Modern evolutionary synthesis

Dance in the 1920s The 1920s was a turning point for dance and everything around it in this era. This time got the name of the “roaring 20’s” and it was anything, but boring. It was also called the “Jazz Age” which pushed forward more dance and jazz at the time. The 1920s were known for many things such as the parties and flappers, but it is truly a decade that changed dance and how it was viewed. At this time people were trying to find outlets from going through the war, and dance was one…

The Outrageous Price of Art The rich are easily viewed as insane for making purchases in the market of one subject in particular. That market, art and the subject modern, for it’s hard to put a price on art. It is especially hard to calculate the value when it’s made by any famous artist. So why are people spending outrageous amounts of money on art…? There is an unspoken rule in this world that a piece of art created by a Pablo Picasso is automatically worth more than the paint and parchment…

Katherine Dunham was the first choreographer to integrate African American dance with modern dance highlighting the importance of African American culture. She showed the world just how beautiful African American heritage is, but did not stop there. Katherine Dunham influenced the African American culture by fighting her way into the dance community, by developing ethnographic research, and by empowering her Illinois community through the art and outlet of dance. “As an artist, educator,…

known as modern dance emerged. Dissatisfied with the shallow characteristics that ballet embodied, dancers began searching for a more meaningful form of movement. Not often receiving the public attention and appreciation that dance styles require to earn artistic respect, modern dance was perpetually pushed away from art culture (Foulkes). It lacked the strictness of curriculum, which held ballet in such high esteem. I am going to discuss one of, if not the, most important figure in modern dance…

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (AN ART FILM) An art film or art cinema is typically a serious, independent film aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience. It is intended to be a serious artistic work, which is experimental and not adhere to mass audience. They are made basically for aesthetic reasons than commercial profit, and contain exceptional or highly individualistic content. It includes, among other elements, a social realism style, an emphasizing on the passion of the…

Tadao Ando works reveal a dialogue with nature and tradition (culture); Shintai and space; and geometry. In addition to many other concept and sub-themes. Beside the present of Japanese traditional concept in his architecture, Ando was influence by Modern architecture (Louis Kahn and Le Corbusier) I will discuss in this paper the vision and concept that Ando‘s Architecture was built upon. II. The process of Ando's architecture Tadao ando is a self-taught architect. He was born and grow n…

1974. Cole had choreographed for musicals, television-including commercials, music videos. and even nightclub revues; and had also performed on Broadway many times. Cole had one of the most diverse dancing and choreographing career, beginning with modern dance and ballet, mastering Indian and other Asian dances, then moving toward contemporary and jazz. He had a unique combination of all styles, that made him well admired and quite popular among the arts. He was seen as an innovator a dance…

Andre Breton was a prominent French Surrealist poet who was born in France and was known as the founder of the Surrealist movement (Biography.com 1). Andre Breton was thought of as the man who was the influence of the Surrealist movement due to his outstanding work of art and literature during the movement (poets.org 1). Breton found an interest in medicine and pursued medical school while a young man (biography.com 1). Breton has developed his passion at a very young age and very rarely does a…

‘the machine’. Wright essentially states that the neoclassical movement is the flawless example of the misuse of the machine as he quotes that “classic art in a miserable manner; from being indigenous, it becomes Greek and Roman: from being true and modern, it becomes pseudo-classic” . At this point Wright stresses his frustration over not witnessing further progression in architecture. The words ‘pseudo-classic’ is what Wright describes, in 1901, the neoclassical architecture as it did not have…

and literature specifically, they can be characterized by a deliberate rejection of the styles of the past; emphasizing instead innovation and experimentation in forms, materials, and techniques in order to create artworks that better reflected the modern society.…