Analyze a specific contemporary art exhibition. Explore the context of the exhibition in relation to below learning outcomes, how to context of the exhbition affected the artists work.

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Art exhibition

Analyze a specific contemporary art exhibition. Explore the context of the exhibition in relation to below learning outcomes, how to context of the exhbition affected the artists work.

Present evidence of a high level of independent, scholarly research.
Critically analyse a range of textual and non-textual sources concerning art exhibitions in a variety of contexts.
Articulate how exhibitions operate for contemporary art, clearly presenting responses that are imaginative, rigorous and nuanced.

“Major exhibitions or curated projects initiated in different places around the world have variously convened a shared present across distance through art. We will reflect on the implications for selected artworks at the moment of public engagement: how do these conjure with or disrupt the idea of international, cross-cultural, global, planetary – or another understanding of – contemporaneity?

On this course we will discuss the “extreme internationalism” of Conceptual art shows since the late 1960s, and the “global contemporary” framing of survey exhibitions – notably art biennials – since the late 1980s. We will consider the roles played by concepts such as national representation, multiculturalism and anti-imperial nationalism. We will analyse how numerous factors – for example: artist networks, curatorial agency, installation serendipity, national backing, educational experience and cultural identity – may affect visibility, especially when exhibiting “at large” rather than “at home” (however many places may be counted as “home”). Visibility afar, or critical engagement in a distant locality, will be prioritised above successful commercial access to new art markets, when thinking about exhibiting abroad.”

Which style/period appeals to you most? Why? Which particular work of art did you like best? Why were you drawn to this particular work? How did the surroundings/setting of the museum and display of the art affect your experience?

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The Nelson Museum Visit and Reflection

The Nelson Atkins in Kansas City is a world class art museum, with a truly wonderful collection spanning all time periods and genres. My personal favorite is the Caravaggio (one of only 7 in the States) and the Impressionist/Post Impressionist collection. The Egyptian collection is stunning as well. Admission is free, however special exhibits may cost, seeing them would be your choice.

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art – Kansas City

As you take in the art, be aware and make a note of the following:

  • Which style/period appeals to you most? Why?
  • Which particular work of art did you like best?
  • Why were you drawn to this particular work?
  • How did the surroundings/setting of the museum and display of the art affect your experience?
  • Did you gain an understanding or make a connection with any of the art you interacted with?

Soon after your visit, write a two-page (double-spaced) reflection that addresses the above questions. Be sure to use proper language and spell check as you write

Attend a live or virtual concert and write a paper of at least 600 words describing the music you heard and the experience you had.

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Concert report

You will attend a live or virtual concert and write a paper of at least 600 words describing the music you heard and the experience you had. Please include the following:

Attach a copy of the program, if there was one.

  • Name of the artist(s), location, date.
  • What was the genre of the music?
  • What influences from the past do you hear in the music?
  • Why did you like or dislike the performance?

This paper must be well-organized and utilize correct grammar and spelling.

Visit one of the virtual museum tours posted on Blackboard, and choose one work in the virtual exhibition that interests you. Imagine that you are describing your selected artwork to a friend. Carefully observe the selected work and write a visual analysis on your selected artwork.

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Visual analysis 2

Visit one of the virtual museum tours posted on Blackboard, and choose one work in the virtual exhibition that interests you. Imagine that you are describing your selected artwork to a friend. Carefully observe the selected work and write a visual analysis on your selected artwork.

Your visual analysis should be two pages long, double spaced. Attach your essay to this page.

The following should be included in your visual analysis:
Title of work, artist name, media, approximate size and date (if known).
A detailed description of the work’s form with regard to at least two art elements. Consider the work’s use of line, color, shape, texture, light, value, etc. Please refer to the introduction of your text book for a description of the elements of art.
A detailed description of the work’s composition with regard to at least two principles of design. Consider how the work achieves unity or variety, balance, rhythm, etc. A complete list of the principles of design can be found in the introduction of your text book.
A discussion of the work’s representation in regard to its degree of naturalism, stylization or abstraction.
A thoughtful examination of the work’s content. Consider: what is represented in the work? If the work contains figural or other representation, how is the figure represented? Does the figure represent cultural ideals of beauty discussed in class? What kind of political or social issues would you say the work reflects, if any? If the work is not representational, what does the image evoke?

This is a visual analysis, not a research paper. As such, it must include your own observations and ideas, written in your own words. Also remember that your observations must be organized in the form of an essay, with an introduction, body of text, and a conclusion. Do not write a ‘laundry list’ of your observations. You know you have done a good job describing the work if you think the reader will be able to visualize it from your description alone.

What is the primary theme of “The Oppositional Gaze?” What does hooks describe as the primary problems black women must address as spectators of film (and by proxy, other forms of media such as photography) relational to the white male gaze?

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The Oppositional Gaze, Black Female Spectators

For our response to hooks’ essay, “The Oppositional Gaze, Black Female Spectators,”break the essay down and reflect it back through the following prompts. Reread the essay with the questions in mind, taking notes, and then answer them. In your response, please head each answer with the number of each question.

  1. What is the primary theme of “The Oppositional Gaze?”
  2. What does hooks describe as the primary problems black women must address as spectators of film (and by proxy, other forms of media such as photography) relational to the white male gaze?
  3. How are these problems extended and/or amplified in the feminist dialogue (of that time) for black female spectators?
  4. What is the “oppositional gaze?” How is it acquired and how can it be utilized?
  5. What is the most important thing you take from the essay? That is, how is the essay addressing/affecting you and what do you take away from it for yourself/ves? (Groups should include answers from each individual member for this particular question).

Your response should be at least 250 words in length per question. Upload as a double spaced pdf here.

DO a research paper on how Charles Lindbergh was an isolationist and how it relates to him being an American hero.

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Charles Lindbergh as an Isolationist

DO a research paper on how Charles Lindbergh was an isolationist and how it relates to him being an American hero. Must be eight pages with a ninth page that has at least 8 sources.

­What is my gut reaction to this work of art? ­What is my emotional response? ­Why does it make me feel that way? What are the most obvious thematic and formal qualities? What is it of?

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Art Criticism Paper

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Directions:

Read “A Structure For Pedagogical Art Criticism” Tom AndersonLinks to an external site.. (below as pdf)

Choose a drawing, painting, print, or sculpture that you LOVE or HATE. Make sure that you know the name of the artist who created the artwork and that you are able to find biographical information on the artist. Complete the following essay. It is important that you read through the outline first and understand what each point is asking; you will need to have read the article to understand completely. Take time to reflect on each question and answer thoroughly, thoughtfully, and comprehensively. Your essay will be a minimum of three full double spaced pages. Use proper citations, it is required. Create a Works Cited page after your three page essay. Find 2-3 sources outside of our textbook.

Reaction:
­What is my gut reaction to this work of art?

­What is my emotional response?

Perceptual Analysis:
­Why does it make me feel that way?

A. Representation­

What are the most obvious thematic and formal qualities?
What is it of?

B. Formal Analysis

What elements and principles strike you as significant in the work and how do they contribute to the visual experience?
How does the work make visual sense?

C. Formal Characterization

What is the artwork’s style?
What expressive words define it?
What metaphors? What does it remind you of (mimesis)? Does it have human qualities (anthropomorphic)?

3. Personal Interpretation
What personal meaning do you find in this artwork?

4. Contextual Research
A. Research
What were the artist’s goals?
How can you look at this from an Expressivist point of view?
A Socioculturalist point of view?

5. Synthesis
A. Resolution- What is there about this work that is significant to me?

b. Evaluation- Does the work accomplish what the artist set out to do?

Tell us about where you found you inspiration and you are deriving your own unique patter and composition from this patter. Share any links that you found helpful or relevant to your research.

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Project 2 Art

Research

    • Brief paragraph 5-6 sentences. tell us about where you found you inspiration and you are deriving your own unique patter and composition from this patter. Share any links that you found helpful or relevant to your research.
  • 10 sketches. (include details of what your repeating pattern will be and your overall composition
  • Think about Unity, pattern, and composition vocabulary and how your peers have successfully applied the vocabulary to portray the six actions: Repetition, Pattern, Unified Element (texture, color, shape, line, scale, etc), Unified Velocity (objects traveling in a similar direction or rate of speed), Overall Pattern (e.g., grid), Symmetry (two way, four way, radial), aesthetic, Simplicity, Random Rhythm, Regular Rhythm, Alternating Rhythm, Flowing Rhythm, Progressive Rhythm. Critical Thinking Combines
    • Evaluation of all available information
    • Analysis of visual relationships
    • Exploration of alternative solutions

    – Objective Criticism

    • The type of balance used in the composition and how it was created
    • The spatial depth of a design and its compositional effect.
    • The degree of unity in a design and how it was achieved

    -Subjective Criticism

    • The meaning of the artwork
    • The feeling it evokes
    • Its relationship to other cultural events
    • The artist’s intent

Explain the subject of the artwork, providing specifics. Describe the style attributes. Guide your reader’s eye around the work by describing specifics. Are there style borrowings from the ancient world? How has the artist created an illusion of deep space and a tangible world?

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Assignment Discussion 1a:

Choose one of the following thematic options, and find one piece of art for one of the following trends:

  • Artistic borrowing from the ancient Greco-Roman world. A work by Brunelleschi, Donatello, or Michelangelo might make a good choice.
  • The artistic skills used to convincingly recreate optical perception. A painting would be a good choice to illustrate this trend. Masaccio, Sandro Botticelli, Filippo Lippi, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Andrea Mantegna, Titian, Michelangelo, and Raphael all had the various skills to create believable depth and convincing illusion.
  • Contemporary portraiture as it celebrates individual achievement or personal wealth. A portrait often reflects an agreement between artist and sitter on how the sitter wants to be perceived. Great Renaissance portraits were produced by Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Raphael, Leonardo, and Giovani Battista Moroni along with many others.

The pop-ups in the pictures will help you develop the power of looking, and train your eye to see art through the lens of a critic just like our curator

  • Filippo Brunelleschi, Church of San Lorenzo interior, completed 1470, Florence
  • Sandro Botticelli, Annunciation, 1490, tempera on panel, Kelvingrove Art Museum and Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
  • Titian, Eleanora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino, 1538, oil on canvas, Uffizi Gallery, Florence

You will need to do some research to understand on the artwork that you chose, and the best place to start is with the museum website.

  1. Introduce the artwork by providing artist, title, date, medium (materials it is made from, such as oil paint on panel), museum that owns it, and the trend is represents. Following are two helpful sites to search for art samples: Metropolitan Museum in New York City;Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
  2. Explain the subject of the artwork, providing specifics.
  3. Describe the style attributes. Guide your reader’s eye around the work by describing specifics.  Are there style borrowings from the ancient world? How has the artist created an illusion of deep space and a tangible world?
  4. Supply some historic context for your artwork.
  5. Include an illustration or link to the artwork.
  6. Cite your source(s) within the text and provide a reference(s).

 

 

How do each of these artist relate to the idea of Visual Culture? Did work work of these artist challenge your expectations of the creation and function of art? Give specific examples form the videos.

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Art and Visual Culture

Instructions:

Part 1: Watch the Videos (You must watch all three)

Nick Cave: Nick Cave Brings Art, Sculpture to Life, 2016. (5:22 Min)

Nick Cave creates “Soundsuits”—surreally majestic objects blending fashion and sculpture—that originated as metaphorical suits of armor in response to the Rodney King beatings and have evolved into vehicles for empowerment. Fully concealing the body, the “Soundsuits” serve as an alien second skin that obscures race, gender, and class, allowing viewers to look without bias towards the wearer’s identity. Cave regularly performs in the sculptures himself, dancing either before the public or for the camera, activating their full potential as costume, musical instrument, and living icon. Cave’s sculptures also include non-figurative assemblages, intricate accumulations of found objects that project out from the wall, and installations enveloping entire rooms.

Tanya Aguiñiga, Borderlands, 2020. (17:25 Min)

The binational artist Tanya Aguiñiga pushes the power of art to transform the United States-Mexico border from a site of trauma to a creative space for personal healing and collective expression. Reflecting the cultural hybridity and community of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, the artist discusses her upbringing in Tijuana, her training as a furniture and craft designer, and her artistic beginnings with the Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo collective.

Michael ArcegaSPAM/MAPS (Links to an external site.): World (Detail), Spam luncheon meat and pins, 3′ x 4′ x 2″, 2001

Food as a symbolic material that speaks to cultural exchange, in this case as a result of World War II. SPAM, if you aren’t already aware, is a loved/hated canned meat consumed by hungry people all over the world. It’s also “MAPS” spelled backwards. San Francisco-based artist Michael Arcega

Links to an external site. used SPAM in MAPS form, showing how the “Diasporic nature is symbolic of America’s ongoing influence on many nations.”

Prompt Guidelines:

Written Analysis – Essay Format:

(Worth 30 points)

After you watch the videos, in your written analysis, address the art and artists featured in each video in an essay:

  1. How do each of these artist relate to the idea of Visual Culture?
  2. Did work work of these artist challenge your expectations of the creation and function of art? Give specific examples form the videos.
  3. Can you relate to each of their experiences? If not, why do you think that is? Explain your answers.
  4. How does the art made by each of these artists specifically generate emotions related to pleasure, power, and fantasy.
  5. How does the work of Tanya Aguiñiga relate to humanity and nature, the theme of Chapter 13?
  6. How does the work of Micheal Arcega, relate to the term “Visual Culture?”
  7. Where does this art belong? Think about it for a second. You can literally watch this videos almost anywhere in the world with internet access and experience the power, creativity, and grace of the artists. Sure you can put the remnants of their art pieces within the walls of a museum, but is that the best place for it?