Museum/Cultural Experience

MUSEUM REPORT WORKSHEET

For this assignment you will attend an "approved" online art museum of your choosing and select a piece of art to write about during this semester. The museum you attend must be an art museum, not a science museum or a children's museum. You do not need to turn your response into an actual essay, just respond to the questions on the worksheet as you find them in full sentences where appropriate. In fact, please download this sheet to type in your responses to all of these questions, and then save it to submit in the dropbox. Make sure that at the top of the worksheet you provide the name of the museum and its location, and the date that you viewed it.  If you need definitions of what you are asked for, please look at the Intro to Humanities PowerPoint or look them up using the index in the back of your printed text or your e text index search option. To verify your attendance, provide the direct web address at the end of this report.

 

NAME:

MUSEUM NAME:

LOCATION:

DATE VIEWED:

 

1-BEFORE LOOKING AT THE CARD NEXT TO THE ARTWORK, PLEASE GIVE A SHORT REPLY OF WHAT YOU THINK THIS ARTWORK IS ABOUT?

 

2-AFTER DEVELOPING YOUR INITIAL THOUGHTS, LOOK AT THE CARD NEXT TO THE ARTWORK AND PLEASE PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION (OR TALK TO THE STAFF THERE IF YOU CANNOT FIND THE ANSWER ON THE CARD):

 

-TITLE:

 

-ARTIST:

 

-DATE ARTWORK WAS CREATED:

 

-NATIONAL ORIGIN OF WORK:

 

-MEDIUM (What is this art work constructed from, what type of paint used, if any):

 

-EXACT SIZE (Also, do you believe that the size has any impact upon the way that you react to this piece? How?):

 

3- WHILE THERE IN FRONT OF THE WORK ONLINE, PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

 

-IS THE WORK ABSTRACT OR REPRESENTATIONAL:

 

-COLORS: (Be specific, name the colors. Describe lightness/darkness and cool vs. warm colors.):

 

-COMPOSITIONAL ELEMENTS: (Are the lines curved, straight, thin, thick? Shapes? Forms?):

 

-TYPE & PURPOSE: (Is the subject religious, political, or something else; or if can you not tell please explain why.):

 

4-ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS EITHER STILL AT MUSEUM OR AT HOME:

 

-When coming up with an explanation before knowing about the card, was the meaning of the work obvious?  How different was your first reaction versus the card information?  Do you think the artist intended to be vague?

 

-Do you see any influences from either the past or other artists?  If not a direct influence, please attempt what you belief to be a possible influence:

 

-What single artwork in your textbook does it most closely resemble? How and why?

 

-If money were no object, what piece of art from this museum would you like to own and why?

 

-Would you have preferred to experience this work in person versus online or is the online good enough for you and why (support your answer with at least 2 full sentences)? What do you believe would be better with the in person experience, or with the online experience?

-Please include the link of the webpage below: