Modern portfolio theory

Who is the mother of modern dance? None other than Martha Graham. Many believe that Martha Graham is one of the most influential dancers of the 20th century. Martha Graham was born in what is known as Pittsburgh, PA, on May 11, 1894 to Dr. George Graham and Jane Beers. Dr. Graham had a great deal of influence on Martha’s life. Dr. Graham specialized in nervous disorders who used physical movements to treat his patients. By the age of 14, Martha and her family moved all the way across the…

Abstract art is also known as non objective art or non representational art, painting, sculpture or graphic art in which the portrayal of things from the visible world plays no part. Abstraction was one of the mostsignificant developments in the story of 20th century arts. It consists largely of elements like form, color, line, tone and texture. It has its origin in 19th century. The period characterized by so vast a body of elaborately representational art produced for the sake of illustrating…

Martha was inspired by St. Denis performance at the Mason Opera House and enrolled in an arts oriented junior college and later at the Denishawn School, which was founded by Ruth St. Denis and her husband Ted Shawn to teach techniques world dance. She worked a period of time with Ted Shawn and Martha improved her dancing skills. She is recognized for her first role of an attacked Aztec maiden, “Xochital” and a dance made for her by Shawn. By 1923, eight years after entering Denishawn, she found…

The Only Female to Out-Dance Astaire Revered as the "Queen of Tap Dancing," this legend displayed the speed and agility of an acrobat in her work, paired with the long legs of a thoroughbred dancer. Eleanor Torrey Powell, born November 21, 1912 in Springfield, Massachusetts comes from very humble beginnings. A shy Eleanor got her start in dance at the early age of 11 in an attempt by her parents to make her more sociable. She trained in only acrobatics and ballet initially, which many believe…

We sometimes find ourselves stereotyping a large group of people. When we start stereotyping the certain group we then start labeling the certain group of people. Those stereotypes will affect the person's emotionally, physically, mentally. Many young Latinas are judged if they do not have perfect figure like shown in the media. For many years Latinas have been known for their body, attitude, sexuality. Our media can be accountable for this stereotype of a Latin woman. They create an image many…

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…

The most famous work of Man Ray is recognized as "The violin of Ingres", became iconic images of the twentieth century. I pose for this picture of Kiki de Montparnasse notorious (Kiki de Montparnasse) - muse of famous artists of Paris. The work of Man Ray - something like a photographic pun, "untranslatable play on words", and accurate manner. "Ingres violin" - the literal translation of the French idiom violon d'Ingres (literally, it was his "strong point", his weakness, his favorite pastime).…

Pop art is one of the defining art movements of the twentieth century; now being promptly recognisable and generally understood, it is much a part of popular culture as art history. Pop Art had a great number of artists who explored their work through this movement. One artist being David Hockney, who is an English Pop/Modernist Artist, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer born in 1937 Bradford, UK. During the Pop Art movement, Hockney painted his most recognisable and…

Art throughout the world reflects new ideas of the time and preserves the past historically marking each new era. A shift in the way the world is organized is almost always immediately followed by a new perspective that changes the way people create and receive art. Art has endless capability to be felt, observed, and examined in new ways that reveal a story behind each piece that weaves another picture of life during that century. Exploring art movements not only reveals the history of the time…

Marie Salle the French Dancer and Choreographer Francoise Prevost stated in his early life “The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature” which inspired Marie Salle to become one of the prominent dancers of her time. Prevost was said to be a teacher of Salle. Marie Salle was most known for her expressive, dramatic choreography which made her a very popular figure during the eighteenth-century. Marie Salle was born somewhere in 1707 in Paris, France. It wasn’t said who her parents exactly…