Directions Watch the following videos

Directions

Watch the following videos.

Research and explore for other information on these artists and their artwork.

1. Read the discussion questions below and leave your comments using the "Reply" prompt.
2. Make sure you proofread your posts and cite you sources using MLA format

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skHR8wrO490&feature=youtu.be

https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s1/kerry-james-marshall-in-identity-segment/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O0KBHom5bg&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NICodKeadp0&feature=youtu.be

https://youtu.be/Ba8Jsja1dEM

Due Date

• First post due 11:59 p.m., Thursday CT
• Respond to two or more classmates by 11:59 p.m., Sunday, CT.

Discussion Questions

Required questions:

1. Which specific artwork did you find the most interesting?
2. What thoughts or feelings did it bring up for you?

Choose 1 (one) of the following questions to answer:

1. What links do you see between the Flag by Jasper Johns and Nari Ward’s We the People?
   • What ideas tie them together and how does each work express that idea?
2. Do you think the meaning of Benny Andrews Flag Day is ambiguous on purpose?
   • Why would he leave it that way? What does it express?
3. Kerry James Marshall talks about his use of the dark black figures and how he wanted to ‘reclaim the image of blackness as an emblem of power’.
   • What does he mean by that?
   • Do you think he succeeds?  Why?  Use a specific example.
4. What connections do you see between the work of Wendy Red Star and Kerry James Marshall?