Write a paper comparing two paintings and how they communicate the meaning of life.
Deliverables
• Write 1000 or more words about how, from your perspective, each of the two paintings chosen communicates the meaning of life.
Activity Details
Perform the following steps:
Step 1: Choose your two paintings.
Using your resources from the exercises in this topic, choose the paintings you wish to write about.
Step 2: Describe your paintings.
Describe each painting. Describe differences that might be attributed to the times, places, and circumstances in which the works were created. Insofar as it helps make your case, include visual portions of the pieces for examples.
Notes: Topic Objective: Select a painting from two different time periods (Baroque, Renaissance, Cubism, Realism, Impressionism, etc.) and illustrate, from your perspective, how the painting communicates the meaning of life.
This topic focuses on two issues—how meaning is taken from works of art; and what kinds of responses would answer the question “What is the meaning of life?” From the entire history of art, you are presented with samples from all eras and shown how the works express important ideas. From among these, you choose two that represent the meaning of life from your perspective. You analyze what you see and use the results of your analysis to write about how art illustrates the meaning of life.
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