ART 102 Multiple Assignments

In this course, you are required to be a part of an online community of learners who collectively interact, through discussion, to enhance and support the performance of each other. Part of the assessment criteria for the course includes evaluating the quality and quantity of your participation in the discussion forum.

This assignment reviews your skills of visual analysis, and allows you to consider both style and context.

You are invited to reflect on the nature of art and its fundamental principles. Two types of art are offered for a debate: Representation versus Abstraction; and the idea of context is presented (the time and place in which the artwork was created).

1. Watch two video-talks:

In this module, we looked at and discussed many different genres of painting including Still Life. Let's explore a special type of Still Life: Vanitas Still Life.

Go to one of the following online collections, and select an example of a Vanitas Still Life:

· The Metropolitan Museum of Art

· The National Gallery of Art

· The Tate Museum

· The Walters Art Museum

· The Rijks Museum

Closely examine your Vanitas Still Life selection, and identify at least three objects within it. Describe what these objects are, and why the artist included them in the painting. Be sure to include a discussion of moral and ethical considerations.

Finally, attach a jpeg image of the painting, and be sure to include at the beginning of your discussion the title, the artist, the dimensions of the painting, and its date.

· Claude Monet

· Edgar Degas

· Mary Cassatt

· Vincent Van Gogh

· Paul Gauguin

· Henri Toulouse-Lautrec

Describe the work using at least three elements of visual analysis, and explain how they reference Japanese design aesthetics. How and why did Japanese prints come to influence artists working in France? Finally, attach a jpeg image within your discussion and give the title, dimensions, and date of the work.

Minimum initial posting 150 words,

The creation of self-portraits has its roots in the Renaissance period when the social status of the artist began to shift. Artists often used a self-portrait to elevate their rank (think of Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez) or emphasize their identity as a painter (any number of self-portraits by women such as Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun). But today, artists use themselves as subjects in their work for a variety of reasons.

· Consider the evolution of the self-portrait by looking at examples by the following artists:

· Vincent Van Gogh

· Cindy Sherman

· Robert Mapplethorpe

· Renee Cox

· Shirin Neshat

· Respond to HOW and WHY the artist has either chosen themselves as the subject or utilized the social meaning of their identity as the subject. What is the difference? You must provide at least two of the artists as your example.

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Minimum initial posting 150 words,

This discussion assignment will be graded based on the Discussion Board grading rubric.

Art Analysis:

PURPOSE

This assignment was designed so that you can apply your knowledge of visual analysis, as described in the introduction of your textbook. Beginning with the visual elements and design principles, the form of the work, to derive at the work's style before considering aspects of its context and content. Understanding how to apply each of these components and how they work together to inform meaning in a work of art is a very important skill to acquire before beginning your research paper project.

DIRECTIONS

1. Choose any artwork from your textbook.

2. Download, open and type the assignment into the attached file named Art Analysis Outline.

3. Art Analysis Outline provides you with an outline of the criteria.

4. View Art Analysis Student Example.

Research essay:

This essay fulfills the course requirement to conduct written research on a work of art or architecture, as seen in person . This work of art or architecture must be from the period covered in the course. Your topic does not have to be covered in the textbook, but it should be from the period of 1300 - Present. In your paper, you must provide a clear thesis and demonstrate your support for that thesis in your research.

· 750 - 1000 words

· 3 to 4 FULL pages, double-spaced and typed, in 12pt. font

· Images should be submitted separately

· at least 3 sources ( other than your text)

You must use this Research Resource Guide

Links to an external site.

Please message us for accessing the Research Resource Guide. You will need a code from us to be able to go on the website that has all the resources for the essay.

to access the following credible academic sources on the basis of your research:

· books

· dissertations

· interviews

· journals

· magazines

· videos

Websites and encyclopedic entries will not be counted as appropriate research sources. What is provided for you through the Research Resource Guide are the required, credible, peer-reviewed sources you will need for this assignment. If you are unsure of the legitimacy of any of your sources, please ask the instructor.

· You must provide a clear thesis, which addresses an important aspect of the museum's context of the work. For example, the museum text may discuss a work of art's relation to social and political ideas within society when it was created. If it discusses the artist's biography, you may discuss how the work of art related directly to that biography.

· Provenance is the history of ownership. In addressing provenance, you answer: Was the work commissioned and why? If not, why was it made? What were the artist's intentions? Provenance is also an important aspect you will find in the museum's information.

· How do factors like the historical context and location shape the meaning of the work?

· You must also discuss style. Remember that in discussing style, you are often referring to a period style or regional style. In order to discuss style, you must utilize formal analysis to communicate the work's key features. Give attention to the materials and techniques the artist used to effectively communicate their ideas. Those materials and techniques are also particular to time and place.

· The possibilities are endless, but you must demonstrate that you understand the existing and accepted interpretations of a work of art architecture. This essay should be thoughtfully responsive to the museum's research you encountered in your visit, and you will be expanding upon, or even arguing against, previous research.

· You must include MLA

· Links to an external site.

· citation style, with endnotes and a complete bibliography on two separate pages at the end of the paper. A full resource guide to MLA citation is also included in the Research Resource Guide.

Please refer to the Research Essay Outline attached under the Sweet Study bid.

The essay is worth 200 points and will be graded based on the Research Essay Rubric.

Research presentation:

Earlier in the class, you researched a work of art or architecture and discussed your findings in a Research Essay. Research Powerpoint will compile the important points of your research into a presentation for your classmates.

You will lead a bullet-point discussion on style, context, content, purpose of your chosen work and offer some insight into the use of formal analysis. During your discussion, you should not only introduce the basic facts of the work but give consideration to the following:

· - Provenance: was the work commissioned and why? If not, why was it made? What were the artist's intentions?

· - What are the interpretations of the work?

· - How do factors like the historical context, location, artist biography, shape the meaning of the work?

· Remember that in discussing style you may refer to a period, region, or personal style.

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You may also include any other methodology for discussion that you think applies or is interesting, such as a psychological analysis, a feminist response, politics, science, etc.

You may choose any application to create your presentation, but it must be in the format of a slide show and saved as a .ppt or .pptx file. Your presentation must include both images and bullet points to explain your artwork.

This is an observational project. Your observations should be illuminated by the material from class, but outside research is required and should be utilized through the Research Resource link. Research findings must be properly cited and must be properly credited in your last slide. Please use MLA format.

(See https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_formatting_and_style_guide.html

Links to an external site.

A typical project will spend the first 5 slides describing both the content and the form of the artwork in detail using at least 5 terms learned in class (ie. sculpture in the round, complementary colors, abstraction, etc.) and possibly providing some background about the artist (but not more than 1 slide).

You should address how the form and content are interacting (ie. Does the artist’s choice of medium enhance or detract from the narrative/subject or the message they are sending to the viewer?). The content includes the narrative or story that is conveyed in the artwork.

The rest of the project should be spent revealing new insights into the work that goes beyond the textbook. This is the essential findings of your research. In the next 5 slides, you should talk about the work's context. You may want to talk about the work’s significance – how it may be a political statement or shows an innovative style, for example. Feel free to compare your work to other works from this time frame, by the same artist or others.

You can show historical photographs or diagram material that help to illustrate your points. Feel free to also incorporate videos into your slides.

I suggest the following organization:

(SAMPLE PRESENTATION)

Slide 1: Title slide

Slide 2: An image of your selected artwork (with artist, title, date, location)

Slide 3: Bullet points describing your artwork

Slide 4: More bullet points describing your artwork

Slide 5: Image of detail(s)of your artwork, or background of the artist

Slide 6: Bullet points describing the significance of the work

Slide 7: Image comparison artworks

Slide 8: Bullet points describing the comparison

Slide 9: More bullet points describing the comparison

Slide 10: Other images (different views of your artwork or historical images related to its context)

Slide 11: Bullet points summarizing your major ideas

Slide 12: Footnotes/Works Cited

In your bullet points, do not copy any sentences or parts of sentences from any publication or website from the museum’s label or audio guide. If you decide to include anyone else’s ideas or words, limit it to a few words and add an endnote to the final slide. (Otherwise, you are committing plagiarism.)

Your work will be graded on the Research Resource Guide provided.