Blog

Monet Wheatstacks.jpg Claude Monet, Wheatstacks, Snow Effect, Morning (detail), 1891. Oil on canvas, 25½ × 39¼ in. A technique (used by Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh) in which paint is applied very thickly to produce a texture is called _________________________.

Hugo Ball.jpg Hugo Ball, reciting the sound poem Karawane, 1916. Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland. What particularly made this performance by Hugo Ball a Dada event?

What are two key characteristics employed by Baroque artists?

What was the significance of the democratic reforms in the 1820s?

Helen Frankenthaler pioneered a technique of pouring heavily diluted paint onto unprimed canvases called

Warhol Soup.jpg Duchamp Fountain.jpg Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Cans, 1962. Marcel Duchamp, signed R. Mutt, Fountain, photograph by Alfred Stieglitz in The Blind Man 2, May 1917, p. 4. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania. Write an essay (3-4 paragraphs) that discusses these two artworks.  Answer the following questions in your essay: Why was Marcel Duchamp’s work controversial?  What is a readymade?  How does Duchamp’s piece change our notions of art and, in some ways, pave the way for Warhol’s work?  How are Duchamp and Warhol’s works similar?  Why does Warhol call his studio “the factory” and why is he interested in repetition (in technique and composition)? To what two art movements do these pieces belong? Be specific.  Check for grammar and spelling errors.  Try to use key terms where applicable.  

Baroque artists used a technique called _______________, employing strong contrasts of light and dark, wherein darkness becomes a dominant feature of the image.​

How did industrialization impact the nature of production and work?

What mode of transportation began to compete with horse-drawn locomotives in the late 1820s?

What was the role of the putting-out system in the rise of industrialization?