Spring Break Assignment

Part I:

Fully identify each piece of artwork with title, artist, medium, time period and date.

Discuss the style, significance, and symbolism for each piece. Why is it important to the history of art? (This should at least be 8 sentences long, if not longer.) Then, using the list of themes below, choose what themes each work of art can be categorized into. There should be several answers for each theme for each work of art.

The use of light in art

Narrative

Body in Art/Human Figure in Art

Nature/The Natural World

Symbols and Allegories

Sacred Spaces

Genre scene/ daily life

Illusion of movement

Significant events from the artists own time

Portraits\Images for religious use (not architecture)

Power and Authority

Patron and Artist

Challenged established traditions

Hostility/violence/war

Cultural attitudes towards women

Part II: Timeline Work

Using the 6 pages (sorry!) of images, please cut them out and glue them while placing them on the brown paper with the respective dates for each period in chronological order using the following categories:

Egyptian Art

Mesopotamian Art

Minoan/Mycenaean

Greek Art

Etruscan Art

Roman

Middle Ages

Romanesque

Gothic

Renaissance

Baroque

Rococo

Enlightenment: Neoclassical, Romanticism

Pre-Modernism: Realism, Impressionism

Modernism: Post-Impressionism to Surrealism

Post-Modernism: Abstract Expressionism to Today

Art Beyond the European Tradition: (place in chronological order)

Part III: Slide Notes

Please complete the slide notes for the pieces of art that are beyond the European Tradition. Fully identify each piece and discuss its significance to that culture. You need to really know and understand the importance and historical context of each art piece. You will need this for the multiple choice and the long essay questions. Do not rush this, as you are only hurting yourself if you do!

If you need any of the images please email me!

Homework: April 10-16

Monday, April 11

Finish the slide notes from the two packets that we did not finish in class.

Also, complete the discussion questions to wrap up this chapteDISCUSSION QUESTIONS - Chapter 33 

1. Compare the use of mass, space, and decorative detail in the Villa Rotonda (FIG. 22-56), Blenheim (FIG. 24-75), Chiswick House (FIG. 28-27), the Villa Savoye (FIG. 33-64), and the Kaufmann House (FIG. 33-68). How are they simial? How are they different? Which do you like best? Why?

2. In what ways does the work of Kollwitz (FIG. 33-41), Barlach (FIG. 33-43), Dix (FIG. 33-40), and Beckmann (FIG. 33-39), relate to eachother? Do you think there are any consistent “German” characteristics?

3. Discuss Picasso’s statement “I paint forms as I think them, not as I see them,” How does the Cubist conception of space differ from that held during the Renaissance?

4. Concern with social issues is apparent in the work of many twentieth century artists, including Mukhina (FIG. 33-74), Lawrence (FIG. 33-77), Beckmann (FIG. 33-39), Kollwitz (FIG. 33-41), Lange (FIG. 33-75), Orozco (FIG. 33-80), Tatlin (FIG. 33-54), and Barlach (FIG. 33-43). Identify the issue that was addressed in each work and the stylistic means the artist used to express that concern. Which do you think is most effective?

5. Compare Brancusi's Bird in Space (FIG. 33-69) with Gabo's Column (FIG. 33-53). In what ways are the forms similar, and in what ways are they different? How does each artist explain the tech­niques and goals of his art?

6. Discuss the aesthetic that developed at the Bauhaus, selecting five images done by Bauhaus faculty to illustrate your discussion.  What effects of their influence do you see in contemporary life?

Tuesday, April 12: Assignment #85

Complete Venn Diagram & Short Answer

Complete the handout for the Venn diagram. The artworks are in the text, however, it would be beneficial if so you do some research outside. Please answer the following ways each piece serves a purpose: Subject, Style, and Symbolism.  Please make sure that you do both Venn Diagrams!

Use 32-12 and 34-3 for the Venn Diagram.

Complete the Long Essay question on Pollock:

Both the 1950 painting shown in the slide and the quotation below are by the same artist. 

“My painting does not come from the easel. . . . I prefer to tack the unstretched canvas to the hard wall or the floor. . . . On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting. . . . When I am in my painting, I’m not aware of what I’m doing. . . . I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.”

Identify the artist. How does the painting reflect the artist’s description of his process? In your answer, make specific references to both the quotation and the painting. (10 minutes)

Wednesday, April 13: Assignment #83 -Time Line

Pop Art

Abstract Expressionism

Minimal Art

Earthworks

Video/Digital Art

Color Field Paintings

Neo-Expressionism

Conceptual Art

Femminist Art

Photorealism

For each, find the relevant dates and the significance (at least two sentences). Place everything on one continuous timeline in chronological order. Please select 1 piece of artwork for each of these movements. In chronological order, please identify the artwork, and explain why it is a good representation of that movement. How was the artist influenced by that style? Why does it look the way it does? What is the historical connection? Please do not simply five me one line answers, elaborate on your responses.

Thursday, April 14: Assignment # 87

Slide Notes

Complete the handout for the slide notes for chapter 34. Make sure to give at least three facts for each work of art!

Friday: Assignment #85: Museum Themes

Museums around the world are curating new exhibitions of their art collection each year around different themes and ideas.

You're to “curate” a show based on a theme you select from the list below.

You need to use ten pieces of artwork for your art exhibition, using the whole timeline of art as your guide.

You must properly cite each work, list them chronologically, and include why/how it represents your chosen theme.

You must include:

• Ten works of art
• One work from beyond the European Tradition (Africa, Oceania, Asia, Native Americas)
• One work from 1850-1900
• One Work from 1900-1945
• One Work from 1945-2011

You are welcome to use works that are not in your text book. They can be drawings, paintings, sculpture or even architecture.

Please choose one of these themes, and select 10 works of art that follow the guidelines above.

• Representations of nature
• Gender issues in art
• Art that “documents” a historical event
• Race, clan and class in art
• Art and technology/technological innovations
• Patronage-role of patron and artist
• War and peace
• Sacred spaces
• The human body in art/different representations

This will be collected on Friday, April 15.

 

 

Homework: April 3-9

Monday, April 4

I will be collecting the time line for chapter 33, the architecture box sheet from Friday, and checking over the box sheet from last chapter.

Tuesday, April 5: Assignment #81 

1.  What are three features that make art in the 1900s so different and 'modernist'?

2.  What was the principle behind the Expressionist movement?

3.  In terms of Die Brucke, how is a metropolis considered a paradox?

4.  What are the two major types of Cubism that Braque and Picasso developed?

5.  Describe Piet Mondrian's De Stijl type of painting.

6.  What was the the goal of Andre Breton's Manifesto of Surrealism?

7.  How did the Farm Securities Administration (FSA) contribute to art in the 1930's?

Wednesday, April 6: Assignment #82 – Short Essay –

The following statement is a quotation from a letter by Frida Kahlo in 1952.

Some critics have tried to classify me as a Surrealist, but I do not consider myself

to be a Surrealist . . . Really, I do not know myself whether my paintings are

Surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of

myself . . . I detest Surrealism. To me it seems to be a decadent manifestation of

bourgeois art, a deviation from the true art that people hope for from the

artist . . . I wish to be worthy with my painting, of the people to whom I belong

and to the ideas that strengthen me . . . I want my work to be a contribution to

the struggle of the people for peace and liberty.

Do you agree or disagree with Kahlo’s assertion that she is not a Surrealist?

Defend your position by discussing specific elements from both the work shown

and the quotation. (10 minutes)

 

The American artist Jacob Lawrence created these two works shown.

Discuss the historical and social themes in his work. How does the artist use formal elements to construct narrative? (10 minutes)

Thursday, April 7: Assignment #83 - Sketchbook Assignment

Futurism

Fauvism

Synthetic Cubism

Dada

Art Nouveau

Analytic Cubism

Dada

Die Brucke

Art Deco

De Stilj

Surrealism

Bahaus

Der Blaue Reiter

Precisionism

International Style

Suprematism/Constructivism

Please select 1 piece of artwork for each of these movements. In chronological order, please identify the artwork, and explain why it is a good representation of that movement. How was the artist influenced by that style? Why does it look the way it does? What is the historical connection? Please do not simply five me one line answers, elaborate on your responses.

Friday, April 8: Assignment #84 – Long Essay - Narrative

Most cultures have made use of art's narrative function.

Select and fully identify two works of art that visually convey a narrative.  At least one of your choices must be from beyond the European tradition.  Identify the subject of each narrative and discuss the means used to convey the narrative. 

Please use a piece from chapter 33 and an Asian, American Indian, Oceanic, or African piece of art.

Homework: March 27 -April 2

Monday, March 28: Assignment #77 – Guided Questions

Complete the handout with the guided questions. You need to have read this chapter in order to correctly answer them.  These questions are focused on the last part of this chapter – architecture and sculpture. I will be collecting this!

Tuesday, March 29: Assignment #78

 Venn Diagram- Architecture 

Complete the handout for the Venn diagram. The artworks are in the text, however, it would be beneficial if so you do some research outside. Please answer the following ways each piece serves a purpose: Subject, Style, and Symbolism.  Please make sure that you do both Venn Diagrams!

Wednesday, March 30: Met. Field Trip

Please make sure you have handed in your permission slip.

Suggested student admission is $10.00.

Bring Lunch!

You will have an activity to do while at the Met, which will be due on Monday, April 4^th.

Thursday, March 31: Assignment #79

Short Essay 

Please complete the THREE short answer essay questions.  These should take you 10 minutes each!

Friday, April 1: Assignment #80 -Timeline Assignment

You are welcome to do this assignment in your sketchbook or on the computer.

For each, find the relevant dates and the significance (at least two sentences). Place everything on one continuous timeline. You must figure out an appropriate scale so that everything is spaced out EVENLY. While you are doing this, it might behoove you to make flashcards for each of these periods! 

Impressionism

Futurism

Realism

Fauvism

Synthetic Cubism

Post-Impressionism

Symbolism

Dada

Art Nouveau

Analytic Cubism

Dada

Die Brucke

Art Deco

De Stilj

Surrealism

Bahaus

Der Blaue Reiter

Precisionism

International Style

Suprematism/Constructivism

Homework: March 20-26

Monday, March 21: Assignment #75 

Questions & Venn Diagram

1. What three nineteenth-century phenomena does the text identify as having contributed to the greater consciousness of modernity, “the state of being modern.”? 

2. How do the works of Millet and Daumier act as social and/or political commentary?  How has the position of the artist changed so that he/she is now making such statements? (Use specific examples.)

 3. Although hailed as the father of Realism, Courbet did not like to be called a Realist. What can we gather from his statements were his goals as a painter?

4. List two features of Courbet’s Burial at Ornans (FIG. 29-2) that horrified contemporary critics

Venn Diagram- Architecture 

Complete the handout for the Venn diagram. The artworks are in the text, however, it would be beneficial if so you do some research outside. Please answer the following ways each piece serves a purpose: Subject, Style, and Symbolism.  

Tuesday, March 22: Assignment #76 - Slide Notes

Complete the slide notes. For each piece of art, fully identify with title, artist, date, and time period. Include at least 3 facts about each piece. Think about its use as propaganda, funerary art, public art, religious art, who commissioned it, why was it made, and what purpose did it serve? 

Wednesday, March 23: -Sketchbook Assignment

  

Analyze Ukiyo-e (Japanese) woodblock prints depicting beautiful women with bathing scenes (Woman at Bath) by Impressionist artist Edgar Degas. Discuss the cultural attitudes towards women and the time in which these works of art were made. In your discussion, make connections to late Classical works such as Praxiteles’, “Aphrodite of Knidos” and Alexandros’ “Venus de Milo”).

Thursday, March 24 - Sketchbook Timeline Assignment

Time Line of the Modernism – Chapter 29 

Using the following categories, choose three works of art from each category. First, fully identify the category, and the major historical events that shaped the artwork during that time. How did the culture influence the art? Fully identify each piece of art you selected, and describe the distinguishing characteristics of each piece. In total, you will have discussed 15 specific pieces of artwork, and described 5 different time periods for a total of 20 points.

1.) Realism

2.) Impressionism

3.) Post-Impressionism

4.) Symbolism

Friday, March 25: 2005 Long Essay – Established Traditions

Frequently in the history of art, artists and architects have challenged established traditions.

Select and fully identify two works that challenged established traditions.  One example must have been produced before 1800 c.e.  Discuss how and why each work constituted a significant challenge to accepted artistic conventions of its time.

Please use an example Chapter 29 and another from your own choosing. Monet, Manet, Courbet, Van Gogh would be good choices, but feel free to use your own choice.