Explain the project that these works were a part of. What is the relationship between these two works, and what are their meanings

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1.Explain the project that these works were a part of.  What is the relationship between these two works, and what are their meanings?

José Clemente Orozco, The Epic of American Civilization: Modern Human Sacrifice, 1932-34, mural, 17th panel. Fresco. Baker Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

2.What were the specific political circumstances in which this work came to be made?  How did the artist make this a powerful and sympathetic image?

Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley, 1935, gelatin silver print, Copyright the Dorothea Lange Collection, The Oakland Museum of California, City of Oakland

3.Explain the manner in which this work functions as a portrait?

Marsden Hartley, Portrait of a German Officer, 1914, oil on canvas, 64 ¼ × 41 3/8″.

Metropolitan Museum of Art.

4.Describe the format and subject of the project of which this was a part.Explain Lawrence’s choices in terms of style and meaning.Jacob Lawrence, In every town Negroes were leaving by the hundreds to go North and enter into Northern industry, 1940-41, casein tempera on hardboard, 12 × 18″, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

5.How is this work a good example of the movement to which it belongs?  Consider both medium and meaning.

Meret Oppenheim, Object (Le Dejeuner en fourrure), 1936, fur covered cup, 4 3/8″ in diameter; saucer, 9 3/8″ in diameter; spoon, 8″, MOMA, NYEach of these artists is responding to a contemporary event.  

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6.explain the subject, then discuss several ways in which each artist makes their work persuasive, to get a sympathetic reaction from the viewer.  Think about formal choices, don’t just repeat the subject matter!Be specific, and make sure you compare and contrast in terms of the artist’s choices.

Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937. Oil on canvas, 11′ 5 ½” × 25′ 5 ¼”. Museo Nacional Centro de Art Reina Sofia, Madri

Ben Shahn, The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti, 1931-32, tempera and opaque watercolor on canvas mounted on composition board, 84 × 48″.Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.