What do these three images have in common in terms of subject matter and design? How are they different?
Your assignment this week is to look through your lecture slides and your textbook and find your three favorite images from this class. Answer the questions below.
1. What are they (title and artist)? Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh, Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo, & The Raft of the Medusa by Gericault
2. What do these three images have in common in terms of subject matter and design? How are they different?
2. What do these three images have in common in terms of subject matter and design? How are they different?
For example: Are they produced in the same media? Are they of similar styles or from the same era? Do they tackle similar subject matter? Are they two dimensional or 3d.? List any other aspects these works might have in common. These are just examples, please list all the similarities and difference among these images.
3. Why did you pick these three images as your favorites? Be specific. I am looking to see that you can recognize different themes, subject matter, styles, and formal elements (line, shape, color, etc.).
Your previous assignment was to select your three favorite images from the textbook and explain why you liked them. This time you choose your least favorite work of art or architecture from the textbook. You only need to pick one.
4. What is the name of the artwork? Les Demoiselles dAvignon by Pablo Picasso
5. Why did you not like this image? (Be specific. Was it the material, the subject matter or the style? All three?)
For example: Are they produced in the same media? Are they of similar styles or from the same era? Do they tackle similar subject matter? Are they two dimensional or 3d.? List any other aspects these works might have in common. These are just examples, please list all the similarities and difference among these images.
