Any topic (writer’s choice)
l) Choose a short passage (no more than five sentences or less) or summarize a larger section with some key quotations, and consider what kind of artist does the passage represent? What must the artists motivation be? What is the artists relationship to society and culture? Does the artist have a spiritual goal? A social goal? An economic goal? Other?
Must be objective
2) Compare the definition of the artist you identified in #1, to the definition of the artists role in the following articles: Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art
3) Consider Changs analysis that hip hop is subject to a profound conflict of interests between commercialism and a vehicle for outsider voice and protest. Add a paragraph about any of the theorists above and what they would say about this inherent conflict between money and humanity. USE QUOTATIONS and specific evidence.