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VIRTUAL Museum Visit Aesthetic Experience Worksheet

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. The student will be able to identify elements of style in various forms of western and non-western human creative expression.

2. The student will be able to apply a basic vocabulary essential for communicating concepts in the humanities disciplines.

3. The student will be able to identify how forms of Western and Non-Western human creative expressions reflect the human condition.

4. The student will be able to compare and contrast enduring contributions of individual artists, thinkers, and writers.

5. The student will be able to develop critical analysis skills in reference to works of human creative expression.

GRADING

See the assessment rubric attached to the Aesthetic Experience and Critical Analysis Essay dropbox folder.

MATERIALS

Use all of the online module resources, your textbook, and the Visual Art Vocabulary and Principles at the end of this document to guide your writing.

INSTRUCTIONS

For this assignment you VIRTUALLY attend an art museum ONLINE and select a piece of art to write about. Then you will compare it to an artwork from our textbook and complete this worksheet.

1. Choose an art museum LINK from the approved list in My Courses. Be sure your selected Art meets the following criteria:

· The museum you attend/view must be an art museum, not a science museum or a children's museum.

· Try to upload a digital photograph of the Art. In any case, provide the url for the Art.

· If you experience difficulty finding an art museum near your location, contact your instructor (not applicable during CV-19 Crisis)

2. Virtually visit your chosen art museum, and select a work of art. Suggestions:

· The work can be a painting, sculpture, photograph, mixed media, or any other medium exhibited in the museum.

· You may wish to take a copy of this worksheet with you (or keep the document open for the Virtual Visit) to the museum in order to more carefully select a work of art.

3. Complete the “Essay Header” section in the designated space provided below.

4. Complete the “Art Work Information” section in the designated space provided below.

5. Complete the 3 Prompts in the “Aesthetic Experience and Critical Analysis Essay” section in the designated space provided below. Respond to the prompts using the following guidelines:

· Use full sentences and paragraphs in your responses.

· Use and incorporate relevant and genre-specific vocabulary for each prompt. Definitions of relevant vocabulary are provided at the end of this document, in the online module resources, and in your textbook.

· Your completed essay responses should be a total of at least 600 words (at least 200 words per response).

6. Submit your completed Museum Visit Aesthetic Experience Worksheet to the Aesthetic Experience and Critical Analysis Essay dropbox folder.

ESSAY HEADER

Student Full Name

Name of Museum

Location/URL of Museum

Date of Museum Visit

Digital Photograph of the Art and/or URL

ART WORK INFORMATION

Title

Artist

Creation Date

Discipline Classification

How is the selection classified in the Humanities? Is it Literature, Visual Art, Music, Theater, Musical Stage, or other?

Genre, Time Period, Style

What type of art is it? Is it a painting, sculpture, photograph, mixed media, or other? Is it classical, impressionism, abstract, cubism, modernism, etc.?

Medium

What is this work constructed from? What type of materials are used?

Size & Effect of Size

What is the size of the work? Do you believe that the size has any impact upon the way that you react to this piece? How?

Social, Historical, Cultural Origin

Western or Non-western Humanities Classification

Based on the social, historical, and cultural contexts: Would you classify this work as Western or Non-Western? Based on your research and observations, provide reasons and evidence supporting your classification claim.

AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE AND CRITICAL ANALYSIS ESSAY

Prompt 1

Using the space provided below, analyze the work of art in at least two fully developed paragraphs with at least 200 words using the following guidelines:

· Identify the most significant art principles that were used in the work of art, using at least three relevant and genre-specific vocabulary words, clearly describing how the artist used them. Provide a minimum of three specific, descriptive details to support the use of each selected art principle.

· Select two adjectives describing the overall mood of the piece (stay away from vague terms such as amazing, awesome, excellent, etc.). Give a minimum of two specific/descriptive details to support your claims.

Prompt 2

Using the space provided below, further analyze the work of art in at least two fully developed paragraphs with at least 200 words using the following guidelines:

· Describe the main social, historical, and cultural contexts of the work? Refer to your responses in the “Art Work Information” section above.

· Describe the primary purpose of the art work.

· Describe the main artistic statement.

· Describe how the work reflects the human condition, or how it communicates as a “human, creative expression.”

Prompt 3

Using the space provided below, compare the work of art with another work of art from your textbook in at least two fully developed paragraphs with at least 200 words using the following guidelines:

· Select and identify another work of art from your textbook that is similar to the work of art that you selected from the museum. In most cases, the works of art in your textbook are considered masterpieces.

· Explain three qualities that the work from the museum shares with the work from the textbook, with specific examples to support your argument.

· Based on your comparison, explain whether or not the work of art from the museum is a masterpiece or might become a masterpiece, using specific examples to support your decision.

Visual Art Vocabulary and Principles

TERM

DEFINITION

Abstract

To simplify, rearrange or distort an image; a non- representational (non-realist) form of art.

Abstract Art

Art that takes from reality only what the artist wants or that renders a visual depiction of concepts in the artist’s mind (phenomenal). Such art typically does not resemble the familiar world of regular (veridical) perception.

Adjective

Words used to describe or modify nouns or pronouns. For example, red, quick, happy, and obnoxious are adjectives because they can describe things—a red hat, the quick rabbit, a happy duck, an obnoxious person.

Aesthetics

The study of the nature of beauty and art (including the study of human “response” to the “aesthetic experience”). It is a significant branch of philosophy. The word “Aesthetics” is derived from the Greek word meaning “sense perception”.

Aesthetic Experience

Having an experience in the arts (broadly) such as viewing art, stage productions (like theater, dance, etc.), or viewing and listening to music (like concerts, opera, singing, etc.), or reading literature and philosophy, that we value intrinsically. Also see key terms at the end of Chapter 1, page 15

Background

The part of a pictorial representation that appears to be in the distance. The general scene or surface against which designs, patterns or figures are viewed.

Balance

A principle of art that is concerned with the sense of stability of the visual elements. There are three types of balance: symmetrical, asymmetrical and radial.

Catharsis

A healthy release of pent up emotion. This can occur as a result of an aesthetic experience.

Chiaroscuro

Italian term in painting utilizing light and dark contrast to create the effect of modeling a figure or object. It enhances the effect of depth.

Classicism

See key terms at the end of Chapter 5 (Art), page 150

Collage

See key terms at the end of Chapter 5 (Art), page 150

Content

The message or subject the work communicates. The content can relate to the subject matter or be an idea or emotion. Theme is another word used for content in humanities.

Context

In humanities, the environment, background, or special circumstances in terms of which a given work is best understood. Social, historical, and cultural context is the identification of political/social arrangements, philosophical ideas, values, styles, and cultural identity of a particular time period in which a selected work is influenced by or may be attempting to express. Also see key terms at the end of Chapter 5 (Art), page 150

Contrast

A principle of art that uses the differences between the visual elements to create variety, emphasis or interest. Contrast in value is the difference between light and dark.

Cool Colors

Colors such as purples, blues and greens that produce the impression of coolness.

Cubism

See key terms at the end of Chapter 5 (Art), page 150

Discipline

(1) in the humanities, a given art form (such as literature, visual art, music, theater, musical stage, and others) that attempts to create and express the human condition; (2) in academia, a given department or area of study (like science, history, philosophy, and others).

Eastern Humanities

Creative expressions in one of the disciplines of humanities exhibited in the social, historical, and cultural contexts of one of (broadly) Asia, Africa, Middle East, Indigenous Peoples of all continents (except Europe), and Oceania. Narrowly: China, India, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Pacific Islands, Native America, Aborigines, and Mesoamerica. See also Non-Western Humanities.

Focal area

A principle of art that stresses one element of art; defines a center of interest or draws attention to certain areas with a work of art.

Foreground

The part of a scene or picture that is nearest to and in front of the viewer.

Form

The visual element that is three-dimensional; having height, width and depth.

Fresco

See key terms at the end of Chapter 5 (Art), page 150

Genre (broadly in the humanities)

a distinct category within a discipline (e.g. categories in film, literature, art, music, musical stage, etc.). EXAMPLE: Poetry is a genre of Literature. Also see key terms at the end of Chapter 4, page 99

Genre subject

In art, a scene or a person from everyday life, depicted realistically and without religious or symbolic significance.

Golden Section

See key terms at the end of Chapter 5 (Art), page 150

Gothic

See key terms at the end of Chapter 5 (Art), page 150

Human Condition

Encompasses the uniqueness and totality of the inner experience of “being human”. It is often focused on the ultimate concerns of human existence. Various disciplines in the humanities attempt to express this experience.

Imitation

See key terms at the end of Chapter 5 (Art), page 150

Impressionism

See key terms at the end of Chapter 5 (Art), page 150

Intensity

The degree of purity of a color. Deep colors have a high intensity.

Installation art

An art that creates an architectural tableau using objects drawn from and making reference to artistic sources and everyday life.

Likeness

the reproduction in several humanities disciplines that is a conscious attempt to imitate reality in its expression. See “Realism” and key terms at the end of Chapter 5 (Art), page 150

Line

A visual element that is the path of moving points through space; it has the properties of direction, width and length.

Masterpiece

A work that in style, form, and execution far exceeds other works of its time. It is a human creation (e.g. painting, novel, film, musical score) that continues to be relevant and/or admired by multiple generations. It is a work that has a profound effect on humanity.

Media or Medium

the particular materials in which a given artist works. Also see key terms at the end of Chapter 5 (Art), page 150

Modernism

See key terms at the end of Chapter 5 (Art), page 150

Movement

A principle of art used to guide a viewer’s eye throughout the work; a trend.

Negative space

Spaces surrounding shapes or forms in two- and three-dimensional art.

Non-Western Humanities

Creative expressions in one of the disciplines of humanities exhibited in the social, historical, and cultural contexts of one of (broadly) Asia, Africa, Middle East, Indigenous Peoples of all continents (except Europe), and Oceania. Narrowly: China, India, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Pacific Islands, Native America, Aborigines, and Mesoamerica. See also Eastern Humanities.

Pattern

Repetition of elements or motif.

Perspective

A formula for projecting the illusion of three- dimensional space onto a two-dimensional surface.

Phenomenological Perception

A perception that exists in your mind as a result of (1) mind internally produced, mind internal causation (like hearing your favorite song while no music is playing), or (2) the mental image (in your mind) that is produced as a result of a veridical perception as it is happening (like seeing color while viewing a painting).

Pop Art

See key terms at the end of Chapter 5 (Art), page 150

Positive space

Shapes or forms in two-dimensional and three- dimensional art.

Post Impressionism

See key terms at the end of Chapter 5 (Art), page 150

Post Modernism

See key terms at the end of Chapter 5 (Art), page 150

Proportion

A principle of art concerned with the relationships in size, one part to another or to the whole.

Psychological Realism

Artist’s attempt to convey the inner life of the figure, subject, or protagonist. Also see key terms at the end of Chapter 5 (Art), page 150

Realism

(1) A style that focuses on the everyday lives of the middle and lower classes, portraying their world in a serious, accurate, and unsentimental way; (2) a genre in several humanities disciplines that is a conscious attempt to imitate reality in its expression (see “Likeness” also).

Renaissance

See key terms at the end of Chapter 5 (Art), page 150

Repetition

An art element repeated over and over that can produce visual rhythm.

Saturation

The strength of a hue - a vivid hue is of high saturation.

Scale

When proportional relationships are created relative to a specific unit of measurement.

Shape

The visual element that has two-dimensions: height and width; a space with a defined or implied boundary. Two basic groups: geometric and organic.

Super-Realism

See key terms at the end of Chapter 5 (Art), page 150

Surrealism

See key terms at the end of Chapter 5 (Art), page 150

Symbol

A visual image that represents something other than itself.

Symmetry

The balance of like forms and colors on opposite sides of the vertical axis of a composition.

Theme

The message or subject the work communicates. The theme can relate to the subject matter or be an idea or emotion. Content is another word used for theme in humanities.

Texture

The visual element that refers to the way something feels or looks like it feels and can be actual or implied.

Unity

A principle of art that is concerned with the sense of wholeness or completeness.

Vanishing point

in linear perspective – the point on the horizon at which the receding parallel lines appear to converge and then vanish.

Veridical Perception

A perception caused by something outside of your mind (e.g. light waves striking your eyes causing an image in your brain). This is a perception caused by a sensory experience (like viewing a painting).

Warm colors

Colors such as reds, oranges, yellows and browns that produce the impression of warmth.

Western Humanities

Creative expressions in one of the disciplines of humanities exhibited in the social, historical, and cultural contexts of European civilization or by civilizations heavily influenced by European immigration and colonization. In most cases these Western cultures trace significant belief systems and history to Ancient Greece. Broadly: Europe, and Non-Indigenous United States, Canada, and Australia.

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