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Week 3 – Assignment Outline of Movements in Art In Week 5, you will design an art gallery specific to a movement of your choice. To prepare for this project, this week you will examine the five movements listed below. To research the movements that we have not yet discussed in class, you will need […]

Art Journal Week 3 Refer to the assigned reading from the textbook and required videos as examples of how to interpret works of art. Select a work of art of your choice from Gardner’s Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspectivea website listed on the ART101 Museum and Images Website document located in your classroom […]

 Regional Characteristics Reflected in Art Refer to the assigned reading from the textbook and required videos as examples of how to interpret works of art. In the “Comparing Regions” discussion this week, you examined how differences between regions exist and the implications to art created within those regions, specific to the Baroque movement. Now, select […]

Comparing Regions Refer to the assigned reading from the textbook and required videos as examples of how to interpret works of art. In Chapters 19 and 20 of the textbook, the Baroque period is discussed in depth. Within that movement, there were varying implications to the art in regions of Italy, Spain, and Northern Europe. […]

Art Journal Week 2 Refer to the assigned reading from the textbook and required videos as examples of how to interpret works of art. Explore a museum from the list of museum and digital image resources from Week 1, one of the Virtual Reality video tours assigned this week, or go to your local museum. […]

Words Art Historians Use Review the Google Arts and Culture online exhibit, ‘The Fall of the Rebel Angels’: A Closer Look at the Masterpiece (Links to an external site.). Refer to the assigned reading from the textbook and required videos as examples of how to interpret works of art. Also, reflect on your reading assignments for […]

Questions Art Historians Ask Refer to the assigned reading from the textbook and required videos as examples of how to interpret works of art. Also, reflect on your reading assignments for Week 1. Review the “Questions Art Historians Use” section in the Introduction of the textbook. Select two of the five questions. Explain what art […]

Art Journal Week 1 This week, you will create your art journal using Microsoft Word or PowerPoint. The Ashford Writing Center’s How to Make a PowerPoint Presentation (Links to an external site.) can help you to put together an attractive and successful PowerPoint presentation. For this week’s art journal, provide an interpretation and personal reflection of […]

Take at least five minutes to look at the image of art work. Then, watch the video Van Eyck, Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife, 1434 (Links to an external site.). After watching the video, respond to the following in your discussion post: What key components of the work of art were discussed in the […]

 Exploring an Art Museum Refer to the assigned reading from the textbook and required videos as examples of how to interpret works of art. Explore the National Gallery Virtual Tour (Links to an external site.) or Panoramas | Musée du Louvre (Links to an external site.). As you investigate the museum using the virtual tour, you can […]