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Art Worksheet

AAEP 1600, Art and Music since 1945

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This worksheet is designed to teach you the critical skills you need for analyzing a visual artwork. Follow the steps in this worksheet carefully to organize your thinking. This assignment is worth 100 points. Use the checklists throughout to be sure you meet all requirements.

In Step 1, you will tell a story about the work or tell what the work means to you in some way. If you are allowed to take pictures in the exhibition space, include a picture of the work in this assignment.

In Step 2, you will re-examine the art work in more detail. Connect specific elements of the artwork to your story and tell how the artist made them more or less important in the work.

In Step 3, you will go beyond what the work means to you and judge the work. How is it art and how does it make sense to you?

The combination of these three steps is a strategy for writing about visual art in your own words. You will also be prepared to analyze a film for your next assignment, the Film Worksheet.

REMEMBER: late assignments will not receive on-time points AND you will lose additional points as follows:

1 day late: -20%

2 days late: -40%

3 days late: -60%

4 days late: -100%

Where do I find an art form to write about?

As you choose an artwork to write about, remember:

1. You must see the work in-person , in Columbus, Ohio, during this semester .

2. The work you choose must have been done after 1945

3. IF YOUR SCHEDULE KEEPS YOU FROM GOING TO ONE OF THESE LOCATIONS or if you are taking the class remotely, please email your instructor for approval of an alternative site.

These requirements are to be strictly followed or your assignment will not be accepted.

APPROVED ART EXHIBITION LOCATIONS

Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum: http://cartoons.osu.edu

King Arts Complex: http://kingartscomplex.com/

Pizzuti Collection (In the Short North) http://pizzuticollection.org/

Wexner Center for the Arts - http://wexarts.org

WHEN YOU GET TO THE EXHIBITION LOCATION YOU CHOSE, pick an artwork to write about. It will be much easier to write this assignment if you choose a work you feel an affinity for.

REMEMBER: if you want to quote someone else’s words (on a museum sign, website, brochure, etc.) you must tell where you got that information with citations and references according to MLA or APA style.

Need help with citations? Look here… https://osu.pb.unizin.org/choosingsources/chapter/citation/

*Please be respectful to people, cultures, and countries that you do not know well of.

Now that you’re set up:

Type your responses to all three (3) steps in your word processor and upload it in Carmen.

Save the file in Word (doc, docx) or Rich Text (rtf) formats.

If you write your worksheet in Pages (on a Mac) please export your paper in Word format.

STEP 1

In Step 1, you will focus on your interpretation of the work. You will interpret the artwork through writing a story about it or telling what it means to you. Explain what you think is going on in the piece, and what it is about. Your story can be personal, true, fictional, fantasy, a diary or journal entry. Tell us your story in Steps 1.a., 1.b., and 1.c., below:

Step 1.a.

If you are allowed to take pictures of the artworks, insert an image no larger than 5 inches high or wide. If cannot take a picture of the artwork, please explain this.

<Insert image here>

Tell your story about the work:

Enter into the piece and tell what YOU think is going on. Please do not copy what is written on labels or what art experts think.

Remember to describe the parts of the artwork that tie to the story.

(Write your response here in at least 250 words)

Step 1.b.

Make a brief statement of how your story relates to the piece:

How does telling a story help you understand artwork?

Do you think other viewers would make a similar story or is yours different?

(Write your response here in at least 200 words)

Step 1.c.

Tell the title of your story:

RUBRIC

Your work for Step 1 will be evaluated with this rubric: 30 POINTS

10 POINTS: States a clear, plausible narrative/story that relates to the work.

10 POINTS: Backs up ideas with evidences found from the artwork.

5 POINTS: Creates relevant title for the story.

5 POINTS: Makes clear distinctions between opinion and fact.

STEP 2

For Step 2.a and 2.b, you will analyze the artwork, focusing on literally what you see.

Step 2.a.

Answer these questions:

(If this information is not available, please explain.)

1. In what year was the work created?

2. Who is the Artist?

3. What is the title of the work?

4. Where is the work exhibited?

Now, think about the questions, below, and write descriptions of 10 elements in the work (objects, colors, light, dark, textures, etc.).

If you need a way to get started, study the work and think through what you wrote for Step One. Find specific elements of the work and tell how the technical effects led you to your story.

Think of different or familiar objects that you could refer to for comparison.

Be very specific in your descriptions of basic colors and shapes. For example, instead of just "green," write "lima bean green" or “grass green."

Where does your eye move through the work as you put together the interpretation? What did you notice first and what makes it more noticeable than other areas of the work?

Describe the scale of the work in relation to the exhibition space. Instead of "six inches wide" or "thirty feet high," “write tall as the ceiling” or “a two-story house, large as a laptop, small as my cell phone,” etc. These relationships help you identify exhibition context of the artwork.