Modern portfolio theory

Known as one of the most influential people in the history of Philadelphia, Rennie Harris is a renowned hip hop choreographer, educator and revolutionary contemporary concert dancer. He holds two honorary doctorate degrees from Bates and Columbia college and is a 1996 recipient of the Pew fellowship in the Arts for choreography. He has received three Bessie Awards for his work “Rome & Jewels”, an award from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the city of Philadelphia Cultural Fund, a Pew…

It is clear, the inspiration Matisse and Picasso both got from Cezanne in these specific works. All three of these works feature the naked human form in some sort of action with others, a lot of color. In The Large Bathers you find a group of nude people, framed by large looming trees in front of a large water source. It is pretty PG for a nude painting, not being vulgar or coming across in a sexual manner. The subjects are all fairly realistic in body formation and postures and are sized in…

The art of the 1980s was a simple, colorful, yet controversial time for most artists. It was often simplistic and easy to produce for most of the art was repetitive and at a glance plain. Critiques questioned the definition of art and what defines art since art started to become a bit more abstract and restrained from imitating life. For example, a very controversial artist from the 1980s, Andy Warhol was often looked down upon by others seeing that his pop art included much repetition of the…

During the mid-1950s, in America, several artists were attached to small movements such as, Neo-Dada and Funk Art in which they were including articles of mass culture. They wanted art to be more broad than traditional styles like Abstract Expressionism, so the use of non-art materials were incorporated. This focused on ordinary and easily identifiable subjects that expressed the popular culture of the day. By the 1960s the movement's initial affect had been adjusted, yet its methods and…

In high school she joined the Terpsichorean Club and began to learn a kind of modern dance based on the ideas of Jaques-Dalcroze and Rudolf von Laban. While still a high school student, she opened a private dance school for young black children. Adolescent; When Dunham was a student at the University of Chicago, she took a leave…

Contemporary World Art October 14, 2015 Reading Journal 2 In the essay Grids from The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths by Rosalind Krauss, she focuses on grids and how they represent modernity of modern art. Krauss talks about how there are two ways that grid art is modern art. The first is because it is spatial, meaning its flatness is what makes the work of art unnatural and completely acts separately from the realm of art. The second is because it is temporal, meaning…

2/8/18 AP English Period 9 Expr ssiobalims in many different types of art forms Many artworks show, expressionism. According to the art story, this art movement is a modern artistic movement that shows things from a subjective perspective in order to show a change in tone. This movement usually distorts reality to convey a certain tone. Expressionism was created in many cities across Germany in response to association…

Of the African American dancers and choreographers, we have studied so far, I believe that they have broken out of traditional representations and stereotypes of black bodies. Examples of this are seen through major figures such as Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, and Alvin Ailey. Katherine Dunham was one of the major figures that helped break traditional representations. She was known as the “Matriarch and Queen Mother of Black Dance.” She was the director and founder of Katherine Dunham Dance…

Modern life can be described to originate from the process of modernity. In its broader aspect, modernity arises as a topic in both humanities and natural sciences. Modern era, as well as some socio-cultural norms and practices that took place during early Renaissance, are some of the ideas surrounding modernity. The term defines a generation with its unique technological innovation, political structures, and socioeconomics. The society advances in knowledge to surpass its predecessors.…

Dorothea Rockburne’s deep interest of mathematics influenced her artwork (30). Dorothea Rockburne’s work, Pascal’s Provincial Letters, was focused on the inherent relationship between the rectilinear shapes of multiple colors shown against a backdrop of deep, dark undertones of blue. Contemporary artists, like Rockburne, take in consideration of current ideas and force the audience to rethink the familiar. In this piece, Dorothea Rockburne uses a contemporary color scheme, lines, and shapes in…