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Author: Sandra Cheng
Reminder: Final Exam (Quiz 5!) is on Monday 12/16
This is a reminder that the Final is next week, on Monday 12/16 at 11:30 am. Please arrive promptly. Don’t forget to review the last post with the terminology and expanded format for the quiz.
In addition, I have posted the supplementary extra credit assignment that involves manipulating some code under Class Downloads on our OpenLab website. Please remember all extra credits are optional, and all are due at the end of finals week on Friday 12/20 by midnight.
Lastly, thanks for letting me know about Maurizio Cattelan’s banana in Miami Basel. I thought you would like to read how locals in Miami are using the incident to raise important issues of social equity.
See you on Monday!
Final Exam (Quiz 5) is next Monday 12/16/19
For the Final Exam, there is a short list of images. Please look under Class Downloads for the Short List for Final Exam.
As you study each work, please try to identify by the following parts:
1. Artist’s name, if known. Last names are best. (1 point)
2. Title (2 points)
3. Art Period (2 points)
4. Date (1/2 point)
5. Significance (3 points)
The terms for the Final Exam are:
naturalism
tenebrism
absolutism
history painting
Sun King
personification
hierarchy of genres
plein air
Japonisme
pointillism
The format of the Final Exam is similar to a quiz with one extra component: The total time for the exam is 50 minutes but you will have up an hour to complete the exam.
Final Exam Format
- Part 1: terminology for 5 vocabulary words/terms (15 points)
- Part 2: 10 slide identifications (85 points)
- Part 3: optional comparison essay (additional 25 points)
- You will be shown 2 images that you can write a short essay (approx. 6 sentences) comparing and contrasting the two artworks.
For the final exam, you can complete the optional comparison essay to earn 125 points on the final exam.
HW3: What’s On Your Thanksgiving Plate?
Happy Thanksgiving! This homework assignment is a fun one, and adapted from my history of photography class. Share with classmates an image of something you’re eating/cooking over the holiday week. Since we just covered Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, you may want to look at parodies of this famous painting, including this photograph by David LaChapelle. Sometimes parodies evoke anger, including a fashion ad campaign that parodied Leonardo’s painting and was banned in Milan. More recently, The Daily News used a Last Supper parody for The Last Whopper cover to criticize President Trump.
Don’t forget for this assignment, you just need to post an image of something you’re having for Thanksgiving and a short line describing it! Please only check the category #studentHW
The DUE DATE is Monday December 2, by midnight.
For those of you interested in exploring food photography and how some foodies are turning their social media into profit, look here.
HW4: Is It Time to Take Down the Mona Lisa?
For the last homework of the semester, please read this recent article in the New York Times about the overcrowding situation in the Louvre Museum, where Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the Mona Lisa is stored. The photos show people waiting in lines and crowds in front of the painting. Do you think it’s time to put the Mona Lisa in storage? Or perhaps move it to its own space outside of the museum?
Read the NYT article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/arts/design/mona-lisa-louvre-overcrowding.html
Write a short 100-word post on your views about the article and your opinion of Leonardo’s painting. Please only check the category #studentHW.
This homework is due on the LAST DAY of class, Monday, December 16th midnight, the same day as the FINAL EXAM.
Extra Credit Assignments are Posted
Please look under Class Downloads for the Extra Credit Assignments. All extra credit is OPTIONAL. The last day to submit extra credit is December 20th by Midnight, this is the last day of finals week. Extra Credit must be submitted on Blackboard, please note the maximum matching rate for extra credit assignments is 10%.
Quiz 4 is next Monday 11/25
For Quiz 4, there is a short list of images. Please look under Class Downloads for the Short List for Quiz 4.
As you study each work, please try to identify by the following parts:
1. Artist’s name, if known. Last names are usually best. (1 point)
2. Title (2 points)
3. Art Period (2 points)
4. Date (1/2 point)
5. Significance (3 points)
The terms for Quiz 4 are:
tympanum
rose window
flying buttress
sfumato
fresco
atmospheric perspective
linear perspective
triptych
personification
monogram
HW2: How Would You Rebuild a Gothic Church?
On April 15, 2019, a massive fire broke out in Paris’s Cathedral of Notre Dame. Immortalized in Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, this church is considered by many to be the spiritual heart of the nation of France. The destructive fire ravaged the roof of the building and toppled the steeple, but the relics (such as the objects of religious veneration that we studied in class) were saved. The project to restore the church has begun but there is much debate over how it should be rebuilt. Should the French rebuild a Gothic church? or should they build a modern one? Listen and look at the photos of some ideas for the rebuilding of Notre Dame on NPR (https://tinyurl.com/yxe4xmhc).
Write a 100-word post sharing your thoughts on the rebuilding of this Gothic church. PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR POSTS BY MONDAY November 18 Midnight (Same DUE DATE as your in-class powerpoint presentation of the 4-icons assignment)
Reminder: Please submit Paper #2 on Blackboard
This is a reminder to please submit paper #2 on Blackboard. This is the 4-icons paper, which is modeled on Kyle Tezak’s 4 Icon Challenge. Paper #2 is DUE on Monday 11/11 by midnight. If you have lost the instructions, you can find directions for paper #2 here.
You need to submit 2 files. Your paper with the 4 icons and a Powerpoint file that follows the directions. I will download your Powerpoint file to the classroom computer in preparation for your presentation, which takes place one week later.
Quiz 3 on Monday Nov 4
Quiz 3 will cover South Asian and Southeast Asian Art, Islamic Art through Medieval Art to the Reliquary Statue of Saint Foy.
Here are the terms for Quiz 3:
relic
reliquary
mosque
Shiva
temple
yakshi
interlace
illuminated manuscript
scribe
monastery
