around 150 words for each question.
(1)Can you visit the Metropolitan Museum’s website? Can you find a work of art from either Ming or Qing dynasty that you like most?
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection (or you can use the Timeline of Art History link. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/)
Write a title (also artist if known), date, material, measurement, and provenance. Embed a picture file of that work on the text box of the discussion.
Write a 100-word description of this work.
Explain what compelled you to write about this work. You can say you read about this artist, or you studied another painting by this artist. We studied quite a few artists in Ming and Qing dynasty.
Visit the Bamboo Canvas website (http://bamboocanvas.org/explore/) and add a link to a technique related to the work you chose. For example, if you chose a porcelain vase, you can look into Ceramics and find a suitable link. If you chose a printed illustration, you can see either Paper or Woodwork to find a suitable link. If you cannot find any related link, you can run your own research and find a YouTube link. Your source should come from a museum or from an education resource.
(2)Have you ever watched Puccini’s Madame Butterfly? It is an original model of an Asian woman sacrificing herself for her Western lover (man). The musical Miss Saigon is an adaptation of this classic love story. Watch a video clip from Madame Butterfly and read its storyline. What do you think of the opera’s structure or theme in relation to Western imagination of Asian culture (in this case Asian women in particular). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madama_ Butterfly
There is also a famous play by David Henry Hwang taking on the theme of the Madamme Butterfly. But this movie called M. Butterfly involves a self-secrificial French displomat (man) falling in love with a Chinese woman. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Butterfly
Let’s talk about a stereotype image of Asia, Asian culture, and Asian women in particular in European or Western imaginations.
What about a movie (1932) with Sylvia Sidney and Cary Grant? The main character named Cio Cio San is a Japanese woman. But why are these actresses and opera singers not Japanese? Do you know a word called “Yellow Face”?
