Museum Paper | |
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File Type: | docx |
Due: January 14, 2020
Assignment:
You are to attend a museum or gallery, find an interesting work of art, and write a paper about it using the following requirements!
Requirements:
1. Must have a stub, receipt, signature, etc. included with your paper from the museum/gallery as proof you attended.
2. The artist, artwork title, date of the artwork, and materials used to create the work of art must be included in the paper.
3. When writing the paper it must include:
a. Introduction (Description) paragraph
c. Analysis paragraph
d. Interpretation paragraph
e. Conclusion (Evaluation) paragraph
4. Minimum of two pages.
5. The paper must be double spaced, size font 12, and font type Times New Roman.
6. If outside resources were used to write this paper, i.e. internet or books, you must site them in a reference section.
What is expected in the Description, Analysis, Interpretation, and Evaluation paragraphs...
Describe: What do you see?
How does it look? Talk about things such as the arrangement of shapes and forms of objects. Identify line types that create shapes and movement. Do you know anything about the artist that may influence the work? What processes were used to make the work? What events are taking place (time of day, social events, etc)?
Analysis: How is it organized?
When you analyze an artwork, you tell how the subject matter and elements of the work have been organized by the artist. How do the elements and design principles influence the composition? Which ones are strong and which ones are weak? Are the elements and principles being used appropriately?
Elements: Color, value, shape, form, space, line, texture
Principles: Balance, emphasis, proportion, repetition, rhythm, variety, unity
Interpret: What does the artist mean?
Use the information from your description and analysis to help you identify the meaning of the work – what does it tell you about the human experience? Does the work raise questions about art or life? Does it relate to any kind of culture? What objects does the work remind you of? Talk about your own experiences that may relate to the work. Most importantly you should be able to develop some sort of meaning from the work. How does the work become influenced by previous Artistic movements and how does the work influence other Artistic movements?
Evaluate: What’s your opinion?
One word responses do not work here. You need to support your opinion by using facts that you have collected from the work by talking about them in your writing. Start off by asking yourself, is the work completed well, or is the work poorly done, and how? Does the work communicate good design principles and/or elements? Does it try to imitate the real world (Representational)? Is the work an abstraction of the real world (Abstract)? If the work does not represent anything from the real world then it is Non-objective? To what extend does the work hold your attention, arouse curiosity, or make you think?
• Choose a philosophy that the work most pertains to and explain its relation to the philosophy by talking about specific details.
Representational: represents subjects from the real world
Abstract: distorts the view of subjects from the real world
Non-objective: does not represent subjects from the real world
Assignment:
You are to attend a museum or gallery, find an interesting work of art, and write a paper about it using the following requirements!
Requirements:
1. Must have a stub, receipt, signature, etc. included with your paper from the museum/gallery as proof you attended.
2. The artist, artwork title, date of the artwork, and materials used to create the work of art must be included in the paper.
3. When writing the paper it must include:
a. Introduction (Description) paragraph
c. Analysis paragraph
d. Interpretation paragraph
e. Conclusion (Evaluation) paragraph
4. Minimum of two pages.
5. The paper must be double spaced, size font 12, and font type Times New Roman.
6. If outside resources were used to write this paper, i.e. internet or books, you must site them in a reference section.
What is expected in the Description, Analysis, Interpretation, and Evaluation paragraphs...
Describe: What do you see?
How does it look? Talk about things such as the arrangement of shapes and forms of objects. Identify line types that create shapes and movement. Do you know anything about the artist that may influence the work? What processes were used to make the work? What events are taking place (time of day, social events, etc)?
Analysis: How is it organized?
When you analyze an artwork, you tell how the subject matter and elements of the work have been organized by the artist. How do the elements and design principles influence the composition? Which ones are strong and which ones are weak? Are the elements and principles being used appropriately?
Elements: Color, value, shape, form, space, line, texture
Principles: Balance, emphasis, proportion, repetition, rhythm, variety, unity
Interpret: What does the artist mean?
Use the information from your description and analysis to help you identify the meaning of the work – what does it tell you about the human experience? Does the work raise questions about art or life? Does it relate to any kind of culture? What objects does the work remind you of? Talk about your own experiences that may relate to the work. Most importantly you should be able to develop some sort of meaning from the work. How does the work become influenced by previous Artistic movements and how does the work influence other Artistic movements?
Evaluate: What’s your opinion?
One word responses do not work here. You need to support your opinion by using facts that you have collected from the work by talking about them in your writing. Start off by asking yourself, is the work completed well, or is the work poorly done, and how? Does the work communicate good design principles and/or elements? Does it try to imitate the real world (Representational)? Is the work an abstraction of the real world (Abstract)? If the work does not represent anything from the real world then it is Non-objective? To what extend does the work hold your attention, arouse curiosity, or make you think?
• Choose a philosophy that the work most pertains to and explain its relation to the philosophy by talking about specific details.
Representational: represents subjects from the real world
Abstract: distorts the view of subjects from the real world
Non-objective: does not represent subjects from the real world