Topics:
IMPRESSIONISM
Essay -Degas and Modernity; Metropolitan Museum of Art
Read:
A Beginner's Guide to Impressionism
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/avant-garde-france/impressionism/a/a-beginners-guide-to-impressionism
Read:
"Impressionism: Art and Modernity" from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/imml/hd_imml.htm
Watch: (5:08)
Degas, The Dance Class (1874)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NigP3DjV3NY
Watch: (5:36)
Monet, Gare, St. Lazare (1876)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sYQ5CSyACpc
Watch: (5:45)
Renoir, The Grand Boulevards (18)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3SmyaLwpSaI
Watch: (5:05)
Renoir, Moulin de la Galette (1876)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x6rAFt5FW_Q
Watch: (3:10)
Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XLcbGHNFcpM
Degas and Modernity: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Words (3-4 pages double spaced)
--Paper must have a title (a good title will reflect your thesis)
--Paper must be in Times New Roman 12 point font
--Paper margins must be 1" on left and right; top margin must be 1" and bottom margin 1"
--Put titles of works of art in italics
**IMPORTANT** If you borrow someone else's idea, you must footnote it.
If you borrow it directly, you must put their words in quotation (" ") marks.
(This applies to all information taken from lecture, books, wall plaques, etc.)
1. Read pdf posted with this word file:"Degas' Magnificent Obsession"
2. Review: Degas' Magnificent Obsession
"Degas and the Dance" by Jill DeVonyar, Richard Kendall
Review by: Joellen A. Meglin
Dance Chronicle, Vol. 30, No. 3 (2007), pp. 507-517
[Journal]
3. Respond to the following prompt: What's the word "modern" mean? (You can look up "modern" in Wikipedia for ideas, but I want you to generate your own explanation of the term, not copy one from the internet). What makes Degas' The Dance Class modern? (this is really your thesis and the idea you want to develop in the essay, especially thorough what you see in the painting). Think about the following aspects of the painting: How does it depict the interior of the dance studio? What (if anything) is the focus or central figure in the painting? Does the view seem formal or casual?
Article:
Review: Degas' Magnificent Obsession
Author(s): Joellen A. Meglin
Review by: Joellen A. Meglin
Source: Dance Chronicle, Vol. 30, No. 3 (2007), pp. 507-517
Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd.
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25598125
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