ART 103B Survey
of Art History- 14th Century Through 20th Century
Fall 2007 Web Class
6 week condensed schedule: August
27 - October 5
Instructor Bonnie Kuo (Bonnie Kuo <bkuo@ohlone.edu>)
Scroll down this
page for schedule of readings and due dates on assignments.
Note: This Calendar is subject to change
Stuff You need to Know and Buy to Take this Course (READ THIS!)
Readings and Online Lectures for Week 1
Basic Ideas and Key Concepts
Assignments for Week 1
ASSIGNMENT #1 #2, & #3 Due Wednesday August 29 by 11:59 pm or earlier
If you miss or are late in turning
in any of the first 5 assignments you earn an automatic "F" in the course.
If you miss any of the first
5 assignments you may be automatically dropped from the course.
Assignment #1: EMAIL ASSIGNMENT (Read the directions carefully!)
Assignment #2:
INTRODUCTORY BULLETIN BOARD POSTING
(The bulletin board is located in the left hand margin
of the very first page when you first log into WebCT.)
In complete sentences that are
properly punctuated and capitalized, please post a message to the class
bulletin board in which you introduce yourself to the class.
Provide the following information:
1. What
you would like to be called (your name or nickname).
2. How long
have you been studying at Ohlone?
3. What is your
major?
4. Your background
in terms of taking any kind of art class.
5. Why are you
taking this class?
6. Something
interesting about yourself. (You can write anything here, except
for something rude.)
Assignment #3: BULLETIN
BOARD POSTING 1
(The bulletin board is located in the left hand margin
of the very first page when you first log into WebCT.)
I do not accept late work. So make sure you turn it in on time!
Choose ONE of the following discussion topics and post your response on the bulletin board or respond to someone else's post. Please type the discussion question at the top of your posting.
(A REMINDER: If you choose to respond to someone else's post, make sure your reply adds to the discussion. Explain why you agree or disagree with your classmate and provide factual evidence to back up your opinion. If your reply does not add anything new to the discussion but simply restates another student's answer, it will not receive full credit. Remember the point of the bulletin board postings is to have a meaningful discussion and demonstrate to me that you have read and understood the material.)
(How to get an "A" while doing this.)
ASSIGNMENT #4 Due
Sunday September 2 by 11:59 pm or earlier
WORKSHEET 1
I do not accept late work. So make sure you turn
it in on time!
Spelling and grammar do count.
If you miss or are late in turning
in any of the first 5 assignments you earn an automatic "F" in the course.
If you miss any of the first
5 assignments you may be automatically dropped.
Note: ALWAYS type your worksheet responses in a word processing program such as MS Word first. That way your work is saved and you have a back up copy. Then cut and paste your numbered answers into an email and send them to me at bkuo@ohlone.edu. Should you run into a problem while submitting the worksheets online, you always have a backup copy with your Word document. Remember, I do NOT accept email attachments or images. I do not accept late work. So make sure you turn it in on time!
(Bonnie Kuo <bkuo@ohlone.edu>)
Readings and Online Lectures for Week 2
Assignments for Week 2
ASSIGNMENT #5 Due
Wednesday September 5 by 11:59 pm or earlier
BULLETIN BOARD POSTING 2
If you miss or are late in turning
in any of the first 5 assignments you earn an automatic "F" in the course.
If you miss any of the first
5 assignments you may be automatically dropped.
(The bulletin board is located in the left hand margin of the very first page when you first log into WebCT.)
I do not accept late work. So make sure you turn it in on time!
Choose ONE of the following discussion topics and post your response on the bulletin board or respond to someone else's post. Please type the discussion question at the top of your posting.
(A REMINDER: If you choose to respond to someone else's post, make sure your reply adds to the discussion. Explain why you agree or disagree with your classmate and provide factual evidence to back up your opinion. If your reply does not add anything new to the discussion but simply restates another student's answer, it will not receive full credit. Remember the point of the bulletin board postings is to have a meaningful discussion and demonstrate to me that you have read and understood the material.)
(How to get an "A" while doing this.)
You are asked to become a judge for the competition of the Baptistry Doors in Florence. In reading the respective accounts, (available at Dr. Farber's Lecture on the Baptistry Doors) evaluate the different working methods of the respective artists. Make your decision who you would award the commission to and provide a rationale for your decision. Why do you think Van Eyck chose to use an almost inaccurate system of perspective when he might have had access to the same treatises and information on perspective that Masaccio had? If you compare the foreshortening in Mantegna's The Dead Christ, c. 1490-1501 work to the drawing below, you may notice that the feet are a bit too small in Mantegna's work and this appears to be done on purpose. Why do you think this is so? What purpose do you think it might serve? Bosch's iconography is a problem for art historians and each one attempts to interpret it according to what they know. In the The Later Renaissance in the North Bosch you were provided with several points of view as to what the iconography may or may not mean. Given each argument, who do you think the man at the foot of the bed in Bosch's Death and the Miser is?
ASSIGNMENT #6 Due
Sunday September 9 by 11:59 pm or earlier
WORKSHEET 2
I do not accept late work. So make sure you turn
it in on time!
Spelling and grammar do count.
Note: ALWAYS type your worksheet responses in a word processing program such as MS Word first. That way your work is saved and you have a back up copy. Then cut and paste your numbered answers into an email and send them to me at bkuo@ohlone.edu. Should you run into a problem while submitting the worksheets online, you always have a backup copy with your Word document. Remember, I do NOT accept email attachments or images.
(Bonnie Kuo <bkuo@ohlone.edu>)
Readings and Online Lectures for Week 3
Assignments for Week 3
ASSIGNMENT #7 Due
Wednesday September 12 by 11:59 pm or earlier
BULLETIN BOARD POSTING 3
I do not accept late work. So make sure you turn it in on time!
Choose ONE of the following discussion topics and post your response on the bulletin board or respond to someone else's post. Please type the discussion question at the top of your posting.
(A REMINDER: If you choose to respond to someone else's post, make sure your reply adds to the discussion. Explain why you agree or disagree with your classmate and provide factual evidence to back up your opinion. If your reply does not add anything new to the discussion but simply restates another student's answer, it will not receive full credit. Remember the point of the bulletin board postings is to have a meaningful discussion and demonstrate to me that you have read and understood the material.)
(How to get an "A" while doing this.)
The Merode Altarpiece shares many of the same qualities with Carracci's Flight to Egypt. How might Campin's work be a schema for it? Do you agree or disagree with Hockney's central idea that the majority of artists from the Renaissance to Baroque periods used the camera obscura? Provide reasons and examples to support your ideas. In Caravaggio's, Boy with a Basket of Fruit, c. 1593, Caravaggio combines the formal qualities and iconographic elements of Boy Being Bitten by a Lizard and Basket of Fruit. Why do you think he does this and what message is being communicated? Velázquez' portrait of Pope Innocent X and Rigaud's Portrait of Louis XIV are both Baroque renderings of important leaders from the 1600's. The way in which they are portrayed are important clues as to how each of these rulers ruled their subjects. Starting with a formal and iconographic analysis compare and contrast these two paintings and come up with some conclusions as to what this might mean about each ruler and the manner in which they governed.
ASSIGNMENT #8 Due
Sunday September 16 by 11:59 pm or earlier
WORKSHEET 3
Mannerism and Baroque Worksheet
I do not accept late work. So make sure you turn
it in on time!
Spelling and grammar do count.
Note: ALWAYS type your worksheet responses in a word processing program such as MS Word first. That way your work is saved and you have a back up copy. Then cut and paste your numbered answers into an email and send them to me at bkuo@ohlone.edu. Should you run into a problem while submitting the worksheets online, you always have a backup copy with your Word document. Remember, I do NOT accept email attachments or images.
(Bonnie Kuo <bkuo@ohlone.edu>)
Readings and Online Lectures for Weeks 4 and 5
ASSIGNMENT #9 Due
Wednesday September 19 by 11:59 pm or earlier
BULLETIN BOARD POSTING 4a
I do not accept late work. So make sure you turn it in on time!
Choose ONE of the following discussion topics and post your response on the bulletin board or respond to someone else's post. Please type the discussion question at the top of your posting.
(A REMINDER: If you choose to respond to someone else's post, make sure your reply adds to the discussion. Explain why you agree or disagree with your classmate and provide factual evidence to back up your opinion. If your reply does not add anything new to the discussion but simply restates another student's answer, it will not receive full credit. Remember the point of the bulletin board postings is to have a meaningful discussion and demonstrate to me that you have read and understood the material.)
(How to get an "A" while doing this.)
ASSIGNMENT #10 Due
Sunday September 23 by 11:59 pm or earlier
BULLETIN BOARD POSTING 4b
I do not accept late work. So make sure you turn it in on time!
Choose ONE of the following discussion topics and post your response on the bulletin board or respond to someone else's post. Please type the discussion question at the top of your posting.
(A REMINDER: If you choose to respond to someone else's post, make sure your reply adds to the discussion. Explain why you agree or disagree with your classmate and provide factual evidence to back up your opinion. If your reply does not add anything new to the discussion but simply restates another student's answer, it will not receive full credit. Remember the point of the bulletin board postings is to have a meaningful discussion and demonstrate to me that you have read and understood the material.)
(How to get an "A" while doing this.)
18th to 19th Centuries Worksheet
I do not accept late work. So make sure you turn
it in on time!
Spelling and grammar do count.
Note: ALWAYS type your worksheet responses in a word processing program such as MS Word first. That way your work is saved and you have a back up copy. Then cut and paste your numbered answers into an email and send them to me at bkuo@ohlone.edu. Should you run into a problem while submitting the worksheets online, you always have a backup copy with your Word document. Remember, I do NOT accept email attachments or images.
(Bonnie Kuo <bkuo@ohlone.edu>)
Please look ahead to Week 6: Bulletin Board Posting 5 is due Sunday, September 30th by 11:59 pm or earlier.
Readings and Online Lectures for Week 6
American Art Prior to 1945I want my Dada! Duchamp Style The Dada Manifesto Hoch Dada Armory Show and Brancusi Surrealism Hello Dali
Norman Rockwell What's Happening? and "Pop" Goes the Artist: "Dine"-ing Inn Performance Art Pop Art- Part 1 Pop Art- Part 2 Hamilton, Warhol, Lichtenstein Pop Art: Sculpture Photorealism Earthworks and Environmental Works Bay Area Art Female Artists
Assignments for Week 6
ASSIGNMENT #12 Due
Sunday September 30 11:59 pm or earlier
BULLETIN BOARD POSTING 5
I do not accept late work. So make sure you turn it in on time!
Choose ONE of the following discussion topics and post your response on the bulletin board or respond to someone else's post. Please type the discussion question at the top of your posting.
(A REMINDER: If you choose to respond to someone else's post, make sure your reply adds to the discussion. Explain why you agree or disagree with your classmate and provide factual evidence to back up your opinion. If your reply does not add anything new to the discussion but simply restates another student's answer, it will not receive full credit. Remember the point of the bulletin board postings is to have a meaningful discussion and demonstrate to me that you have read and understood the material.)
(How
to get an "A" while doing this.)
Do you think Picasso had the right to borrow African forms and put them in his art? You have just explored an African culture that uses the lost wax process to create art. There are some scholars and teachers who refer to the Benin, Ife, and Yoruba cultures and other African and Oceanic Cultures as "primitive." Given the Webster's Dictionary definitions listed below and the things you've studied in the previous section, do you think that African cultures and their art are "primitive" or do you propose a different label or name to describe their art? prim.i.tive adj [ME primitif, fr. L primitivus first formed, fr. primitiae first fruits, fr. primus first--more at prime] (14c) 1 a: not derived: original, primary b: assumed as a basis; esp: axiomatic <~ concepts> 2 a: of or relating to the earliest age or period: primeval <the ~ church> b: closely approximating an early ancestral type: little evolved <~ mammals> c: belonging to or characteristic of an early stage of development: crude, rudimentary <~ technology> d: of, relating to, or constituting the assumed parent speech of related languages <~ Germanic> 3 a: elemental, natural <our ~ feelings of vengeance --John Mackwood> b: of, relating to, or produced by a people or culture that is nonindustrial and often nonliterate and tribal <~ art> c: naive d (1): self-taught, untutored <~ craftsmen> (2): produced by a self-taught artist <a ~ painting> --
prim.i.tive.ly adv -- prim.i.tive.ness n -- prim.i.tiv.i.ty n ²primitive n (15c) 1 a: something primitive; specif: a primitive idea, term, or proposition b: a root word 2 a (1): an artist of an early period of a culture or artistic movement (2): a later imitator or follower of such an artist b (1): a self-taught artist (2): an artist whose work is marked by directness and naivete c: a work of art produced by a primitive artist d: a typically rough or simple usu. handmade and antique home accessory or furnishing 3 a: a member of a primitive people b: an unsophisticated personPeople at first had a hard time adjusting to the newer ideas and forms involved in the abstract expressionist movement. Choose a work of art that you have a strong reaction to and discuss your feelings and the reasons for them. People at first had a hard time adjusting to the newer ideas and forms involved in the abstract expressionist movement. Choose a work of art that you have a strong reaction to and discuss your feelings and the reasons for them. Be sure to first reference the work of art using the artist's name, title of the work, date, and the page or figure number from Stokstad on which the work is reproduced. People at first had a hard time adjusting to the newer architectural forms introduced by Le Corbusier, Gropius, and Wright. Discuss whether or not you like these architects works. Do you prefer the older more classical based (academic style such as in the reconstruction of Paris)? Give your reasons.
ASSIGNMENT # 13 Due
Wednesday October 3 by 11:59 pm or earlier
WORKSHEET 5
I do not accept late work. So make sure you turn
it in on time!
Spelling and grammar do count.
Note: ALWAYS type your worksheet responses in a word processing program such as MS Word first. That way your work is saved and you have a back up copy. Then cut and paste your numbered answers into an email and send them to me at bkuo@ohlone.edu. Should you run into a problem while submitting the worksheets online, you always have a backup copy with your Word document. Remember, I do NOT accept email attachments or images.
(Bonnie Kuo <bkuo@ohlone.edu>)
This is your last assignment; there is no final exam in
this class.
After you turn in Worksheet 5 you are free! Thanks
for taking the class and have a great break!
