Research Paper

Project Title: Artist Report and Presentation on an artist or art movement.

The subject or artist chosen for you research paper must fit within the timeframe and subject matter studied in class.

Project Brief: Research and choose an artist/art movement from an art history source for your report and presentation. Sources can include art books, magazines and the internet. You can also focus on one or several seminal works from that artist’s practice and discuss them/it in length. Make sure to cite you work correctly. Formats for bibliographies can be found online. Please make sure to cite internet sources as well as printed texts. I have access to turnitin software that checks for plagiarism. Plagiarism will result in an F. MLA or APA formats are the only formats that will be accepted.

Format Your paper should have standard margins 1 or 1.25 inches at the most and be double spaced. Font size should not exceed 12pt. You paper should be at least 10 pages in length with one page for your works cited section and include one page of images that you mention or discuss on a separate page, this make 11 pages the minimum . Save a digital copy of your paper as a doc. file that can be emailed to me if I ask for it.

Presentations:

The presentation notes must be at least one page long and your presentation must include the following:

Background information on the artist.(who, what, when, where)

Why did you choose that particular artist?

How was that particular artist influential within his or her lifetime?

(Historical Context)

Include printed materials that can be presented to the class (visuals) or

create a PowerPoint presentation.

Visuals can include multiples images of works or you can choose to pick just one

image and discuss that image in length.

Due Date: Your one paragraph research paper proposal is Due Feb. 24th. I will hand out a calendar with sign up dates for your presentation next week. Presentations will begin week 12.

If you have any questions email me at [email protected]