1.PHOTOGRAPHY
1. What issues does the Daumier print of Nadar bring up concerning changes in art and industry?
2. This is a review of a book (and exhibition right now) about Fredrick Douglass and his understanding and interest of Photography.
https://newrepublic.com/article/123191/frederick-douglasss-faith-in-photography
Why does the review state that photography was so important at this time for an African American?
What issues did Fredrick Douglass understand about photography?
What ideas did Douglass anticipate in photography?
3. What are some differences and similarities between the O’Sullivan, Harvest of Death, 1863 and other war images we have seen? How about the Winslow Homer, veteran in a New field.
4. Eadweard Muybridge. What is he trying to understand? What do his photos anticipate?
interesting if you have time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG5erS2GNG0
5. How does the Steerage Composition reinforce the story?
6. What is a photo montage? (Varvara Stepanova)
7. What themes would you use to link Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother with Cindy Sherman’s Movie Stills?
IMPRESSIONISM/POSTIMPRESSIONISM
1. What is Academic art and what is Avante Garde Art? Answer for style and subject?
2. What were Manet’s goals in these paintings?
3. How does the movement Impressionism get its name?
4. What is the Japanese influence on French Impressionism?
5. What do Van Gogh and Gauguin take from Impressionism and what do they change?
6. What are Matisse's interests in contrast to Gauguin and Van Gogh?
a. What is Fauvism? What does it share with Impressionism and Cubism?
1. What issues does the Daumier print of Nadar bring up concerning changes in art and industry?
2. This is a review of a book (and exhibition right now) about Fredrick Douglass and his understanding and interest of Photography.
https://newrepublic.com/article/123191/frederick-douglasss-faith-in-photography
Why does the review state that photography was so important at this time for an African American?
What issues did Fredrick Douglass understand about photography?
What ideas did Douglass anticipate in photography?
3. What are some differences and similarities between the O’Sullivan, Harvest of Death, 1863 and other war images we have seen? How about the Winslow Homer, veteran in a New field.
4. Eadweard Muybridge. What is he trying to understand? What do his photos anticipate?
interesting if you have time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG5erS2GNG0
5. How does the Steerage Composition reinforce the story?
6. What is a photo montage? (Varvara Stepanova)
7. What themes would you use to link Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother with Cindy Sherman’s Movie Stills?
IMPRESSIONISM/POSTIMPRESSIONISM
1. What is Academic art and what is Avante Garde Art? Answer for style and subject?
2. What were Manet’s goals in these paintings?
3. How does the movement Impressionism get its name?
4. What is the Japanese influence on French Impressionism?
5. What do Van Gogh and Gauguin take from Impressionism and what do they change?
6. What are Matisse's interests in contrast to Gauguin and Van Gogh?
a. What is Fauvism? What does it share with Impressionism and Cubism?