Assignment

Question: Visions of America Assignment Options

Choose one of the following artists for an examination of their stylistic development into abstraction:

• Arthur Dove
• Stanton Macdonald-Wright
• Marsden Hartley
• Max Weber
• Georgia O'Keeffe

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper examining your selected artist's development into abstraction that responds to the following:

• How and why did early American abstraction develop?
• What subjects were present in your artist's abstract works? Describe with at least one example from the artist.
• Why did the artists choose to work in this style? To what influences were they responding to from Europe, and how was their own exploration of abstraction meaningful to them?
• What is your own response to the artist's work?