(I) select 2 OR a maximum of 4 works total (1 or 2 for each artists)
(II) 2 different artists from
(III) 2 different art movements out of the possible combinations listed below.
Following are the possible combinations of movements you may compare:
a) Renaissance + Impressionism* b) Renaissance + Mexican Muralism
c) Renaissance + Brazilian Avant-Garde d) Mexican Muralism + Brazilian Avant-Grade
d) Mexican Muralism + Impressionism d) Impressionism + Brazilian Avant-Grade
As part of the analysis, you will need to address other movements influencing the works selected: Impressionism, Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism, traditional oil painting (1500s-1800s), Renaissance, Medieval art, Classical Roman and Greek art.
Focus:
you will develop an in-depth analysis where you have the opportunity to discuss those ideas as you compare and contrast works by 2 artists from two movements. You should also offer a thesis statement that justifies why you chose those specific pieces and not others. Papers will be graded for: a) your own thoughts,
b) the quality of content, your ideas, thesis statement,
c) the quality of your critical analysis (how well argued your points are),
d) the quality of information sources used to support analysis (only MSU Library sources are considered acceptable),
e) how well sources of information are documented
f) quality of writing (how well written/ organized).
You should also follow guidelines below.
Your essay should make analytically statement(s) about the work(s) selected. The statement(s) should relate to aspects of the work(s) that are not immediately obvious and are thought provoking. You should offer a detailed description of concrete elements in the work(s) (title, composition, symmetry, perspective, color, contrast, shading, texture, etc.), but not limited to simply offering a description without connecting it to analysis. Explain how the piece(s) express the way an artist perceives and attempts to portray external “visual reality,” or how the piece(s) express a subjective message about an artist’s intimate inner world away from the objective “visual reality.” You might explain how a message is powerfully expressed through the medium used (whether oil painting, mural, sculpture, or other medium chosen) or how the craft (the technique(s), colors, brushstrokes, etc) used help support the message the work(s) try to convey. You might also explain what the work(s) say about identity (whether that of the artist or that of the group he is a part of). You can explain how the piece(s) express the unique point of view of the artist in relation to different social groups around him/her as well as in relation to issues of race, class, and gender. In sum, consider the political, social, and cultural environment of the people who created the piece(s) (their world view) as they are expressed in the work(s).
Here are the works of artists provided. Choose from the list.
Piero della Francesca (1415–1492)
The flagellation of Christ, 1455-1460
Madonna and Child with Saints (Montefeltro Altarpiece), 1472
Ideal City, 1470
Madonna and Child Attended by Angels, 1460-65
Andrea Mantegna (1431– 1506)
St. Sebastian, 1456-59; panel; Musée du Louvre
Ceiling Oculus in the Camera degli Sposi, Mantova, 1465
The Madonna of the Cherubim, 1485
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ, 1490
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Sandro Botticelli, (1445–1510)
The Birth of Venus, 1486.
La primavera (Spring), 1477- 80
Portrait of a Young Woman, c. 1480
Venus and Mars, 1483
Madonna and Child with Angels – Sandro Botticelli (attributed), 1465/1470
Leonardo Da Vinci, (1452-1519)
Madonna Litta, 1490-1491
The Madonna of the Carnation, 1478-1480
TheVirgin of the Rocks, 1505-1508
The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (and Saint John the Baptist), c 1495-1508
Annunciation (1475-1480)
Raphael Sanzio da Urbino, (1483-1520)
Madonna del Cardinello, 1505-06
The Madonna of the Meadow, ca. 1506
The Alba Madonna, c 1510
The Niccolini-Cowper Madonna, 1508
Sagrada Familia Canigiani, 1507-08
Young Man with an apple, 1505
The School of Athens, 1509-1510, Apostolic Palace, Vatican City
The Parnassus, 1511, Vatican City
Michelangelo Buonarroti, (1475-1564)
David, 1504
Pieta, 1499
Creation of Adam, at the Sistine Chapel, (Genesis 1:27) 1508-1512
The Fall, at the Sistine Chapel, (Genesis 3:6) 1508-1512
Delphic Sibyl, at the Sistine Chapel, 1508-1512
The Cumean Sibyl, at the Sistine Chapel, 1508-1512
The Libyan Sybil, at the Sistine Chapel, 1508-1512
The Holy Family /Doni Tondo, at Uffizi, Florence, c.1506
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