ART 141 The First Impressionists Essay

OVERVIEWThis assignment asks you to address the three ART 141 learning outcomes, that is to identify, comprehend and analyze the diverse content of Art history and apply them to a creative project.For this job I am asking you to build a content page around an historically significant artist or school of artists representing a defensible ART 100 topic. You are now the professor and need to inform and engage the class  with clarity and approachability. You need to be factual, but you can toss in some of your own ideas, as I do fairly often, so long as those ideas are rational and defensible.You might start a project by thinking about your interest in a particular artist, or period or subject and go from there. it might be advisable to  base your project on an artist or a theme  that I did not address in my content pages to keep the material fresh. There’s a million artists out there who qualify as significant that there just wasn’t time for or who I only mentioned in passing.You have a lot of options, but also some limitations.  Your assignment will be to build a content page, or make a video, a bit like the ones you’ve been seeing for the last 12 weeks, as though you were teaching an ART 100 class. The page or video should address one themed topic. Artists or topics are pretty open ended, but the subject you select must be defensibly, culturally important, and would apply cogently to art 100 class. Cabbage patch dolls, Korean chicken recipes, Birthday cards, etc would not cut it. If in doubt about a topic ask me! That’s what I’m here for. A content page or video usually takes one of the following formats –