canvas"

Avante-Garde: The advanced group in any field epically in visual, literary, or musical. Mainly through un-orthodox methods and experimental styles.

Two of my favorite styles in the Avant-Garde movement our as follows...

Performance- performance started around the 20th century (Avant-Garde wise) and pushed many different aspects of the theatre on to the audience. Mainly breaking the "forth wall," and interacting with the audience by asking questions and involving them into what is called "Guerrilla Theatre." Two major artist that were involved in this movement are: Brecht, who asked his audience questions but would not give them answers, and Boal, who would scream at his audience.

 Abstract Expressionism- Started in 1946 by an art critic Robert Coater. The movement was post WWII and it was mainly American best, placing New York at the center of the art world.

Jackson Pollock-

Barnett Newman-

Sources- Google and Preston

America has eating disorder? ZOMG!

Does America have an eating disorder? Many people would say indeed America does have an eating disorder, and I would have to agree with them. The definition of an eating disorder is "when a person eats, or refuses to eat, in order to satisfy a psychic need and not a physical need. The person doesn't listen to bodily signals or perhaps is not even aware of them. A normal person eats when hungry and stops eating when the body doesn't need more, when he feels the signal of satisfaction." 
(Says: http://web4health.info/it/ed-dia-ed-def.htm) And in many ways this is all true; from obesity to anorexia. It is estimated that 8 million Americans have an eating disorder: 7 million woman and 1 million men. Nearly half of the American population know someone in America who has an eating disorder. So America as a whole has an eating disorder? Defiantly. Because not only do the 8 million Americans, out of the total population of 310 million, have eating disorders, but things such as McDonald's, Burger King and any other fast food place do not help the rest of America from over indulging on greasy trans fats. So yes I believe that America has an eating disorder, but from the stand point of not obesity or anorexia; more or less that America is growing fat and the bar for what is obesity has risen.

Information gathered from: http://www.state.sc.us/dmh/anorexia/statistics.htm