Complete and submit the Museum Assignment Worksheet Apply the visual elements and principles of design.
Take notes for a comparison and contrast paper on two artworks at one of the Houston art museums (1 Menil collection www.menil.org;,
2) Museum of Fine Arts Houston www.math.org
Choose from among the following topics
Menil Collection 1) compare and contrast a Byzantine icon win an African tribal sculpture
Museum of Fine Ans. Houston 2) compare and contrast an Italian Renaissance panting with a Greek vase painting or Roman sculpture.
Menil Collection, or MEAN 3) Modern and Contemporary art compare and contrast a contemporary nonrepresentational artwork (i.e. Barnet Newman. mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock David smith (sculpture or panting ) with an early 20th century modem abstract artwork (i.e. Picasso Matisse)