Poem in Response to Art:

The Assignment

Required Readings:

“A Prodigal” by Elizabeth Bishop

       The Return of the Prodigal Son by Rembrandt van Rijn

“Not my Best Side” by UA Fanthorpe

       St. George and the Dragon by Paolo Uccello

“Musée des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden

       Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Pieter Brueghel the Elder

“Matisse’s Dance” by Natalie Safir*

       Dance by Henri Matisse

“Monet’s Garden” by Melanie Zyo*

       Monet’s Garden by Gene Davis

“Black & White Photograph of a Pepper” by Tracy Kerr*

“On Pepper #30” by Saul Tolten*

       Pepper #30 by Edward Weston

“The Wrinkle” by Hood Frazier*

       Illustration to Beneath the Wrinkle by Clarence H. White

“Lazarus” by Hood Frazier*

“Lazarus” by Suzanne Paola*

       The Raising of Lazarus by Alfred Leslie

“Frank Stella’s Childhood” by Susan Hallawell*

       Jerdon’s Courser by Frank Stella

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Over 250 Art Images You Can Respond To

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