GuidelinesVisit the following link to the Museum of Modern Art https://www.moma.org/Explore the art works in the image gallery on the right of the screen and choose ONE of the following questions to respond to. Please be sure to note which question you are responding to at the top of your response.5 points off for every day late1. COMPARING NOTESAna Mendieta and John Coplans both use their own bodies to create their works.COMPARE AND CONTRAST: Mendieta’s Nile Born and Coplans’s Self Portrait. Consider the following questions: How are their bodies represented in the final art works? How do the artists represent the female and male body? How do they create universal images of the body, and how do they create personal images of themselves?REFLECT: Respond to the above questions and create your own questions if you have them after reflecting on the works of art.TURN-IN: A 300-500 word response to the questions in the "Compare and Contrast" section above. Post your word count at the end.2. BEAUTY IS SKIN DEEPLorna Simpson, Senga Nengudi, and John Coplans’s works challenge the traditional conventions of beauty.CONSIDER: What qualities does contemporary society consider beautiful today? How are the standards of beauty different for men and for women? What do you and your peers do to conform with or rebel against these standards? How do you receive messages about what is considered beautiful? How do the artists above challenge the standards?CREATE: Often the media influences our standards of beauty and fashion. Collect images of beauty in magazines, advertisements, newspapers, and on the web. On a large sheet of paper, draw a line down the middle. On the left side, paste images that conform to typical standards of beauty. On the right side, paste images that defy these standards. How many images did you find for the left side? How many did you find for the right side? TURN-IN: Take a picture of the piece of paper with the collected images pasted to it and upload it as well as a 250-500 word response to the questions in the "Consider" section above. Post your word count at the end.3. THE BODY AS A PAINT BRUSHCarolee Schneemann and Yves Klein both used the human body to paint on a canvas.CONSIDER: Schneemann’s Up to and Including Her Limits and Yves Klein’s Anthropometry. Watch a video of Klein’s process. In Up to and Including Her Limits, Schneemann used her body to paint on a canvas. To make Anthropometry, Klein, a male artist, would direct female models covered in paint.COMPARE AND CONTRAST: How are Schneemann’s and Klein’s processes similar? How are they different? Does the fact that Schneemann used her own body and Klein used the bodies of women change how you view their works? What does each work say about the role of women?TURN-IN: A 300-500 word response to the questions in the "Compare and Contrast" section above. Post your word count at the end.4. HAIR AND IDENTITYHair is an important part of a person’s identity. People often style their hair to align themselves with certain trends, social groups, or political statements.RESEARCH: Pick a work of art that depicts people. Start by visiting the website for Hair: Untangling the Roots of Identity, an exhibition at Cornell University’s Johnson Museum of Art. You can also search in MoMA’s collection. Looking at the subject(s) in the work of art, think about what their hairstyles might reveal about their identity.CONSIDER AND CREATE: Take a photo of your haircut—it can be from the back of your head, if you prefer—and answer the following questions: What does your hairstyle say about you? Is your hairstyle reflective of any part of your identity?READ THE ARTICLE: Synnott, Anthony. “Shame and Glory: A Sociology of Hair.” The British Journal of Sociology, vol. 38, no. 3, 1987, pp. 381–413. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/590695. Follow the link to the article here: https://www-jstor-org.db07.linccweb.org/stable/590695What does Synnott's article tell you about the importance of hair and identity? How has hair shaped society's standards of beauty and gender? Why do you think hair is such a personal expression and sometimes a theme in artworks that address the idea of identity ? Make sure you cite specific evidence from the article to support your answerTURN-IN: Submit the image you took of your hairstyle and 300-500 word response that answers the questions posed in the "Consider and Create" section above making sure that you cite the Synnott article. Post your word count at the end.Adapted from: MOMA Learning. "Investigating Identity: The Body in Art." Museum of Modern Art. retrieved from https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/themes/investigating-identity/the-body-in-art/ accessed 25 March 2019.