Section One: Defining Terms

Based on the readings, explain following terms in three to five descriptive sentences each:

1. What is Stylistic Evidence?
2. What is Personal Style?
3. What is Iconography

Section Two: Virtual Museum Visit

Click on the links below and watch the videos. Then, briefly summarize the point of each video, including terminology from the glossary and readings this week to connect what you observed in these videos to the material we are exploring.
Provide two separate answers for this section:

1. "Why Look at Art?" (http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/why-look-at-art.html)

2. "Hirst's Shark: Interpreting Contemporary Art" (http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/hirsts-shark-interpreting-contemporary-art.html)

1. "Monet in his Studio Boat," Edouad Manet

o How does this work follow the Impressionist style?
o What painting technique did the artist use?
o What social issues does this painting address?

"The Tub," Edgar Degas
o What formal quality did this artist explore?
o How did his medium contribute to the appearance of his work?
o What Modernist interest does he investigate?

"Vision after the Sermon," Paul Gauguin,

• What fundamental differences exist between Gauguin and the Impressionists?
• Why did Gauguin move to Pont-Aven?
• How does he reject both Realism and Impressionism in this painting?

1. How did the subject matter of Symbolist art diverge radically from Realism?

2. What types of behavior and interests does fin-de-siècle describe?

3. What did Art Nouveau try to synthesize?

1. Describe the impact the Armory Show (1913) had on the American art scene. Use examples to support your essay.

2. Describe the development of sculpture at the end of the nineteenth century. Use examples to support your essay. To what extent did sculpture remain conventional? What painting movements did it take into account?

1. Visit the Google Art Project:http://www.museothyssen.org/en/thyssen/zoom_obra/1062. Look at Hotel Room, a painting by Edward Hopper in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza.

o Describe in formal terms how the strong verticals and horizontals securely hold the parts of the painting together. What does the diagonal of the bed provide? Now move close and examine the paint work. How do the near-architectural elements fit with the lush paint?

Re-Read the article in this week chapter Art and Society, "Degenerate Art," AND go online and watch the video "Art in Nazi Germany," at SmartHistory (LINK:http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/national-socialist-nazi-art.html?searched=degenerate&highlight=ajaxSearch_highlight+ajaxSearch_highlight1) After reading the article in the book and watching the online video, and based on your understanding of the threat that ideas generated by the arts can have to repressive governments, what are your thoughts on something like this happening in the United States? Do you think in our current information-saturated culture that the arts still have the ability to sway popular opinion?

Identify and Detail:
• Who is the artist?
• Which movement does this represent and why?
• What is the subject of this work?

Attachment:- Art.rar