Curves Ahead: women artists art

Women Artists in History- The Late 19th century: Europe and the United States 1870-1900

Understand the art museum

What would be your own definition of 'high art' and 'low art'?  What do you feel makes an artwork especially compelling?  

I want you to use two artworks from the late nineteenth century as examples: one as an example of the kind of art that meets your definition for great art, and one as an example of an artwork that does not.