2/23 Post your evolution of thesis group work here

Choices of Images for Argumentative Essay

Henry Tanner's The Banjo Lesson (oil on canvas)

Charles Sheeler's American Landscape (oil on canvas)

Willem de Kooning's Woman I (oil on canvas)

Diego Rivera's Man, Controller of the Universe (Fresco)

Salvadore Dali's The Persistence of Memory

2/14 Submit the group work that you had done in class in response to Van Gogh's "The Starry Night"

2/14 Post your response to questions given in class on "Starry Night"

From p 39-40 in Chapter 3 Writing about Art and Architecture in Writing about the Humanities

Respond to the following questions

What doe sthe landscape suggest about the natural world?

What relationship exists between nature and the human figures depicted? In looking at van Gogh's The Starry Night, for example, you notice that the stars and sky occupy about three-quarters of the canvas, with the village much smaller in scale.

What social implications might the landscape bear?

To what extent might its origin or cultural context help us interpret it?

Additional questions

What is the focus of the composition? What is emphasized ?

Is the composition balanced? Symmetrical? Harmonious? With what effects?Does the work emphasize diagonal or vertical lines, which suggest motion and energy? Or is it mostly horizontal, which suggests tranquility?

Does the work convey a sense of depth or recession in space, or do the figures and objects appear lined up in a flat plane?

What is the shape and size of the work?

What is the scale, or relative size, of objects and figures in relation to the size of the canvas or other medium on which they are painted?

Please respond by integrating the answers to the questions in one paragraph.

2/9 The African Migrants

http://presstv.com/detail/199336.html

I was mistaken when I said this was a photo of Somalians. These are North Africans, specifically from Tunisia and Libya, who are escaping from their countries. The orange boat is Italian, not Spanish. For the purpose of the exercise, however, it does not make a difference. The theme still is migration, with the migrants escapees from a place of turmoil.

Please post your reaction, interpretation, and evaluation of this image here.

2/9 Welcome to the Fish People

Name of Image: Welcome to the Fish People

Please post your reaction, interpretation and evaluation of this image here.

2/7 Thinnest Waist

Post your reaction, interpretation and evaluation of this image here. See Chapter 2 in your Writing about Humanities for more details. You talked about this image, but I want you to formalize your words on paper.

2/2 Post your interpretation of Adrian Tomine's image

Image is called Facebook.