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Identity, Race, and Gender in Art Assignment
Read Chapter 4.10 in the text to address the following in a short essay of at least 800 words addressing all of the questions below:
1. Pick an artwork from Chapter 4.10 (or find an artwork from another source) that expresses your personal experience of identity, race, and/or gender.
a. How do you personally relate to this image?
b. Is the association positive or negative and why?
2. What role/roles have you played in your life that conform to or deviate from established norms?
a. How does society in general view this role/roles?
b. How has this role/roles shaped your worldview?
3. How could you communicate your experience to your audience in an artwork?
a. What specific materials would you use?
b. Describe your artwork using specific elements/principles you have learned about to describe (would it be balanced? use complementary colors? etc..)
c. What could be the benefit of engaging an audience in the viewing of this artwork?
d. Would you feel compelled to exhibit this artwork? Where and why?