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Watch Programs 8 and 9. “Writing” and “Portraits” 
Here's a link to the descriptions of the programs.
http://www.learner.org/resources/series211.html
Here's the description for Program 8 and 9.
8. Writing
Since the dawn of civilization the relationship between written words and pictures has been manipulated to communicate ideas. It has also inspired countless artists, whose works demonstrate how text and image can enhance, supplement, complicate, or even undermine each other’s meanings. Calligrapher, printmaker and Macarthur “genius award” recipient, Xu Bing is featured.
9) Portraits
Across cultures and throughout time, portraiture has played an important role in the way people have understood themselves and their relationships to others. Portraits serve a range of functions, from declaring power and status to making larger statements about society. Painter Kehinde Wiley paints portraits of African American men in the poses inspired by classic works of the old masters.
For the discussion board essay for this program - Describe what each program is about. Then, describe your reaction or opinion of what you saw in each the programs. Give at least 4 major topics from each program. Name 2 or 3 items in each show that you thought were interesting.
2. African Art Virtual Tour
For this assignment, you are creating a background for yourself by visiting 5 websites - one from the Smithsonian Museum and four from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Write a short (1-2 sentence) description of each website describing the kinds of things you find there. After you have a background, you are going to focus on one area of African art by choosing to read one article from a list of articles published by the Met. Then, find an example, copy and paste it into your discussion, describe what it is, who (what people) are responsible for its creation, and how the one shown is a particularly good one.
Your background-building begins with a “virtual tour” from the Smithsonian museum of African Art. This site is divided into three "galleries." Be sure to view the artworks in all 3. http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/treasures/artwork.html
Then, take a little “trip to the Metropolitan museum of art – Read your choice of two of following articles and look at the artwork carefully. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/poro/hd_poro.htm http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/smpa/hd_smpa.htm http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/nok/hd_nok.htm http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/beni_2/hd_beni_2.htm
Now you undertake the challenging part of reading one article from the website http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=Africa After reading an article, find and post one image (from your earlier background-building or find something similar). In at least one additional paragraph, describe how the image you have posted is an example of the art in the article you have read.
Please do not use "Couples in Art".
3.Masaccio and Fra Angelico Compare these two Itailian Renaissance Artists. Fra Angelico is the earlier artist. He uses perspective but the theory wasn’t yet fully developed. Masaccio is one of the first to use the perspective system that we use today in realistic art. http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/fra-angelico-annunciation.html http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/fra-angelico-the-annunciation.html http://www.wga.hu/art/m/masaccio/trinity/trinity.jpg http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/holy-trinity-santa-maria-novella-florence.html
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