"Promise of Renewal" Please respond to one (1) of the following, using sources under the Explore heading as the basis of your response - at this stage, citing support of/for your views should be second nature:
• Is there a modern example of Western music today that defines nationalism, besides national anthems (i.e. so excludes the givens: Star Spangled Banner, God Bless America, America, America the Beautiful - this is the challenge]? Can you compare such a piece to a work by Tchaikovsky that you enjoy from this week's listening? Discuss both the subject matter, as well as your own personal reactions here to the work, and expand on how his work defines/d Romanticism? Why was music, again such a powerful artform at this time and contributed to 'renewal'?
• Choose an artwork with females as the subject matter: 1) from a male artist, and 1) from a female artist perspective from our Explore section. Are there any gender roles that you can define based on their work, and how each gender depicts women at this time? What do you think are the cultural influences shaping their 'lens'? What modern example can you compare here? Is there any comparison to how females were defined through art in the late 1800s with females today? Do share a specific example to reinforce your analysis.
Explore:
Tchaikovsky
• Chapter 31 (pp.1039-1040), famous overture and ballet music compositions; review the Week 6 "Music Folder"
• Audio of musical compositions on Tchaikovsky webpage , Kennedy Center Website at
http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/artists/?entity_id=3651&source_type=C
• Video clip of Tchaikovsky (1812 Overture) at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrsYD46W1U0
Artists' Depictions of Women
• Chapters 31 and 32, depictions of women by male artists Manet, Degas, Dewing, Eakins and by female artists Cassatt, Morisot, Haudecort-Lescot, Sara M. Peale
• National Museum of Women in the Arts at
http://www.nmwa.org/explore/collection-highlights/18th%E2%80%9319th-century
• National Gallery of Art (search by artist name) at
http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/artists.html?pageNumber=1Bottom of Form