Art Appreciation Essay
Budget: $250 – $750 USD
APA format with intro and conclusion, in-text citations, and reference list
Minimum 1,500 words
One source for each artist
Answer the below 7 questions about the 10 artists below
1. What’s the year of the artist’s birth (and, where applicable, death)?
2. Where was the artist born? Where did he or she create the majority of his or her work (if at a different location than this place of birth)?
3. What medium did the artist use? Did he or she use more than one main medium?
4. Which art movement did the artist contribute to? If he or she contributed to more than one movement, where did this artist make the greatest impact?
5. What are some of the artist’s most famous works of art? Choose one of these works. In what ways is the piece characteristic of the movement specified above? (Include an image of the chosen piece.)
6. What challenges, if any, did the artist face that may have affected his or her work? What was happening in the world at that time that influenced the artist’s work?
7. What’s innovative about the artist’s work for that time period?
Neoclassicism: Angelica Kauffman
Romanticism: Caspar Friedrich
Impressionism: Mary Cassatt
Post-Impressionism: Emile Bernard
Expressionism and Fauvism: Franz Marc
Cubism and Futurism: Alice Bailly
Dada and Surrealism: Hannah Hoch
Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art: Joan Mitchel
Minimalism and Post-Minimalism: James Turrell
Postmodernism and Deconstructivism: David Salle
Minimum 1,500 words
One source for each artist
Answer the below 7 questions about the 10 artists below
1. What’s the year of the artist’s birth (and, where applicable, death)?
2. Where was the artist born? Where did he or she create the majority of his or her work (if at a different location than this place of birth)?
3. What medium did the artist use? Did he or she use more than one main medium?
4. Which art movement did the artist contribute to? If he or she contributed to more than one movement, where did this artist make the greatest impact?
5. What are some of the artist’s most famous works of art? Choose one of these works. In what ways is the piece characteristic of the movement specified above? (Include an image of the chosen piece.)
6. What challenges, if any, did the artist face that may have affected his or her work? What was happening in the world at that time that influenced the artist’s work?
7. What’s innovative about the artist’s work for that time period?
Neoclassicism: Angelica Kauffman
Romanticism: Caspar Friedrich
Impressionism: Mary Cassatt
Post-Impressionism: Emile Bernard
Expressionism and Fauvism: Franz Marc
Cubism and Futurism: Alice Bailly
Dada and Surrealism: Hannah Hoch
Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art: Joan Mitchel
Minimalism and Post-Minimalism: James Turrell
Postmodernism and Deconstructivism: David Salle