Arts and Culture Visual Analysis Assignment. Visual & Performing Arts

This is an analysis paper for an Art history course, but this assignment is related to visual analysis, so I am not sure which subject area it is. If it needs to be changed, please inform me at once. The requirements are attached, please read through it thoroughly. Thank you!

Google Arts and Culture Visual Analysis Assignment
Due May 21 at 9PM
As we observed during our discussion of Georges Seurat, Google Arts and Culture is a pretty amazing resource with seemingly impossibly high-resolution images of many artworks. This assignment asks you to compose a well-written, incisive visual analysis of one artwork available on Google Arts and Culture (see list of options below). This is not a research-based assignment; it asks you to practice incisive visual analysis and apply ideas learned in class. Devote 200-300 words to each of the following 3 prompts:
1. What style or combination of styles do you see this artwork mobilizing? Does the artist employ one style but make adjustments (embrace specific tenets, reject others) to serve a specific purpose? Justify your answer. Use your eyes and reasoning. Do not just state whatever style a website might use to categorize the artist. Those can be misleading, as they might apply to only one portion of an artist’s long career.  
2. This artwork has a core subject matter (visible in the work and/or stated in the title). How does the artist characterize this subject matter? What does the artist have to say about the core subject at hand? Your first sentence should offer a thesis regarding the specific message the artist proposes about the subject matter. Then, use incisive visual analysis, carefully arranged ideas, and articulate phrasing to support your argument. (I am not looking for one single correct answer for each image; I’m looking for a convincing, well-reasoned, well-informed argument. Lectures and at-home exercises help you practice this skill.)
          How should you get started? Start brainstorming broadly. Write down all of your observations about the work. Think about the choices the artist made while developing it. What decisions did the artist make regarding formal/visual components (i.e. color, composition, tone, scale, juxtaposition with other subjects, setting, etc.)? What did the artist choose to include and exclude, to highlight and downplay? What strikes you as interesting or surprising about the artist’s representation of the subject? How might the artist be responding to society’s treatment of the subject? To art history’s treatment of the subject? There are of course additional matters—ideas sparked by the specific artwork—that you will wish to consider. You do not need to address every issue listed above. In fact, a bad, unfocused response would attempt to address all of those topics. Those are simply prompts---a way for me to help you dive into the work without actually being with you. You should develop a thesis centered on one core idea. Then, spend the rest of this passage proving that thesis.
3. Finally, there are advantages and disadvantages associated with viewing artworks on a digital platform versus in person in a museum. Briefly discuss what is lost and gained through each type of experience.  
At the top of the first page of your assignment, be sure to include your name as well as the artwork’s artist, title, and date. Please name the file LAST NAME_Visual Analysis 
Note: While this assignment is available at the very beginning of the quarter, I recommend waiting until at least Week 5 to do this project, since course content through Week 5/6 will help you with this assignment (depending which artwork you select).Writing tips: Use the most specific, detailed, and vivid language possible. Vague generalizations are the enemy. Also, avoid passive language. Limit how often your select the verb “is/was,” as that’s your opportunity for a better, more specific verb. Avoid first person narration.
Choose 1 of the artworks listed below (in no particular order):
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/air-iron-and-water-robert-delaunay/ggEJwL8_ezmPCw
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/mary-cassatt-self-portrait-mary-stevenson-cassatt/IAHLQ-4ePxivhw
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/self-portrait-on-the-6th-wedding-anniversary-paula-modersohn-becker/AgGycL_44WQ_fQ
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/jumping-horse-franz-marc/iAFAkYapprwU9g
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/francis-picabia-self-portrait-francis-picabia/1wEe9z1iriu7cw
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-solitary-archaeologist/ogFI_HETNOSj_Q
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/cassis-cap-lombard-opus-196-paul-signac/_wHc489KOQ5f6Q
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/zittende-figuur-bloksgewijs-geconstrueerd-theo-van-doesburg/bAFT4ED5Z8XdeQ (title: Seated Figure, constructed with blocks)
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/carica-di-lancieri-umberto-boccioni/XQG0gxf0Uo7eAw (title: crowd of spearmen)
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-road-menders-vincent-van-gogh/7AFhZhzg0Arlsg
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/view-of-a-butcher-s-shop-vincent-van-gogh/tQF9toXsq5ZpKg