GSU ART1100 Discussions Latest 2022 February

ART1100 Art Appreciation

Week 1 Discussion

Selfie Reflection

Cindy Sherman, "Untitled Film Still #21," 1977-80.

We started the course by posting a selfie. It serves several purposes for our class: the primary reason is to build a sense of community and camaraderie with your classmates, but the secondary purpose is to familiarize you with the act of taking photos as an art-making tool, as it is for photographer Cindy Sherman (ABOVE).

Watch this short PBS video about the history of the selfie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfoPJnVrBNM

Then address the following prompts:

What do you look for in a good selfie?

What tricks, conventions, or angles do you employ (or stay away from)?

How do you judge when someone has taken a good selfie? Or do you hate selfes?

 

ART1100 Art Appreciation

Week 2 Discussion

Meaning and Interpretation

Faith Ringgold, "The American People Series: #18: The Flag Is Bleeding," 1967, oil on canvas. The artist said she wanted to create images that would make people really look, because "The more they look, the more they see."

After you review the videos/powerpoint for this week, please respond to the following prompts:

What do you see? Click here to open the image in a new window.

What kind of message do you think the artist was trying to communicate? Consider medium, subject matter, form, and context (Review this week's and last week's powerpoints for detail on these terms and the process of interpretation).

 

ART1100 Art Appreciation

Week 3 Discussion

Point, Line, Shape, Mass and Volume, Texture, and Value

Wassily Kandinsky, "Composition 8," oil on canvas, 1923

After you review the videos/powerpoint for this week, please respond to the following prompts:

This week we're learning about how artists use the design elements of Point, Line, Shape, Mass & Volume, Texture, and Value to compose works of art, both in two-dimensional and three-dimensional formats.

Please browse the list of museum websites/resources below and find a work of art that highlights at least 3 of these design elements. Your work can be in any medium, 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional, from any geographic region or time period.

Post an image of your artwork and briefly describe how it incorporates the above design elements

List of resources:

ART 21

Smarthistory

The Art Institute of Chicago

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Seattle Art Museum

Tate Museum, London

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Arcspace (architecture resource)

 

ART1100 Art Appreciation

Week 4 Discussion

Color Preference -- What Does it Mean?

After you review the videos/powerpoint for this week, please respond to the following prompts:

Consider some of the issues related to color and symbolism that we studied this week, watch this video on how the color pink became a "girly" color, then respond to the prompts below (at least 200 words):

Are there colors that you really like or really hate?  What colors do you surround yourself with, and why?  Are there colors you refuse to wear? Why?

What do you think these color preferences say about you, or about how society constructs symbolism associated with color?