Assignment for Tuesday, June 10

Your assignment for Tuesday, June 10, 2014 is to read pages 106-117 and be ready to discuss the major content areas.  We are going to go deeper into the study of color on Tuesday.  If you have not already read pages 92-105 you might want to make that happen.

Please be ready to identify the following works of art for the test at the beginning of class.

Spider, c. 500 BCE-500 CE, Narca, Peru

Miriam Schapiro, Baby Blocks, 1983, Collage on paper

M. C. Escher, Sky & Water I, 1938, Woodcut

Great Sphinx of Giza, c 2650 BCE. Giza, Egypt

Robert Helmick & Stuart Schechter, Ghostwriter, 1994. Mobile

Rachel Whiteread, House, 1993. Concrete.

Meret Oppenheim, Object, 1936. Fur covered cup, saucer, spoon

Caravaggio, The Calling of St. Matthew, c. 1599-1600

Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa, 1826-1833, woodcut 

Asher Brown Durand, Kindred Spirits, 1849. Oil on Canvas

Mark Tansey, Picasso and Braque, 1992.  Oil on canvas

Workshop of the Master of Osservanza, The Meeting of St. Anthony and St. Paul, c. 1430-35. Tempera on panel

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Mistos (Match Cover), 1992, Sculpture

Pieter Bruegel, the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, c. 1555-8. Oil on canvas

Edward Weston, Artichoke Halved, 1930. Silver gelatin print