Explain how these different tasks affect the way you (with a conscious mind/and physical body in space) perceive and experience your subject? i.e.
the objects of your Still-Life: their situation, arrangement, etc., and the objects in your landscape and in your
surroundings? Any use of texts, from class or from outside the course reading list must be properly cited.
Use the following works of art at the Metropolitan Museum to support your argument (include a description of the
works, composition, style, etc):
Paul Cezanne (Fr), Still Life with a Ginger Jar and Eggplants, 1893-94. Oil on canvas.
Location: 2nd floor, 19th Century European Galleries, Gallery 826.
(see: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435881).
AND:
John Vanderlyn (US), View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles, 1818-1819. Oil on
Canvas. Location: American Wing, Ground floor (North side of museum), Gallery 735.
(see: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/13052)
**The tone of the class is intellectual, philosophical, and expository. Common readings style: Plato’s The Republic
