Vision of America

MUST BE ORIGINAL WORK,…NO PLAGIARISM

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?

· Please include an introduction and conclusion

Format your paper according to appropriate course level APA guidelines.

This is the book we are using in class:

Pohl, F. (2012). Framing America: A social history of American art (3rd ed.). New York, N.Y.: Thames & Hudson