Art history paper

Fall Topic Paper:

Choose one of the images below to focus on in your paper.

Venus and Mars, Mural painting, Pompeii, Roman Europa and the Bull, Red figure pottery painting, Greek

Nativity, Wood panel painting, Late Byzantine Adam and Eve, Mosaic, Byzantine

Directions:

When submitting your paper, your name should appear on one side, and the paper topic on the other side, in accordance with your choice of artwork. Like:

Taly Ashkenazi “Adam and Eve” Topic Paper

Paragraph 1: Describe in your own words what you see (a couple of lines at most).

Research the topic (story), read the original text (write the citation at the end of the paper, like: Genesis….. or Ovid, Metamorphoses…).

Choose another artwork with the same topic for a comparison study (choose the same topic but an artwork with a different art style).

Paragraph 2: Attach a small image of the artwork you chose for the comparison.

Under the image, write the artwork details (artist, title, year, technique).

Paragraph 3: Compare both artworks, according to the following elements, in a table form:

• The moment of the story represented in the art (the story that you read from the original text)

• Art style elements analysis (forms, composition, lines, movement….). Use the “how to analyze a work of art” form as a guide.

• Resemblance to the text/literature

Comparison elements Paper’s original artwork Your comparison artwork Moment of story Style Elements: Lines Forms Composition Movement…. (and more style elements)

Resemblance to the text

Paragraph 4: Which artwork of your topic do you prefer and why? (c. 2 lines)

Bibliography: citation

The whole paper/exercise is due by 9.29.16, and should be at most 2 pages long.

Recommendations:

Please make sure to follow the directions, and choose an artwork that is similar in its topic, but different in its art style. If you will choose the comparison artwork from a different period (like from Renaissance art, or even later), it will most likely be of a different style (I limited the original choices of the paper to our course time frame, but you don’t have to limit yourself to it).