museam paper
Museum Visit Assignment
Art Appreciation Museum Paper 2018
Perhaps some of you have never visited a museum or gallery. This paper is intended to be a way for you to describe your experiences, particularly with the work. Say a few words about your initial encounters, such as with the space, other people (observers and staff, it all), architecture, etc. Next, please answer these questions applied to a piece of your choosing. Answer the questions in paragraph form in an organized, descriptive way. Keep in mind I am not looking at the work, and need all the help you can give me (I am visual so shaping the reality of what you see is critical). Also an important thought to consider: long papers that are short on content and long on bad grammar are far worse than short papers that are dense with entertaining, readably fun content. Writing should be clear, brief and to the point. Keep sentences short, use the right words and avoid vagueness and clichés. Some guidance as to how to how to make observations and what to write about follows:
1. What do you see (what are you looking at)?
a. Inventory materials/ artist's name/ title of work/ year it was done/ etc.
b. Note scale (outer dimensions)
2. What is going on (in the works)?
a. Use correct terminology (principles and elements of art and organization, etc.).
3. How do the visual elements relate to one another?
4. In what way is this work unique, different or unusual?
a. Referring to the time surrounding the work (if different in approach/ look/ etc.)
b. Referring to how/ why it is different or unique to you
5. Why might some (and not other) visual elements appear in the same scene?
6. What has the artist done (if anything) to play with your (our) perception?
7. What messages might this work have for us today?
8. In what ways can the work about the past, now or forever?
9. What do you think you would title this work, and given your interpretation what do you believe will happen next?
10. In what ways do you think this work is important? Is there some kind of morality to the work? How can this work be about reality, and whose reality at that?