Art History Research Paper on Music and Art of the 20th century
Please construct a 7 page double-spaced research paper on Music and Art of the 20th Century. It must have 1-inch margins on all sides of the paper. (Neither the footnotes, nor the bibliography, nor the illustrations, nor the title page count towards the page length).
Must include 3 primary sources and 3 secondary sources. Site the sources using footnotes set in the Chicago-Turabian style. Do not use endnotes or parenthetical citations.
Please use Harrison and Woods Art in Theory 1900 – 2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas as one of the primary source. (attached PDF)
Please follow the outline provided below. And no plagiarism please.
Thesis:
Though the correlations he makes to color and music may have been metaphors from his imagination, Kandinsky used music to explore new physical ways to explore the world. Similarly artists Piet Mondrian and Stuart Davis experienced similar act of synesthesia, considering music in conjunction with painting, in works such as Composition VII, Broadway Boogie Woogie and Swing Landscape.
Introduction
Introduce the topic and explain what you are about to talk about in the rest of the paper
Include thesis
First Main Point
Discuss how Wassily Kandinsky was a pioneer of creating visual interpretations of music in his paintings.
Discuss the importance of Composition VII by Kandinsky and form an analysis how the painting is a visual representation of the music he was inspired by.
Provide 2 or more examples of paintings by Kandinsky with a formal analysis of those paintings as well.Carefully explain the work(s) chosen to the reader to serve as the basis for your analysis. Visual analysis can include thinking of line, shape, form, space, texture, value, light, color, time, repetition, variety, rhythm, balance, compositional unity, emphasis, economy, and proportion. Develop visual analysis by looking carefully at a work of art to determine what is important about its form and parts.
Discuss how this supports the thesis.
Second Main Point
Discuss how Piet Mondrian was also using music as a inspiration in his paintings.
Discuss the importance of Broadway Boogie Woogie by Mondrian and form an analysis how the painting is a visual representation of the music he was inspired by. Carefully explain the work(s) chosen to the reader to serve as the basis for your analysis. Visual analysis can include thinking of line, shape, form, space, texture, value, light, color, time, repetition, variety, rhythm, balance, compositional unity, emphasis, economy, and proportion. Develop visual analysis by looking carefully at a work of art to determine what is important about its form and parts.
Provide 2 or more examples of paintings by Mondrian with a formal analysis of those paintings as well.
Discuss how this supports the thesis.
Third Main Point
Discuss how Stuart Davis was also using music as a inspiration in his paintings.
Discuss the importance of Swing Landscape by Mondrian and form an analysis how the painting is a visual representation of the music he was inspired by.Carefully explain the work(s) chosen to the reader to serve as the basis for your analysis. Visual analysis can include thinking of line, shape, form, space, texture, value, light, color, time, repetition, variety, rhythm, balance, compositional unity, emphasis, economy, and proportion. Develop visual analysis by looking carefully at a work of art to determine what is important about its form and parts.
Provide 2 or more examples of paintings by Davis with a formal analysis of those paintings as well.
Discuss how this supports the thesis.
Conclusion
A. Summary: Paraphrase the thesis and the main points of your paper.
B. Clincher: “Reference to the Introduction” because it provides such strong closure.
