Question: Prepare a 6- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with speaker's notes (presenter notes) in which you examine the artwork of four artists. Select two photographers who worked during the Great Depression and two Abstract Expressionist artists.
- Include at least two examples of art from each artist along with a description of the subject and style of each piece.
- Just a reminder - Use American Art only, not music, literature, theater, film, poetry, etc.
- American Art Before World War II
- Discuss the purpose of the photographs taken during the Great Depression.
- Describe the role of the chosen photographs as tools for social commentary or other types of messaging in the 1930s.
- Explain how was American photography during the Great Depression used as a message or as an instrument for social reform.
American Art After World War II
- Discuss the emergence of American Abstract Expressionism in post-World War II America and how it differed from American artwork of the previous decades.
- Describe how and why these artists were interested in their style of Abstract Art. Include any "meaning", if there is any, to their art.
- Explain how these American Abstract Expressionists used their art to explore the relationships between art and message in mid-20th Century America.
- Assignments must include an introduction and a conclusion.
- Examples of art must be accompanied by the name the artist and the title of the piece of art.
- Include the images in your presentation.
- Use bullet points on slides, not complete sentences or statements.
- Use correct grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure in presenter notes.
- Use third person for presentation.
Format your citations and references consistent with APA guidelines.