What effect did Herbert Spencer’s Social Darwinism have on 19th century economics, social beliefs and, in turn, the arts?
The art from Africa, Oceania and Native people of America became a major source of inspiration for many early- 20th century artists. “Pablo Picasso and George Braque radically challenged prevailing artistic conventions with Cubism”. Defend these statements and use examples.
3. The Fauves freed color from its descriptive function. Explain what this means and use examples from Matisse and Derian.

4. Explain the art genre Die Brucke, how it developed, and who were the main artists. Use 3-5 of the artists works as examples.

5. Who was Leo and Gertrude Stein and what roll did they play in the history of the European and American avant-garde art world?

6. List the four sources in which Art Nouveau artists drew inspiration. Show an image of each being used.

7. Discuss the influence of Japanese woodblocks prints on late 19th century French panting. What stylistic features did each artist adopt in the following images: Edward Degas’s Ballet Rehearsal (Fig. 29-25) Mary Cassatt’s The Bath (Figure 29-30 and Toulouse Lautrec’s At the Moulin Rouge (Fig. 29-31) and Paul Gauguin’s The Vision after the Sermon (Fig. 29-33).

8. Compare MacIntosh’s Tea Room (Fig. 29-51) with the 16th century Japanese Tea House in Kyoto (Fig. 2-6). What attitudes do they share toward craftsmanship and design?

9. What was the goal of the Arts and Crafts movement and what type of objects did its members produce?

10. What visual parallels have been pointed out between photographs and the work of the impressionists? Give examples.

Compose a 1500 words assignment on a beautiful mind. Needs to be plagiarism free! John Forbes Nash, Jr.’s life story is the subject of a Hollywood movie entitled A beautiful mind. Such developments portrayed the extent of his fame. However, John Nash suffered from a unique mental illness that affected both his career and public life thereby compelling him to restructure his lifestyle as the discussion below portrays.

Nash began experiencing mental disturbances in 1959. He explained that at the time his wife was pregnant when began experiencing a change from a scientifically rational way of thinking to delusional thinking. Among the symptoms, he experienced included hallucinations since he reported hearing voices. He also experienced delusion and disorganization of both thought and speech. As his condition worsened, the symptoms strengthened to include impairment in social cognition and social withdrawal. The symptoms evolved to paranoia as he began feeling that some people posed meant to harm him. He could not identify the people yet the feeling kept intensifying (Brown, 2013).

He acquired an attitude of hatred and fear against people who wore red ties believing that such people were conspiring to kill. As such, he became withdrawn and could not work effectively.

The symptoms affected his interactions with people thereby affecting his career. As a public figure, the various symptoms of mental illness made it difficult for him to work and further his researches in mathematics. Among the symptoms, that John Nash exhibited included a wide range of abnormal social behaviors (World Psychiatric Association Symposium on Depression in Schizophrenics, Williams & Dalby, 1989). Additionally, Nash could not recognize what was real and what was not. He portrayed signs of intense paranoia coupled with erratic behaviors. In his paranoia, he believed that every man in a red tie was part of a deep conspiracy that targeted him. He, therefore, avoided anyone in red ties and lived a life of fear. He for example wrote a number of letters to various embassies in Washington D.C reporting that a number of people that he did not identify were forming a parallel government. As the condition intensified, Nash avoided social gatherings a feature that affected both his career and his personal life. Other symptoms that Nash often portrayed included delusion, hallucinations, and disorganized thinking and speaking.