Assignment task: Sometimes we experience a work that we don't quite understand how to respond to. In our Martin and Jacobus book, check out Piet Mondrian's painting Figure 4-9, Broadway Boogie Woogie (68) and then Figure 4-10, William de Kooning painting Woman I (69) hit you that way as well. There will be works in the humanities that you encounter a work that simply befuddles you. Sometimes you can't even tell if you like it or not. For this Discussion Topic, based on what you have learned in the course thus far, describe some steps you can take for a work in any of the humanities outside of painting to approach a work that at first just flat out perplexes you. (To get started before writing your response, try brainstorming a list of ideas of things you could do.)
Some sculptures from chapter 5 also might fit in here would be Figure 5-1, Jean Arp's Growth (96) [for which there is also one done in the medium of bronze] or Figure 5-13, Alexander Calder's Five Swords (108). Or perhaps give a good look at Figure 5-21, Magdalena Abakanowicz's Bronze Crowd(116).