Assignment:
Review the chapter: The Modernist World: The Arts in an Age of Global Confrontation THINKING AHEAD
Create your own artistic production to present to the class in a narrated PowerPoint.
Directions
Select one of the visual art pieces from the chapter to use as a point of inspiration
Create an art piece inspired by your selected art piece
Write a one-page reflection about the relationship between your art production and the inspiration piece
For Your Inspiration Piece
Record the title, artist, year, place of origin
Explain the context and artistic movement
For Your Art Production
Methods: paint, watercolor, pencil, crayon, marker, collage, sculpture
NO COMPUTER GENERATED PIECES
Provide a title
Explain the narrative of your piece and the connection to the inspiration
For Your Presentation
Provide an introduction
Explain and show your inspiration piece
Describe and show your art piece
Explain the thematic connection between the two pieces
How would you define modernism, and how do Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, and Expressionism reflect its spirit?
What were the effects of the Great War on the Western imagination?