Find and read at least 5 articles about the artist
Write:
• 1500 words with links to 5 images. Please footnote the image with the source. For the essay, 1500 words that follow the general format of the 5 paragraph essay with an introduction, 3 paragraphs of content, and a conclusion. Do not title the paragraphs or number them. Please spell check and proofread your work!!!
• In the introduction, tell me why this artist matters, what are they known for. DO NOT start by telling when and where they were born. Talk about what makes the artist important, not a timeline from when they started to now. Why should I care about this artist?
• You must relate the artist to artists discussed in the class. You must discuss the artist’s work using the relevant concepts you have learned about in this class with the correct understanding of the terminology and concepts.
• Concepts include, semiotics, mimesis, abstraction, deconstruction, aura, abjection, male gaze and identity construction. You must discuss the work in terms of its semiotic content, as well as whatever concepts are listed here. Connect the work to society and contemporary culture when possBible.
Sample Solution
Sample Solution
the voices that drive the entire story. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee used descriptive, rich language to describe the town of Maycomb, Alabama and its people. She used local slang that would have been used in at that time and used adjectives describing characters and settings that belonged to the period but also showed the reader exactly how the characters that inhabited this town viewed them. “Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courtyard sagged in the square,” (Lee 5) our protagonist Scout comments at the beginning of the novel. These descriptions are old-fashioned, developing the setting magnificently, but again, this could be hard for the reader to connect with since this is an unfamiliar setting. In The Perks of Being a Wallflower, the grammar and language used is very intimate and personal. Charlie begins the novel with “I am writing to you because she said you would listen and understand and didn’t try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have.” (Chbosky 2) From the first sentence in the book, we learn about the introverted mindset of the character, which adds to the reader’s empathy towards our protagonist and his unique modern worldview. Paper Towns has an abundance of “John Green-isms”, certain stylistic choices in Green’s writing that make his novels contemporary and sets them apart from others. Quentin tells Margo before their quest of revenge that “I’m IM’ing with Ben Starling.” (Green 25), and later, Margo tells Quentin that “Everything’s uglier up close.” (Green 57) These statements are exclusively used in our 21st century, and so the reason John Green’s novels have struck chords as tales of adventure and self-discovery with modern youth readers is because the slang used in his stories’ amusing situations remind us of our own eccentric lives. Through these examples, we can understand that prose tends to be emphasized in literary fiction whilst mainstream fiction will utilize unique
