Exploring the Text

1. What aspects of I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold make it a portrait? What aspects make it abstract?

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   Exploring the Text: - What aspects of I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold make it a portrait? What aspects make it abstract?
2. Charles Demuth was part of a group of artists called the precisionists, who were interested in the precision of industrialization and the modernization of the American landscape. How is this painting both a landscape and a meditation on industrialization?

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   Exploring the Text: - Charles Demuth was part of a group of artists called the precisionists, who were interested in the precision of industrialization and the modernization of the American landscape. How is this painting both a landscape and a meditation on industrialization?
3. What is the effect of the geometric shapes? How does Demuth use them to re-create the motion of the fire engine from William Carlos Williams’s poem, “The Great Figure” (p. 1106)?

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   Exploring the Text: - What is the effect of the geometric shapes? How does Demuth use them to re-create the motion of the fire engine from William Carlos Williams’s poem, “The Great Figure” (p. 1106)?
4. I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold is considered a precursor to pop art, a twentieth-century genre that challenged the traditions of fine art by using imagery from popular culture—such as is seen in Andy Warhol’s paintings of Campbell soup cans. How does Demuth’s painting challenge the traditions of fine art?

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   Exploring the Text: - I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold is considered a precursor to pop art, a twentieth-century genre that challenged the traditions of fine art by using imagery from popular culture—such as is seen in Andy Warhol’s paintings of Campbell soup cans. How does Demuth’s painting challenge the traditions of fine art?