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Description Objective: Create a comprehensive research board that visually communicates your design ideas for a production of the play Medea by Euripides. This assignment aims to explore and express your vision for the play through a curated collection of inspirational and environmental images, with a specific focus on various design areas such as costume, lighting, and scenery. All images and ideas should be firmly rooted in the text, avoiding new narrative ideas or scenarios. If it doesn't happen in the play, then it should not be included. Instructions: Title and Introduction: Provide a title for your research board that encapsulates the essence of your design concept. Write a brief introduction (75-100words) explaining the overarching theme or vision for your interpretation of Medea. Image Selection (range of 8-12 images): Include a minimum of 8-12 images that span different design areas, with a focus on costume, lighting, and scenery. Ensure a diverse selection of images that collectively convey your vision for the production. Arrange your images onto a slide in a pleasing composition. Ensure all images are high-resolution and visible (not too tiny!) Considerations: Keep everything general--big ideas, not concrete decisions. Consider the emotional journey of the characters. Emphasize abstract concepts like mood, atmosphere, and storytelling. Think about the play's themes and dramatic requirements. Envision the world of the play: where it is staged. Commentary Write a response statement (75-100 words) summarizing the overall impact of another student's research board.  Discuss how their selected images contribute to the coherence and effectiveness of a design concept for Medea. Evaluation Criteria: Your research board will be evaluated based on the following criteria: Creativity and originality in design choices. Relevance of selected images to the themes and characters of Medea. Clear and thoughtful understanding of dramaturgy. Overall coherence and effectiveness of the design concept.

Description Key concepts: realism and appropriation Describe and analyze "Fountain" by Marcel Duchamp in relationship to the concepts of realism and appropriation, explaining in what sense that the work is "realist," and explaining how appropriation functions in relationship to this realism. Use two or more of week 4 and 5's key terms, such as the copy, value, authorship, and authenticity.  Briefly make reference to the Benjamin "Work of Art" essay https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philoso.... 

Description The Research Encounter is an opportunity for students to investigate a specific artist and/or artifact. In this exploration, students will discover the impact of this artist or piece of art on the art world. The student will determine how the belief systems, values, and norms of the society and era this artist created in affected this artist's output. Finally, the student will relate this information to the present world of art to the class in a PPTX presentation with audio. Each student will be assigned a topic and date of submission by their instructor. Students are asked to provide a slide presentation that will answer the following: Slide 1, Title page, name, date and word count (at least 300 in paragraphs in all). Slide 2, with audio. Who is your artist and/or artifact? What is the date of the artifact? Slide 3. Describe this artist's context and how this influences the creation of the artwork. (This should include the birth and death dates of the artist.) Slide 4. Discuss the elements of the artifact and the purpose of this work. Give one interesting fact about the artwork. Slide 5. Explain why this artist's work is essential or important. Is your topic a giant of the arts? Is this artifact a masterpiece? Slide 6. List your sources. Each presentation should contain 6 slides. Each presentation's audio portion should be between five to ten minutes in length. Use at least three sources beginning with our text. There will be plenty of information on your artist; your job will be to present the essential information on this author. Film Assigned: The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Description Assignment Overview: One of the fundamental skills art historians use is an informed visual analysis to make educated decisions about the objects they study. An “unknown exercise” is when we examine an object for which we do not know the artist’s name, time period, subject matter, or style and try our best to make an argument for an identification. For this assignment, I am asking you to write a defense of what you think your chosen image is and WHY. More detailed instructions are below, but you will need to discuss who you think the artist is (might not be a specific individual), what the subject is, what the style is, the function, and the historical context. In your paper, you will defend your claims with evidence from what you see and what you’ve learned so far in class and the textbook. You will compare your image to one image we have discussed in class or from the textbook to further strengthen your claim. And directly cite the textbook, using 2 quotes from the text *This is NOT a research assignment. It is ok to not get this “right” This is an assignment about using what you see to make an argument about the object that is informed, and detailed and connecting the course content with your visual analysis skills.   This exercise helps you to: Strengthen your visual analysis skills Apply your visual analysis skills to an argument about object identification Synthesize the role of style, subject, function and context into one paper. Directions: Choose one of the provided unknown images. (See the PDF linked above.) Look closely and carefully at the image and reflect upon the visual analysis skills we started to discuss on the first day of class (see PowerPoint and video.) Consider first the parts of the work that you can easily identify, such as medium (what is it made out of) and formal elements (i.e. line, color, shape, texture, space, mass, volume, composition). Based upon these observations, make a hypothesis about the stylistic period, function, context, and subject of the given work. This will be your argument.  In formulating this hypothesis, it will be helpful to consider other works we have looked at throughout the semester as comparisons.  Format: 2-4 pages (double-spaced, 12 point font) Organize your paper carefully with the following components: Strong introductory paragraph. This should clearly summarize your basic argument about the work of art (i.e., identifying the medium, historical context, function, subject and stylistic period) Follow your introduction with a formal analysis (1-2 paragraphs) This should describe the basic features of the work of art (line, shape, color, texture, scale, etc.). The majority of the paper (2-3 pages) should consist of paragraphs in which you argue for your conclusions. This is where you should provide the reasoning for the arguments stated in your introductory paragraph.  Use this as a place to cite at least one comparative work that contributes to your conclusions, and concisely explain why that work offers a good comparison. For example, you might use a work of art that is similar to argue for why something belongs in a particular stylistic period, or you might use a comparison to show why your chosen work does not seem to belong to a particular period. End your paper with a brief conclusion in which you re-state your basic argument and add any final thoughts. Grading: The grade assigned for this paper is not based on whether you have correctly identified the characteristics of the object.  Rather, a large portion of your grade will be based on whether you demonstrate that you have looked thoroughly at the object and thought carefully about its characteristics.  Additionally, it is important that you make it clear that you have thought about this object in the context of works we have discussed in class of read about.  Thus, it is essential that you both look carefully at the object itself and consider it in the larger context of the course. Research: THIS IS NOT A RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT.  It should not require research outside of your class notes and the course readings/videos.  You should rely upon your own visual analysis and comparisons to things we have discussed in class. AI cannot do visual analysis (yet) so I do not recommend using AI as a tool for this assignment. Do NOT do the following: Try to find the image on the internet Try to figure out the subject matter through research if you do not recognize it Share your exact analysis with a classmate to try and get the “right” answer Use AI to write the paper

Description Tell me a story.  Write an imaginary episode (fictional story) about anything you want (anything but waking up late and having to rush to work or spilling your coffee. Those isn't pushing the boundaries of the imagination. Dare to be a little more imaginative!) What makes a good story?  For our purposes, the two requirements below: First, the basic elements of plot. Please identify each element in parentheses in your story.  I'll take off points if you don't identify them. a situation (A) undergoing some change (X) which then leads to another situation (B). Second, include at least one other plot element from your chapter (exposition, foreshadowing, rising action, etc.) and identify it/them as well. _____________________________________________________ Be as creative as you’d like with this! The point is to familiarize yourself with mapping the basic elements of a rudimentary plot. This assignment should be at least 400 words, and will be assessed on its formal clarity, the quality of the writing and editing, its degree of engagement with its topic, its creativity/inventiveness/originality of ideas, and the sophistication of thought it expresses. Play media comment.Play media comment.If you need assistance with assignments, please click on the "How" icon.

Description Early to Mid Dynasties of ancient Egypt. Below is the link to the quiz with an introduction of the Pharaoh Khafre that was omitted from the lecture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oid-_zzWzPc

Description Describe and analyze a work of art or media of your choice that raises questions about realism by using simulation. What are the social and political issues at stake in the turn to simulation? What does the work you are interpreting imply about simulation as a cultural form? 

Description 1- In the broadest terms, cultural appropriation is when one culture borrows from another culture. In this assignment we will specifically look at the change in context and residual impact of culture appropriation. Students should submit in their initial threads images of an example of cultural appropriation. Explain how the context of the object or culture referenced might be affected. If your image includes an actual object, are the materials significant to the original culture and does that significance translate in its new context? If your image is relevant to the discussion as a symbol, describe how the iconography qualifies as cultural appropriation. Compare and contrast the content or meaning as you discuss the original culture and the transition to appropriation. What might be some residual effects of cultural appropriation? 2-Explain the difference between art and useful objects. Then, discuss how craft media can be an artform by referencing any of the clay, glass, metal, wood, or textile objects from chapter 13. Citing specific examples, explain how the artists have helped shaped society’s ability to recognize “crafts” as viable artforms. 3 a-For the women in class: Compare your experiences in middle schoolwith the findings in the article "On Becoming Female". How were yourexperiences similar to what Eder reports? How were they different? Forthe men in class: Compare your learning of gender with points made inthe article "On Becoming Male". b-According to Tannen what are the main differences between men andwomen in conversations. How do your personal experiences compare withthe article?

Description Select a found photographic image from public sources and write a descriptive page about why you chose this image. 

Description Discuss, with specific examples, three aspects of early twentieth century avant-garde art movements Many of the avant-garde movements shared the belief that bourgeois society imposed stultifying and conventional ways of seeing and knowing the world, thereby limiting our ability to challenge existing systems of political domination. Compare and contrast the manner by which the Cubists (Picasso, Braque) and the Surrealists (Dali, Ernst, Kahlo, Varo, etc.) sought to challenge or subvert conventional ways of thinking and seeing through their art. Compare and contrast three types of Dadaism, using specific examples. Discuss four key characteristics of Constructivism, using specific examples. Compare and contrast the murals of Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, both in their technical production and in their relationship to the political and cultural dynamics of the 1930s.