To graduate with global honors at Lock Haven University, I need to, as the title would suggest, travel to somewhere else on the globe. This 10 day experience also counts as a humanities seminar, a credit I need to graduate in my two majors, English (writing) and Communications (print journalism). I could have opted to take a course during the semester or during the summer here. This means I had the choice between staying here, and sitting in a hot classroom learning about works of art in a book with pictures that could never to the paintings justice...or seeing them first hand in all their glory in the National Gallery, The Tate, The Tate Modern, The Louvre and The Orsay in London and Paris.
The choice was obvious.
To receive the credits, I must select three works of art and lead a 25 min. discussion about them to further understanding and appreciation for the piece.
As an artist of words, I have the deepest respect for the visual arts. To me, writing, art, music and performance theater are all interconnected and are best in combination with each other. I tried to select paintings that exemplified this because I knew I could find a lot of interesting subjects to speak and ask questions about.
The painting I selected are:
The Marraige Contract/Settlement by William Hogarth (1743)
The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse (1888)
Dancing at the Moulin de la Galette by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1876)
Each one of these are not only a beautiful example of a specific art movement, but they also tell a particular story that is either tied to literature or social commentary. I'm a bit nervous about the fact that I have to lead a discussion for 25 min. but I'm sure if I break it down and explore many different viewpoints of the paintings I will be able to find enough to say about them.
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