by | Apr 27, 2024 | Art history
Write a visual analysis of a work of art that dates to the period we study in this class, (prehistory-1400) in Africa, the Middle East, or Europe. This is a persuasive essay that seeks to convince the reader that your interpretation of the piece is valid. A visual...
by | Apr 27, 2024 | Art history
Unit Ten: Critical Thinking 25 possible points Critical Thinking Read up on the controversy surrounding Dana Schutz’s painting called Open Casket. Dana Schutz, Open Casket, 2017 Read the article “Why Dana Schutz painted Emmett Till” by Calvin...
by | Apr 24, 2024 | Art history
Introduction The artwork Statue, currently held in Philadelphia’s Penn Museum, is a painted wood statue made by an unknown artist in the Jin or Yuan Dynasty, depicting the Buddhist bodhisattva of compassion, Guanyin. In the Buddhist tradition, a bodhisattva is an...
by | Apr 21, 2024 | Art history
You will conclude the course with your reflection on what you’ve learned. This is not a knowledge dump, but rather a thoughtfully written response addressing how you apply what you learned to your daily life. To guide you through this response, you will return to the...
by | Apr 20, 2024 | Art history
According to an article from the Southern Poverty Law Center from October 2022, 75% of all Americans “agree that Confederate monuments should not remain as they are but should either be contextualized in place with historical information, moved to a museum or...
by | Apr 15, 2024 | Art history
Topic 1: South Asian Art in the Art Institute of Chicago Your “slow looking” assignment asked you to look carefully at a South Asian object or image on display in the Art Institute. For many of you, this exercise raised a number of perplexing questions. What is the...