Spotlight Artist: Dada Movement - Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
FIRST: watch the video below. Along with the "criteria for art" that you considered with AS #14, consider now the "purposes for art" as explained in the video. NEXT: go on to learn more about the artist, Marcel Duchamp, so that you can consider the way that he approached the definition of "art." From Metropolitan Museum's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Duchamp has had a huge impact on twentieth-century art. By World War I, he had rejected the work of many of his fellow ar
Spotlight Artist: Alphonse Mucha - Art Nouveau Movement
Czech painter Alphonse Mucha leapt to fame in Paris in 1895 when his poster Gismonda (1894) for the superstar Sarah Bernhardt heralded the birth of the distinctive ‘Style Mucha’ and established him as the pre-eminent exponent of French Art Nouveau.(excerpt from Mucha Foundation) Links Design History Mucha foundation timeline Mucha Museum-Prague Essential Questions What role did the actress, Sarah Bernhart, have on Mucha's career? Why? How is Art Nouveau similar to the Arts a
