TOPIC 12.3: Class and the Body

• Historically and culturally contextualize the above artworks within their original time, place, or associated historical/cultural movements (ie: rule of Pharaohs, fall of monarchy, Industrial Revolution).

 –Who are the figures represented in these artworks?  What is theirclass status and what was their position in their respective societies at thetime these works were made?

• Formally analyze the above artworks.

–How did each artists use the body to express classstatus?  What kinds of formal or stylistic choices also influenced howthey represented class through the body?

• Compare / contrast how these works utilize different formal and stylistic techniques, processes, and mediums to express, capture, or represent the different class status of the figures represented within them.

• Think critically about how viewers responded to these different representations of class.

-Howdid viewers’ experience or respond to these art works?  In what ways dothese reception experiences or responses further reveal aspects of class oreven gender?

SOURCES:

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/later-europe-and-americas/modernity-ap/a/courbet-the-stonebreakers