Resources: Review your Week 3 readings and videos For your Week 3 Assignment choose one of the options listed below
Option A
Write a 1050- to 1 400-word paper on American all before and after World War II.
Include an examination of the artwork of three artists total. Select two artists who worked during the Great Depression and one Abstract Expressionist artist.
Include discussion or the following in your paper
• At least One example of art from each artist with a description of Me subject are style or the work
• An examination of the purpose of artwork created during the Great Depression. Were your examples used as tools for social reform? What oilier types or messaging was present in works from me 19305?
• A description of how Abstract Expressionism emerged in post World War II America and how it differed horn the art work of the 1930s.
• A den.nnption of tne style of your Aberrant Fxpressionisl artist and why he or she was interested In tiles style of abstraction. was there a "meaning" to their work?
Format your paper according to appropriate course icvel APA guidchnes Submit your assignment to the Assignment Files tab.
Option B
Imagine C is 1754 and you have just read a colic's scathing review of an Abstract Bxpressionot art exhibition.
Write a 1.050- to 1;100-word letter lo ve editor responding 10 the attack At the beginning of your letter discuss how me w06 or American amitotic created in the 1930s embodied Demur:facie values. Then.
Discuss Abstract Expressionism as an extension of those values and a demonstration of the freedom of expression available to artists in American socfety.
Include Discussion Of the following in your letter.
• TwO exaMpieS of art from the 1930$ with expatiation or how these aawOrkS em0Oly democratic values. were the works tools of social reform? If so. what were tne goals of the artists? Were the works depicting uniquely American scenes? if so. for what purpose?
• One example of a work of Abstract Expressionism
• How the Abstract Expressionist artist expressed themsetves using this abstract style what were they 'saying?" or what was Me message of their artwork? what influenced their work?
Format your letter according to appropriate course level APA guidelines Submit your assignment to the Assgnment Files tab