Write the paper as one continuous exploration of your subject. Proofread your paper carefully. All references must be documented with proper citations. SOURCES: Use your text, online databases such as: JSTOR, ARTSTOR, Art Index, Oxford Art Online, Humanities Full Text and social media platforms such as Instagram and TicToc. Put data in your own words, then footnote every time you take information from any outside source. You should have dozens of footnotes for a paper of this size. QUOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY and FOOTNOTES: Cite all written sources both in the footnotes and in the bibliography. Format Chicago style. (You can review this by a Google search of Chicago Footnotes or Chicago bibliography, etc. Your paper will most likely have at least five footnotes per page and your bibliography should have at least eight sources. Use a direct quote from a source only if you feel that there is no way that you could say it better. Quoted sentences should comprise no more than 5% of your paper. Compare Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer to a current advertisement and a selfie. You will use three images to informs this essay. Here is your topic: 1 -Find a propaganda image from at least 200 years ago or more. It can be any image that seeks to aggrandize a ruler, or to convey a message in order to sway public opinion. It can have to do with politics, attitudes, racism, etc. Consider sculptures and portrait busts of rulers, satirical prints from the 1700s and/or French Academic paintings. I prefer this image to be from our text. 2 -Study Girl With a Pearl Earring through both the text and our online library. 3 -Finally, choose an image of yourself from the last few years, preferably one that you have used on a social media platform. Study your face in a mirror for at least fifteen minutes. Time yourself… make sure you stare for the entire fifteen minutes. (This will be difficult to do!) Study yourself with the same honesty as Rembrandt or Van Gogh did. Study yourself candidly. For the last five minutes, strike several different intentional poses. Consider the portraits of JRs friends and the poses they struck. Your Goal: Compare all three images. What is being valued in each image? What propaganda is emphasized. Are the results positive or negative? What are your personal responses and reactions? Discuss any emotional response you may have to the three images. [1] Do you see the cultural myths of individualism (the autonomous individual) or love of technology reflected in these images? [2] What about bipolar thinking? [3] Do you feel victim or purveyor of these values in your own image? [4] Can you honestly view yourself differently from how advertising presents how you should look or be? Can you articulate what specifically influences you in an advertisement? Discuss the functions of your chosen works of art, their methods of creation and focus on what is important or historical about them. Discuss how your selections reflect the cultures and the times in which they were created. This means that you must include quite a bit of history about the country/region in which it was created and a taste of the times. Include information about the stylistic movement with which each artwork is identified. Finish your essay with a general summary that includes a comparison of your three images and how they reflect the values we have studied all semester. Do you see differences in the cultural values shown in the three images or are they the same? Do you feel that one era delivered a message more artfully than another? Does your own image reflect specific social media values? I will upload a picture of myself for you to analyze, the pearl image is in the textbook, which I will provide, you can also find it on the Internet just make sure you include the analysis and author and cite my textbook, and the propaganda image is your choice. It says to include my name in the essay you guys have it under my order. I will also have to upload each individual chapter of the book because it is too large for one file. The first file is the selfie image and the rest are chapters in the book.
