Prompt 1: Pick one of the following two passages (You only need to pick one) from Barbara Pollack’s essay about retrospective shows assessing the impact of AIDS on art and explain why it makes sense that the person believes the statement to be true. Below it is the reading text link

Reading text link: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/document-pro…

a) “’I see AIDS as having produced the first language of global art because it involved artists from all over the planet—Brazil, Japan, Russia, Kenya, Mali, India, South Africa.’” –attributed to curator Dan Cameron.

b) “Now artists and curators are willing to concede that great art did come out of the anger, sorrow, and bafflement in the face of an epidemic….” –Barbara Pollack

Requirement: 250 ~ 300 words. You need to use direct evidences from reading materials to answer the prompt.

Prompt 2: Pick any two pieces from this week’s art and explain how it evokes a personal experience, connects to an issue important to you personally, or touches in some way upon a life experience.

Requirement: 250 ~ 300 words. You need to answer the prompt based on two images.

I have attached the pdf containing images’ background and links below.

VERT IMPORTANT: For both two prompts, please make sure you identify readings or art by the AUTHOR/TITLE or ARTIST/TITLE (YEAR)