Art questions. Reading Questions. Literature & Language Coursework
This is the assignment worksheet for an art literature course, please make the answer easier to read and not too professional, just straight from the idea of the text thank you. The guideline is attached.
For your answers, follow these guidelines:
• your name and date at the top of the page
• title of article and author at the top of the page
• number each answer corresponding with the question
• 1 – 2 pages
• several sentences per answer
• write in complete sentences
• typed and printed in black ink
If you quote a passage in the text, use the following MLA guidelines:
Short quotations
To indicate short quotations (fewer than four typed lines of prose or three lines of verse) in your text, enclose the quotation within double quotation marks. Provide the author and specific page citation (in the case of verse, provide line numbers) in the text, and include a complete reference on the Works Cited page. Punctuation marks such as periods, commas, and semicolons should appear after the parenthetical citation. Question marks and exclamation points should appear within the quotation marks if they are a part of the quoted passage but after the parenthetical citation if they are a part of your text.
For example, when quoting short passages of prose, use the following examples:
According to some, dreams express "profound aspects of personality" (Foulkes 184), though others disagree.
According to Foulkes's study, dreams may express "profound aspects of personality" (184).
Is it possible that dreams may express "profound aspects of personality" (Foulkes 184)?
Long quotations
For quotations that are more than four lines of prose or three lines of verse, place quotations in a free-standing block of text and omit quotation marks. Start the quotation on a new line, with the entire quote indented one inch from the left margin. Only indent the first line of the quotation by an additional quarter inch if you are citing multiple paragraphs. Your parenthetical citation should come after the closing punctuation mark.
For example, when citing more than four lines of prose, use the following examples:
Nelly Dean treats Heathcliff poorly and dehumanizes him throughout her narration:
They entirely refused to have it in bed with them, or even in their room, and I had no more sense, so, I put it on the landing of the stairs, hoping it would be gone on the morrow. By chance, or else attracted by hearing his voice, it crept to Mr. Earnshaw's door, and there he found it on quitting his chamber. Inquiries were made as to how it got there; I was obliged to confess, and in recompense for my cowardice and inhumanity was sent out of the house. (Bronte 78)
all the questions for three authors
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Reading Questions
Greenberg, Clement. “Modernist Painting.” Forum Lectures (Washington, D.C.: Voice of America), 1960.
1.How does Greenberg define modernism?
Greenberg defines modernism as the period in art that ranges from the mid-1850s to the present that was characterized by an aspect of self-criticism in the arts. This period, according to Greenberg, is the time when Immanuel Kant’s method of a discipline criticizing itself came into play.
2.How does art distinguish itself (from entertainment, for example)?
Art distinguishes itself from other forms of representation such as entertainment by focusing on the “unique in the nature of its medium” (Greenberg, 1). Art aims at demonstrating its own account. Therefore, whatever is presented has to be unique in its own ways.
3.What does Greenberg mean by “purity” in art?
Greenberg means self-definition in reference to “purity” in art. In this assertion, he meant that a form of art has to escape from ideas and maintain the specificity of its medium. He argued from a point of view that dissociates artwork from any biological, social and political purpose.
4.How does the author contrast realistic art with modern art?
Greenberg distinguishes realistic art from modern art by stating that realistic art “had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art” (2). The statement means that unlike modern art, which is influenced by the medium of practice, traditional art was more natural and stood up for its unique ideals. According to him, the medium serves as a facilitator in modern art, but serves as a limitation in realistic art.
5. What is the primary unique condition in which painting (pictorial art) defines itself?
The primary unique condition for painting lies in its abstractness. Painting is closely related to sculpture and thus to distinguish itself, it has rendered itself abstract in nature through its two dimensional representation. This two dimensional representation allows it to be flat, which is a unique feature in itself.
6. What are Greenberg’s reasons for stating that modern art does not break from the past, but further evolves from it?
One of the reasons Greenberg gives for his statement is that the making of pictures in modern art remains controlled from the time of its debut. He states that even though an engraver can disregard the guidance of the frame and treat the surface in a “literally sculptural way” (Greenberg, 6), his ideas are often made of the images and not pictures and are based on some form of support. That modern artists hinge their work on an aspect of deliberateness.
Nochlin, Linda. “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” 1971.
1 How does Nochlin define art and what does she say is a common misconception of what art is?
Nochlin defines art as a “self-consistent language of form, more or less dependent upon, or free from, given temporally defined conventions, schemate, or systems of notation, which have to be learned or worked out, either through teaching, apprenticeship, or a long period of individual experimentation” (Nochlin, 4). She says that art is normally misconstrued as a direct, personal expression of individual emotional experience that entails an expression of an individual’s life into visual terms.
2 What are some ways that the author describes the effects of class and race on art?
The author describes the effects of class and race on art as based on historical assumptions that the practice is linked only to superstars. Historically, certain races were considered inferior and thus no form or art was expected to them. Thus Nochlin describes these assumptions as, “…naïve, distorted, and uncritical” (7). That these assumptions lack solid grounds to back their positions.
3 What is Nochlin’s criticism of genius and how does it relate to the title of her essay?
Nochlin criticizes the thought of genius as being a form of mystery. She argues that this thought is based on “…unquestioned, often unconscious, meta-historical premises” (7). This criticism is meant to debunk the notion held historically of women being inferior beings and that since art was considered a preserve of the genius, women did not fall in this group and hence there was no genius women who could become artists.
4 Why is the question of “Why have there been no great artists from the aristocracy?” like the question of the essay’s title?
The question of no great artists from the aristocracy is similar to the essay’s title in the sense that both imply that art was a preserve of a given group of individuals. While the title of the essay questions art in the gender lens, the above title questions art in the class lens.
5 What is the relationship between the social institution and who we view as a “great artist”?
The social institution determines our perception or definition of a great artist. Historically, the social institution regarded great artists as geniuses and since...
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