MUSEUM PAPER ASSIGNMENTS: MUSEUM ASSIGNMENT Research paper and Stylistic Analysis : (25% final grade; worksheet 10%) Students are required to write a 4-6 pages. comparison and contrast paper on two artworks they have viewed and analyzed at one of the Houston art museums. Choose from among the following topics: Menil Collection 1) compare and contrast a Byzantine icon painting with an African/Oceanic tribal sculpture Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 2) compare and contrast naturalistic renderings of the human figure in an Italian Renaissance/Baroque painting with a Greek vase painting or Greco-Roman sculpture. Menil Collection, or MFAH 3) compare and contrast an abstract early 20th century modern work (i.e. Picasso; Matisse)with a contemporary nonrepresentational artwork (i.e. Barnet Newman; Mark Rothko; Jackson Pollock; David Smith (sculpture or painting). Research each artist and stylistic movement or civilization. Apply the visual elements in a comparison and contrast pattern of development. Use the following outline in organizing your paper: 1. Introduction: Explain why you chose the comparison and why it appealed to you. 2. Cultural context: Place the artworks within a cultural context. Discuss the social hierarchy, religious beliefs, and other distinguishing features of each civilization/society. Identify iconography and patronage. Explain the purpose of the artwork within the society that produced it. Discuss the artist’s biography and the founding and ideology of the stylistic movement. Modes of Analysis. Iconography, Biographical, Contextual, Feminist and Psychoanalysis. Choose the modes which best apply. III. Visual Analysis: Analyze the object in visual terms. Begin by describing the works in terms of naturalism and realism or abstraction and stylization. Then analyze the object in terms of style using the following vocabulary terms: 1) form; 2) composition; 3) materials and technique; 4) line; 5) color; 6) texture; 7) space; 8) mass; 9) volume; 10) perspective and foreshortening; 11) proportion and scale, etc. See your Sayre, A World of Art textbook Part I for definitions of terms. Be sure to explain exactly how the visual elements contribute to the style the artist uses. Use appropriate vocabulary introduced in each chapter, i.e. Ideal Canon of Human Proportions,contrapposto pose. Define and discuss the media and technique, and its impact on the visual elements and style. Conclusion: What value or meaning do the artworks hold for us today? Is it aesthetic, philosophical, historical? Begin your research in the library and museum catalogs: Suggested Bibliography: Carr, Annemarie Weyl, Bertrand Davezac, and Clare Elliott. Imprinting The Divine : Byzantine And Russian Icons From The Menil Collection. n.p.: 2011.. • The Menil Collection: A Selection from the Paleolithic to the Modern Era. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. Print. Newman, Barnett, et al. Barnett Newman : The Late Work, 1965-1970. n.p.: Houston : The Menil Collection, [2015], 2015. Van Dyke, Kristina. African Art From The Menil Collection. n.p.: 2008. Wilson, Carolyn C. Italian Paintings Xiv-Xvi Centuries in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Houston, Tex: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in association with Rice University Press and Merrell Holberton Publishers, London, 1996. Print. Briefly research the artists' biography and define the stylistic movement, and place the artwork within a cultural context (two-three paragraphs). Then apply the concepts and vocabulary listed on the Museum Assignment Worksheet (Do not submit the worksheet here.) Write a stylistic analysis of three-five paragraphs. Develop paragraphs of three-five sentences in length, each of which begins with a topic sentence for each applicable visual element or principle of design! Be sure to clearly define and illustrate the use of each term by describing specific areas of the artwork’s composition. Provide at least two research references for each artwork, in addition to the textbook. Papers must be typed double-spaced with one inch margins and black 12pt Times Roman font. Use formal English composition format and organization. Use MLA source citation method (Author, page) in body text to document your research, and attach a separate Works Cited page. Use a minimum of two research sources other than your textbook. Use the MLA Handbook as a reference guide to style, formatting and documentation, and the Writing Center for assistance. [Fully document web sources according to the MLA style: Author. “Title”. Journal/Sponsor. date. web. In-text: (shorten“title” paragraph).] NOTE: You chose “Menil Collection, or MFAH 3) compare and contrast an abstract early 20th century modern work (i.e. Picasso; Matisse)with a contemporary nonrepresentational artwork (i.e. Barnet Newman; Mark Rothko; Jackson Pollock; David Smith (sculpture or painting).” Remember the museum worksheet assignment you just did for me. Use the two works of art you that you submitted to me and write the PAPER on. I am attaching the work you did for you to go through and take off from there. Previous Work You Deed Student Name: Basile Course: Art Appreciation (ARTS 1301) Instructor: Professor Date: 15th Mbah Sharon Worley April 2018 QUESTION Menil Collection, or MFAH 3) compare and contrast a realistic work with an abstract modern or contemporary nonrepresentational artwork (i.e. Barnet Newman; Mark Rothko; Jackson Pollock; David Smith (sculpture or painting) or with an early 20th century modern abstract artwork (i.e. Picasso; Matisse) ANSWER Artist: Andy Warhol Artist: Pablo Picasso. Region/Country: New York Region/Country: Spain Title: Ten Foot Flowers Title: Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon. Date: 1967 Date:1907. Medium: Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer Medium: Oil on canvas. Paint on canvas. Style: Pop. Style: Cubism. Patron: Paul Morrissey Patron: Gertrude Stein. Cultural context and artist’s biography On the second half of the twentieth century, Andy Pablo Picasso is a Spanish emigrant. He is Warhol proved to be the greatest and important remembered as one of the most respected, artist. He was creative and a well-known artist influential and greatest artist of the twentieth during his time using both avant-garde and highly century. He was also involved in the creation of commercial sensibilities. cubism. In 1961, he started the concept of "pop art"— Les Demoiselles Avignon enabled the radical move paintings that focused on producing art for sale. from customary composition and view point in artwork. Visual Elements: Subject: Ten-foot flower is an everyday subject. Andy The artwork showed five female prostitutes who Warhol turned to a different source which was were nude and from a brothel on Carrer d'Avinyó a different from his initial artwork. The magazine street in Barcelona, Spain. Each art is shown in a dating June 1964 showed a photograph of seven disconcerting way and none are feminine hibiscus flowers, which was an inspiration that conventionally. Warhol based his art on. Style: Ten-Foot Flowers, an art done in 1967 consumes Early cubic painting our field of vision and this shows the style of art displayed by the artist. Iconography: The flowers motif is a great cultural touchstone The artwork is iconic as no stories are narrated and an ideal framework, which examines the since it focuses directly on the subject matter beauty, symbolism and scientific significance of addressing from internal to external meaning. flowers. Form: 2 dimensional, square. Composed of sharp geometric shape. The whole picture is in a two-dimensional style Composition: Andy Warhol cut the Caulfield’s photograph Balanced making it a perfect square. This made four of the initial seven flowers fit into this square orientation. Technique: Methacrylate, silkscreen ink, and pencil on canvas Oil painting Line: The square format enabled the artist have whole Cubism freedom with orientation, allowing the painting to be placed in a variety of ways. Light: Light is natural, implied inside the picture frame Color: Light is implied through cubism. High saturation with different colors for each Reduces to orange, blue and pink colors. Refers to flower. vast setting and influence by tribe. Chiaroscuro: Light and shade are balanced Curved surface, modeling Texture (quality of surface; rough, shiny, smooth): The surface is quite rough. smooth Pattern: The flowers’ shape is drenched with shouting cubism colors. Mass: No bulk density shown. Humans are clearly defined, lean, contorted and level instead of being circular, huge and crooked. Volume: 9' 7" x 9' 7" (292.2 x 292.2 cm) 8' x 7' 8" (243.9 x 233.7 cm). Perspective: Creates the impression space retreats into the In front of picture plane are women who achieve distance on a 2D surface. the spirit of civilization and an unsettling vigor. This is captured in Gaugain artwork. Abandons perspective and there is a flat 2 dimensional plane preference. Foreshortening: Near and far Near and far Proportion: The flowers have equal proportion on the grass We can divide the painting into portions, i.e., the background (the whole) three-fifths on the left and the two-fifths on the right. Scale: The four flowers in this artwork have relative size There are 5 women in the painting, some are relation. larger than the others. Time and Motion: spatial spatial Emphasis and Focal Point: The focal point is the flowers seen on the grass background. Unity and Variety: No focal point The flowers in the artwork though created in the Linking of the hands represents the unity of the same pattern and great unity, each of them whole painting. possesses different color and meaning. Repetition and Rhythm: The four flowers were created in the same way with different colors. No repetition except for the cubism.