Connect and Clarify

· Drawing the Eye

This assignments provide a deeper understanding of the content through reflecting and responding to the video. Write one or two paragraphs responding to the assignment question. MLA format

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0opKw7RfXk&feature=youtu.be

Based on the video, when the artist describes his process, he states that he is “drawing the eye without drawing the eye,” what do you think he meant by this idea? Why do you think this process, going from basic or general towards the specific or detailed, is a good way to draw?

· Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #21, 1978

This assignments provide a deeper understanding of the content through reflecting and responding to the video. Write one or two paragraphs responding to the assignment question. MLA format

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fPwsLeH8fA

According to the video, how has the artist, Cindy Sherman, explored the theme of identity in her work? Why is photography a good medium to explore these ideas?

· Gaudí, Church of the Sagrada Família, 1882

This assignments provide a deeper understanding of the content through reflecting and responding to the video. Write one or two paragraphs responding to the assignment question. MLA format

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMqERP-J2tQ&feature=youtu.be

According to the commenters in the video, Gaudi’s Church of the Sagrada Familia is an inventive synthesis of very eclectic elements and structures. Can you describe at least three of these elements and structures?

· Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, 1483-85

This assignments provide a deeper understanding of the content through reflecting and responding to the video. Write one or two paragraphs responding to the assignment question. MLA format

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdp22elrY7s&feature=youtu.be&list=PLAAEFE618A27E29D2

According to the presenters in the video, what are two ways Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus is different than other paintings from the Renaissance period?

· Olmec Mask

This assignments provide a deeper understanding of the content through reflecting and responding to the video. Write one or two paragraphs responding to the assignment question. MLA format

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9uJxXnDTU8&feature=youtu.be

According to the video, what is one way the Aztecs dealt with artifacts older than their culture that is similar to how we deal with ours? What is one way that it is different?

· Duchamp’s Shovel: Art as Concept

This assignments provide a deeper understanding of the content through reflecting and responding to the video. Write one or two paragraphs responding to the assignment question. MLA format

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRv20I13vqM&feature=youtu.be

From watching the video discussion on Marcel Duchamp’s In Advance of the Broken Arm, how do you think this art challenges our idea of what art can be? Also, the narrator says he thinks Duchamp failed. What was Duchamp trying to do that he apparently was not able to do?