Visual Arts and Film Studies
Investigation and Interpretation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Project description
Bridge #3: Investigation and Interpretation
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art<br />
OPTION #1:<br />
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“Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China” is the first major exhibition of Chinese contemporary art ever mounted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The show is comprised of approximately seventy works of art created over the last three decades by thirty-five artists in various media, including paintings, calligraphy, photographs, woodblock prints, video, and sculpture. The works on view are organized thematically into four parts: 1) The Written Word, 2) New Landscapes, 3) Abstraction, and 4) Beyond the Brush.<br />
Ink has been the principal medium of painting and calligraphy in China for more than two thousand years. The exhibition “Ink Art” examines how Chinese artists from the 1980s to the present have referenced and altered traditional Chinese art traditions by challenging and subverting their sources.<br />
YOUR ASSIGNMENT: Choose three artists from the show. Compare their works on view at the Met, finding similarities and differences between their subjects, themes, and composition. In the school library and at home, research the three artists and the period(s) in which their works were made. Find out about their philosophy and their careers. Compare and contrast the artists and their work.<br />
YOUR ASSIGNMENT: Contextualize and explain this complex, meticulously programmed sound-and-light work, which runs 30 minutes, to an audience unfamiliar with Kentridge and his work.
Writing Guidelines: You must read and consult Sylvia Barnet’s A Short Guide to Writing About Art (see e-reserves). The following are required for the final paper:
(1) Discuss your chosen work(s) in terms of size, medium, and composition.
(2) Discuss when the work was made. Consider time period, style, and current events.
(3) For “Ink Art,” compare and contrast your chosen works in depth. For Kentridge, explore at least one aspect of the installation in greater depth (the video or the “breathing machine”), referencing one or two aspects of the artist’s earlier work.
(4) Avoid mystification. Be clear and straightforward. Use your own words or cite your quotations using footnotes.
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