Image of Pollock’s One: Number 31 and Campbell’s Soup Cans, assignment help

Case Assignment

Image of Pollock’s One: Number 31: 

http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/805/w500h420/CRI_223805.jpg

Image of Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans:

http://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/andy-warhol-campbells-soup-cans-1962

Moving toward the present day in our Art History timeline, the ability to ‘name’ the art period becomes more difficult; however, art historians have come to settle on the term Modernism. Not only is the period difficult to categorize, the artworks from roughly 1907-present day are so wide ranging, it is impossible to pinpoint how different art genres exactly relate to one another. Yet, they are connected by the social conditions in which they exist and are responses to those conditions—though they respond in very different ways. In postwar America (WWII), New York City becomes the art capital of the world and two artistic genres emerged: first Abstract Expressionism and second Pop Art. Both art genres were grappling with the question of ‘what is art’ and how to represent a world shaped by global capitalism, consumer culture, and mass media. In this Case Assignment, you will be comparing Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock’s One: Number 31 with Pop Artist Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans. Pollock can be read as championing ‘the role of the artist’ as his art seems a pure abstraction of his body movements and his handling of the paintbrush; whereas Warhol seems to not have any real connection to the making of his art, as he upholds the everyday, mass-produced object as subject matter for high art. Use the required course materials to help you discuss, briefly, (1) the history of Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art and these two artists in particular, (2) the ways these artists represent the tension between individualism and mass production (a tension that defines American capitalist society), and (3) how the artworks approach questions as to the role of the artist and the role of art in society.

It is important to note that this assignment is your last encounter in thinking and writing about Art History and Art Criticism, so this is your chance to let your visual literacy shine; you will need it in order to analyze pure abstraction. The required course materials under “How To Write About Art: Art Criticism and Formal Analysis” will continue to be an essential reference here.

Help with the term Modernism:

http://www.moma.org/collection/theme.php?theme_id=10122

Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock, and One: Number 31:

https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/MoMA/moma-abstract-expressionism/v/moma-jackson-pollock

Pop Art, Andy Warhol, and Cambell Soup Cans:

http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/pop-art.html

http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/campbells-soup-cans.html

How To Write About Art: Art Criticism and Formal Analysis

http://www.uwgb.edu/malloyk/art_criticism_and_formal_analysi.htm

RIGHT ABOVE THIS IS AN LINK TO WRITING THE ESSAY IN ART FORMAT AND THE PAPER MUST ALSO INCLUDE 2-3 INTEXT CITATIONS, AND A REFERENCE PAGE WITH LINKS FROM THE INTERNET