Author Question: Consider Rousseau's The Dream and Kusama's Love is Calling. Both works are imaginative rather than ... (Read 92 times)

j.rubin · **on:** Jun 23, 2018

Consider Rousseau's The Dream and Kusama's Love is Calling. Both works are imaginative rather than realistic. Compare the methods each artist uses in creating these images.

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Question 2

Consider the painting by Cole, The Oxbow, which depicts a view of nature that includes a human figure. Discuss the point of view and the relationship between human and nature in this work.

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Sweetkitty24130 · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 23, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Painting, like poetry, can bring an imaginary world to life. Rousseau's indifference to art traditions resulted in paintings like The Dream, which depicted a lush, complex design that does not exist in real life. Kusama's Love is Calling employed mirrors and inflatable tentacle-like forms covered in polka dots to create a hallucinatory environment in which viewers can lose themselves in wonder.

Answer to Question 2

American landscape painting was popular in the 19th century and covered the depiction of natural scenery in stylistic grandeur. Figures were represented but were a secondary subject emphasis.