Watch the videos entitled Embrace the Shake, Artist Chuck Close Writes Letter to Younger Self, and A Mysterious Story of Frida Kahlo that Reveals Her True Character.
Watch the videos about ivory carving. Use the question prompts to reflect on your own personal opinion about an artist's social responsibility. These are questions that do not necessarily have a right or wrong answer, but can be explored for understanding. Write one paragraph for each exploration. Elaborate on your thoughts.
This assignment is designed to help us reflect on how museums shape our experience of artworks. It will require you to visit an art museum and pick a single artwork within the museum that captured your attention. You will then answer the following question: "How does the artwork's display impact how you see and understand it?" Your response should take the form of a short essay (900-1200 words) that analyzes the artwork's form and the impact that its curatorial context had on your viewing experience.
In today's world, you are likely to purchase stock photography for your projects. It is tempting to download the .jpg provided and begin to reformat it directly for your projects. This is not recommended - and here's why. Every time you open and resave a .jpg, the information within it is diminished. You are literally throwing pixels away with every single save as command. Files formatted as .jpg have a lossy compression attached to them. This means the original data is not preserved. Lossless is a second compression system that preserves original data. Lossless files are larger, and that is why it is often not utilized, particularly online. Here is a short video that does an excellent job of explaining the difference between lossy and lossless compression. Notice how the narrator describes the different compressions and their effect. Much of what he explains will help you with this week's discussion.
This week we take a look together at the history of Surrealism, as it formed in post-World War I Europe and as it has made its way into our wider culture up to today.
