;SPRING QUARTER WRITING ASSIGNMENT CHOICES:
PART I: ELECTRONIC COPY VIA E-COMPANION DUE BY 6PM TUESDAY 5/12/09
(THIS DUE DATE IS THE SAME FOR BOTH SECTIONS OF CONTEMPORARY ART!)
• Chart the stylistic developments/changes from Academicism through Surrealism concentrating ONLY on the visual qualities (i.e. the use of oil/brushstroke/viscosity/etc.) of works from each of the following periods:
Academic Art: The Carpet Merchant Artist: Jean-Léon Gérôme
Date: c.1887 Medium: Oil on canvas Location: G357
Realism: Title: The Smoker Artist: Edouard Manet
Date: 1866 Medium: Oil on canvas Location: G355
Impressionism: Grainstack, Sun in the Mist Artist: Claude Monet
Date: 1891 Medium:Oil on canvas Location:G355
Post-Impressionism: I Raro Te Oviri (Under the Pandanus)
Artistaul Gauguin Date:1891 Medium: Oil on canvas
Location:G355
Fauvsim: Three Bathers Artist: Henri Matisse
Date: 1907 Medium: Oil on canvas Location: G371
Cubism: Title: Married Life Artist: Roger de la Fresnaye
Date: 1912 Medium: Oil on canvas Location: G367
German Expressionism: Study for Improvisation V
Artist: Vassily Kandinsky Date: 1910
Medium: Oil on pulp board Location: G371
200 WORDS PER PAINTING
Guess what? Understanding why a painting looks the way it does is tied to how and under what historical circumstances it was made. You must read the articles posted in the webliography section of e-companion before you even think of stepping foot in the museum!!!
PART I: ELECTRONIC COPY VIA E-COMPANION DUE BY 6PM TUESDAY 5/12/09
(THIS DUE DATE IS THE SAME FOR BOTH SECTIONS OF CONTEMPORARY ART!)
• Chart the stylistic developments/changes from Academicism through Surrealism concentrating ONLY on the visual qualities (i.e. the use of oil/brushstroke/viscosity/etc.) of works from each of the following periods:
Academic Art: The Carpet Merchant Artist: Jean-Léon Gérôme
Date: c.1887 Medium: Oil on canvas Location: G357
Realism: Title: The Smoker Artist: Edouard Manet
Date: 1866 Medium: Oil on canvas Location: G355
Impressionism: Grainstack, Sun in the Mist Artist: Claude Monet
Date: 1891 Medium:Oil on canvas Location:G355
Post-Impressionism: I Raro Te Oviri (Under the Pandanus)
Artistaul Gauguin Date:1891 Medium: Oil on canvas
Location:G355
Fauvsim: Three Bathers Artist: Henri Matisse
Date: 1907 Medium: Oil on canvas Location: G371
Cubism: Title: Married Life Artist: Roger de la Fresnaye
Date: 1912 Medium: Oil on canvas Location: G367
German Expressionism: Study for Improvisation V
Artist: Vassily Kandinsky Date: 1910
Medium: Oil on pulp board Location: G371
200 WORDS PER PAINTING
Guess what? Understanding why a painting looks the way it does is tied to how and under what historical circumstances it was made. You must read the articles posted in the webliography section of e-companion before you even think of stepping foot in the museum!!!