Art Discussion
Evolution of Your Art Interpretation
Refer to the assigned reading from the textbook and required videos as examples of how to interpret works of art.
Select a contemporary work of art or architecture from the textbook, museum resources in Week One, or from the Bonus Images in your CourseMate digital resources.
Provide a brief analysis of the work of art using the questions art historians ask and the words art historians use. Consider the media (materials), methods, and subjects of the work of art, and the reflections of the region and Contemporary Art movement.
How do the political, philosophical, religious, and social contexts impact the art of today? How does Contemporary Art differ from Baroque Art, which you studied earlier in this course?
Now that you have seen how art evolves over time and throughout history, reflect upon how your interpretation of art has changed since you examined the Arnolfini Portraitin the "Post Your Introduction" Discussion in Week One. What differences are there between the ways you interpreted that work of art in Week One to your interpretation now? How will these changes impact the way you view art moving forward?
Your initial post must be at least 200 words in length.
Recommended Resources
Articles
1.SmartHistory. (n.d.). A beginner's guide to the history of Western culture.Themes. Retrieved from https://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/for-the-beginner.html
- This resource provides a chronological summary of the eras articulated by historians for the purpose of studying the progression of western cultural history. Multimedia
1. Khan Academy. (Producer). Why look at art[Video]. Available from https://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/whylook-at-art.html
- This video contains commentary from leading museum professionals as to the cultural importance of the study of art.
2. Phillips, J. (2013, April 24). Prezi demonstration[Prezi presentation]. Retrieved from https://prezi.com/mh6btb2vztvj/prezi-demonstration/
- This presentation provides detailed information on using Prezi.
Websites
2. Learn & support. Prezi. Retrieved from https://prezi.com/support/
- Review the information available on this web page to explore various ways that a presentation can be designed.
3. Manual/FAQ. Prezi. Retrieved from https://prezi.zendesk.com/forums
- Review the information available on this web page for detailed information on using Prezi.
Museum and Image Websites
1. Art and artists | Tate(https://www.tate.org.uk/art)
2. Art Institute of Chicago(https://www.artic.edu/)
3. Art Renewal Center Artist Index(https://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artistindex.php)
4. The Famous Artists(https://www.thefamousartists.com/)
5. The Frick Collection(https://www.frick.org/)
6. Google Art Project(https://www.googleartproject.com/)
7. Guggenheim(https://www.guggenheim.org/)
8. Louvre Museum Official Website(https://www.louvre.fr/en)
9. Mark Harden's Artchive(https://artchive.com/index.html)
10. The Metropolitan Museum of Art(https://www.metmuseum.org)
11. MoMA | The Museum of Modern Art(https://www.moma.org/)
12. National Gallery of Art(https://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb.html)
13. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)(https://www.sfmoma.org/)
14. SIRIS - Smithsonian Institute Research Information System(https://sirisartinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=)
15. Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York(https://www.cooperhewitt.org/)
16. The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia(https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/)
17. Uffizi, Uffizi gallery, Florence(https://www.uffizi.com/)
18. Vatican Museums - Official web site(https://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/MV_Home.html)
19. Victoria & Albert Museum(https://www.vam.ac.uk/)
20. Web Gallery of Art(https://www.wga.hu/)
21. WebMuseum: Famous Artworks exhibition(https://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/)
22. Whitney Museum of American Art(https://whitney.org/)
23. Wikimedia Commons(https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)