+1 862 207 3288 There are several ways of approaching the essay. Before selecting a work to write about you should spend some time walking around the museum. Familiarize yourself
with the museum layout and organization. Museums structure the ways we view art and it will be useful for you to be conscious of and to comment on your response to the
museum environment.
Since this is a looking (and NOT a research) assignment, your report should include comments on your personal response to the object and to the act of viewing art.
If you include information gleaned from museum wall labels or other printed material, you must cite all outside sources using proper footnotes, etc. You may also wish
to attach a reproduction (or your sketch) of the artwork to your essay.
All papers must be formulated using proper word-processing, punctuation, grammar, etc.
The reports should be between 4-5 pages in length, double-spaced, with standard font, and normal margins. Please note that double spacing is not necessary if you
submit the report in the area provided for Assignment 11.
Be sure that your paper includes the following:
The name and location of the museum you visited (and your responses to that viewing environment)
A full identification of the art object you have selected (e.g., artist’s name, title (underline or italicize all titles), medium, date, country.
Your personal reasons for selecting this particular piece; try to write on a work that has relevance to you and is significant in terms of your own
background/experience.
Helpful Hint: As stated previously, you will likely find the assignment easier if you choose an illusionistic two dimensional art-object with some elements of
recognizable subject matter.
I. Description – the Object
With the above in mind you should begin work on your paper by describing what you see in the object itself. Inventory everything from the general to the specific
including details of subject matter (e.g., what things do you see in the image?) and the ways that materials are employed (e.g., What kind of surface material is used?
Is the paint applied thickly or thinly? etc.)
II. Deduction – the Relationship Between Object and Viewer
Next you must “empathetically” enter the “depicted world” of the object. Using your own life experience and sense of the physical world, make reasonable deductions
based on information that emerged as you described the work.
This step of your analysis should include:
the use of your sensory imagination to project yourself into the represented world to record what you “see, hear, smell, taste, and feel”.
the use of your intellect in asking yourself whether the artwork attempts to present a world like our own (e.g., What is the time of day? What has happened in the
moments just before the event portrayed? Is there a place for you, the viewer, to participate in the scene? What might your position be in the depicted scene?)
the use of your subjective emotional responses to the work (e.g., Do you respond with pain? Elation? Indifference? ) Attempt to explain the relationship between
your emotional response to the work and your previous ‘objective’ description of the piece. Try to uncover the effects of your own cultural perspectives and biases.
III. Speculation – the Viewer’s Mind
You should now use your creative imagination to develop theories about what might “explain the various effects observed and felt.” Bear in mind the relationship in
time and place between you and when the work was produced and well as the period it portrays.
Based on your observations so far, suggest some areas for future research on this art object. What areas of research in other disciplines (e.g., anthropology,
psychology, folklore, etc.) might help you to better understand this work?
Based on your close reading of the art-object, propose some theories that might be explored in future studies about the possible meanings of this work.
Writing the Report
After executing the above instructions, think carefully about your main thesis for this paper. Make an outline so that your paper proceeds in a logical manner
towards your conclusion. Organize your paragraphs carefully. Include a brief introductory paragraph and a summary conclusion.
PLACE THIS ORDER OR A SIMILAR ORDER WITH US TODAY AND GET AN AMAZING DISCOUNT 🙂
