Tuesday, August 25
- In class:
- Chagall “Equestrienne” – “Don’t let that horse…” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Marcel Duchamp “Nude Descending a Staircase” – “Nude Descending a Staircase” by X.J. Kennedy
- Claude Monet “Water lilies” – “Les Nympheas” by W.D. Snodgrass
Thursday, August 27
- Online Activity: class doesn’t meet synchronously.
- Group 1: New York Movie
- “New York Movie” by Edward Hopper
- “Edward Hopper’s New York Movie” by Edward Stanton
- Group 2: Roses
- Group 3: Arrangement in Grey and Black
- “Arrangement in Grey and Black No 1” by James Whistler”
- “Study in Orange and White” by Billy Collins
- Group 4: Western Motel
- “Hotel Room” by Edward Hopper (see also “Western Motel“)
- “Edward Hopper Hotel Study” by Victoria Chang
- Instructions:
- Identify which group you’ve been placed in.
- Read and use hypothes.is to annotate the poem you’ve been assigned to.
- Write a 1-page (about 250 words) analysis of the poem in conversation with the painting it alludes to. Focus on how the poet is interpreting the painting and what they wish to express in response to it. This is due by Thursday at 5 pm.
- Look at your group mates’ posts and respond to their posts, seeking to have a conversation about how you’re all interpreting the works.
- Go to the other 3 groups and respond, substantively, to an analysis by one your classmates in each group. This is due before Tuesday.
- Group 1: New York Movie
- Homework:
- Watch the video below:
- Look at, read, and annotate with hypothes.is:
- “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- W.H. Auden, “Musée des Beax Arts“
