Description
This assignment has 2 parts one is an essay and the other one is to make a presentation on it.
PART 1: ESSAY
This essay fulfills the course requirement to conduct written research on a work of art or architecture, as seen in person. This work of art or architecture must be from the period covered in the course. Your topic does not have to be covered in the textbook, but it should be from the period of 1300 - Present. In your paper, you must provide a clear thesis and demonstrate your support for that thesis in your research.
This assignment combines the required skills necessary for investigating a work of art, and the necessity of actually seeing those objects to that research. Therefore, in this assignment, you will be required to write about a work of art you have seen in person. For area museums that you can visit, access the Sources of Museum Visit link below. If you live outside of Northern Virginia or the Washington, DC Metro area, please contact your instructor for approval or ideas for museum visits in your area. You will need approval from your instructor to use online museum collections in lieu of an on-site visit. Referring to the museum catalog and/or label information (what contextualizes the important facts about the work of art), your research will expand upon one Important aspect of the work you learned from the museum. |
Details
- 750 - 1000 words
- 3 to 4 FULL pages, double-spaced and typed, in 12pt. font
- Images should be submitted separately
- at least 3 sources (other than your text)
Information Literacy.
You must use this Research Resource Guide (Links to an external site.) to access the following credible academic sources on the basis of your research:
- books
- dissertations
- interviews
- journals
- magazines
- videos
Websites and encyclopedic entries will not be counted as appropriate research sources. What is provided for you through the Research Resource Guide are the required, credible, peer-reviewed sources you will need for this assignment. If you are unsure of the legitimacy of any of your sources, please ask the instructor.
Demonstrate
- You must provide a clear thesis, which addresses an important aspect of the museum's context of the work. For example, the museum text may discuss a work of art's relation to social and political ideas within society when it was created it. If it discusses the artist's biography, you may discuss how the work of art related directly to that biography.
- Provenance is the history of ownership. In addressing provenance, you answer: Was the work commissioned and why? If not, why was it made? What were the artist's intentions? Provenance is also an important aspect you will find in the museum's information.
- How do factors like the historical context and location shape the meaning of the work?
- You must also discuss style. Remember that in discussing style, you are often referring to a period style or regional style. In order to discuss style, you must utilize formal analysis to communicate the work's key features. Give attention to the materials and techniques the artist used to effectively communicate their ideas. Those materials and techniques are also particular to time and place.
- The possibilities are endless, but you must demonstrate that you understand the existing and accepted interpretations of a work of art architecture. This essay should be thoughtfully responsive to the museum's research you encountered in your visit, and you will be expanding upon, or even arguing against, previous research.
- You must include MLA (Links to an external site.) citation style, with endnotes and a complete bibliography on two separate pages at the end of the paper. A full resource guide to MLA citation is also included in the Research Resource Guide.
PART 2: PRESENTATION
PURPOSE
Earlier in the class, you researched a work of art or architecture and discussed your findings in a Research Essay. Research Powerpoint will compile the important points of your research into a presentation for your classmates.
DIRECTIONS
You will lead a bullet-point discussion on style, context, content, purpose of your chosen work and offer some insight into the use of formal analysis. During your discussion, you should not only introduce the basic facts of the work but give consideration to the following:
- Provenance: was the work commissioned and why? If not, why was it made? What were the artist's intentions?
- What are the interpretations of the work?
- How do factors like the historical context, location, artist biography, shape the meaning of the work?
- Remember that in discussing style you may refer to a period, region, or personal style.
You may also include any other methodology for discussion that you think applies or is interesting, such as a psychological analysis, a feminist response, politics, science, etc.
You may choose any application to create your presentation, but it must be in the format of a slide show and saved as a .ppt or .pptx file. Your presentation must include both images and bullet points to explain your artwork.
This is an observational project. Your observations should be illuminated by the material from class, but outside research is required and should be utilized through the Research Resource link. Research findings must be properly cited and must be properly credited in your last slide. Please use MLA format.
A typical project will spend the first 5 slides describing both the content and the form of the artwork in detail using at least 5 terms learned in class (ie. sculpture in the round, complementary colors, abstraction, etc.) and possibly providing some background about the artist (but not more than 1 slide).
You should address how the form and content are interacting (ie. Does the artist’s choice of medium enhance or detract from the narrative/subject or the message they are sending to the viewer?). The content includes the narrative or story that is conveyed in the artwork.
The rest of the project should be spent revealing new insights into the work that goes beyond the textbook. This is the essential findings of your research. In the next 5 slides, you should talk about the work's context. You may want to talk about the work’s significance – how it may be a political statement or shows an innovative style, for example. Feel free to compare your work to other works from this time frame, by the same artist or others.
You can show historical photographs or diagram material that help to illustrate your points. Feel free to also incorporate videos into your slides.
I suggest the following organization:
(SAMPLE PRESENTATION)
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: An image of your selected artwork (with artist, title, date, location)
Slide 3: Bullet points describing your artwork
Slide 4: More bullet points describing your artwork
Slide 5: Image of detail(s)of your artwork, or background of the artist
Slide 6: Bullet points describing the significance of the work
Slide 7: Image comparison artworks
Slide 8: Bullet points describing the comparison
Slide 9: More bullet points describing the comparison
Slide 10: Other images (different views of your artwork or historical images related to its context)
Slide 11: Bullet points summarizing your major ideas
Slide 12: Footnotes/Works Cited
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Work of Art (A superb Baroque: Art in Genoa)
The national gallery of art welcomes people from all walks to experience and explore
art and share their humanity. There are a variety of art exhibitions that serve us with
creativity as it happened over a certain period. It is a nation’s museum that collects,
preserves, exhibits and fosters the understanding of works of art. According to the National
Gallery of Art, the exhibition that I saw in the national gallery of art is the A superb Baroque:
art in Genoa which ranged from the period 1700-1750. The curators were Piero Boccardo,
Franco Boggero, and Jonathan Bober. The work of art came as a result of the banking
activities that took place in Genoa. The artists took it as an opportunity to create a beautiful
and rich expression of the baroque style with a collection of unique materials to bring the
exuberant feeling and visual splendor. The main representation of the Genoese baroque in the
United States was massive because it was a full catalog with a collection of sculptures,
paintings, decorative arts, drawings, and prints that range from 1600 to 1750. The work of art
represents the scope and scale that is unprecedented in the United States, the society
influenced the work of art through trade and the banking system which led to the
transformation of the Mediterranean port city in Genoa, making it rise to a cosmopolitan
center of wealth and culture. According to National Gallery of Art, the people who invested
in the activities like the artists were eager to show their prosperity, thus, they concentrated
their energy on decorating the chapels, palaces, and churches. The act led to the attraction of
other lucrative commissions like Rubens, Van Dyck, and other known painters from Europe
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to Genoa to join local artists in utilizing the baroque style to make splendid sculptures,
paintings on paper. It is clear that the Superb Baroque is a representation or contribution of
various artists’ skills and ideas.
The work was not commissioned because the rich families that lived in Genoa had
accumulated extraordinary wealth which made them compete for social prestige and political
positions; thus, it made them invest more in visual cultures such as civil construction,
residential homes filled with all kinds of fresco decorations and ecclesiastical projects that
made the city to stand out. The uniqueness of the place led to the spread of the information
too far areas through its financial and commercial networks and a tradition that comprised of
an exchange of all kinds. The culture that Genoa adopted was complex in expression and took
a very varied form because it attracted artists from all parts of Europe who contributed to the
work of art with their unique skills. According to the Tate Museums of Britain, various artists
such as Bernado Strozzi and Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione are among the native artists and
other foreign artists like Paul Rubens and Anthony Van Dyck. According to Phillips
Collection, the works were done on paper while other collections by non-Genoese artists
were responsible for paintings and objects. The representations elaborate a skill that showed a
pictorial nature and production of autonomous function that distinguish the works done by
the Genoese artists and the non-Genoese. The works of art were highly valued with the
various forms of imagination and fluency that the artists adopted in representing their work.
The style involved in the A superb Baroque is a Baroque style which is a
revolutionary approach that was developed by the Genoese artists. The equal contribution and
coexistence of foreign and local ideas was a characteristic of Genoese art that involved
various stylistic possibilities. In the 17th century, the styling was meant to address the visual
feeling, while later in this period, artists started to utilize the local and...