Monday, October 14, 2013

Topics for Research Papers ARH 311


* The Symbolism used in Van Eyck’s, “Giovanni Arnolfini and his

     wife.”

 * Women artists in the Renaissance.

 * Alchemy and painting

 * Little people in art

 * Rembrandt’s self portraits

 * “The Abduction of the Sabine Women” and, ‘Lacoon and His     

     Sons.” Compare and contrast.

 * The symbolism used in Bosch’s, “The Garden of Earthly

     Delights.”

 * Social rules of the Renaissance and their portrayal in art.

 * Caravaggio’s self portraits

 * Female painters of the 1600’s

 * Genteleschi-paintings from a female perspective

 * Photography vs. Painting

* The Sublime and the Grotesque in art

 * The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

 * Mary Cassatt- female perspective on painting

 * Degas’s ballerinas

 * Lautrec’s dancing girls

 * Why didn’t Van Gogh sell?

 * Gauguin in Tahiti

 * The Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven and Dada

 * African art and Picasso

 * Duchamp’s “Fountain.” Is it art?

 * Magritte and “The Treachery (or Perfidy) of Images.”

 * Mondrian and Neo Plasticism

 * Calder and mobile/stabile

 * Frida Kahlo, “The Two Fridas.”

 * Francis Bacon. What is with all the meat and cages?

 * Pollock. Why his splatters and drips are considered art.

 * Louise Bougeois and confessional art.

 * Claes Oldenburg and oversized objects

 * Feminist art of the 1970s.

 * Environmental art the 70s and now.

 * Basquiat and street art.

 * Kiki Smith and the human body.

 * Is Jeff Koons selling out?

 * Patricia Piccinini and Bio-Engineering

 * Folkert De Jong and material choice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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