Ancient to Roman
Welcome to week eight! We will continue to look at art history from its ancient beginnings through Roman times.
Let's review some of the outcomes you have achieved in the last seven weeks. You have successfully demonstrated your ability to complete the following learning outcomes...
- Follow instructions and meet deadlines
- Recognize the communicative power of the visual language
- Develop and employ methods for analyzing visual art forms and interpreting their meaning
- Recognize and correctly use basic art vocabulary in verbal and written form
- Be able to compare and contrast the form, function, and content of works of art from different periods or cultures
- Recognize the different types of visual art forms and the traditional media used for each
- Recognize styles of art from selected historical periods and cultures.
This week you will be studying art history. It is important to continue to demonstrate your ability to recognize styles of art from selected historical periods and cultures. In addition, you will be asked to demonstrate your ability to identify the characteristics that distinguish the art of particular individuals, periods, groups, or cultures.
Once again, please use terminology you find in the reading and viewing materials to describe the work. When you are discussing the medium, visual/artistic elements, and design principles you are formally critiquing a work of art. Form consists of the visual/artistic elements, design principles, and the medium. The first level of meaning is formal.
The second level of meaning is subject. According to your reading materials, subject can be the following...
- landscape
- still life
- portrait
- self-portrait
- allegory: representing a mythological scene or story
- historical: actual representation of a historic event
- daily life: sometimes also called genre painting
- nude: male nude and female nude are separate categories
- political: two forms: propaganda and criticism
- social: work created to support a specific social cause
- power: work created to connect to specific spiritual strength
- fantasy: work created to invent new visual worlds
- decoration: work created to embellish surroundings
- religious: two forms: religious representation or religious action
- abstraction: work whose elements and principles are manipulated to alter the subject in some way.
The third level of meaning is context. Consider the social, political, economic, religious, and military events which influenced the creator(s), and creation of the work of art you are discussing.
In order to succeed this week you will need to complete the following...
- Meet deadlines
- Respond to another student's post
- Create few grammatical errors
- Follow instructions
- Read and take notes
- Avoid plagiarism
- Cite other's work when necessary
- Look and describe
- Demonstrate knowledge of form, subject matter, and context
For this week you will be required to complete the following...
Read Mortality, the Spirit, and Fantasy and Art in Time and Place – The Western World (2 Hours)
View collection of videos (91 minutes)
Participate in an online discussion (2 hours)
Complete a quiz (30 minutes)