Writing Homework Help

I don’t know how to handle this Art question and need guidance.

1. How did the American public react to the 1913 Armory Show in New York? Was it a complete failure or did it change American Art forever? Justify your response with at least one example

2. After watching this week’s video lecture on Nighthawks, find a different painting by Edward Hopper. Include the image or link in your post, and in your own words analyze what you believe to be the meaning of the work. Do you find there to be similar themes in between your selection and Nighthawks? Why or Why Not?

3. Compare and Contrast – Jackson Pollock’s White Light, 1954 with Mark Rothko’s Number 15, 1957. Spend time looking carefully at each work. Write down a list of words that describe each work – include nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.

• What do you think initially, and then what details do you begin to see?
• What is similar about these works?
• What is different?
• They were both American Abstract Expressionists – why are they linked together in this art movement?
• Do you believe that their intended message is similar?

4. Review Andy Warhol’s Twenty-Five Colored Marilyns, 1962. In this work, Warhol repeated a mechanically reproduced image of the movie star. What do you believe is the logic behind Warhol’s repetition of the image? How does his theme relate to the mass media outlets used to distribute the image of Marilyn Monroe? Justify your response.

5. Imagine you are being asked to create an online gallery with two works of art from the art movements we studied this week. The art examples do not have to be in our textbook, but the art you select must be from the art movements studied in Chapter 8 or Chapter 9. Identify the art works (title, artist, date, medium) and explain why you selected each work. Discuss the content of the art work and what issue the artists was trying to suggest.

6. In what way do contemporary artists consider issues of national and cultural identity? What are their strategies for calling traditional divisions into question through their art? Use at least two art examples to support your post.

7. Looking back over the 20th century in America art, what art movement most interested you and why? Explain the connections you see between your selected style and art of the present day, or explain why they are too varied to be connected. Finally, consider that art of the past has been labeled by style, theme or message.Based on our readings the past two weeks, what would name the art movement of the 1990s and 2000s. Explain your answer.