Overview: Choose a topic (current, social, historical) or theme ( including subject matter, media) that interests you. Research to discover 3 artists who have addressed that topic or theme in their artwork. These three artists should be working in different time periods, or cultures, art styles, or with different media. You are looking to show and discuss how a specific topic or theme can be interpreted artistically in a variety of ways.
1. Choose a topic or theme: select one that interests you. Possibilities include, but are not limited to: political, environment/recycling, social realism (including economic disparities), portrait, landscape, still life, technology, popular or consumer based work, media (including alternative media), etc.
2. Written paper (approx. 3 pages, 1.5 spaced + images)
1. Discuss your theme or topic that you chose. What is it? Why did you choose it? How did you go about finding your artists and artworks?
2. For each of the three artists discuss their work in an analytical way
1. DESCRIPTION: Artist, title, media, date, and description of the art elements evident in the work: line, color, shape, value, space(depth), texture, volume or mass, time/motion. When discussing any of these terms that are appropriate – use the specific vocabulary that we have been working with and learning all semester.
2. ANALYSIS: Discuss the composition and the principles of design used that are evident in the work. Principles of Design: unity, repetition, variety, emphasis/subordination, contrast, rhythm and/ or pattern, balance, scale and/or proportion. Does the work have a “literal” quality- focusing on a realistic interpretation, a “formal” quality- placing emphasis on arrangement of the elements and principles, or an “expressive” quality- evoking a response of feelings, moods, or emotions in the viewer?
3. INTERPRETATION: Discuss the content, concept, and meaning in the work. This is your opinion based on your observation of the piece- guessing what the artist is trying to convey in the piece. What do you think is most successful in the piece? What part, if any, detracts from the piece?
3. Images- make sure you include images for your artworks.
Resources: The elements and principles definitions lists with specific terms is found on
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/ (searchable by artist, subject, media)
http://www.moma.org/ (museum collection)
http://www.theartstory.org/ (searchable by artist, art movement)
http://metmuseum.org/toah/ (timeline of art history)
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