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Week 3 Individual Assignment
Resources: Review your Week 3 readings and videos.
For your Week 3 Assignment, choose one of the options listed
below.
Option A
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper on American art before and
after World War II.
Include an examination of the artwork of three artists total. Select
two artists who worked during the Great Depression and one
Abstract Expressionist artist.
Include discussion of the following in your paper:
At least one example of art from each artist with a description of the
subject and style of the work.
An examination of the purpose of artwork created during the Great
Depression. Were your examples used as tools for social reform?
What other types of messaging was present in works from the
1930s?
A description of how Abstract Expressionism emerged in post-World
War II America and how it differed from the art work of the 1930s.
A description of the style of your Abstract Expressionist artist and
why he or she was interested in this style of abstraction; was there a
"meaning" to their work?