Project 1: Pick One of These 10 Paintings

Read over the handout again (and again). Here are the ten paintings you are to choose from for Project 1:

1) Balthus, The Mountain, 1936-37, oil on canvas
2) Francisco de Goya, Executions on the Third of May, 1808, 1814, oil on canvas
3) Peter Paul Rubens, Raising of the Cross, 1609, oil on wood
4) Jean-Honore Fragonard, The Swing, 1766, oil on canvas
5) Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Turkish Bath, 1862, oil on canvas
6) Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Absinthe, 1876, oil on canvas
7) Jacques-Louis David, Death of Marat, 1793, oil on canvas
8) Anne-Louis Girodet, The Entombment of Atala, 1808, oil on canvas
9) Adolph Menzel, The Theatre du Gymnase, 1856, oil on canvas
10) Georges Seurat, Le Chabut, 1889-90, oil on canvas