Art Field Trip
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This field trip provides students with a visual experience of art in its present medium, rather than by slides or copies in books, etc. Students completing this field trip will explore the Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla and demonstrate the ability to express a critical analysis by addressing the following specific questions and taking personal notes on the exhibition.
Assignment (written paper format in paragraphs) Complete ALL parts in any order. Part I – The Uses of Photography: Art, Politics and the Reinvention of a Medium (9/24/2016 – 1/2/2017)
The Uses of Photography examines a network of artists who were active in San Diego between the late 1960s and early 1980s and whose experiments with photography opened the medium to a profusion of new strategies and subjects. Working within the framework of conceptual art, these artists introduced urgent social issues and themes of everyday life with photographic works that took on hybrid forms, from books and postcards to video and text-and-image installations. Tracing a crucial history of photo-conceptual practice, The Uses of Photography focuses on an artistic community that formed in and around the University of California San Diego (UCSD), founded in 1960, and its visual arts department, founded in 1967.
2. Describe each selected work of art noticing the strongest visual elements, such as line, value (light & shadow), stopped time or kinetic, color, visual texture, etc. and/or principles of design, such as emphasis, rhythm, balance, unity & variety, scale or proportion. What makes each selected work of art effective?
3. What do you see as the social or political message of each selected work? Did the artist’s message prove to be true as time passed?
4. What symbolism or metaphors did your selected artist use to engage viewers?
Part II – Berkeley Protest Posters (9/24/2016 -1/2/2016)
1. Select two posters which you feel captures the mood of each decade of the 1960s and 1970s. Remember to state the artist’s name,
title, medium used and date.
2. Did you notice a poster which was appropriated? Explain the appropriation (as to the original idea and the new concept).
State the artist’s name, title, medium used and date. Research and state the original artist, title of work, medium and date.
3. Research Malaquias Montoya and his influence on the Berkeley Protest Posters of the 1970s. What did you find as important
contributions of Montoya and the poster movement itself?
Part III - Edwards Sculpture Garden
1. Venture into the outdoor sculpture garden (downstairs, facing the ocean).
2. Select two works of art. Remember to state the artist’s name, title of work, medium used and date, (found on a plaque close by the work).
3. What might be the meaning of your selected pieces? What did you experience as you walked through the sculpture garden?
4. Also, Long Yellow Hose is a work of art by Gabriel Orozco and Roman de Salvo’s Liquid Ballistic, the cannon (unfortunately, it might still
be broken) is more than what it seems, if you are curious enough to investigate and think about how two people would participate with it and what it might have done, beyond being a weapon.
**Provide a short introduction to your paper.
**In your conclusion, discuss your overall visit to this museum, such as what do you take away from your visit? How was your reaction to seeing works in person rather than from images seen in class or in books? Would you recommend these exhibits and this museum to others? Why or why not?
