Modern history

Modern art is art that was created in the recent past till now. With the passage of time, contemporary art once becomes history. At this point, modern art is considered to be works created in the period from the 1970s to the present day. 1970 is a turning point in the history of art for two reasons. First of all, it is the year of the appearance of the terms "postmodern" and "postmodernism." Secondly, 1970 is the last milestone to which artistic movements were relatively easy to classify. If we…

On July 1, 1941, Twyla Tharp was born in the Portland, Indiana. She spent her early childhood in Indiana but later moved to California in 1963 and completed her degree in Art history in New York. Compared to other dancers, at a young age, she learnt quite a number of genres in the arts like ballet, tap, jazz, modern and music. When she was just a year and a half old she was already given piano lessons. Her first dance lesson was at the Vera Lynn School of Dance. During her dancing years, she had…

haunted house to partake in a study of its paranormal activity. Eleanor Vance, the protagonist, is exceptionally susceptible to the haunting and feels oddly drawn to the house, with her life ultimately ending in suicide after she was ordered to leave. Modern Times, by Charlie Chaplin, is set in the 1930s during the time of a depression and follows the story of Charlie (as himself) and his precarious…

phenomenon of Pop Art burst into the history of art and replaced the Abstract Expressionism. The new art direction also stimulated the development of the commercial photography of that period (Alcaine& Kennan, 2015, p. 5). The main purpose of this study is to explore the peculiarities of the twentieth century’s art and design. This paper focuses on the Pop Art movement and the establishment of the commercial photography in the second half of the twentieth century. History The U.S. artists of…

should be. Duchamp’s ready-mades with Fountain in particular, is by this (and most) definitions, a piece that comes from the modern, avant garde movement. Much of the work of of the modern, western, avant garde artists attempted to grapple with and break free of the accepted notions of art practice, and as well as attempts to redefine its meaning in the context of the modern world. As we see here with Duchamp’s work, and much of the avant garde artists that follow, their pieces become…

This dance is not addresses in the US curriculum because Asian Indian are a minority and dance education is not taken seriously. A Bharatanatyam dancer is a transnational interpreter who helps students learn about their culture, religion, history, heritage and literature through the platform of dance (Meduri A.pg;179). Therefore, Bharatanatyam plays an important role in the lives of Asian Indians.Research shows that Bharatanatyam has cognitive benefits in research studies and scholarly articles…

the body and the soul,” says Ruth St. Denis, Oriental-modern dancer and mentor of Martha Graham. Throughout the widespread genres of dance, there is always a rich background and purpose. Modern dance, one of the most recently recognized genres, can take many forms, while Dance du Ventre, or belly dancing, has a more narrow variety of moves. However, both have a deep rooting in women’s history and represent the value of a woman and her body. Modern dance stems from the revolution against ballet…

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…

Who is Martha Graham and why was she significant to modern dance? Modern dance was developed in the early twentieth century in the state of America. It was established by both Ruth St Denis and Isadora Duncan. In the early 1900 many changes occurred in relation to theoretical dance. Martha Graham was one of the early pioneers who made a significant change to the way people dance by creating a new style/language of dance. Martha graham was born in 1984 on the 11th of May in Pittsburgh. Graham has…

ballroom, and the modern and contemporary dance genres that are popular today (Anderson). Although the origins of dance choreography can be traced back to prehistoric times, modern and contemporary dance are two closely knit movements that have become prominent more recently in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (Nadel and Strauss ; "Origins of Choreography."). These genres of dance can be chronologically ordered into five eras: early modern, central modern, late modern, postmodern, and…