Answer all of the following questions. Remember to provide in depth examination and thoughtful analysis! 1. Looking at the Dutch works in the text and CD, provide some examples where dramatic stylistic elements heighten the power of everyday scenes and still lives. Think about lighting effects, movement, extension or recession of space, and elements that allude to the passage of time. 2. 18th Century Enlightenment thinkers and political revolutionaries were bringing about social change. Present one artwork from the text or CD that has a political or social message. Explain how that message is conveyed. 3. What makes 19th Century American landscape painting part of the Romantic movement? Use art examples from the readings and the Metropolitan website to illustrate the complex associations Americans applied to landscape. 4. Impressionism was a progressive movement; one of many to come that would break down the solid illusionism used since the Italian Renaissance. Cull the text to find the influences and techniques that gave rise to a new way of rendering changeable light and color. Use specific works from the text, CD or Columbia website to illustrate your observations. Describe specifics. 5. In art, Expressionism involves the alteration of color, line, form, texture or perspective to intentionally enhance emotional content. The works of Van Gogh, Gauguin, Munch and Rodin are emotive through expressive style as much as through subject. Choose one work from the readings or CD, and analyze how emotion is expressed through style.