Modern Art : Dega

Topics:

IMPRESSIONISM

Essay —Degas and Modernity; Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

Read:

A Beginner’s Guide to Impressionism

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/avant-garde-france/impressionism/a/a-beginners-guide-to-impressionism

 Read:

“Impressionism: Art and Modernity” from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/imml/hd_imml.htm

 

Watch: (5:08)

Degas, The Dance Class (1874)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NigP3DjV3NY

 

Watch: (5:36)

Monet, Gare, St. Lazare (1876)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sYQ5CSyACpc

 Watch: (5:45)

Renoir, The Grand Boulevards (18)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3SmyaLwpSaI

 

Watch: (5:05)

Renoir, Moulin de la Galette (1876)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x6rAFt5FW_Q

 

Watch: (3:10)

Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XLcbGHNFcpM

  Degas and Modernity: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

1000 Words (3-4 pages double spaced)

 

--Paper must have a title (a good title will reflect your thesis)

--Paper must be in Times New Roman 12 point font

--Paper margins must be 1" on left and right; top margin must be 1" and bottom margin 1"

--Put titles of works of art in italics

**IMPORTANT** If you borrow someone else's idea, you must footnote it. 

If you borrow it directly, you must put their words in quotation (" ") marks.

(This applies to all information taken from lecture, books, wall plaques, etc.)

 

1. Read pdf posted with this word file: “ Degas' Magnificent Obsession”

 

2. Review: Degas' Magnificent Obsession

“Degas and the Dance” by Jill DeVonyar, Richard Kendall

Review by: Joellen A. Meglin

Dance Chronicle, Vol. 30, No. 3 (2007), pp. 507-517

[Journal]

  

3. Respond to the following prompt: What's the word “modern” mean? (You can look up “modern” in Wikipedia for ideas, but I want you to generate your own explanation of the term, not copy one from the internet). What makes Degas’ The Dance Class modern? (this is really your thesis and the idea you want to develop in the essay, especially thorough what you see in the painting). Think about the following aspects of the painting: How does it depict the interior of the dance studio? What (if anything) is the focus or central figure in the painting? Does the view seem formal or casual?

Revise before you proofread.