Just choose one of these: You could select a few theories and artworks and explain how they interact. You could select an artist we studied and look up further works by them, and then perform the same sorts of analysis we’ve been doing on these other works. Do the theories hold up? Last class, we found ourselves believing that Monet, for one, was too big to fit the definitions pushed on him by MacCarthy. You could take on Virginia Woolf’s rallying cry to write Mrs. Brown and attempt to build an original character in your own story; alternatively, you could discuss how Woolf’s test of character would apply to some other fictional character. You could possibly even zoom out a step and take the lessons of the pursuit of originality in art in order to see how it functions in an artist that you admire.
