Comparison of artworks
Write a 3-5 page essay comparing and contrasting two works of art from two different styles covered in this course between the periods of the High Renaissance and
Impressionism. One of your selected works of art must be from after the midterm (Modules 8-14). Comparison of artworks about David is not an option.
ASSIGNMENT: Write a 3-5 page essay comparing and contrasting two works of art from two different styles covered in this course between the periods of the High
Renaissance and Impressionism. One of your selected works of art must be from after the midterm (Modules 8-14). Comparison of artworks about David is not an option.
You must cover the following points in your comparison:
Introduction and Thesis
• Introduce the artwork titles, period styles and artists names
• Briefly state what you believe is significant about these artworks
• In other words… Tell your reader what works of art you will be discussing and why you think they are important
Stylistic analysis
• Correctly identify artwork titles, period styles and artists names
• Compare the artworks by discussing key stylistic characteristics associated with artists and period styles
• Apply art history vocabulary correctly and uses it to support your stylistic analysis
• In other words… What make these works stylistically significant?
Cultural analysis
• Compare the artworks by discussing key cultural issues associated with artists and periods
• Discuss how the cultural context of each period influenced the artistic development of the period style (Make connections between cultural context and style)
• In other words… What makes these works culturally significant?
Conclusion and Thematic Connection
• Analyze the ways art can affect and/or reflect cultural, political and social issues
• Draw conclusions about the artist / society which produced the artwork from the comparison
• In other words… What “Thematic Connection” can you make between the two works of art that helps you better understand them or the culture they represent?
Research
• Incorporate 3 our more sources (outside of lecture notes & textbook) to support your analysis
• Properly cite your sources using MLA format
• Include a list of “Works Cited”
Written Mechanics
• Use of grammar, spelling and punctuation correctly throughout your paper
• Proofread
• In other words…there should be no mechanical errors!
SOURCES: 3 in addition to the module text
• scholarly professional web site (for example, a museum, research institute or university)
• nonfiction book published within the last 50 years
• an art history textbook such as Garnders Art Through the Ages, Jansen’s, or Schneider-Adams
• professional art historical publication (magazine or journal, can be online) such as The Art Bulletin
• Databases such as the Oxford Dictionary of Art Online (accessible through the AAU Library website)
• Credible professional websites such as those of museums, galleries, and universities, for example:
? The Getty Center
? The Metropolitan Museum of Art
•
In other words… Don’t use Wikipedia!!!
FORMAT:
Your research paper must:
• Be posted in Module 15 as both (1) text into the message box of the discussion topic and (2) a PDF file.
• Be a minimum of 3-5 pages, excluding illustrations, headings, and paragraph breaks.
• Be spell-checked, grammar-checked, proofread for errors not caught by your computer.
• Include a heading containing your full name, ID number, class title and section, date, and instructor’s name.
• Be typed and double-spaced, 12-point, Times New Roman font.
• Cite references used according to MLA style and include a Works Cited page at the end of your essay. You are encouraged to use A Writer’s Reference by Diana
Hacker (see also Research and Documentation Online, 5th edition) for help with MLA style, revision, punctuation, and sentence style, and A Short Guide to Writing About
Art by Sylvan Barnett for specific help with comparing and contrasting artwork.
DUE DATE:
• Module 15: August 6, 2014 11:59 PM PST.
GRADING:
• Critical Thinking & Analysis 35%
• Cultural Significance 25%
• Stylistic Significance 25%
• Research & Citations 10%
• Writing Mechanics 05%
Total = 100%
IMPORTANT NOTE: Due to your limited visibility to future modules (i.e. only the current and one proceeding module are opened at a time), I am publishing the below list
of all artworks from the Module Image Lists of M8-M14. The release of the module content will remain as scheduled, however, students may use this list of artworks to
guide their independent research in the meantime.
Remember, at least one of your artworks must be from after the midterm exam. Meaning, you may choose (1) one artwork from before the midterm and one artwork from after
the midterm (2) two artworks from after the midterm. The two artworks must be from different styles.
Module 8
Façade of New St. Peter’s, by Carlo Maderno, Vatican City, Rome, 1606-1612.
Plan of New St. Peter’s, by Carlo Maderno, piazza by Bernini.
New St Peter’s Cathedral, Vatican City, Rome, 1506-1666.
Baldacchino, by Bernini, New St. Peter’s Cathedral, Rome, 1624-1633.
David, by Bernini, 1623.
Cornaro Chapel, by Bernini Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, 1645-52.
Ecstasy of Saint Theresa, by Bernini from the Cornaro Chapel, Rome, 1645-52.
Conversion of Saint Paul, by Caravaggio, 1601.
Calling of Saint Matthew, by Caravaggio, 1597-1601.
Judith Beheading Holofernes, by Artemisia Gentileschi, 1614-1620.
Module 9
Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, by Jose de Ribera, 1639.
Saint Serapion, by Francisco de Zurbaran, 1628
Water Carrier of Seville, by Diego Velazquez c, 1619.
Surrender at Breda, by Diego Velazquez 1634-1635.
King Philip IV of Spain, by Diego Velazquez 1644.
Las Meninas, by Diego Velazquez 1656.
Elevation of the Cross, by Peter Paul Rubens Antwerp Cathedral, 1610.
Arrival of Marie de’Medici at Marseilles, by Peter Paul Rubens 1622-25.
Allegory of the Outbreak of War, by Peter Paul Rubens 1638
Charles I Dismounted, by Anthony Van Dyck, c. 1635.
Module 10
Archers of St. Hadrian, by Frans Hals c.1633.
The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq, “The Night Watch”, by Rembrandt, 1642
Self-Portraits by Rembrandt, any date.
Christ with the Sick around Him, by Rembrandt, 1649.
Allegory of the Art of Painting, by Vermeer 1670-1675.
Still Life with Oysters, Rum, Glass, & Silver Cup, by Willem Claesz Heda, 1634
Adoration of the Shepherds, Georges de la Tour, 1645-1650
Et in Arcadia Ego, by Poussin c. 1655.
Landscape with Cattle and Peasants, by Claude Lorrain, 1629
Louis XIV by Rigaud, 1701
Palace at Versailles, begun 1669.
Module 11
L’Indifferent, by Watteau c. 1716.
Return from Cythera, by Watteau 1717-1719.
Cupid a Captive, by Boucher, 1754.
The Swing, by Fragonard, 1766.
Nymph and Satyr, by Clodion, c. 1775.
A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery, by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1763-1765.
Basin of San Marco from San Giorgio Maggiore, by Canaletto, 1740.
The Village Bride, by Greuze, 1761.
Grace at Table, by Chardin, 1740.
Self-Portrait, by Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun, 1790.
“Breakfast Scene” from Marriage a la Mode, by William Hogarth, 1745.
Portrait of Paul Revere, by John Singleton Copley, 1768-1770.
Module 12
Cornelia Presenting her Children as Treasures, by Angelica Kauffmann, 1785.
Oath of the Horatii, by Jacques-Louis David 1784.
The Death of Marat, by Jacques-Louis David 1793.
The Coronation of Napoleon, by Jacques-Louis David 1805-1808.
The Pantheon “Sainte-Genevieve”, by Soufflot, Paris, 1755-1792.
Chiswick House, by Boyle and Kent, near London, begun 1725.
Monticello, by Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1770-1806.
United State’s Capitol, by Benjamin Latrobe, 1791-1852.
Module 13
Grande Odalisque, by Ingres, 1814.
The Nightmare, by Fuseli, 1781.
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, etching from Los Caprichos, by Goya.
The Third of May, 1808, by Goya, 1814.
Saturn Devouring His Children, by Goya, 1819-1823.
Raft of the Medusa, by Gericualt, 1818-1819.
Death of Sardanapalus, by Delacroix, 1826.
The Haywain, by John Constable, 1821.
The Slave Ship, by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1840.
Module 14
Burial at Ornans, by Courbet, 1849.
The Gleaners, by Jean-Francois Millet, 1857.
The Third-Class Carriage, by Daumier, 1862.
Le Dejuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), by Manet, 1863.
Olympia, by Manet, 1863.
Nymphs and Satyr, by Bouguereau, 1873
Impression Sunrise, by Monet,1872.
Le Moulin de la Galette, by Renoir, 1876.
Bar at the Folies-Bergere, by Manet 1881-1882.
The Tub, by Degas,1886.
The Bath, by Mary Cassatt, 1892.
ANOTHER VERSION OF DESCRIPTION
Description
Write a three- to five-page compare-and-contrast research paper that investigates how two works of art from different periods styles illustrate a particular theme in
art. Your comparison must focus on the artists and period styles covered in LA 121 and must include at least one artwork from a period style introduced after Module 7.
The pair you choose must be drawn from two different period styles. For example, you may compare a Baroque artwork with a Romantic artwork. However, you may NOT
compare a Baroque artwork with another work from the Baroque period.
It is important to choose two images that have a number of things in common as well as a number of unique aspects to compare.
Proposal Worksheet
Before you write your paper, you must submit a proposal to your instructor for approval. Your proposal will help both you and your instructor ensure that you are
planning an appropriate comparison.
Download the Proposal Worksheet here.
Text
Your research paper must:
• Be a minimum of 3-5 pages, excluding illustrations, headings, and paragraph breaks.
• Be spell-checked, grammar-checked, proofread for errors not caught by your computer.
• Include a heading containing your full name, ID number, class title and section, date, and instructor’s name.
• Be typed and double-spaced, 12-point, Times New Roman font.
• Be submitted as a Microsoft Word-compatible document (.doc or .rtf, not .docx).
• Cite references used according to MLA style and include a Works Cited page at the end of your essay. You are encouraged to use A Writer’s Reference by Diana
Hacker (see also Research and Documentation Online, 5th edition) for help with MLA style, revision, punctuation, and sentence style, and A Short Guide to Writing About
Art by Sylvan Barnett for specific help with comparing and contrasting artwork.
Organization
Structure your paper so that it covers the following elements:
• Introduction including a thesis This is the main point of your essay and tells your reader what you are going to cover in the body of your essay: the stylistic
and cultural connections between the two works of art.
• Cultural context of each work/period style (politics, society, religion, etc.)
• Stylistic characteristics of each work/period style When discussing culture and style, your essay should address how the cultural context informs the stylistic
characteristics of that period.
• Art historical vocabulary from the modules
• Subject matter of each work Be sure to explain the story/narrative.
• Function and possible meaning (symbolism/iconography) of each work
• Similarities and differences between the two works What makes this a good comparison?
• Conclusion recapping the thesis
• Works Cited page
Sources
Research should be drawn from the LA 121 module text and at least THREE additional sources, such as the following:
• Art history textbooks such as Gardner’s, Jansen’s, or Schneider-Adams
• Books (monographs) from the AAU Library or other source (published in the last 50 years)
• Art history periodicals such as The Art Bulletin
• Databases such as the Oxford Dictionary of Art Online (accessible through the AAU Library website)
• Credible professional websites such as those of museums, galleries, and universities, for example:
? The Getty Center
? The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Additional resources:
• AAU Library
? Art History Subject Guide
• AAU Writing Lab / Online Writing Lab (OWL)
? Writing a Compare/Contrast Art History Essay
• University of Michigan’s Mother of All Art and Art History Links Pages
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