PREREQUISITES: None.

CATALOG DESCRIPTION: This course is a survey of the visual arts; i.e., painting, sculpture, architecture, and film.  The student will be introduced to the various functions of art in our society.

STUDENT PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES:

• To define an aesthetic system.
• To develop an individual aesthetic system.
• To define art and its role in western culture.
• To define the role of the artist in western culture.
• To define and understand the process of artistic creation.
• To define and identify several dominant styles and periods of art.

Texts:
A World of Art, Henry M. Sayre,  (Revised 4th Edition.)
Lust for Life by Irving Stone A cheap copy can be gotten through Amazon
There is an internet site created for your benefit at :  home page: http://www.kenney-mencher.com/
Click on ART 101 Bonnie Kuo

passwords
username: ohloneuser
password: ohlone
 

CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION:
Class will be primarily interactive lectures based on the assigned readings and projected images.  Occasionally we will be viewing video tapes.  Homework is primarily reading from the textbooks; However, from time to time you might asked to go to the library or to an internet site and read an article or a text I have placed on reserve or to use the internet.   Part of your grade will be based on class participation and attendance.

A tentative calendar/schedule will be provided with this greensheet; however, there will be times when the schedule will need to be adjusted.

Classroom Conduct
The following are some basic rules of classroom behavior during lectures, quizzes, and student presentations.

• If you are caught plagiarizing or cheating you will earn an immediate "F."
• Please turn off all cell phones and beepers: if your cell phone or beeper goes off in class you will be lowered a letter grade in terms of class participation.
• Please do not get up during lectures to go to the bathroom or wander the halls.  Do this before lecture.
• Please do not come in late.
• Do not talk when I am talking.
• Please raise your hand to respond to a question or to ask a question.
• If you cannot hear a response, raise your hand and ask for it to be repeated.

Attendance
Attendance is mandatory and attendance will be taken.

Since we only meet once a week, you are allowed only 1 absence before it affects your class participation grade.

The 2nd absence drops your "Class Participation/Attendance/Office meeting" grade a full letter.

Each additional absence drops your "Class Participation/Attendance" grade a half a letter.

A lateness is worth a half absence.  Please note that this is significant because it comprises 20% of your overall grade.

If you miss 3 classes consecutively you will either fail or be dropped from the class.

Class Participation

• Class participation is part of your grade.  Remember that attendance and class participation make up 20% of your final grade.
• To earn full credit for class participation, you need to volunteer to answer questions in class and participate actively in class discussions.
• If you only answer questions when I call on you and do not participate actively in class discussions, you will earn a B or lower in class participation.

COURSE ASSIGNMENTS:
You will be responsible for writing several worksheets and papers.  All your work will be your own.

Late Work

Late work will be accepted, however, for every calendar day that the assignment is late it will be marked down a full letter grade.

All work is due at the beginning of the class on the day it is due.

If you are late to class the work will be late and marked down a half a letter grade.

You may not e-mail assignments to me unless we have discussed it and I have given you permission in advance of the due date.

Late work will be accepted; however, for every calendar day that the assignment is late it will be marked down a full letter grade.  That means if you do not turn in an assignment on time, you need to contact me ASAP to make arrangments since our class only meets weekly.

EXAMINATIONS & QUIZZES:

There are no formal exams in this class, but there will be several pop quizzes based on the readings.  These quizzes will be factored into your class participation grade.

Notes and textbooks may not be used during examinations.

Missed quizzes will be calculated as zeros.

There is no final exam in this class.  Instead there is a final presentation.

MAKE UP EXAMS AND GRADE IMPROVEMENT:

Make up exams are only available in one of two instances: to those students who have made provisions to take the exams in advance of the test date or if a student has a signed medical excuse.  In general a makeup exam will be different than the original exam and will take the same amount of time to complete as the original.  Extra credit will be given, however, it will not replace or have as much weight as the normal assignments turned in on time.
 

EVALUATION OF STUDENT PERFORMANCE:

 

Class Participation and Attendance	20%
Assignment #1 Introductory E-mail, Due February 12 by Midnight	5%
Assignment #2 Museum Worksheet #1 Due February 25 at the end of class	10%
Assignment #3 Museum Worksheet #2Due March 11 at the end of class	10%
Assignment #4 List of Similarities and Differences, Due April 8	5%
Assignment #5 Lust for Life Comparison Paper  Due April  15	10%
Assignment #6 Frida Kahlo Paper  Due April 29	10%
Assignment #7 Film Review of Pollock  Due May 6	15%
Assignment #8 Final Presentation on May 13 (Last Class)	15%
TOTAL	100%

IF YOU COPY OR QUOTE SOMEONE ELSES FILM REVIEW OR WORK WITHOUT A CITATION YOU WILL FAIL THE ENTIRE CLASS

ACADEMIC DISHONESTY
All the work on your assignments must be in your own words.  You may not copy from the book, glossary, encyclopedia, the internet or another student.

DO NOT QUOTE THE GLOSSARY OR BOOK'S PASSAGES: USE YOUR OWN WORDS.

Academic dishonesty defrauds all those who depend upon the integrity of the College, its courses, and its degree and certificates.  Students are expected to follow the ethical standards required in Ohlone courses.  These Standards are defined in the Policy on Academic Dishonesty .  Violations of this policy include cheating and plagiarism.  (Copies of this policy are available in the offices of the Vice President, Educational Services/Deputy Superintendent; or Division Deans.)

7.8.4.1 Definitions of Academic Dishonesty  (for further information visit http://www.ohlone.cc.ca.us/org/board/policy/Chapter7Reg.htm#7.8.2)

A. Cheating

At Ohlone, cheating is the act of obtaining or attempting to obtain credit for academic work through the use of any dishonest, deceptive, or fraudulent means. Cheating at Ohlone includes but is not limited to the following:

1. Copying, in part or in whole, from another's test or other evaluation instrument or obtaining answers from another person during the test;
2. Submitting work previously presented in another course, if contrary to the rules of either course;
3. Using or consulting during an examination sources or materials not authorized by the instructor;
4. Altering or interfering with grading or grading instructions;
5. Sitting for an examination by a surrogate, or as a surrogate;
6. Any other act committed by a student in the course of his or her academic work which defrauds or misrepresents, including aiding or abetting in any of the actions defined above.

B. Plagiarism
At Ohlone, plagiarism is the act of representing the work of another as one's own (without giving appropriate credit) regardless of how that work was obtained and submitting it to fulfill academic requirements. Plagiarism at Ohlone includes but is not limited to
1. The act of incorporating the ideas, words, sentences, paragraphs, or parts thereof, or the specific substance of another's work, without giving appropriate credit, and representing the product as one's own work; and
2. Representing another's artistic/scholarly works such as musical compositions, computer programs, photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures, or similar works as one's own.
 

STANDARDS OF STUDENT CONDUCT
The student has the right and shares the responsibility to exercise the freedom to learn. The student is expected to conduct himself/herself in accordance with standards of the college that are designed to perpetuate its educational purposes.  These procedures, along with applicable penalties for violation, are found in the Standards of Student Conduct and Discipline and Due Process Procedures. (Copies of this policy are available in the offices of the Vice President, Educational Services/Deputy Superintendent; or Division Deans.)

Week 1
Feb. 4
Syllabus and Requirements
Starter Kit
Vincent Form

• Starter Kit
• Read Key Concepts, Form, Iconography and Context
• Syllabus,
• What is cheating?
• Read Sayre Chapters 5-7
• Start reading "Lust for Life"

• Read Sayre Chapters 7-9
• The development of Perspective in Renaissance Art
• The psychology of Perspective
• An Interactive Site about Perspective
• An interactive page with a great example of two point perspective.
• Color_Basics

• Send me an e-mail directly to me (bkuo@ohlone.edu) with your class number in the subject heading (ART 101)
• In the body of the e-mail please put your name, telephone number, and e-mail address.
• Please answer the following questions:
• Why are you taking this class?
• What do you expect to get out of this class?
• What is my attendance policy?
• What is my policy on class participation?
• What is my policy on late work?
• Have you read and understood the list of assignments and their due dates found on the syllabus and/or website?
• Where can you find the most up to date version of the course calendar and syllabus?
• What is the address of our class website and how do you log in?
• What grade do you expect to earn in this class?
• What will you have to do to earn this grade?
• Is there anything about yourself that you would like me to know?
• Do you have any questions for me?

Museum Visit- Class will be held at the
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
328 Lomita Drive and Museum Way (off Palm Drive)
Stanford, CA 94305-5060
Telephone: (650) 723-4177

For more information: Cantor Arts Center Website

Note: Meet in front of the Museum at 10:30 am sharp!

What to bring:    A pencil (pens are not allowed in the galleries)
                            Notebook or clipboard with loose paper for taking notes.

• Read Sayre Chapters 1-3
• Formal Analysis (Review of Concepts)

• Read Sayre Chapters 3-5
• Perspective in the North and South: Masaccio and Van Eyck
• From the Open University Website Jan van Eyck

From the Open University Website: Read The Mystery of Marriage at this Website

Museum Visit- Class will be held at the
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
328 Lomita Drive and Museum Way (off Palm Drive)
Stanford, CA 94305-5060
Telephone: (650) 723-4177

For more information: Cantor Arts Center Website

Note: Meet in front of the Museum at 10:30 am sharp!

What to bring:    A pencil (pens are not allowed in the galleries)
                            Notebook or clipboard with loose paper for taking notes.
 

DUE March 11 at the end of class
Assignment #3   Museum Worksheet #2

• Keep reading Lust for Life

A Website with a Visual Time Line of Vincent's Life
Being an Art Critic:  Daumier, Courbet, ManetVincent in Context
 

• Finish reading Lust for Life
• Contrapposto Magazine Bringing Olympia Into the Present
• Van Gogh
• http://www.artchive.com/artchive/V/vangogh.html
• http://www.vangoghgallery.com/
• http://webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/15/404.htm?qp=art.theory
• http://webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/14/372.htm?qp=art.theory
• http://webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/21/652.htm
• optional browse through Van Gogh's letters to Theo: van Gogh's Letters - Unabridged

• Finish reading Lust for Life

• The 'Grammar' of Television and Film
• PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
• Myth or Madness? Mania and the Artistic Genius

Ssh Mad Genius (An article about films about artists)

Week 10
April 8
Lust for Life: Comparisons of the film, the book, and reality
Discussio Questions
The Myths of Vincent Van Gogh
Frida Kahlo's Biography
Frida Kahlo's Paintings
 

• A simple Biography of Frida Kahlo
• A more complex and detailed bio of Frida's life.
• Quotes from Frida
• Frida's paintings
• Frida's Surreal Iconography
• Diego

DUE April 8 at the beginning of class
Assignment #4 (Read the directions carefully!)

• Make a list of things of 10 similarities and 10 differences between the movie and the novel Lust for Life.
• After you have composed your list, write a short paragraph reflecting on the significance of what you may have realized from making the list, or of some sort of realization you made in comparing the two.
• This assignment must be typed and have a heading.

Make sure you keep a copy of this assignment for yourself.

Watch the film Frida
Discussion of the film
A Checklist for analyzing Movies
 

DUE April 15 at the beginning of class
Assignment #5 Lust for Life Comparison Paper

• Pollock
• Color Field Painting
• Contrapposto Magazine Rocking the Cradle of Abstract

Contrapposto Magazine Expressionism Anna De Silva

DUE April 29 at the beginning of class
Assignment #6 Frida Kahlo Paper

DUE May 6 at the beginning of class
Assignment #7 Film Review on Pollock

DUE May 13 during class
Assignment #8 Final Presentation