Social History of American Art

The purpose of this assignment is for students to identify the symbols and history used to create the art and portrayal of the Native peoples in the Caribbean and Latin American in the 16th Century.

ARTICLE = https://www.academia.edu/38686375/Representation_of_Caribbean_and_Latin_American_Indians_in_sixteenth_century_European_art

Answer ALL of these questions:

In general, describe how the artists came up with images of the native peoples.
Identify symbols, cultures and images from the past that they were drawing from.
Explain why they used these symbols, cultures, and images. Identify at least four of the artists’ sources.
Provide background and reasoning on why the artists portray the natives as monstrous races.
Define the study of Ethnography in your paper and how it was being used in this article.