How does the form of each painting reinforce its message regarding the true nature of war?

I. VOCABULARY 6 pts each DO EIGHT TOTAL Answer all 3 questions:
What Is It (definition)? What style or time period is it associated with? Name one example of it.
Sample: philosophes 1) thinkers/writers/intellectuals who championed freedom of thought &
questioned royal, religious, & other traditional forms of authority
2) 18th C/ the Enlightenment
3) examples= Diderot & Voltaire in France, Thomas Jefferson in U.S.
1. Neoclassicism
2. iron frame construction
3. the Enlightenment
4. tenebrism
5. illusionism
6. the French (Royal) Academy
7. Rococo
8. Romanticism
9. the cult of nature
10. camera obscura
11. Realism
12. the American and French Revolutions

II. SHORT ANSWER, THE 2 FILMS (DO TWO total: 7 pts each, 1 SUBSTANTIAL paragraph each
Describe the mise-en-scene (mise-en-scene= the visual design of a film: sets, props, costumes, lighting, acting styles, camera angles, shot composition, etc.) of The Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Describe the mise-en-scene (= the visual design of a film: sets, props, costumes, lighting, acting
styles, camera angles, shot composition, etc.) of Marie Antoinette.
Marie Antoinette is unusual in its combination of period (the late 18C, the actual time period of
the story) and contemporary (2005, when the film was made) music. How did the director use contemporary music to reinforce the meaning/message of the “Shoes and Cake” scene?
In “The Royal Wedding” scene in Marie Antoinette, how did the setting, the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, reinforce the meaning/message of the scene?
After watching several scenes from The Girl with a Pearl Earring, what is your impression of the film’s setting, 17th century Delft/Holland?

III. SHORT ANSWER (4 pts each)
What was your favorite Baroque, 18th or early 19th C work of art, and why?
Which of the 2 films, Marie Antoinette and Girl with a Pearl Earring, did you prefer and why?


IV. IMAGE DISCUSSION 15 pts each – DO TWO SETS ONLY (bullet pts OK, about 1 page each)
1) Identify the work or works of art shown: title, artist and approximate date
2) If 2 images are shown, compare/contrast the FORM (visual/formal elements=shape, color, line, space, texture; focus on elements you judge most important) and CONTENT of the 2 works shown, noting major points of similarity and difference.
I’m adding additional information to the titles I gave each set to help guide your responses.These are all focus works from the Vocab/Focus Works sheets.

1. ARTISTS AT WORK Both of these images can be described as “Art About Art,” since both address the relationship between an artist, his studio, and his subjects. What does each one have to say about that relationship and how art is created? Look for interesting points of similarity and difference in this regard.











2. THE MEANINGS OF WAR Both of these images address the subject of war, but in very different ways. Is war heroic and inspiring, or brutal, destructive and violent, with no redeeming value of any kind? How does the form of each painting reinforce its message regarding the true nature of war?




3. PICTURING WOMEN It’s hard to imagine two more different views of female subjects than what you see here, and both are created by female artists. What does each one say about the “proper” behavior, concerns, and possibilities of womanhood? How does each painting’s form reinforce its content?








4. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CHANGE THE WORLD Both of these images celebrate the power of science and technology and its ability to change the world and the way we see and understand it. Both also explore LIGHT as both an idea and a visual tool; after all, the word photography actually translates as “light drawing.” What points of similarity and difference do you see between these two works in different (but related) mediums?



5. SEEKING SOCIAL JUSTICE The subjects chosen by artists are as varied as their styles, and here we see two examples of politically-motivated works of art that could not be more different in their styles and formal concerns. What is the political message of each work, and how do they use the formal elements- color, space, texture, etc.- to communicate it?