Document #1This one due on Sat September 5, 2015
4-pages only
Visual Arts
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
- Competency 1: Describe the historical development of the humanities from the pre-historic era to the present.
- Describe how the visual arts developed in the 17th through 20th centuries.
- Competency 2: Examine the forms of expression that instantiate the arts and humanities.
- Explain the aesthetic principles expressed in the visual arts.
- Competency 3: Integrate the humanities, with everyday life.
- Illustrate the use of visual arts in commercial design.
- Assess how visual images in advertising influence our buying habits.
- Competency 4: Communicate effectively in forms appropriate to the humanities.
- Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
Assignment Instructions
Write an essay in which you explain the aesthetic principles expressed in visual arts and describe how they changed from the Baroque period through the early 20th century. What basic features were preserved through the centuries, and which changed dramatically? How do you think artists choose which styles to employ in their own work?
Next, consider how these styles are exemplified in commercial design during our own time. Collect visual images from Web sites and advertisements, like those in the studies, and explain how they incorporate traditional elements of visual design. Are our decisions to purchase items of clothing, jewelry, automobiles, appliances, and services influenced significantly by the visual forms in which they are presented?
Although your paper should offer a general thesis about the use of visual arts, much of the support you offer in its defense will involve details chosen from the specific examples you select. As you write, look for ways to tie everything together with your own view of the role that the visual arts continue to play in our everyday lives.
Refer to the Visual Arts Scoring Guide to ensure that you meet the grading criteria for this assignment.
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Note: Your instructor may also use the Writing Feedback Tool to provide feedback on your writing. In the tool, click the linked resources for helpful writing information.
Other Requirements
- Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
- APA formatting: Your paper should be formatted according to APA (6th edition) style and formatting.
- Length: 4–6 typed and double-spaced pages.
- Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
Document #2 discussion/ Due today September 3, 2015
400-words/ 4line-para
Visual Arts
Think back over all of the pictures of paintings and sculptures you have seen in our textbook during this quarter, and select five that you found to be especially interesting. How does each embody the aesthetic principles for visual art that we examined together in this unit? What feelings, thoughts, and motives do your perceptions elicit in each instance?
In your initial post, explain what is best about each of your selections and how each challenges your understanding of the world and of yourself.
Response Guidelines
Review the posts of your classmates and respond to at least two of them. In your responses to classmates, look for chances to explore the different reactions prompted by the same selections. How do your choices make the world a better place?
Document #3 250-words/ 4lines-para/Due today September 3, 2015
Photography and Art
The invention of photography during the 19th century—and its further development in the 20th, with the additional capacity for color and motion—made it possible to capture accurate two-dimensional images directly, without the talents of artists and painters. And yet the visual arts continued to thrive.
Which elements of the painterly traditions transferred easily into the composition of photographs and which did not? How might the availability of photography have contributed to changes in the style employed by painters during this period?
Response Guidelines
Review the posts of your classmates and respond to at least two of them.
ADDITIONAL
Unit 8 Visual Arts
In this unit, once again consider the Humanities Roadmap and relationships within the culture.
Widespread use of high-power steam engines during the 19th century, along with perfection of processes for the manufacture of steel and the emergent application of electricity for commercial purposes, resulted in the rapid development of industrial progress. European powers expanded their colonial empires in order to secure the necessary raw materials, and even at home the divide between “haves” and “have-nots” grew alarmingly. As downtrodden workers began to revolt, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels addressed the situation directly, with an earnest critique of the capitalist economic system as a whole. Fiction writers like Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, Gustav Flaubert, and Henrik Ibsen drew attention to the practical consequences of social inequality for the dispossessed, especially the working poor and women.
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Our topical focus is on the visual arts of the period. We first step back to review what we have already seen in the Romantic era—the appreciation of nature and elevation of heroic individuals by John Constable, William Turner, and Francisco Goya. These themes were largely abandoned in a new wave of realism from artists like Honoré Daumier and Édouard Manet in France and Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins in the United States. Their efforts to record faithfully events from ordinary life, however, soon gave way to the use of photographic equipment that could capture such moments technologically.
Painting, on the other hand, soon moved away from this kind of objectivity by employing new chemical pigments to portray light and color in a less formal style that came to be known as Impressionism.
- Claude Monet used muted but contrasting colors to focus on visual perception of surfaces.
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir employed similar techniques to capture spontaneous glimpses of life.
- Mary Cassatt portrayed domestic scenes with vivid color and light.
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec pictured Parisian dancers and prostitutes on dramatic posters.
- Georges-Pierre Seurat’s pointillism and Paul Cézanne’s abstraction further flattened perception of the visual surface.
During the 20th century, painters explored a variety of options, from the social realism of Diego Rivera to the unusual choice of colors by Henri Matisse. The dominant figure of this period was Spaniard Pablo Picasso. After early efforts in representational painting and reliance on a restricted palette, especially in muted tones of blue and rose, Picasso created an entirely new approach that came to be known as Cubism—the often disjointed separation of figures into abstract planes. Picasso also introduced the practice of assembling collages that added a third dimension to painted surfaces. In the generations that followed, other artist pursued even more disruptive challenges to tradition: abstract expressionism, dada, surrealism, and pop art.
The entire history of the fine arts has provided us with a rich vocabulary with which to analyze and interpret the significance of visual perceptions, which can be applied to natural objects and photographs as well as to paintings in a variety of styles. By studying art, we learn to speak of line, shape, form, color, texture, framing, and design. In our own lives, we see these same elements combined in lively fashion for commercial purposes as well. Advertisements in magazines, newspapers, and Web sites–as well as movies and television—incorporate the same variety of styles and aesthetic principles.
Objectives
To successfully complete this learning unit, you will be expected to:
- Identify cultural developments of industrial revolution.
- Analyze paintings for their aesthetic qualities.
- Describe how the visual arts developed in the 17th through 20th centuries.
- Explain the aesthetic principles expressed in the visual arts.
- Illustrate the use of visual arts in commercial design.
- Assess how visual images in advertising influence our buying habits.
- Learning Activities
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[u08s1] Unit 8 Study 1
Studies
The Effect of Framing
Transcript
Readings
In Landmarks in Humanities:
- Review from Chapter 10, “Baroque: Piety and Extravagance,” pages 267–284.
- Review from Chapter 12, “Romanticism: Nature, Passion, and the Sublime,” pages 337–345.
- Read Chapter 13, “Materialism: The Industrial Era and the Urban Scene,” pages 355–381.
- Read from Chapter 14: “Modernism: The Assault on Tradition,” pages 394–405.
Web Sites
Browse through the following (and similar) Web sites for examples of the use of the visual arts in advertising and commercial design:
The virtual tours on the following Web sites provide additional examples from the development of modern art:
- The National Gallery of Art’s tour of Mary Cassatt — Selected Paintings.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of Art History’s Marcel Duchamp Collection.
- The Most’s 10 Most Famous Pablo Picasso Artworks.
- Musée Rodin’s sculpture collections.
- The National Gallery of Art’s Van Gogh’s Van Goghs Virtual Tour.
Multimedia
- Click The Effect of Framing to launch the interactive.
Optional Reading
You may find the following helpful:
- Carl, K. H., & Charles, V. (2009). Baroque art. New York: ParkstoneIntermational
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