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Final Project: Paper Proposal Outline

Topic Question: How did Expressionism influence artists during Social Movements?

Thesis Statement: The Expressionist movement allowed artists to present the world from a subjective perspective enabling them to further create styles that allowed them to be more inventive and abrupt toward social injustices.

ARTIST: Merton D. Simpson

TILE: U.S.A ’65 

DATE: 1965

MUSEUM: Brooklyn Museum

 

ARTIST: Faith Ringgold

TITLE: American People Series #20: Die

DATE: 1967

MUSEUM: MoMA

 

ARTIST: Romare Bearden

TITLE: The Dove

DATE: 1971

MUSEUM: MoMA

 

These five brilliant pieces of artwork all have one thing in common; they are all part of the expressionism movement. In each painting, there is a unique perspective being shown using styles like abstract expressionism or neo-expressionism. Breaking away from accepted conventions, artists were able to distort the world in a radical way for emotional effect. Looking at paintings like “U.S.A ’65” and “Emergency Room” not only shows us what the artist thought of society at the time but it also makes us reflect as to where society might be heading if we continue down a path of discrimination.

Final Project Outline

Chaasadyah Charles

12/4/18

Professor Shaw

 

For my final project, I will be making a  piece. My piece will be of Medusa, however we will be giving her identities that relate her more closely to marginalized groups. She will have an Afrocentric, queer and feminist charged appearance. This piece will be a spin off of the many pieces of Medusa at the MET. The museum shows Medusa in terracotta, onyx, glass, marble, plaster cast, and even red jasper. I am not sure just yet how I will present her. That I have not decided as of yet.

Final Project Outline

For the final assignment, I will be doing the first option, which is the paper proposal.

Thesis statement:

The focus in art shifted from Gods in Egyptian art to humans in Greek & Roman art. This is known as Humanism. The Greeks & Romans believed that humans should be celebrated equal to or even more so than the Gods in their artwork. 

The three works of art I will be discussing include:

The Brooklyn Museum

Meretseger

EGYPTIAN, CLASSICAL, ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN ART Old Kingdom to 18th Dynasty

ca. 1479–1400 B.C.E.

 

From the side:

I will be using this to show the emphasis that was made on the Gods in Egyptian artwork. This goddess, whose name means “she who loves silence,” has a woman head and a cobra’s body. An animal with a human head is a common thing Egyptians did in art. Some background information is that as a local deity, Meretseger guarded the Valley of the Kings, where monarchs were entombed, and the village of craftsmen who worked there. Though a dangerous animal, her purpose was to protect the workers in the valley, and also sometimes to punish people who did wrong things. Gods were the focus in the art pieces showing superiority over human beings. This is seen in the artwork because Meretseger is not portrayed as a human being.  This shows that the gods were special because they were portrayed in a different kind of appearance compared to humans and were the focus in Egyptian art.

 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)

Marble statue of a kouros (youth)

Ancient Greece, Attic

ca. 590–580 B.C

This sculpture shows how humans became the center in art. This is one of the earliest marble statues of a human figure carved in Attica. Ideas were still taken from history. For example, the rigid stance, with the left leg forward and arms at the side was from Egyptian art. The statue marked the grave of a young Athenian aristocrat.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)

Marble statue of Hermes

Roman

1st or 2nd century A.D.

The Greeks had a major influence on Roman art. This sculpture depicts a built, muscular man standing in a more confident pose in nudity. I will use this to show how humans were the core in Romanian art.