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FAS 202 Final Project Themes List

In Milestone One, you will choose a pair of works (from one of the themes below) to focus on for your final project, and then choose a contemporary work of art (or social construct) that relates thematically to the pair you choose. Recommendations for the contemporary connection are found below the pair of works, as well as a list of resources you may choose to use for your project.

Theme: dramatic expression

• Caravaggio, Entombment of Christ (style: Italian Baroque), ca. 1602

• Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) (style: Abstract Expressionism), 1950

• For your contemporary connection, try looking at professional performance art (theater, dance, music, etc.) Some possible research sources: o https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/monarchy-enlightenment/baroque-art1/baroque- italy/a/caravaggio-deposition o http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/57.92 o http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/abstract-expressionism.html

Theme: portrayal of family meal

• Jan Steen, The Merry Family (style: Dutch Baroque), 1668

• Van Gogh, The Potato Eaters (style: Postimpressionism), 1885

• For your contemporary connection, try looking at home improvement magazines/television shows, commercial advertising

Some possible research sources: o http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/181/jan-steen-dutch-1626-1679/ o http://www.artble.com/artists/vincent_van_gogh/more_information/style_and_technique o http://www.theartstory.org/artist-van-gogh-vincent-artworks.htm o http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/gogh/hd_gogh.htm

Theme: the presentation of self/female self-portraiture

• Judith Leyster, Self Portrait (style: Dutch Baroque), 1630

• Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas (style: Surrealism), 1939

• For contemporary connection, try looking at various forms of social media, the selfie phenomenon

Some possible research sources: o https://www.nga.gov/Collection/art-object-page.37003.html o http://www.theartstory.org/artist-kahlo-frida.htm o https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/art-between-wars/latin-american- modernism1/a/kahlo-the-two-fridas-las-dos-fridas

Theme: honoring war veterans

• Jean Chalgrin et al., Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, Paris (style: Neoclassicism), 1806–1836

• Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial (style: Modernism/Minimalism), 1982

• For your contemporary connection, try looking at contemporary public memorials

Some possible research sources: o http://www.arcdetriompheparis.com/history o https://web.archive.org/web/20160403035643/http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildin gs/Vietnam_War_Memorial.html o https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/minimalism-earthworks/v/mayalin- vietnamvetmem

Theme: the depiction of the human form

• Jean-Antoine Houdon, George Washington (style: Neoclassicism), 1788–1792

• Duane Hanson, Supermarket Shopper (style: Superrealism), 1970

• For your contemporary connection, try looking at contemporary portrait sculpture Some possible research sources: o https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-americas/british-colonies/early- republic/a/houdon-george-washington o http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/sculpture/duane-hanson.htm

Theme: impact of technology

• Joseph Wright of Derby, Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (style: Neoclassicism), 1768

• Nam June Paik, any of his digital works of art (style: Postmodernism), 1970

• For your contemporary connection, try looking at modern art/science/technology Some possible research sources: o http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/joseph-wright-of-derby-an-experiment-on-a- bird-in-the-air-pump o http://vmfa.museum/mlit/nam-june-paik/

Theme: the sublime

• Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Sea (style: Romanticism), ca. 1809

• Barnett Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis (style: Abstract Expressionism), 1950-51

• For your contemporary connection, try looking at religion Some possible research sources: o https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/the-sublime/what-is-the-sublime- r1109449 o https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/the-sublime/the-romantic-sublime- r1109221 o https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/romanticism/romanticism-in-

germany/a/friedrich-monk-by-the-sea o http://www.moma.org/collection/works/79250 o http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/landscape-and-the-sublime

Theme: political landscape

• J. M. W. Turner, The Burning of the House of Lords and Commons (style: Romanticism), 1835

• Monet, The Houses of Parliament, Sunset (style: Impressionism), 1903

• For your contemporary connection, try looking at contemporary impressionism Some possible research sources: o https://www.nga.gov/Collection/art-object-page.46523.html ohttps://web.archive.org/web/20161221021951/https:/www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2007/turner/ turner_brochure.pdf

Theme: the beauty of nature

• Thomas Cole, The Oxbow (style: Romanticism), 1836

• Van Gogh, Olive Trees With Yellow Sky and Sun (style: Postimpressionism), 1889

• For your contemporary connection, try looking at contemporary landscape photography, earth art Some possible research sources: o http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cole/hd_cole.htm o http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-artists/thomas-cole.htm o http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/landscape-and-the-sublime o http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/roma/hd_roma.htm o http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/poim/hd_poim.htm o http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/gogh/hd_gogh.htm

Theme: representation of war

• Francisco Goya, The Disasters of War (style: Romanticism), 1810–1820 (any print from the series)

• Timothy O’Sullivan, A Harvest of Death (style: Realism/Photography), 1863

• For your contemporary connection, try looking at mass media, journalism

Some possible research sources: o https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/285644 o http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1470451/ o http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/58082/timothy-h-o'sullivan-print-by-alexander- gardner-a-harvest-of-death-american-negative-july-4-1863-print-1866/

Theme: sleep/dreams

• Henri Fuseli, The Nightmare (style: Romanticism), 1782

• Salvador Dali, Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening (style: Surrealism), 1944

• For your contemporary connection, try looking at contemporary psychology

Some possible research sources: o http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/gothic-nightmares-fuseli-blake-and- romantic-imagination/gothic o http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/19c/Workshop%203,%20item%203%20- %20press%20release.pdf o https://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/work/59/index.html o http://www.museothyssen.org/en/thyssen/ficha_obra/352 o http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Freud/Dreams/dreams.pdf

Theme: motherhood/nursing mothers

• Mary Cassatt, Mother Rose Nursing Her Child (style: Impressionism), 1900 (or any “mother nursing her child” image by Cassatt)

• Catherine Opie, Self-Portrait/Nursing (style: Contemporary), 2004

• For your contemporary connection, try looking at maternity/newborn photography, controversies over breastfeeding Some possible research sources: o http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cast/hd_cast.htm o http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/28826 o http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artwork/14666 o http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/12/artseen/neo-maternalism-contemporary-artists- approach-to-motherhood