Art

Review Ch. 3 and 4 of Oxford History of Art: Twentieth-Century American Art, the Week Two Electronic Reserve Readings, your Video Reflections, and at least one additional scholarly online or library resource

Prepare a 5- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation which describes at least three different paintings of American buildings or an industrial process from artists discussed in Ch. 3 and 4 of your text.

Include responses and descriptions to the following in your slide presentation:

Why did the artists choose these subjects? What was their appeal?
Were the artists’ subjects characteristic of American national identity for that era?
How does each painting reflect the artists’ feelings or beliefs about what they were depicting?
A description of the innovation which is being depicted; in other words was the type of building or industrial process a significant break from the past? How?