Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper examining your selected artist’s development into abstraction that responds to the following: How and why did early American abstraction develop? What subjects were present in your artist’s abstract works? Describe with at least one example from the artist.

Week 2

Resources: Review your Week 2 readings and videos.

For your Week 2 Assignment, complete the following:

Choose one of the following artists for an examination of their stylistic development into abstraction:

• Arthur Dove
• Stanton Macdonald-Wright
• Marsden Hartley
• Max Weber
• Georgia O’Keeffe

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper examining your selected artist’s development into abstraction that responds to the following:

• How and why did early American abstraction develop?
• What subjects were present in your artist’s abstract works? Describe with at least one example from the artist.
• Why did the artists choose to work in this style? To what influences were they responding to from Europe, and how was their own exploration of abstraction meaningful to them?
• What is your own response to the artist’s work?

Format your paper according to appropriate course level APA guidelines.

Submit your assignment to the Assignment Files tab.

Materials

·         Hughes’ Dream Harlem Video Reflection

·         Duchamp Reinvents His Style

·         Representational Cityscape

·         Khan Academy: Becoming Modern

·         Week 2 Electronic Reserve Readings

·         Framing America, Ch. 6

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