MUSIC 101 Howard University Promissory Note Critique

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Examine this painting “Promissory Note” by contemporary painter, Deborah Zlotsky.She has been linked in style to the Dutch Baroque painter, Rembrandt, as well as to the Italian Baroque painter, Caravaggio.Explain the connection.Use good description to support your assertions.You must use chiaroscuro and trompe l’oeil in your discussion.The bluish paper in the hand on the right hand side is litmus paper and the rabbit is being sacrificed for a pregnancy test.Zlotsky, during her Dutch phase of painting (she now paints large abstractions) lifted ideas from earlier painters that she loved and went as far as appropriating (copying) parts of paintings.  But I am asking you to look specifically at the stylistic issues that show influences from the artists, Caravaggio and Rembrandt.I also want you to include Rembrandt’s Slaughtered Ox in your discussion of the idea of sacrifice and the ideas of symbolic still-life from the American 19th century painter Charles Bird King.When examining the hands, please study the hands in Caravaggio’s Supper at Emmaus.So you are really discussing style and symbolism in your essay.Do not forget to use the vocabulary, define it, and apply it to description of the painting.

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Note: You will not be able to find anything (unless you are lucky) about Deborah Zlotsky’s Dutch phase of painting online.As I said, she is now working in very large colorful abstractions.  However, you don’t need to find anything about her earlier work to do this assignment.Just like you are learning how to listen to music, you are learning how to look at art. You are looking at the Baroque style of art, and what you are learning is what characterizes Baroque Art.There are many styles of Baroque art too, and individual artists bring their own signature style to the period as well.I am asking you to look at two styles, the Dutch style of Rembrandt and the Italian style of Caravaggio, and to examine how you think contemporary artist, Zlotsky, was influenced by them.