Category: Art History

Assigned an image to visually analyze in the specific format that is listed on the prompt. I included a slide show pdf of what to think about. The image you will be analyzing is “Stele in Honor of Dead Hereos” 

Touchstone 4: Art and Architecture: Uniting Culture, Innovation, and Religious Ideals
ASSIGNMENT: In this assignment, you will explore the crossroads of culture, innovation, and religious expression through art and architecture. Drawing from the course material, you will complete two distinct yet interconnected parts in a 4-5 page (1,000-1,200 words) paper:
Innovations in Art and Architecture: Examine innovations in art or architecture by analyzing how they built upon past innovations to create something entirely new.
Art, Architecture, and Religious Expression: Delve into the connection between art and architecture and the values of different religions. You will select specific works and discuss how they embody the ideals and values of their respective cultures.
In order to foster learning and growth, all essays you submit must be newly written specifically for this course. Any plagiarized or recycled work will result in a Plagiarism Detected alert. Review Touchstones: Academic Integrity Guidelines for more about plagiarism and the Plagiarism Detected alert. For guidance on the use of generative AI technology, review Ethical Standards and Appropriate Use of AI.
A. Directions
Step 1: Introduction
Begin your paper with a 1-2 paragraph introduction that provides an overview of the assignment. Clearly state the purpose of the assignment and its significance in the context of exploring the intersections of culture, innovation, and religious expression through art and architecture. Remember to introduce both parts (Innovations in Art and Architecture and Art, Architecture, and Religious Expression) of the assignment in the introduction.
Your response for this section should be approximately 100-200 words.
Step 2: Innovations in Art and Architecture
Throughout this course, we have considered several examples of innovations in both art and architecture, including the evolution of form in Greek sculpture, images of Christ, dome architecture, architecture as a place where people attempt to be closer to the gods and/or to the heavens (architecture as a holy mountain).
For this section of your paper, select two examples of artistic or architectural works covered in the course. Both examples should either be structural innovations OR technological innovations (do not pick one of each). Discuss how these works built on past innovations to create something entirely new. Consider structural and formal innovations. Provide historical context for the chosen examples and explain the significance of these innovations. Your discussion of examples should apply the formal analysis skills learned in Unit 1 that consider the use of color, line, shape, medium, and other characteristics.
Your response for this section should be approximately 1-2 pages (300-500 words) and follow this structure:
Choose a Subject: Select either two structural innovations OR two technological innovations in either art or architecture that have significantly impacted its respective field. This could be a particular style, technique, or design concept.
Historical Context: Provide a brief overview of the historical context in which this innovation emerged. Highlight the key developments and influences that led to its creation.
Analysis of Innovation: Analyze how this innovation built upon past techniques or styles. Discuss the elements that distinguish it from previous approaches and how it contributed to the evolution of art or architecture.
Comparative Analysis: Draw connections and comparisons between the selected works, highlighting both similarities and differences in their expressions of innovation.
Make sure your information and citations come from the Sophia tutorials to support your response. When citing material from a tutorial, please include the name of the lesson and use the following format:
In-text citation: For example, (Romanesque Architecture, n.d.) or (Influence of Buddhism on Ancient Indian Art, n.d.). Please note these are examples only. You will have to adjust the citation based on the specific part of the tutorial you are referencing.
Step 3: Art, Architecture, and Religious Expression
Throughout this course, you have seen how art and architecture express the values of various religions. The cultures and religions discussed in this course include, but are not limited to:
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Hinduism
Jainism
Buddhism
Islam
Christianity
Mesoamerican culture
For this section of the paper, choose two specific religious works of art or architecture. Summarize the core values and beliefs of each religion. Analyze how the selected works of art or architecture express and embody the values and ideals of their respective cultures. Pay particular attention to the formal elements and design choices that relate to the religion or spiritual practice. Your discussion of examples should apply the formal analysis skills learned in Unit 1 that consider the use of color, line, shape, medium, and other characteristics.
Your response for this section should be approximately 1-2 pages (300-500 words) and follow this structure:
Select Works: Choose two specific religious works of art or architecture that serve as exemplars of religious cultural expression.
Religious Values and Ideals: Analyze each selected work in terms of how it embodies the ideals and values of its respective culture and religion. Consider the symbolism, motifs, and architectural elements that convey religious meaning.
Cultural Context: Provide background information on the culture and religious beliefs associated with each selected work. Explain how these cultural contexts influenced the creation and design of the artwork or architecture.
Comparative Analysis: Draw connections and comparisons between the two selected works, highlighting both similarities and differences in their expressions of religious values.
Make sure your information and citations come from the Sophia tutorials to support your response. When citing material from a tutorial, please include the name of the lesson and use the following format:
In-text citation: For example, (Romanesque Architecture, n.d.) or (Influence of Buddhism on Ancient Indian Art, n.d.). Please note these are examples only. You will have to adjust the citation based on the specific part of the tutorial you are referencing.
Step 4: Conclusion
In 1-2 paragraphs, summarize the key findings of your analysis and reiterate the significance of the relationship between art and architecture with culture, innovation, and religious expression.
Your response for this section should be approximately 100-200 words.

ASSIGNMENT 1  Propaganda   image choice + essay
As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda, in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence and persuade an audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political, religious or social agenda. Propaganda can be used as a form of ideological warfare…and can refer to uses that are generally benign or innocuous, such as public health recommendations, signs encouraging citizens to participate in a census or election, or messages encouraging persons to report crimes to law enforcement, among others.
Your assignment is to find one example of what you might consider contemporary (21stcentury – preferably current) published or shared propaganda. This may be single advertisements, posters, websites, videos, tweets, or any kind of published content.  This could be a single example, or a complete campaign.  In general, you should look beyond commercial advertisement (consumerism), and towards public service announcements or any more direct visual communication for a cause or ideology: a movement, a belief, a political position, a conflict, etc.  However, while technically different, commercial advertising can often blur the line between selling a product or service and persuasion toward a particular social cause or point of view and could be considered for this assignment (see notes on advertising vs. propaganda in the supplemental Propaganda_guide.pdf, attached).  Students may not use any images found through simple internet searches of “propaganda” as your selection.  You should make every effort to find and/or photograph your choice in the real world somewhere, in the city, on the subways, in your daily experience, or one that you remember seeing.  This may include social media campaigns or ads/images you see on web browsers; however, online choices should be well researched.  This means clicking on any pop-up ad, and/or researching the secondary information in the ad that identifies who produced the content.    
*Specific focus will be placed on addressing the common persuasion tactics used in advertising and propaganda. You must identify which specific common persuasion techniques are being used in your choice, illustrated and defined in the supplemental Propaganda_guide, attached with this assignment on Blackboard.  There will most likely be more than one tactic used.  Students may not use the examples given in the guide as their choice for this assignment. 
Assignment Instructions :
Read fully the supplemental Propaganda_guide (.pdf attached file on Blackboard)
Choose an example of 21st century (preferably current) published propaganda. 
Write an essay (min. 500 words, 10-11pt/single spaced.) describing your choice & why you have chosen it.  Images of your choice must be included with the essay.  If your choice is a video clip, include a functional link or file.
Submit essay (with image or video link included) into Blackboard. 
In your essay, answer these questions:
Identify the common persuasion tactics (listed in the supplemental Propaganda_guide.pdf) that are being used in your choice. 
Identify and evaluate the tone of voice being used in your choice to communicate the message (i.e. the expression or affectation behind the words/images), using simple, descriptive words that you feel express the tone such as: paternal, maternal, omniscient, aggressive, patronizing, rallying, desperate, sympathetic, angry, humorous, friendly…etc.
What elements of the communication are stressed and why? 
Identify what specifically is being communicated (the underlying message), and the target demographic/audience.  
What kind of language does the speaker use to address the audience? Is the message presented by or through a particular person, personality, or character?  If so, who? How does the speaker persuade you, the viewer? How does the work make you feel?
Who created/published/paid for the propaganda? What is the intent/agenda of the propaganda? 

DESIGN ANALYSIS FORM   image choice + design analysis form
The Design Analysis Form is a comprehensive series of questions that will help guide you through a discussion of 1 (one) particular work of graphic design of your choice. The form is relatively self explanatory, and the Design Analysis Guide, also provided here, will give you hints and instructions on answering every single question within the form. The Guide is an indispensable tool to help students successfully complete the form, and must be utilized to assist you throughout your work.
Additionally, an Art/Design Terminology Form, provided here as well, to assist you with the vocabulary used in the Design Analysis Form.
Assignment:
Choose work of graphic design.
Complete the Design Analysis Form.doc.  Utilize the Design Analysis Guide to assist you with every question.  
analysis form.pdf is an example of hoe it should look

Critic of the Arts and Painting Analysis & Reflection
Please see the attached document for instructions

I need my below Artist Statement to be rewritten (edit) and in a more polished impactful way. I am looking for approx 250 -300 words.

I have attached 1st draft of the funding proposal. Some questions are left blank in the proposal and needs to be completed . They are highlighted in red in the proposal and are also mentioned below.
1.Why I am interested in this project – How does this art project in a hospital environment connects with my artistic practice? ( the answer to this question. can be based on my artist statement and hospital environment and need for healing art)
2.Healing Through Collaboration: How does collaboration and working together in shared space help in wellbeing of staff and patients?
3.How funding will help my own artistic development ?
I have also attached an essay(pdf file) that talks on Healing art in hospital environment. This is just for reference.

Seventeenth-century France witnessed a strong Italian Baroque influence in architecture and painting before transitioning to a Classical style. With specific examples, discuss how the Baroque style entered France, what buildings or painting demonstrate this influence and then how the style was abandoned in favor of a new French Classicism.

12-point font, double-spaced with 1-inch margins
• Title page with the following information: Student’s name, title of project, a key image  from the project, names of advisor and reader(s) (Advisor: Dr. Wingfield, Readers: Dr. 
Stephenson, Gary Lennon), word count, and Kennesaw State University School of Art 
and Design 
Senior Capstone Project in Art History
• Chicago style citations (follow the style of the Art Bulletin, or of the American Journal 
of Archeology for ancient topics, which uses
an author/date version of the U.C. style—see “Research and Writing Information”)
• Footnotes or endnotes
• Numbered pages
• Illustrations placed within the paper with appropriate captions is preferred or at the 
end of the paper, before the bibliography
My paper topic and research is outlined in my presentation that I will share in the 
dropbos below. Excuse the informalness of the script notes in the presentation. The 
information is valid but it was written as a script that I presented to a classroom of 40 
people.
Sources used so far:
Thomas Cole’s Journey Atlantic Crossings – Elizabeth Mankin Jornhauser and Tim 
Barringer
Thomas Cole Landscpe into History – William H. Truettner and Alan Wallach 
Thomas Cole Drawn to Nature 

Thinking about social categories of difference and the power structures that inform/impact them (past and present), you will need to select a concept (listed below) and contemporary visual artist (please, no musicians, writers, etc.) that engages with your thematic selection in their practice. After selecting both your theme and artist, you will need to select 2-3 artworks that you feel best exemplifies/contests/complicates your chosen concept.
A Substantial Creative Project (Art, Creative Writing, Performance, etc.): This will need to be accompanied by a 4-5 page (double-spaced) critical paper that relates the project back to the concept/artist of your choice (if you elect to go with this option, choosing an artist to inform the project alone will suffice).
Thematic Choices:
Sex/Gender Binaries
Emergence of “Normativity”
Leather, BDSM, and Power
Feminism, Separatism, and Alternative Communities
Materiality of the Body
Gendered Labor
Queer Politics and the Policing of “Deviant” Bodies/Sexuality
Cyberidentities (Sexual/Gendered)
Institutional Repression/Representation
Performativity, Drag, and Gender Identity
Intersectionality (Race/Class/Gender/Place/Sexuality)
Stereotypes and Cultural Representation/Visibility
Regardless of your choice, your final assignment on the visualization of difference will need to utilize and EXPAND ON the concept of your choice, discussing not only HOW it is exemplified in the context of the artist/work that you have selected, but also how it engages with the “cultural order” of difference.
you may elect to include reference photos if appropriate, however, if you are not specifically referencing any artworks, listing the artist that helped informed your project will suffice. BOTH options will require that you use at LEAST 3-4 academic/scholarly sources. Please note that you are more than welcome to use ANY of the articles/texts we’ve read in class or any other relevant scholarly peer-reviewed sources.