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Question 1. This painting is called Night Cafe by van ghoh, Describe how van Gogh distorts the "reality" of things and/or people in order to communicate a sense of his own subjective feelings. Describe also how and where he includes obvious brush strokes of paint and explain why he does this.

Question 2. Look at Krishna and Radha and Hour of Cowdust in the Hindu tradition. Krishna, an avatar of Vishnu, has a special relationship with Radha, a cowherd, (hence cows are sacred in this tradition). The representation of the relationship between Krishna and Radha stands for the kind of devotion that is possible between humans and the divine and it is a frequent subject in Hindu painting. Artists in this tradition do not favor naturalism over everything else. (But there are differences in the degree to which Hindu artists are interested in naturalism. For instance, the artist in Hour of Cowdust is more interested in representing naturalistic space than the artist in Krishna and Radha, so the art has intuitive perspective and more full three-dimensionality. No culture, no people, are just "one thing").

Describe in a few sentences how and where the artist of either of these stories about Krishna uses visual elements like bold patterns in the textiles, the distillation of the landscape into beautiful balanced patterns, storytelling, or anything else that indicates that the Western tradition of anatomical correctness, realistic shapes of things, and rational spatial relationships are not a priority here. Note that Krishna and Radha is very old, it is somewhat faded and damaged, the colors would have been brighter originally.

Remember, it is important to understand this art on its own terms and not describe it in terms of "failed naturalism." Frame your answer in such a way that you demonstrate how the Hindu artist succeeds, not in how it fails to be Western.