I’m working on a art writing question and need an explanation to help me learn.
Please read Charlotte Houghton’s article, “This was Tomorrow: Pieter Aertsen’s Meat Stall as Contemporary Art,” and answer the following questions – in your own words – in paragraph form.
Please do not use lengthy quotes from the text. Rather, synthesize the ideas presented by the author in your own words. Your responses should be edited for grammar and mechanics and should be double spaced.
1. What evidence suggests that the “Meat Stall” was an immediate success?
2. According to the author, how do both Aertsen’s painting and Hamilton’s collage place “the task of assembling meaning” squarely onto the viewer?
3. What was “new” about Aertsen’s depiction of meat? What does she mean when she says his meat would not have resonated as art for the original viewers?
4. How are the human figures treated in this “Meat Stall”? What significance might original viewers have attached to the depiction of the butcher? To the Virgin Mary giving alms?
5. What does Houghton mean when she argues that the “Meat Stall” is “an artwork that advertised its own ephemerality” (p. 290)?
6. What kinds of “mistakes” does the author identify in Aertsen’s work? How may the be understood as commentaries on both artistic theory inherited from Italy (Alberti) and local “artistic pieties”?
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