hw/cw questions

1. What is the Crystal Palace? Why was it built? Who built it?
2. What is meant by historicism?
3. What new materials were used in the building of the Brooklyn Bridge? Who invented them and why were they so important?
4. What social changes occured as a result of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge?
5. How does the Biblioteque Sainte Genevieve of Paris reflect both learning and technology?
6. Why were the human forms in the Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s the Dance offensive to many Parisians?
7. Describe the difference in the way that Gerome saw history versus how David saw history.
8. Gustave Moreau was preoccupied with what theme from 1860 forward? Why?
9. How does camera obscura work?
10. What principle is photography based on?
11. How did critics view early photography?
12. How did Jean-Francois Millet’s painting The Gleaners represent the fate of humanity?

Choose a topic from below and research that work or artist so that you can discuss the movement, time period, historical context, stylistic characteristics, etc.

-Benjamin West, Death of General Wolfe and Angelica Kauffmann, Cornelia Pointing to her Children as Treasures

-Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, and Death of Marat

-Antonia Canova, any/all of his sculptures

-Henri Labrouste and Joseph Paxton

-Francisco de Goya and Antoine-Jean Gros

-Theodore Gericault and Jean Auguste Ingres

-Eugene Delacroix and Development of Photography and Iron

Define and fully identify one really awesome example that exemplifies the characteristics of the era:
-Realism
-Impressionism
-Post-Impressionism
-Symbolism
-Art Nouveau
-Fauvism
-Cubism
-Futurism
-Constructivism
-Dada
-DeStijl
-Bauhaus
-Surrealism
-Art Deco
-American Scene/American Social Realism
-Abstract Expressionism
-Pop Art
-Color Field Painting
-Conceptual Art
-Performance Art
-Op Art
-Minimalism
-Feminist Art