Watch a few short video and short article on modern art to write a no less then 300 word essay. videos and articles link provided on the attachment file.
Topics:
INTRO
REALISM
Watch: (8:46)
Nineteenth-century art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XdYgyO0RmFI
Watch: (5:46)
Couture, Romans of the Decadence (1847)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pQJrTf_x7Wk
Read: A Beginner's Guide to Realism
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/avant-garde-france/realism/a/a-beginners-guide-to-realism
Read: Courbet, Bonjour Monsieur Courbet
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/avant-garde-france/realism/a/courbet-bonjour-monsieur-courbet
Watch (3:08)
Manet, Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (1863) (Luncheon on the Grass)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Nb_4nEFyeGk
Watch (7:14)
Manet, Olympia (1865)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bihBbqzL96Y
Watch (4:34)
Manet, Émile Zola
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=znKX9WcowfY
Watch (3:34)
Manet, The Railway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2GD1Oz0sPzY
Watch (5:34)
Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kMACjCg9r4E
What is your favorite artwork? Why? (The why is your thesis or argument or main point) (300 words)
-Make sure to title