In support of Student Learning Outcome #2:
Synthesize examination of contemporary trends, materials, and approaches in two dimensional art by exploring and manipulating two-dimensional elements into a design.

Write a Two Page Paper.

1. Visit a virtual museum as listed below and select an artwork to review.
2. Introduce the artwork by artist, title, date, and medium.
3. Describe the contents of the work in detail in your own words, and discuss it in terms of some of the vocabulary you have learned in this class.  Imagine you are describing it to someone who can not see it, and you are helping them visualize it. Set the overall scene, then establish the details. What formal factors shape the artwork and your response to it? In your description include human terms, such as how the artwork feels. Is there a mood or emotion associated with the work?
   When talking about work you can discuss the artist in the past tense, but always refer to the artwork itself in the present tense, unless it was destroyed.Past Tense: The artist used a variety of warm colors to express a feeling of joy.
   Present Tense: The painting gives a feeling of joy through the use of warms colors.
4. Include a few sentences about the work’s historical significance such as how it fits into art history or within the artist’s own body of work, or to the specific show context.
5. The paper must be written in 3rd person meaning, with no use of  “I, you, or we.”

   A sentence in the first person: “I went to the museum and saw a painting by Vincent Van Gogh.”
   A sentence in the third person: “At the museum is a painting by Vincent Van Gogh.”

6. Although the majority of the paper is to be written with your own words and ideas, be sure to properly quote and cite any reference materials utilized. Try to write the paper from your own point of view before reading and searching for more information. I am not too picky about how you cite your sources, just be sure to acknowledge them within the paper. You can use quotes or paraphrasing. Just follow with the source author’s name in parentheses and cite the full source at the end of the paper. You can also use numbers within the paper for citations.

   Most of what you might quote will come from the museum site or article that you find on the internet. When known acknowledge the author by listing their name and provide a link to where you found the information. This part goes at the end of the paper with the accompanying citation number.

   When you submit your paper try out the Plagiarism checker. Turn-it-in crawls the internet searching for your sources, it also has a database of student papers already submitted.  You can check your own paper to make sure you didn’t forget to acknowledge a source. Just click on the percentage button in the upper right-hand corner in Canvas after submitting it.

Here the plagiarism checker is indicating 4% of the paper is from a source. You can click on the percent (%) to find out the source. Four percent is probably just the title of the artwork. 

7. Take a break, wait until the next day then reread and check for logical order, with clear relationships of each idea to those that come before or follow it.

8. Revise and Proofread. Try to write the paper a few days ahead of the deadline, so you can take a break and read it the next day. You can have a friend or family member read it and give you feedback. Work on it sooner if you want to reach out to our embedded tutor. The is also NetTutoronline service, click on “Humanities” or “History” in NetTutor. 

9. Edit the final draft, double-spaced. Insert image of drawing into the paper and upload to Canvas.

10. Participate in the Peer Review that I have set up for this assignment. It is worth 5 points. If you review two papers, there is 5 points extra credit available.

Here is a link to an Art Reviews to serve an example for the style of writing:

Art in America:
Carlos Alfonzo
Justine Hill

Student Paper Samples:

Art Review #1

Art Review #2

Art Review #3

Where to look for Art:

The Broad

Getty Center:
Michelangelo Mind of the Master
Painted Prophecy: The Hebrew Bible through Christian Eyes
Artists on the Move: Journeys and Drawings
Käthe Kollwitz: Prints, Process, Politics

Guggenheim
LA County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
Norton Simon
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The National Museum of Art

Google Arts and Culture