Saint Leo University Raphaels The Alba Madonna Essay

Instructions

Choose one of the following for this week’s assignment. Respond to the prompt in essay form. Answer all components of the prompt. Use 200-300 of your own words, without quotes, and then add at least three in the Works Cited, to tell the reader where you learned the information. Employ good grammar and mechanics. Do not use filler expressions such as “I think”, “I feel”, etc.

Choose to write about either Georgia O’Keeffe’s RAM’S HEAD, WHITE HOLLYHOCK-HILLS, 1935, or Salvador Dali’s THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY. Name your chosen work. Describe how the elements of the painting are discernible in this work. What feelings do you receive from this painting? Explain. What is the author trying to say to you? Explain.
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Raphael’s THE ALBA MADONNA, 1510, is a later Renaissance work. Which of our themes of humanism, individualism, and scientific naturalism do you see in this painting? Do you see much perspective or chiaroscuro in this piece? If so, describe.
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Write a letter to either Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, or Pablo Picasso and discuss his signature work(s). Describe what you feel and think about this work. Ask any questions about this author’s intent.
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Compare Picasso’s Guernica to Goya’s THE THIRD OF MAY 1808, 1814. Both paintings deal with the subject of war and man’s brutality to man. Even though these artists painted these pictures about one hundred years apart, how are they similar? And, both artists painted in different styles and contexts, so how are these paintings different?