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Purpose: For this assignment, you will be able to understand the following: 1) How the idea of beauty has changed over time 2) The art movement Dada Directions: After listening to the both of the videos and the podcast about different ideas of beauty, in your own words define the idea of beauty and how it you think it relates to the visual arts. Consider ideas of beauty and why they might be problematic to the art world and how beauty as an dominate expectation in the arts has changed over the last century. Dada was an art movement that defied traditional forms of beauty. Write about your thoughts of how Dada artists overcame the status quo and broke the "rules" of art. In your opinion, is beauty necessary to art? Do you think what is beautiful is more interesting than what is considered ugly? How do you define what is beautiful? Do you consider Marcel Duchamp's Fountain to be beautiful? Also, visit the website of The Museum of Bad Art and explain why those works of art are considered less beautiful or aesthetically pleasing than artworks found in Fine Art Museums. Is there any work of art that you find interesting or beautiful in their collection? Explain why the artwork is compelling to you or why you find a work of art that you find beautiful. Vocabulary Terms: PLEASE ALL THREE WORDS AND TYPE THEM IN BOLD FONT Junxtaposition, Objective & Subjective, Found Objects Word Count: This should be 400 words minimum. http://museumofbadart.org/ https://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/in_focus/duchamp-probably-didnt-make-the-fountain-urinala-look-at-the-dada-woman-who-likely-authored-the-56084?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=053119_Magazine_The%20Woman%20Who%20Made%20%26quot%3BDuchamp%27s%26quot%3B%20Urinal_Active%20Non-Buyers&utm_term=Active%20Non-Buyers https://player.fm/series/series-1264716/art-must-be-beautiful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bMGStypFWY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJgzoTp82SU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2jFs2StW6o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qXzdlJp_eQ Address the questions in the directions and have a thoughtful analysis of the material You must also use the vocabulary words mentioned and they must be typed within the essay in bold letters. HOW TO USE THE TERM IN YOUR WRITING:You can use a variation of the word in your Writing Assignments if necessary. For example, if the word is Allegory, than you may use the word Allegorical. As mentioned above, you must you the word within the context of the artwork. For instance, one of your terms this semester is PATTERN. You would use this term and relate it to a specific work of art. For example: "The painting by Sean Scully uses repetitive motifs of lines and shapes to form a quilt-like pattern in his artwork." You would NOT use pattern in a sentence that follows: "We can find that humans often create patterns throughout history." The more specific to the provided content, the better!