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Commodity art is a reflection of our society as we live in a consumer based culture. 

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Rococo art emerged based on paintings, which showed social satire of the aristocrats as a new subject in art, as seen in Jean Honore Fragonard’s Swing.

From the documentary, Against the Odds:  The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance, Alain Locke believed that black artists must depict African traditions and Africa in their arts to emphasize on their heritage.

In a well structured paragraph, compare the similarities and differences between Augustine’s Neoplatonic mystical experience and the mystical vision at Ostia. 

In a well structured paragraph, compare the similarities and differences between Augustine’s Neoplatonic mystical experience and the mystical vision at Ostia. (12pts)

Of the “three kinds of wickedness” or “types of evil”, which did Augustine find the most “shackling” (i.e. which did he think he struggled with the most intensely)? [sin1] Of the kinds of wickedness, which did Augustine come to identify as the source/root of all the others (i.e. the worst kind of sin)? [sin2]

Augustine cries many types of tears on the death of his mother in Book 9.  He speaks of “another kind of tears” in paragraphs 34-35 of book 9 (p. 176-7) which he was moved to cry for his mother.  Which kind of tear discussed in class best characterizes the tears he is “crying” in these two paragraphs?  

According to Augustine, (neo-)Platonist philosophy helped him to overcome one specific intellectual hurdle that had held his mind captive in youth. What was it?