Humanities Through the Arts

Option 1: Choose a work to discuss from one genre that interprets a work from another genre. • Include the title, artist, and description of both works. • Examine how the artist of the second work captured the subject or story of the first. • Support your point(s) with a statement from the second artist that discusses the influence, reasoning, or interpretation of the original work on the second work. Click below for examples Link: Examples • You could choose a specific artwork influenced by a literary work and how the artist captured the subject or story. (Examples: Salvador Dali's Mad Tea Party and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; Pablo Picasso's Don Quixote and Cervantes's Don Quixote de la Mancha) • You could choose a literary work influenced by an artwork and how the author captured the story. (Examples: Picasso's The Old Guitarist and Wallace Steven's "The Man with the Blue Guitar"; Van Gogh's Starry Night and Anne Sexton's "The Starry Night")