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Survey of Art 1100

ASSIGNMENT 3

Due: Wednesday, October 29th 2014

Art: 21 – video: Stories. If you were not here to view the video, do your own research and watch the video online at http://www.pbs.org/art21/series/seasontwo/stories.html . You can also find the video at the Art: 21 website under Season Two, episode “stories”

Many artists tell stories in their work. The artists featured in Stories do so through installation work, sculpture, painting, printmaking, and drawing, inspired by sources as diverse as architecture, literature, mythology, history, and fairytales. Working in a variety of materials, these artists provoke us to think about our own stories, the characters and caricatures, the morals and messages, and the beginnings and endings that define our real and imagined lives.

1. Referencing Korean artist Do- Ho Suh, describe how one creates the feeling of home. Is it a building? A feeling? The people close to you? The decoration? What is the definition of “home” for you personally?

2.) Do-Ho Suh’s Who Am We? (1997) presents thousands of Korean high school yearbook portraits, composed floor to ceiling as wallpaper. Yearbooks are a common representation of the high-school experience, changing in subtle ways over time to reflect the era in which they were created. Could you describe yearbooks as public art? Why or why not?

3. Referencing Kara Walkers work, address the issue of stereotypes and how they are created and perpetuated. How are stereotypes related to the fictional characters and caricatures that one might see in movies or read about in books?

4.) Trenton Doyle Hancock has many objects in his studio that once belonged to his family. He calls these objects “echoes,” and says that because they are in his presence the objects “echo” into his work. What are the important items that you have from your friends or family that create specific “echoes” for you?