Art Evaluation: You will visit either a gallery exhibit/or public artwork of your choice from the list below. After viewing the exhibition in its entirety, you will evaluate, describe, and respond to a piece if art in that show. While focusing on one piece for the desсrіption try to really engage with the show entirely. Pick a piece of work that you aspire to and find inspiration from. Think about the content and the esthetic as how it relates to you when answering the following questions. This evaluation will help you break down what you see and how you respond to what you see. In your composition, address the following six questions. Please use COMPLETE sentences! Each question represents a separate paragraph – write accordingly! The piece of work you choose must be thoroughly discussed in each paragraph as it is assigned below. Your paper should be typed using 12 pt. font double space and at least a 1,000 word count. Above all, I want you not only to look at the artworks, but to SEE and RESPOND to them. Always refer back to the talking and writing about art page for tips on how to write about what you see. Remember that the more detail and thought presented in your writing, the more confident I am that you have made the leap from simply LOOKING at art to SEEING, UNDERSTANDING AND EVALUATING art! Write down the basic information of the piece including (1) the artist or group of artist names, (2) the name of the exhibition, and (3) the medium/medias used, (4) the category of art (representational, nonrepresentational, or abstract), (5) the type of art (2-dimensional or 3-dimensional), and (6) the gallery or museum space Reason for choosing the artwork. Why did you choose to write about this piece in particular? What about it caught your attention? Please elaborate on your answer. Write about the content of the work. The content refers to the message or meaning of the work of art – what the artist expresses or communicates to the viewer. Consider all the possible art functions, cultural context, symbolism/iconography, artist and viewer perceptions, etc… How is the content related in all the works? How do the works differ from one another in relation to what they are about? Go into DETAIL about what you see. Describe the works as if you were helping a visually impaired person “see” them. What does the artist say to you by choosing to use specific visual elements in specific ways, i.e. how the type of line used serves the content of the art work, etc… Whichever piece you choose to discuss; take special note on how color is used, how it makes you feel, and what it makes you see. Refer to the pre-writing observation notes at the bottom of the ″talking and Writing About Art″ page . How does the work relate to its environment? Think about how the piece relates to the space it’s shown. If it′s outside, describe how that alters the way you interact with the pieces, if the exhibit is inside how are the pieces laid out? Does the show have a good flow?- if you cannot see (virtual online exhibitions) then, where would you image this piece being and why? Include your personal response to the works and how they affect you (opinions, emotions, thoughts) as a viewer. Be sure to include how or why it evokes these feelings or thoughts. Note that when discussing your feelings, you need to move well beyond, “I like it” or “I don’t like it.” Keep in mind that attraction does not necessarily mean that you “like” the works; in fact, you may “dislike” the works and still be attracted to them. Bibliography All sources cited in notes must also be listed in a separate bibliography attached to the end of the paper. The bibliography is attached at the end of your paper. Format: The bibliography is single-spaced with one blank line between entries. The first line of each entry is flush left, and any run-over lines are indented five spaces. The bibliography is alphabetized by author’s last name. Special problems may be solved by observing the following principles: A single-author entry comes before a multi-author entry beginning with the same name. Original works precede works edited, compiled or translated by the same person. Works by the same person can be arranged chronologically by date of publication or alphabetically by title. Works with an institutional author (for example, a museum or gallery) are listed with the institution in place of the author’s name and are incorporated into the alphabetical list. Book: Rice, David Talbot. Islamic Art. London: Thames and Hudson, 1991. Journal article: Benson, Timothy O. “Mysticism, Materialism and the Machine in Berlin Dada.” Art Journal 46 (Spring 1987): 46-55. Gimbutas, Marija. “Achilleion: a Neolithic mound in Thessaly.” Journal of Field Archaeology I (1974): 277-302. [[Please note that for journal articles, page numbers in the note citations refer to the specific page cited; in the bibliography, page numbers are inclusive of the entire article.]] Chapter in an edited work: Arnold, Philip P. “Paper Rituals and the Mexican Landscape.” In Representing Aztec Ritual: Performance, Text, and Image in the Work of Sahagún. Edited by Eloise Quiñones Keber. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002. Exhibition catalogue with institutional author: Walker Art Center. De Stijl, 1917-31: Visions of Utopia exh. cat., text by M. Friedman and others. Minneapolis, 1982. Essay in exhibition catalogue or anthology: Maurer, Evan M.. “Dada and Surrealism.” In Primitivism in Twentieth Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern. exh. cat., New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1984, 535-94. Electronic source: Elton, Hugh. “Byzantine Warfare.” Warfare in the Ancient World. 4 April 1999. http://shakti.trincoll.edu/~helton/army.html (accessed 23 April 1999).
