Option A
Choose one of the following artists for an examination of their stylistic development into abstraction:
Arthur Dove
Stanton Macdonald-Wright
Marsden Hartley
Max Weber
Georgia OKeeffe
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper examining your selected artists development into abstraction that responds to the following:
How and why did early American abstraction develop?
What subjects were present in your artists abstract works? Describe with at least one example from the artist.
Why did the artists choose to work in this style? To what influences were they responding to from Europe, and how was their own exploration of abstraction meaningful to them?
What is your own response to the artists work?
Format your paper according to appropriate course level APA guidelines.
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