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1-Pretend the art club has monies left over and asked the students to weigh in on a potential artist (Ai WeiWei, Jason Allen, Marina Abramovic) visit to the school. What are your thoughts regarding your assigned artist? Reference at least one artwork or style known by this artist and why it might be of benefit to Palm Beach State Students. You will be automatically enrolled into a Group Discussion group. How does the work of these contemporaries relate to their predecessors (Dadaists, Surrealists, or the Gutai)? How does the subject matter of this artist relate to your peers? If you are in disagreement with this artist as a potential speaker share your reasons. Submit your proposal in a minimum of 500 words, and then respond to at least two of your peer’s submissions. Responses should be either in support of or against the student’s proposal. Supportive responses should include at least one artwork example not previously mentioned in the initial thread. In peer responses, provide one counterargument to your peers. Counter arguments should be supported with valid points and logic (Be respectful of other’s ideas).  Be specific and use supporting details from the artist's life or artwork.  All work should be cited in APA format. (Assignment time expectation: 3-4 hours 2-How do graphic designers utilize text and image to convey a message? Consider the works of the Guerilla Girls’ Metropolitan Museum Poster and Chaz Maviyane-Davies’ Seeking Asylum is a Human Right, describe the role of image to text and vice-versa. In contrast, how can images communicate ideas that are difficult to communicate with words alone, for example Jonathan Barnbrook’s Drowning in Advertising from Olympukes.Answers should be between 250-500 words in paragraph format and include works cited in APA format. 3a). Discuss the benefits to schools and society by having children learn the student role - conforming, lining up, following directions, not interrupting, etc. What are the costs or negative consequences of learning the student role? 3b) Should American women continue to give birth in the lithotomy position? If yes, why? If no, why not?

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All answers should use terminology from throughout the course from  the Study Guide for Art Terminology.  All answers should be your  original thoughts not copied or paraphrased  from other nor from  published material.  All answers should be in paragraph form and should  include examples of art works and explanations using course  terminology.  Your answers should show that you have accomplished the  objectives of this course (See page 1 of the Course Syllabus). Questions:  Art Criticism involves the critical analysis of an art work.  There are several steps to the process that move from simple to complex  cognitive levels.  The Study Guide, Looking at Art Seeing Questions, leads you through the process. Discuss, in paragraph form, the following art work, Sorrow Falls Like Mist,  by Donna McGee using art terminology and the Study Guide, Looking at Art Seeing Questions.  Note: You should have prepared your answer when completing the Study Assignment on Art Criticism in Module 6.  In paragraph form, summarize your views regarding art collecting.  Do  you believe art should be valued as a commodity, collected to add  prestige to one's social status, or does it have an intrinsic value  related more to what it adds to our lives?  Give examples of artist and art works from the video in the study assignment for the lesson on collecting to support your views. Use terminology from the Study Guide for Art Terminology. Don't forget about New Media, New Ideas terminology.  Note: You should have prepared your answer when completing the Study Assignment on Art Collecting in Module 6.  Discuss the new media and new ideas terminology as applied to  each of the video artists featured in Module 5: New Media, New Ideas: Goldsworthy, Chihuly, Muniz and Christo/Jean Claude.  Discuss  how at least 2 terms (below) apply to each artist and give examples  from the art featured in the videos.  Artists must be discussed  individually, not as a group.  Do not use the same terms for each artist.  Some  of the terms you should be using are: Conceptual Art, Volunteerism,  Collaboration, Environmental Issues, Social Issues, Non-traditional  mediums, Non-traditional spaces and places to show or create art, Time  and Motion, Assemblage, and Recycling/Repurposing. Give examples of how  the artists used these ideas in their art.

Digital Necromancy  -  Digital Necromancy is the process of re-creating celebrities digitally, or otherwise bringing dead celebrities "back to life" in today's entertainment. In SIX paragraphs (6-7 sentences per paragraph) explain if you feel that this ability to bring celebrities back to life (digitally) is a good or a bad thing. If you were a celebrity, would you put a clause in your will (as Carrie Fisher did that allows her to be in Star Wars or as Robin Williams did, disallowing any digital use of his image) to allow or protect against you being used in commercials or movies without your consent? What if you died in the 1960s and now your grand-nephew was putting you in beer commercials today? Is it OK, or is it wrong? Should only celebrities alive today (who realize that this technology is possible) be able to participate in this kind of after-death contract, as opposed to those who died over 30 years ago and would not have known to include a clause in their will prohibiting this type of usage of their image? You can bring up any other issues that you can think of on this issue in your writing. Finally, try to find an example of a dead celebrity selling something today (apart from the ones exampled in the video). It can be just a photograph in an ad, or a moving image like a commercial or one in a movie (like President Kennedy reanimated in the film Forrest Gump). What do you think? Watch the Time Magazine video "Digital Necromancy: Advertising with Reanimated Celebrities."LinkLinks to an external site.

want to explore the influence of Provence's natural landscapes on the works of famous artists like Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne. Digging deep into how the region's vibrant colors, unique light, and picturesque scenery inspired their masterpieces, examining specific paintings and their connections to the Provencal environment. Research Paper - For the research paper, you can use research already gathered, organized, and published by others (secondary). The secondary information you gather must be academic (no blogs, Wikipedia, magazines, or newspaper articles). You need a total of 5 sources for this paper. Only one of those sources can be from Smart History. Do not use Khan Academy, Art Story, Wikipedia, or any other encyclopedia source. Only use the aforementioned sources for their bibliography and not content. You will notice that some of the information in the bibliography is from outside academic sources. You should not use those sources. The goal is for you to develop your own original idea based on your research and visual observation of the artwork you have already written about. For this paper, your thesis will be based on a combination of your research and the artwork's formal elements. You can include, iconography, symbolism, historical information, biography, etc. However, the research and the formal analysis should guide your thesis. You will lose points if your paper includes irrelevant information that does not support your thesis. This paper is 3 to 4 pages long. It should be titled, have 1-inch margins on all sides, and use a standard font no larger than 12 pt (which translates into approximately 750 to 1000 words). It should also be free of grammatical errors and have proper punctuation, capitalization, and italics. Make sure the paper includes the following: 1.   A thesis statement (an argument) developed by you from the research you gather and the visual information in the artwork. impact the viewer and enhance meaning in the work. Please underline your thesis statement in the first paragraph. 2.  An overall description of the artwork so the reader can form a picture of it in their mind‘s eye. (Focus on what the artwork looks like instead of subject matter). 3.  A detailed analysis of the formal characteristics of the work and how it relates to the information you have uncovered. 4. Use your own words. Try not to use direct quotes in this very short paper. However, you still need to cite the ideas. 5. Bibliography and citations in any style, but please be consistent. 6. Title, Artist, Year of the painting. The title of the painting should be italicized. Organize your essay so that the first paragraph contains a clear argument about the artwork (see the sample paper for an example of the argument you can make). Subsequent paragraphs provide support for your argument. Use strong topic sentences at the start of each paragraph. The last paragraph should be a short summary of your argument and the evidence you provided. Use vivid language (verbs! adjectives!) appropriate for an academic paper.

Part 1 Lecture Video Reading1 - Florentine Codex Reading 2 - Featherworks Questions (1) After watching the lecture, briefly describe the way that elites in Europe experience the "discovery" of the new world. You should reference a SPECIFIC examples from the lecture. (2) After reading the article on the Florentine Codex, use a direct quotation, describe the process Bernardino de Sahagún used for gathering the information included in the Florentine Codex. (3) What is the evidence for Nahua artist's absorbing the style of European art? Explain which SPECIFIC techniques they used. (4) After reading the section "A Nahua Perspective?" describe how the Florentine Codex becomes a site for documenting indigenous history and resistance to colonialism. (5) Let's move on to the article on the featherwork Mass of St. Gregory. Who is likely to have made this? Describe the "clash" of traditions in this work of art. How does this work of art compare to the Florentine Codex in terms of the agency of indigenous artisans? Part 2 Lecture Video Outside Video Reading - Friends, I have pasted in the quotations I used in the lecture below. I am also attaching the entire original article, but it is quite long and dense. If one of Alessandro’s parents was of African ancestry, we must recognize that this may not have been scandalous or entirely anomalous. We must be prepared to go back to a period before the hegemony of race, when differences were perceived but not invariably conceived of as signs of natural hierarchy among varying groups. This period has been almost lost to history, beneath the crushing weight of the Atlantic slave trade and European colonialism, which in certain respects destroyed a horizontal multicultural world and established instead a fatal culture of racism, in which mixing or blending became the monstrous exception. What has been lost in the debate about Alessandro’s racialized looks is the human reality of the Mediterranean as a thriving world of cultural traffic and familial exchange, where differences were not always reduced to matters of race or skin color. The multicultural Mediterranean world is evident in the literature of Italy, which features many accounts of economic, political, and romantic contacts between Italian cities and those of Africa and the Levant. Mistaken Identities?: Alessandro de’ Medici and the Question of “Race” Mary Gallucci Questions In the first half of our lecture we discuss two portraits of Alessandro de'Medici. (1) How is Alessandro's background described on the Uffizi website? (2) The scholar Mari Gallucci suggests that we should approach these portraits with caution because our modern categories of race are difficult to apply to the early modern period. Select a portion of one of her quotes from lecture and explain how it applies to the situation of Alessandro. Next, let's turn our attention to the Americas, where Spanish authorities institute a very rigid hierarchy for considering racial mixing. (3) Broadly describe what "Casta" paintings consist of--what is the idea behind these works of art? How do they attempt to address the "anxiety" over racial mixing? According to the video, what is the purpose of these works of art? Setting aside the issue of racial categorization, what other representations of life in the Americas are included in these images? (4) Compare and contrast the strategies for representing race in the Alessandro de'Medici Portraits and Casta paintings? How do they represent a shift as the world moves towards the modern era?

Three things have characterized this term and our class:  (1) we have been looking broadly at Italian Renaissance art and the visual culture early modern Italy; (2) we have regularly talked about current events, their importance in our lives, and their connections—from specific to general— to an understanding and interpretation of art and its history in that particular period; and (3) you have composed written reflections on topics of your choosing inspired by course materials and discussions. The thread that links all three of these is the idea that art, even of the Renaissance past, is a connecting reality in the human experience and that all interpretations of art are not universal and timeless but context-specific and conditioned by current realities, events, attitudes, and perspectives.  Your final examination builds these three features of our course Your assignment is to compose an essay around a theme or argument of your own choosing that introduces and is structured around a single work of Italian Renaissance art and invites the reader to consider and deepen understanding of that work in relation to a contemporary issue, development, controversy, event, reality, theory, or perspective (contemporary, that meaning contemporary to 2024). This assignment must have a primary focus on the work of art and include a visual description and the basic facts of the work: fundamentally the who, what, where, when, and how of its making and initial historical appearance. Much as characterized your written reflections, your final exam essay should have a discernible subject/definite theme (in this case, your chosen work of art and the specific point or thesis you are developing about it), and it should have an introductory paragraph, developing paragraphs, and a conclusion. Most importantly, your essay needs to read as something well beyond simply a dry assemblage of facts about a work of art—in other words, not a purely factual report—, but it should impress the reader as an essay that is about a work of art as seen and understood through the interpretive, informing perspective of an idea that you have about that work or a way of seeing that work in an innovative, eye-opening way in relation to, again, current realities, events, attitudes, and perspectives. I would suggest that you approach this essay in one of two ways:  Either (1) choose a work of Italian Renaissance art that intrigues you and you’d like to deepen that intrigue by connecting it to a current reality, event, attitude, or perspective; or (2) identify a current reality, event, attitude, or perspective that interests, animates, perplexes, or even angers you and select an Italian work based on that intrigue. Pick the approach that suites you best and gives you a novel way—that really interests and excites you!—for introducing, developing, and driving home a point about your work. I’d like you to think of your final exam essay in this way:  On the one hand, you want to be really invested in an idea and your creative connecting of that idea to a work of art to the extent that your reader comes away from your essay saying something like “Wow, that was really interesting; I never would have thought about that work of Renaissance art in that particular and interesting way!”; On the other hand, in 10, 20, 50, or 70 years from now, think about looking back to your final essay for this course as an interesting, telling artifact of the fact that you took this course in 2022 and that a particular subject was deeply on your mind at that time. Have creative, intellectual fun with this. Your essay can take a form that ranges anywhere from the serious to the comedic; the important thing is that you guide your reader into both seeing visually and understanding intellectually, in a novel way, the work of art you have chosen. Specific Requirements Your essay should: be submitted to the class Isidore site by the end of our official examination period, May 1 by 12:00 p.m. have a title, followed by a one-sentence summary that indicates the work of art you are writing about, the theme you are addressing, and the point you are making. contain an image of your work of art that immediately follows your title and the aforementioned one-sentence summary. after its title and summary sentence, start with an introduction, followed by a set of body paragraphs and a conclusion. Note:  a good conclusion should be more than merely a summary of what you have just written; it should move the topic you have been discussing to another level, or point of consideration or importance.  In other words, give your reader something really to ponder in your conclusion, not just a dry, uninformative re-stated return to what you have already written. be written not to me, as your professor, or in the first person; rather, it should be written in a style much like you would read in a magazine or journal for a general audience unknown to the reader; absolutely do not spend your introduction going over your journey of thought toward your subject.  That just wastes valuable time, space, and your reader’s attention.  Your journey to the topic is not what is interesting or important; what you have to say, both directly and evocatively, about your subject is what really matters to a reader who is going to interested in (a) your subject; and (b) what your particular idea is about your subject.

Your essay will be graded on the following: quality of ideas written in grammatically correct prose Word count: must be at least 300 words (It can be longer if you want.) Word count is not arbitrary. It is meant to help you expand on your ideas. Your essay should focus on your own opinion regarding the question. You do not need to do any research. Technical stuff: Write your essay in software like Microsoft Word for PC or MAC. Make sure your file is .doc, .docx, or .pdf. Name your file with your last name and file type  (example—Smith.doc) Please note: if you are using Google docs or Pages, you must save your file as a PDF. You can find instructions for this in the software or by googling "convert Pages/Google docs to .pdf." Be sure to save a copy of your work. Post your paper by the date and time listed here and in the Course Schedule. You must submit your paper here. No essays will be accepted in class or by email. 

Part 1  Please read/watch these in order Lecture Reading 1 - David: Oath of the Horatii Reading 2 - Ingres: The Grande Odalisque In the second half of the 18th century, some artists turn away from the excesses of the Rococo and find inspiration in the ancient world, preferring works of art that teach historical moral lessons and adopt a strict linear style.   (1) First, describe the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in France--how is this institution able to exert control over the art viewed in Paris in the late 18th and 19th centuries?  What kind of art did the Academy prefer?   (2) Next direct your attention to Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii.  What was new and unique about this work of art?  What inspiration did David take from the classical world?  What is the message of the painting?   (3) Finally, let's look at Ingres' La Grande Odalisque.  What relationship does this painter and painting have to David's work?  In what ways is Odalisque similar and different from Neoclassical works such as Oath of the Horatii?  Explain the way that Ingres uses a "colonial lens" to depict this scene.    Part 2 Lecture Outside Video Reading 1 - Édouard Manet.pdf (1) Using Gustave Courbet's The Stonebreakers (1849), explain what the term "Realism" (please note the capital "R") means in the history of art.  Select 2-3 specific details from the work of art and describe the way they contribute to the realism of the painting.   Turn your attention to the Outside Video and reading. (2) What does Manet's Olympia represent?  Why was it so controversial?  How does it compare to earlier female nudes in the history of art?  Who is Laure and how does she figure into the overall meaning of the painting (note: this is discussed in the video)?  

Part 1 Lecture Outside Video Reading - Albrecht Durer Self Portrait Let's start with the Merode Altarpiece. by Robert Campin (or by the Master of Flemalle, depending on which source you are using). (1) Using your notes the lecture, examine the "iconography" of this altarpiece. What symbolic representations are in the paintings (choose 2-3)? How do these small details relate to the meaning of the work as a whole? How do they relate to trends in Northern European Renaissance art? (2) Next, view the outside video. First off, what are Butchart's interests in the painting? How do you think they might diverge from the "traditional" history of art? What is her conclusion about the intent of the painting? What challenges do the fabricators face in recreating the gown? (3) What insights do you believe Amber Butchart's recreation add to our interpretation of the painting? (4) Next turn your attention to the short article on Albrecht Durer's Self-Portrait. According to the author, Christopher Jones, who does Durer model himself after? Why was this not considered "blasphemous" during a highly religious period? What does Jones argue is the key to understanding the meaning of the painting (hint: look for Jones's statement that "There is perhaps one further detail in the painting that is worth examining, to gain a fuller understanding of the work")? Summarize his argument using one DIRECT QUOTE. Part 2 Lecture Outside reading - Michelangelo.pdf Please read the outside reading, a primary document from Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, which describes the creation of Michelangelo's David. (1) How does Vasari describe the challenges Michelangelo faced in creating the David? How does he describe the finished statue itself (use a direct quote)? What do you find most striking in this account? (2) Vasari (who worked for the Medici court in the 1550s), subtly criticizes the republican councilor of Florence (Piero Soderini). What incident does he use to demonstrate Michelangelo's superiority over Soderini? Next, turn your attention to the description of Leonardo's work in creating the Last Supper (this is in a lecture slide). (3) How does this account differ from the accounts of Michelangelo's working process? What was the original context for Leonardo's Last Supper (where was it located, what other works of art is it in dialogue with)? How does this inform the way we should read the work of art? (4) What is the original context for Raphael's School of Athens? What did this work of art say about the patron who commissioned it?