Choose three topics from the list of eight questions provided below and write a one- to two-page response for each of them (typed and double spaced, 10-12 pitch Times New Roman, Garamond, or equivalent). To reiterate, you should respond to three questions in total, writing a one- to two-page answer for each.
1.Choose three of the drawing media discussed in chapter 6. Analyze the qualities and characteristics of each and the techniques used to apply each. Then briefly interpret a work created in each of the three media you have chosen. Make sure to identify the artist, title, and date of each drawing. Three of the drawings are
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Yvonne
Jacquette. Three
Mile Island, Night I.
1982. Charcoal on laminated tracing paper, 48 13/16 x 38”. Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. ,
Georges
Seurat. Café
Concert, ca.
1887. Conté crayon heightened with white chalk. 31.4 x 23.6 cm, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007,
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar
Degas, The
Singer in Green.
ca. 1884. Pastel on light blue laid paper, 23 3/4 x 18 ¼”. The
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Wifredo
Lam, The
Jungle,
1943. Gouache on paper mounted on canvas, 94 ½” x 89 ¾”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Jasper
Johns,
Numbers
in Color,
1958-59. Encaustic and collage on canvas, and John Singer
Sargent. Mountain
Stream. ca.
1912-14. Watercolor and graphite on off-white paper.
Francisco
de Goya. Asta
su Abuelo
(As Was His Grandfather).
1799.
Aquatint, plate size 8 7/16 x 5 7/8”. Palais des Beaux Arts, Lille, France,
Elizabeth
Catlett, Singing Their Songs.
1992. Color lithograph, 23 x 19”.
Moore
Energy Resources Elizabeth Catlett Collection, Washington, D.C. Art © Estate of Elizabeth Catlett/Licensed by
VAGA, New York, NY, and
Enrique
Chagoya. Life
Is a Dream, Then You Wake Up. 1995. Monotype, 42 5/8 x 46 5/8”.
Smithsonian
American Art Museum. Museum purchase made possible by the Morris and Gwendolyn
Cafritz Foundation, Calvert Walke Tazewell, and Mr. and Mrs. G. Mennan Williams
1996.67. Courtesy the artist.
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