Final Paper The Final Paper is worth 200 points. You are required to visit a reputable art museum in your area and select a work of art to discuss and critique in a formal, iconographic, and historical context. Your grade will be based on the depth of your analysis of the subject. About art criticism […]
Date: August 8th, 2022
Initial Post Instructions For the initial post, select and address one of the following options: Option 1: Choose a work to discuss from one genre that interprets a work from another genre. Include the title, artist, and description of both works. Examine how the artist of the second work captured the subject or story of […]
Date: August 8th, 2022
Instructions: Read Which Is the Most Influential Work of Art Of the Last 100 Years (Plagens, Peter, Newsweek, 7/2/2007, Vol. 150, Issue 2) and review ‘Picasso and American Art’ (Associated Press, 2006). These resources better explain how artists were influenced and inspired by other artists, social influences, and cultures, including Picasso himself while painting “Les […]
Date: August 6th, 2022
Journal 2 (350 to 500 words) What landscape do you most associate with home? Is it the place you now live? Is it a place you visit when you dream? Is it your car? Consider the concept of landscape in relation to your concept of home. Journal 3 (350 to 500 words) What does it […]
Date: August 6th, 2022
Read: After 1940: Abstract Expressionism Paul, A. S. (n.d.). Abstract Expressionism. The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/abex/hd_abex.htm What is abstract expressionism? – Sarah Rosenthal. (n.d.). TED-Ed. https://ed.ted.com/lessons/could-just-anyone-make-a-jackson-pollock-painting-sarah-rosenthal After 1950: Postmodern Art Gambino, M. (n.d.). Ask an Expert: What is the Difference Between Modern and Postmodern Art? Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/ask-an-expert-what-is-the-difference-between-modern-and-postmodern-art-87883230/ 1940s-1960s: Pop Art Spivey, […]
Date: August 6th, 2022
Read: After 1940: Abstract Expressionism Paul, A. S. (n.d.). Abstract Expressionism. The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/abex/hd_abex.htm What is abstract expressionism? – Sarah Rosenthal. (n.d.). TED-Ed. https://ed.ted.com/lessons/could-just-anyone-make-a-jackson-pollock-painting-sarah-rosenthal After 1950: Postmodern Art Gambino, M. (n.d.). Ask an Expert: What is the Difference Between Modern and Postmodern Art? Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/ask-an-expert-what-is-the-difference-between-modern-and-postmodern-art-87883230/ 1940s-1960s: Pop Art Spivey, […]
Date: August 6th, 2022
NOTE: Session 5 Final PowerPoint NOTE: As we culminate our 5-session journey in the art world, you will now use what you have learned in your course assignments and discussions to demonstrate your progressive knowledge of art history, art mediums, and artists’ biographies over the last 5 sessions and how this has impacted your view […]
Date: August 5th, 2022
Discussion Prompt: Fujimura’s Essays NOTE: Based on the essays of Makoto Fujimura, what do you think Christian artists are trying to convey about their faith? Do you think they are having an impact, or in the words of Francis Schaeffer (1974), has the art world been taken away from us by modern culture leaving us […]
Date: August 5th, 2022
Unlike the religious traditions of Asia, Western traditions (particularly Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) are far more reluctant to embrace images in worship. This can be seen especially in the Second Commandment, which states: “4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that […]
Date: August 5th, 2022
Anne-Louis Girodet, Portrait of Jean-Baptise Belley, 1798 (left) Omar Diop, Jean-Baptiste Belley, 2014 (right) Format: Times New Roman or Arial, 12pt, double-spaced. Include a photograph of the original work and your re-created version of it. Length: 1000 (minimum) to 1250 words (maximum). Purpose: To look at and engage closely with a work of art To […]
Date: August 5th, 2022
