Part Six Assignments-3

PART SIX ACTIVITIES

Cheryl McGrath, Instructor Art Appreciation

Chronological Survey of Art after the Renaissance

Answer the questions below, put your discussion questions in the discussion
boards and the remaining questions into the dropbox for part 6. Respond to two
students in the discussion board.

NOTE: YOU WILL ANSWER JUST ONE OF QUESTIONS 1-3 - see instructions below.

4.
1. Social Protest and Art - 1600-1900's. If your last name does not begin with
R-Z, go to questions #2 or #3,
you are not required to answer this question in the dropbox for Part Six.

If your last name begins with R-Z, answer this question.

Provide two examples from your textbook or working urls to clearly explain
the following questions.

o Check urls to be sure they work by clicking on them after you have answered.
o Choose each artwork that relates to the questions
 All examples must have been created between the years 1600-1945.
 All answers must include title, date, culture and artist
o Explain in your own words how these examples address the questions below.
Clearly describe specific visual aspects from each of your examples.

Discussing specific visual aspects for each of your chosen examples, answer the
following.

* How have artists made their work effective for political and social change?
(example made from 1600-1945)

*Explain an example of art as propaganda (example made during 1600-1945).

2. Art and the Body - 1600-1900's. If your last name does not begin with A-G,
go to questions #1 or #3, you are not required to answer this question.

If your last name begins with A-G, answer this question.

Provide two examples from your textbook or working urls to clearly explain
the following questions.

o Check urls to be sure they work by clicking on them after you have answered.
o Choose each artwork that relates to the questions from a different culture:
 All examples must have been created between the years 1600-1945.
 All examples must have title, date, artist.
o Explain in your own words how these examples address the questions below.
Clearly describe specific visual aspects from each of your examples.
o You should have one example for each question.
Discussing specific visual aspects for each of your chosen examples, answer the
following:
 How has the human body been used in art, as a subject or as a tool?
(example from 1600-1945)
 How is sickness and death dealt with in art?
(example from between 1600-1945)

3. Nature and Technology in Art - 1600-2000's. If your last name does not
begin with H-Q,
go to questions #1 or #2, you are not required to answer this question.

If your last name begins with H-Q, post this answer this question.
Provide two examples from your textbook or working urls to clearly explain
the following questions.

o Check urls to be sure they work by clicking on them after you have answered.
o Choose each artwork that relates to the questions from a different culture:
 All examples must have been created between the years 1600-2000's.
 All examples must have title, date, artist.
o Explain in your own words how these examples address the questions below.
Clearly describe specific visual aspects from each of your examples.
o You should have one example for each question - all created from 1600-2000's
Discussing specific visual aspects for each of your chosen examples, answer the
following:
 How do animals reflect human nature (desirable and/or despicable) in art?
(example made between 1600-2000)
  How do we model the systems we've made (such as the internet, highways,
religions, governments) on systems within our human bodies?
(example need not necessarily be an "art" work) - from late 1900's or 2000's).

4. Impressionism & Post Impressionism - for all students

Part A should be included in your dropbox file (not on the discussion board)
Part B is a discussion board post and response to other students

What are the main differences between the Impressionists:

(Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cassatt or Manet) and the
Post Impressionists? (Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin or Seurat).
The Impressionist section of the text begins on p. 475 in the 10th and 11th
ed. View the short Youtube video on this before answering!

PART A - Put in your dropbox file (not the dicussion board)

o Document your statements with artist names, titles and figure numbers from the
text and/or urls from the internet. Be sure to view the video for explanation,
in addition to reading your textbook.
o Give at least two examples from each art movement.
o You should describe significant characteristics about each art movement in
order to compare them.
Set up your answer using this format:
1. Impressionist example 1 (title, artist)
2. Impressionist example 2 (title, artist)
3. Characteristics of Impressionist paintings
(at least 2 characteristics)
4. Post Impressionist example 1 (title, artist)
5. Post Impressionist example 2 (title artist)
6. Characteristics of Post Impressionist paintings -
7. Post-Impressionist differences from Impressionists
at least 2 characteristics/differences - specifically compare and contrast your
actual examples and how
the characteristics listed above are shown in them.

o Part B of Question 4 - Discussion Board Portion of this question - indicate in

your dropbox file that you have posted to the discussion board. Post your
photo and
explanations in the discussion board and respond to two students.
 o Choose either an Impressionist or Post-Impressionist painting from the late
1800's
to early 1900's in France. Your source may be from your textbook or credible
internet source (see below).

Main Impressionist Artists: Monet, Renoir, Degas,

Cassatt, Morisot, Pissarro, Calliebotte

Main Post Impressionist Artists: Cezanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Lautrec

 Take a new photo (do not look for photos you already have or copy photos).
The new photo will be your own version of your chosen Impressionist or
Post-Impressionist painting.
 What would a modern day version of a (for example) Monet painting
or Van Gogh painting look like?
 You may embellish your photo with digital software, but that is not a
requirement.
 Upload your own newly created French Impressionist or Post-Impressionist
inspired photo to the discussion board with an explanation sharing your
source
painting and additional comments about your experience with the new
version,
how yours is similar to the source, etc. Remember to document the
inspiration
painting's artist, title and date and include a working url (check it out after
you post it) if that is where you found your source. Respond to two other
student's photos. Be creative and have fun with this assignment!

Good site for general information & sample Impressionist paintings

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/impressionism/
(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
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5. This is a multiple choice question. Type the correct answer next to the
number 5.
The importance of personal and cultural identity and its changing historical
nature
is one of the common themes in this era of Western art. Be sure to read
the overview
Lecture in the Part Six Module on Postmodernism for this question.
 A. Post Modern Art
B. Modernism
C. Pop Art
D. Italian Baroque

6. This is a dropbox question for all. Put your answer into the dropbox
file for this part of the course.

o Choose an Early Modernist abstract artwork from your textbook or the

internet. The example must have been made prior to 1960.
Early Modernism does not mean art from the present day. It is explained in
your textbook
in the 10th & 11th ed. on pages 483-499. Read your textbook carefully. The
years between 1940 and 1980 are transitional years that include Abstract
Expressionism and Pop Art, among other styles. (These are neither Early
Modern nor Postmodern styles). Before you choose a piece for this
question, consider carefully:
What is the definition of ABSTRACT? Is my example made between 1900
and 1960? Artists to consider: Matisse, Derain, Kirchner, Kandinsky,
Malevich, Hartley, Picasso, O'Keeffe, Delaunay, Braque, Picabia,
Mondrian, Leger.
o Include a working url or textbook figure number or a link to an image,
carefully
documenting the title, artist and date.
o How do you personally react to the piece you chose?
o What do you think Modernist abstract artists were concerned with
expressing?
o Critique your chosen work from one of the points of view discussed in your
textbook on page 126 in the 10th ed., p. 125 in the 11th ed., (formalism,
iconography, psychoanalysis, social context or feminism).
Using what you think is one appropriate point of view, explain what you
think is being expressed.
o This answer should be approximately 2 paragraphs. In your textbook, points
of view are carefully explained, and include formalism, iconography,
psychoanalysis, social context and feminism.
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