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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?

How did the construction of roads and canals impact American commerce?

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

What did Thomas Paine advocate for as an alternative to monarchy?

Caravaggio David.jpg Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, David with the Head of Goliath, 1609–10. Oil on canvas. Why did Caravaggio represent himself as Goliath in this piece?

Which canal connected New York City to the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River Valley?

David Death of Marat.jpg Jacques-Louis David, The ​Death of Marat. 1793. Oil. How did Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Marat position the sitter as a martyr?