Monday, November 5, 2018

Writing English 2B: Comparison & contrast with art・美術の比較対照

Hello!



How are you? Today let's look at a different basis for comparison and contrast - with works of art 

Take a look at the paintings above. The one on the left () is Jean Baptiste-Camille Corot's Girl with Mandolin and the one on the right () is Juan Gris' Woman with Mandolin (after Corot)


Corot painted his work in the mid-19th century, while Gris painted his in the early 20th century. It is a unique comparison to see a later artist paint a study as a comparison with an older artist. 


Activity/homework
Look at these works of art below. As you did with the pieces of music from the blogpost before, here you can choose two (2) of these works of art to compare and contrast (比較対照して). 

As we did with the pieces of music, think of what kind of scenarios you see, or get a feeling of, with these works of art? What do you imagine? What comes to your mind as you see these works? 


Between the two works of art you chose, which one do you like better, or feel is more delicate or strong, or has greater nuance? Here are some works of art:

Edgar Degas, Dancers


Pacific U.S. Native American/Canadian First Nations totem pole

Edvard Munch, The Dance of Life


Katsushika Hokusai, Rainstorm Beneath the Summit (山下白雨)

Antoni Gaudi, Sagrada Familia

Shen Zhou, Poet on a Mountain

I hope these give you something more, and new, to write about. 

See you next week! Take care!



Images: Top - screenshot of Jean Baptiste-Camille Corot's Girl with Mandolin and Juan Gris' Woman with Mandolin (after Corot) (La femme à la mandoline, d'après Corot) - taken from Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot - Saint Louis Art Museum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40710376 and Juan Gris - [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40490704/Dancers - by Edgar Degas - the-athenaeum.org [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5744729/First Nations totem pole - by Jerzy Strzelecki - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons. wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3112590/Dance of Life - by Edvard Munch - http://samling.nasjonalmuseet.no/no/object/NG.M.00941 Nasjonalmuseet/Høstland, Børre, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37709496/Rainstorm Beneath the Summit - by Katsushika Hokusai - http://visipix.com/index.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=313227/Sagrada Familia by No machine-readable author provided. Marb~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims). - No machine-readable source provided. Own work assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=463848/Poet on a Mountain - by Shen Zhou - Public Domain, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10996734
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