3 Discussion Questions, 3 Student Reponses, One Assessment

HUM106: Experience of Modern Art

Week 5 Discussion

Part 1: Preparation

Your Week 6 assignment requires you examine a contemporary social movement and the art associated with it to determine its effect on you and others.

To give you a head start on this assignment complete the following:

Read the Can Modern Art Make America Great Again? assignment instructions and its associated scoring guide so that you understand what is expected of you. (See Week 6.)

Choose one of these contemporary social movements that matters to you: Me Too, Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, ISIS, or MAGA.

You may select another contemporary social movement if you wish, but you must first obtain your instructor’s approval.

Identify art (photography, sculpture, graffiti, propaganda, artwork, etc.) that has been created to embody your selected social movement.

Please respond to the following in a post of 150 to 200 words:

Identify the social movement you selected.

Explain why you selected this particular movement. What is it about this movement that moves you? Why does it matter to you?

Post an image of the art that embodies your selected social movement.

Describe what you see in this artwork and your response to it.

Note: You will be using the information from this post in your assignment due next week.

In a post of 60 to 75 words, please respond to at least two other posts. Choose to respond to those who have few or no responses

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NOT A FORUM FOR POLITICS OR ANGST. This is about art, not opinions. Keep it clean, objective and art-oriented.

Part 2: Student Response (Respond to this Students Post)

STUDENT: Ruthel Goss 

RE: Week 5 Discussion

I have selected The Black Lives Matter Movement because of the organization's hyper relevance in this time of racial disparity, economic and public health disaster and systemically identifiable racism within our country.  The movement has broad appeal which makes it highly inclusive.  The relevance is obvious if we examine our every day news feeds where we have witnessed mistreatment lead to death.  I am a woman of principle and have had the fortune of growing up in a diverse, welcoming and nurturing social and academic environment and I support every organization that wants that for all and works to accomplish that mission, especially for people of color.  BLM is front and center.

BLACK LIVES MATTER FINE ART PRINT

THE TRACY PIPER

Black Lives Matter, Fine Art Print © 2020

20 x 16 i

Hand Signed by the Artist

The picture below is a redesign of the original Black Power symbol from the 1960s.  The raised clenched fist is a universal symbol of solidarity and support and has become a part of the Black Lives Matter mantra.