Posted: December 4th, 2013

Western art 2

Description: Choose ONE question from the following list to respond to. A MINIMUM 1 page response is required. Your response must include: 1. A clearly developed
answer to the question posed. 2. Include the vital statistics: artist name, title, date, medium as well as dimensions (if given) – consult the wall label. 3.
MLA Format is to be followed. Please include each question at the start of each response. 4. Remember to refer to the artist by his or her last name; not
first. QUESTIONS: 1. How does Botticelli’d (Alessandro Filipepi) Madonna and Child with Adoring Angel illustrate the Renaissance concept of Humanism? 2.
Compare Guido Reni’s St. Cecilia with Caravaggio’s The Calling of St Matthew. How are the works similar? How are they different? 3. Examine JeanBaptiste Pater’s Fete champetre. How do the subject matter and technique of the artist illustrate the Rococo period? 4. How does The Ragpicker by Manet
show that he was a “Painter of Modern Life” at the time of its creation? 5. In class we discussed the three influences on the movement of Impressionism.
Examine Degas, Dancers in Pink and discuss how the influences are used. 6. How is Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism seen in Matisse’s Odalisque with
Tambourine (Harmony in Blue)? 7. Compare Picasso’s Woman with a Mandolin of 1925, and woman with A Book of 1932. Discuss how his style changes,
yet remains the same. **You make also compare Woman with A Book to Picasso’s Bust of A Woman.
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