The final paper for this class is a combined looking and research assignment for which you will closely describe and analyze one artwork of your choice from any period (prehistoric to the present). This paper will combine close visual analysis of your object or image (i.e. analysis of visual properties such as the use of color, composition, spatial illusion, scale, varying degrees of representing or distorting visual reality, etc.) along with a brief discussion of the historical context and social relevance(s) of the object under your consideration. Your paper should contain original observation, analysis and interpretation of the object you have chosen to consider based on first-hand observation. After looking at your object closely, you must read at least one SCHOLARLY article or book that discusses this object and the artist who made it. After considering this source/sources, you are to write a paper that includes BOTH your own initial observations about the object/image, a concise summary of scholars? approach(es) to the work of art, and finally a conclusion that explains in what ways reading a scholarly treatment of the object may have effected (helped or hindered) your understanding and enjoyment of this work of art.
WRITE a 3 to 5 page paper which will include:
a) A detailed description of your observations, assumptions and understanding of the artwork based on first-hand ?looking?
b) A brief summary of the scholarly approach(es) to the artwork
c) A description of how your observations and those of scholar(s) are similar and/or different
d) A conclusion that addresses the ways in which your experience and appreciation of the artwork was altered (enhanced?, hindered?, etc.) by learning more about the artwork and/or it?s maker
*N.B. This is not a ?book report? of what art historians have said about your object. The main body of the paper should be focused on your own careful description and analysis of your chosen object.
*SCHOLARLY SOURCES: You may use the internet as a research tool, however, your bibliography MUST contain a MINIMUM of ONE SCHOLARLY SOURCE NOT DERIVED from the INTERNET and/or ENCYCLOPEDIA articles. All sources should be referred to and cited within the body of your text (i.e. as footnotes/endnotes) and on a separate page, a Bibliography, in which you list all sources consulted (internet, museum label, books, articles, etc).
*ALL SOURCES MUST BE CITED in the body of your paper using standard footnote format. If you remain uncertain about the various formats for specific citations (e.g. books, articles, lectures, museum labels, conversations with artists or experts, etc.), two excellent sources are the M.L.A.. Handbook and the Chicago Manual of Style.
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