Essay Prompt: Follow this prompt when preparing for your essay.Prompt: Compare and contrast the three methods of interpreting and evaluating art: art as form, art as context, and art as expression. Write your comparison by evaluating/interpreting any one of the asterisked works of art on the image list using these methods. For a more thorough review of these methods consult the supplementary page. Be sure to address the following: How do these theories evaluate art? What types of claims do these theories make? What are some of the strengths and limitations of the methods you chose?
Image List:1. 3.180, Henri Matisse, Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life), 1905-1906.2. (*)3.184, Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907.3. 3.185, Georges Braque, Houses at l’Estaque, 1908.4. Not in Book, Pablo Picasso, Ma Jolie, 1911-1912. 5. Not in Book, Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., 1919.6. Not in Book, Albrecht Dürer, Self-Portrait, 1500.7. (*)4.161, Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait, 1889.8. 2.34, Artemisia Gentileschi, Self Portrait Artist as the Allegory of Painting, 1635.9. Not in Book, Do-Ho Suh, High School Uni-Face: Boy, 1997. 10. (*) 3.151, Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784-1785.11. 4.152, Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #35, 1978.12. (See 4.153), Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1974.
13. 4.155, Guerilla Girls, Do women have to be naked to get into the Met Museum? 1989.14. Not in Book, Herrad von Landsberg, Septem artes liberales, Hortus Deliciarum, 1180.15. Not in Book, Marcel Breuer, Wassily Chair, 1925.16. 2.138, Faith Ringgold, The Tar Beach, 1988.17. Not in Book, Cat Chow, Measure for Measure Dress, 2003.18. 3.138, Michelangelo, David, 1501-1504.19. 0.8, Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, c. 1503-1506.20. Not in Book, Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm, 1950.21. Not in Book, Piero Manzoni with Artist’s Shit, 1961.22. 3.160, Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849.23. 3.162, Edouard Manet, Le Dejeuner sur l’Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), 1863.24. (*)2.175, Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917.
25. 4.71, Martin Ramirez, Untitled (La Inmaculada), 1950s.26. (*)4.119, Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937. 27. 4.116, Theodore Gericault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1819