Assignment: Works Of Art Produced
Assignment: Works Of Art Produced
This week, we have studied works of art produced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that reflected, or in some cases, incited, social change or even revolution.
Carefully examine the following works, and read about each one in your textbook, course and video lectures, and through reliable internet resources:
Hogarth, The Marriage Contract, from Marriage à la Mode, 1743-45
David, Death of Marat, 1793
Delacroix ,Liberty Leading the People, 1830
Goya, Third of May, 1808, 1814-15
Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849
In an essay of 5-7 well-developed paragraphs, address the following questions, making specific references to the five paintings listed above:
How did each painting reflect or inspire social change or revolution? What was the social or revolutionary context of the painting?
What additional historical events or social factors may have influenced the creation or interpretation of each painting?
Explain how the style and specific visual characteristics of each painting contributed to or reflected its overall content or meaning.
Do these paintings have the same impact or meaning to audiences today? Why or why not?
Include details about the visual characteristics and content of each painting in your response. Provide proper citations for any information from outside sources included in your essay.6Do social, cultural and artistic movements reflect the era in which they take place?111proletariatKEY WORDSDISCUSS: What can paintings tell us?What can paintings tell us about the time period in which they were painted?Study the paintings in Figure 6.2 and reflect on what you can learn about the societies from which they come.Now consider and discuss these questions:■●How useful do you think such artwork is to a historian?■●What other art forms can be helpful to a historian in finding out about the past?■■Figure 6.2 (top) Madonna and Child by Berlinghiero, thirteenth-century Italy (the Middle Ages) and (bottom) Madonna of the Meadow by the Italian artist Giovanni Bellini in the fifteenth century, the period known as the RenaissanceOften, as historians, we focus primarily on the political and economic developments of any given time period. However, these same political and economic developments often impact also on the art, and cultural and social developments, of the day.Thus, by looking at art, for instance, we can learn much about the attitudes of the time as well as the technological developments which are reflected in the styles and the forms of artwork.This chapter will look at two historical events: the Industrial Revolution and the First World War, both of which are covered elsewhere in this book from a political angle. Here, we look at how these historical developments influenced art and culture. In addition, we examine the impact of the Russian Revolution on Soviet art and culture, and the significance of the youth movement of the 1960s in causing social and cultural change in the USA and Europe.
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