How would you change the medium (materials) and the iconography to suit the meaning and expressive character of the new artwork you imagine.

Find an image from European Old Master art (made between 1400−1800) and answer these questions based on it. Include all images in the paper.

Select the work from a museum in New York (e.g. The Metropolitan Museum , the Brooklyn Museum , the Frick Collection or any comparable American or European Museum.

a. Why did you choose this artwork? What about it made you interested in it?

b. Describe in detail how you would adapt this artwork to the representation of an issue happening in your life / The US / The World?

How would you change the medium (materials) and the iconography to suit the meaning and expressive character of the new artwork you imagine.

Describe in as much detail as you can what your adapted work looks like or if you can illustrate it in some way.

How would you change the medium (materials) and the iconography to suit the meaning and expressive character of the new artwork you imagine.
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