art-appreciation-journal
Pick 5 different work of art from the list of website below and interpret them. Please use a different link for each work, 200 words per, and cite it. The last piece needs to be roughly 250 words.
- Art and artists | Tate (http://www.tate.org.uk/art)
- Art Institute of Chicago (http://www.artic.edu/)
- Art Renewal Center Artist Index (http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artistindex.php)
- The Frick Collection ( http://www.frick.org/art)
- Google Art Project (http://www.googleartproject.com/)
- Guggenheim (http://www.guggenheim.org/)
- Louvre Museum Official Website (http://www.louvre.fr/en)
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art (http://www.metmuseum.org)
- MoMA | The Museum of Modern Art (https://www.moma.org/collection/)
- National Gallery of Art(https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings
- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (https://www.sfmoma.org/artists-artworks/
- SIRIS – Smithsonian Institute Research Information System (https://sirismm.si.edu/siris/ariquickstart.htm)
- Smithsonian Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York (http://www.cooperhewitt.org/)
- The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/)
- Uffizi, Uffizi gallery, Florence (http://www.uffizi.com/)
- Vatican Museums – Official web site (http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/MV_Home.html)
- Victoria & Albert Museum (http://www.vam.ac.uk/)
- Web Gallery of Art (http://www.wga.hu/)
- WebMuseum: Famous Artworks exhibition (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/)
- Whitney Museum of American Art (http://whitney.org/)
Explore a museum from the list of museum and digital image resources above. Select a work of art that particularly interests you. In your analysis, taking care to cite the textbook or any other source of information that you use in your journal. Contemplate the work of art, and discuss your interpretation of the art based on the characteristics of the corresponding movement in your art journal entry. Pay close attention to style, media (materials), methods, subjects, and any other details that make this work significant, using appropriate art terminology and taking care to correctly cite information that you use from the textbook or any other source. Be sure to include your personal reaction to the work of art and an image of the work. Include an image of the work of art you have chosen in your journal.