Tchaikovsky and Women in Art, history homework help

PART 1
Select two (2) paintings depicting females by both a male artist and female
artist named within the Explore section. Compare and contrast these two (2)
depictions of women, and comment on any general tendencies that you detect among
artists of that era in this respect. Compare this situation in the late 1800s to
the way females are depicted in our own modern times, using at least one (1)
specific modern example.

MUST USE FOLLOWING SOURCES

  • Chapters 31 and 32, depictions of women by male artists Manet, Degas,
    Dewing, Eakins and by female artists Cassatt, Morisot, Haudecort-Lescot, Sara M.
    Peale

    • National Museum of Women in the Arts at http://www.nmwa.org/explore/collection-highlights/18th%E2%80%9319th-centuryNational Gallery of Art (search by artist name) at http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/artists.html?pageNumber=1

     

    PART 2

    Respond to the following statement:

    I
    selected Swan Lake ballets. Once dancers began dancing their costumes began to
    accentuate their forms In 1876 Swan lake provided music for sinuous choreography
    of the dancers. Swan Lake scenario initially in four acts, was fashioned from
    Russian folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan
    by an evil curse. The ballets were very good to the listening ear. I enjoyed
    this piece even though Im not into this type of music.
    The ballets haven’t been changed. In todays world the ballets fashioned and
    dancers still remains popular with contemporary orchestras and audiences. An
    example of music that could be classified as nationalism would be
    folk music. Folk music is a common experience of
    inhabitants of the locale. These traits make folk music a fructifying source for
    art music, particularly when it is intended to evoke a particular nation or
    ethnic group.