1. Compare and contrast various interpretations of the complex painting Las Meninas by Velasquez (provided in your textbook, in the lecture, and in the three handouts). Briefly state the most important differences between these five interpretations. Which interpretation seems the most accurate to you? Explain why. Remember to use the painting itself as a guide and to support your answer with examples from the texts.
2. Select one example of Rococo painting and one example of a painting that references important ideas from the Enlightenment and explain how each represents the concepts and values of the
societies that produced them.
3. How did the Industrial Revolution influence the art of the nineteenth century? Explain how the Industrial Revolution changed cultural values and intellectual ideas in both of the following artistic movements: Romanticism and Realism. Explain what the visual styles and ideas of each movement were, and how the scientific and societal changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution were reflected visually in each movement.
4. Briefly discuss the main qualities of early Modernism. Be sure and discuss the changes in pictorial space. Be sure and include the relationship of photography to late nineteenth century artistic movements. Find two works of art in the chapter and use them as examples to explain how they fulfill the qualities of Modernist art and how they differ from art done earlier in the nineteenth century.
