Orientalism, Readymade, Avant-Garde, and Site-Specific Art

This is a take-home, open-book examination, and submitted to the Turn-it-In prompt through BLACKBOARD.
Exams must be MS Word .doc/.docx files or equivalents through free-to-download programs like Open Office or Libre Office (no PDFs, no Google Docs- these cannot be graded) and exams CANNOT be emailed.
Consultation of outside sources is PERMITTED as long as the information is in the form of a paraphrase (no direct quotations/ no "copying" straight out of the textbook or from a website) and each sentence where you have looked-up information and put that information into your own words is to be immediately followed with a citation. (This includes sources such as the textbook, tools available through the Pace Library like the Grove Dictionary of Art/ Oxford Art Online, and appropriate internet web sites like the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History and Smarthistory.org/ Khan Academy. NO general encyclopedias like Britannica and Wikipedia. NO "dot.com" sites.) All sources used in the exam must appear in a bibliography at the back of your exam. Please follow Chicago Style for the citations and the bibliography.
Any exam containing information in the form of direct quotations, or paraphrased information without a citation will result in no credit for that portion of the exam.
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Art 103

 Exams must be MS Word .doc/.docx files or equivalents through free-to-download programs like Open Office or Libre Office (no PDFs, no Google Docs- these cannot be graded) and exams CANNOT be emailed.

Consultation of outside sources is PERMITTED as long as the information is in the form of a paraphrase (no direct quotations/ no "copying" straight out of the textbook or from a website) and each sentence where you have looked-up information and put that information into your own words is to be immediately followed with a citation. (This includes sources such as the textbook, tools available through the Pace Library like the Grove Dictionary of Art/ Oxford Art Online, and  appropriate internet web sites like the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History and Smarthistory.org/ Khan Academy.  NO general encyclopedias like Britannica and Wikipedia. NO "dot.com" sites.) All sources used in the exam must appear in a bibliography at the back of your exam.  Please follow Chicago Style for the citations and the bibliography.

Any exam containing information in the form of direct quotations, or paraphrased information without a citation will result in no credit for that portion of the exam.   

Part I:  Short-Answer Questions  (40 points)

Answer each question and all of its components in complete sentences.  (10 points each)

1.  What is Orientalism? 

How does Orientalism fit within the larger context of Romanticism?

In a few sentences, discuss two Orientalist aspects of Antoine-Jean Gros's, Napoleon at the Pesthouse at Jaffa.

2.  What is a readymade? 

Why is Marcel Duchamp's Fountain considered a readymade? 

In a few sentences, explain how Fountain lead to the invention of works of Conceptual Art like Joseph Kosuth's  One and Three Chairs.

3. What does it mean for a work of art to be avant-garde? 

In a few sentences, discuss why and how Edouard Manet's Olympia was considered to be avant-garde in 1863.

4.  What is site-specific art?

In a few sentences, explain how Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty is site-specific.

Part II:   The Essay  (60 points)

You make take as much time as you need to complete this exam before the due date and time; if you choose to write the essay in one sitting it should not take you less than one hour to answer the question fully.  The discussion of each example should be at least a substantial paragraph.

Compose a well-organized essay—with an introduction, thesis statement, body paragraphs, and a conclusion—in full sentences with proper citations to answer the following question. Choose four examples of works of art or architecture studied over the course of the semester from DIFFERENT periods within Art History from the following list of artworks. In drafting your answer, first list the four examples you have chosen at the top, providing all the "ID" information:  the name of the artist, the title of the work, the date, the art historical period, the medium (painting, sculpture, or architecture), and the location (in the case of architecture).  If the "ID" information is incomplete or not listed at the top of the essay before the essay has been begun, points will be deducted.

Evaluation of the essay will be based on the clarity of your argument, your command of the material, and selecting solid sources and accurately documenting the information that you have taken from them. You should pick examples that you can discuss in detail!  Some choices may be more "easy" than other choices, and largely depend on what you -do- to demonstrate how that work satisfies the question.  Each example (and its complete "ID" information at the top) constitutes 15 points. Do not forget to discuss the historical context, and do not use "at that time"- use exact dates and art historical periods when referring to each example and avoid ambiguous pronouns.  You should also write out the FULL title when discussing the work, and refer to each artist by his or her last name. (Do not say "1, 2, 3, 4" or "A, B, C, D.") 

The essay question:

Works of art often reflect contemporary events and use art to reflect or critique social and political environments. Discuss FOUR of the works of art from this list that directly engage with or reveal the influence of their historical moment.

Choose FOUR examples from this list from DIFFERENT Art Historical periods, FULLY identify, and discuss:

Gianlorenzo Bernini, St. Peter’s Square

Antonio Canova, Pauline Borghese as Venus

Maurizio Cattelan, America

Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party

Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers

Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii

Manuel de Arellano, Virgin of Guadalupe

Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People

Jean-Honore Fragonard, The Swing

Paul Gauguin, Manao Tupapau/ Spirit of the Dead Watching

Theodore Gericault, Raft of the Medusa

Francisco Goya, The Third of May, 1808

Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural   Epoch in Germany

Edward Hopper, Nighthawks

Angelica Kauffmann, Cornelia Presenting her Children as her Treasures

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Dresden

Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, / The Woman in Gold

Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California

André Le Nôtre, The Park / Gardens of Versailles

Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Jacob Lawrence, During the World War there was a Great Migration North by Southern             Negroes

Claude Monet, Gare St-Lazare: Arrival of a Train

Michelangelo, Tomb of Pope Julius II

Timothy O'Sullivan, A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, PA

Joseph Paxton, Crystal Palace

Pablo Picasso, Guernica 

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Moulin de la Galette

Hyacinthe Rigaud, Portrait of Louis XIV

Diego Rivera, Man, Controller of the Universe

Peter Paul Rubens, Henri IV Receiving the Portrait of Marie de’ Medici

Richard Serra, Tilted Arc

Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Lorna Simpson, You’re Fine

Vladimir Tatlin, Monument to the Third International

J.M.W. Turner, The Slave Ship / Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying- Typhoon     Coming On

Rembrandt van Rijn, The Nightwatch

Jan Vermeer, The Letter

Andy Warhol, Gold Marilyn Monroe

Antoine Watteau, Return from Cythera

Kehinde Wiley, Portrait of Barack Obama

Joseph Wright of Derby, An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump