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Virtual Museum Visit

Answer all three of the questions below.
Your answers should be in essay format, and include at least three glossary terms per question. (listed below)

  1. Look at Hotel Room, a painting by Edward Hopper in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza.
    Describe in formal terms how the strong verticals and horizontals securely hold the parts of the painting
    together. What does the diagonal of the bed provide? Now move close and examine the paint work. How do
    the near-architectural elements fit with the lush paint?

  2. Re-Read the article in this week chapter Art and Society, “Degenerate Art,” AND go online and watch the
    video Art in Nazi Germany, at SmartHistory. After reading the article in the book and watching the online video,
    and based on your understanding of the threat that ideas generated by the arts can have to repressive
    governments, what are your thoughts on something like this happening in the United States? Do you think in
    our current information-saturated culture that the arts still have the ability to sway popular opinion?

  3. Identify and Detail:
    Who is the artist?
    Which movement does this represent and why?
    What is the subject of this w

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