Modern cinema

The body has been cut, burned, exploited, sexualized, glorified, abused and stretched out to its limits, as a form of curiosity in art. The body has been a central theme throughout art history and in the contemporary world today. It is recognized as a symbol of identity, social politics, culture and belonging. Art cannot be made without the presence of the body and its interaction with the material world. Artists have continually tried to redefine the meaning behind the encounters of the body

Picture a casual day in the life of an ordinary girl: going to school in the mornings and performing her chores during the evenings. Now, reorient this to a day where she lacks of time to balance homework and sleep as pulling all-nighters is a quotidian activity where the exclusive task is to execute all her responsibilities. This vigorous alteration portrays how my life has changed in the preceding years. Antecedently, I was able to attend Orland Ballet's Summer Intensive. Challenging my daily living

When I visited the Fort Worth Modern Art Museum, I was reunited with one of my favorite art pieces by the artist known as KAWS. I fell in love with his art when I visited the DMA as a child with my family. He had an exhibition there and I immediately was drawn in by the vibrant colors and chaotic images; but one caught my eye and I couldn’t look away. An unknown factor was just drawing me in to look over the whole piece, to document every line and curve. The piece was a lot taller than me, so I was

Siegel was a “creative earthquake that altered the landscape of modern art”. This movement had been considered as especially ‘American’ in style, this was because of its attention to the physical adjacency of paint. It had allowed artists to break away from accepted conventions in both technique and subject matter. Abstract expressionism was quite a successful movement and in is success allowed New York to become the centre of modern art at the time, a title previously held by Paris. The works of

I decided to research one of the most influential Modern Dance pioneers; Martha Graham. Graham’s contributions to dance has often been compared to Picasso’s contributions to art and Stravinsky’s to music; in my opinion she opened up many new opportunities and possibilities for dance including the ability to learn free expression and honesty through movement. Martha Graham was born on May the 11th, 1894, in the suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Martha was one of George and Jane Beers Graham’s

England’s five gallery network of Tate spaces, has been on a mission to redefine itself since the creation of Tate Modern in 2000. At that time the majority of Tate Britain’s post-1900 collection of artworks were rehoused into Tate Modern. Tate Britain has gone through two major refurbishments since and relies heavily on events, like this commission, to maintain its resonance with modern audiences. Therefore, untitled: dock is monumentally important to the museum’s calendar. The Duveen Gallery opened

José Limón as he witnessed his first dance program in the New York City in 1928. José Limón would come to be known as one of the most critical figures in the development of modern dance. Coming from a country with a rich, diverse culture, Mexican-born ballet dancer and choreographer José Limón contributed to the American modern artworks of dance through his own perception of movement styles and using the human body as an emotional guide. José Limón’s early years began in Mexico, which

What is the Modern Person? There is no one idea of a modern person. The ideas of such a person differ depending on who you ask. Back in the 1920s the belief was mostly different to what it is now. A person’s background also shapes their idea on the modern person. What changes a person’s ideas most those is their ethics about others. There was a general idea back in the roaring 20s. In the 1920s the people who were believed to be modern were quite different even among themselves. Such as

around forever, so it seems. People all around the world can be found with some form of smart device in their hand. Since the development of smart phones and video games a controversy has arisen. Technology has led to many wonderful advancement of the modern age and is benefiting people everywhere, but is it really that great? Technology has a negative effect on children and adolescents. Technology is having a negative impact on the way children are learning in schools today. Today’s children are becoming

as the United States entered World War Two. After many emotional and disheartening displays of life in the internment camps came the reparations and apologies from the American Government. In the last gallery there was pictures and displays of the modern era Japanese arts and culture. While in the Japanese American National Museum, I was observing the historical artifacts and analyzing the readings and I felt this tense intangible atmospheric pressure throughout the museum. The museum definitely