Assessments Content Instructions: Use the Venn Diagrams below to identify and compare/contrast the different types of media that could be used to create art. Each circle represents one specific media type. List qualities that are unique to that media type in these circles. Common elements of the media types are represented by the areas where…

1) Do you agree with the authors’ assertion that participation is the most fundamental of the basic distinctions of art? Why? If you disagree, which do you think is the most important and why? Do you have any experiences with art to draw on to support your claims? 2) Compare and contrast Old Comedy and…

Instructions: Read Which Is the Most Influential Work of Art Of the Last 100 Years (Plagens, Peter, Newsweek, 7/2/2007, Vol. 150, Issue 2) and review ‘Picasso and American Art’ (Associated Press, 2006). These resources better explain how artists were influenced and inspired by other artists, social influences, and cultures, including Picasso himself while painting “Les…

Journal 2 (350 to 500 words) What landscape do you most associate with home? Is it the place you now live? Is it a place you visit when you dream? Is it your car? Consider the concept of landscape in relation to your concept of home. Journal 3 (350 to 500 words) What does it…

Read: After 1940: Abstract Expressionism Paul, A. S. (n.d.). Abstract Expressionism. The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/abex/hd_abex.htm What is abstract expressionism? – Sarah Rosenthal. (n.d.). TED-Ed. https://ed.ted.com/lessons/could-just-anyone-make-a-jackson-pollock-painting-sarah-rosenthal After 1950: Postmodern Art Gambino, M. (n.d.). Ask an Expert: What is the Difference Between Modern and Postmodern Art? Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/ask-an-expert-what-is-the-difference-between-modern-and-postmodern-art-87883230/ 1940s-1960s: Pop Art Spivey,…

Read: After 1940: Abstract Expressionism Paul, A. S. (n.d.). Abstract Expressionism. The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/abex/hd_abex.htm What is abstract expressionism? – Sarah Rosenthal. (n.d.). TED-Ed. https://ed.ted.com/lessons/could-just-anyone-make-a-jackson-pollock-painting-sarah-rosenthal After 1950: Postmodern Art Gambino, M. (n.d.). Ask an Expert: What is the Difference Between Modern and Postmodern Art? Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/ask-an-expert-what-is-the-difference-between-modern-and-postmodern-art-87883230/ 1940s-1960s: Pop Art Spivey,…

Iam interested in the distinction between figure and ground in art (typically 2 dimensional art, drawing and painting). My interest ranges from historical / philosophical models such as Rosalind Krauss’ Klein group model to the neuroscience basis of figure ground distinction. I am most interested in how artists are able to operate within the strictures…

NOTE: Session 5 Final PowerPoint NOTE: As we culminate our 5-session journey in the art world, you will now use what you have learned in your course assignments and discussions to demonstrate your progressive knowledge of art history, art mediums, and artists’ biographies over the last 5 sessions and how this has impacted your view…

Discussion Prompt: Fujimura’s Essays NOTE: Based on the essays of Makoto Fujimura, what do you think Christian artists are trying to convey about their faith? Do you think they are having an impact, or in the words of Francis Schaeffer (1974), has the art world been taken away from us by modern culture leaving us…

Unlike the religious traditions of Asia, Western traditions (particularly Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) are far more reluctant to embrace images in worship. This can be seen especially in the Second Commandment, which states: “4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that…