This section must be taken with ART-101 L.
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 what an aesthetic system is.
• To develop an individual aesthetic system.
• To define what art is 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.

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.

Attendance is mandatory and attendance will be taken.

You are allowed 2 absences before it affects your class participation grade.

The 3rd absence drops your "Class Participation/Attendance" 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 10% of your over all grade.

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

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.

Late work will NOT be accepted, unless you have cleared it with me before the due date.

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.

EXAMINATIONS & QUIZZES:

There are no formal exams in this class, but there may 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 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 may 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 & Quizzes	10%
1. Introductory Email	5%
2. Worksheet	10%
3. Review: On the Waterfront	10%
4. Review: Lust for Life	10%
5. Review: Caligari	10%
6. MOMA Treasure Hunt	5%
7. Review: Frida	10%
8. Review: MOMA	10%
9. Review: Pollock	10%
10. Final Presentation	10%
TOTAL:	100%

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.

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.)

 Aug 28
 Starter Kit
 What is cheating?

• Read Sayre, Chapters 5 & 6
• Start Reading Lust for Life
• Read Robinson, Introduction & Chapter 1

• More Info: Formal, Iconographic & Context
• DUE SEPT 18: Download to work on:  Worksheet

 Sept 4
Perspectives: Linear

• Read Sayre, Chapters 7-9
• Read Robinson, Chapter 2
• The development of Perspective in Renaissance Art
• The psychology of Perspective
• An Interactive Site about Perspective

• Color Basics
• ASSIGNMENT #1 DUE BY MIDNIGHT:

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 Week 3: What's Going on Underneath?

 Sept 11
 Words and Images
 Representing the World: Representation and Abstraction
 Representing the World: Iconography

 Sept 13
 Representing Nature and the Genre Scene
 The Spiritual, The Mind and The Beautiful
 The Navajo Culture

• The Romanesque to Gothic Period Architecture
• Caspar David Friederich
• Romanticism
• 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
• Formal Analysis (Review of Concepts)
• Read Robinson, Chapter 3

 Sept 18
 Video: Alexander Calder

• ASSIGNMENT #2 DUE: Worksheet
• Alexander Calder
• Art Objects I
• Read Sayre, Chapters 1-3
• Read Robinson, Chapter 4

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 Week 5:  "Motion Pictures"

 Sept 25
 Film as Art
 Aristotle's Elements of Theatre
 The 'Grammar' of Television and Film
 A Checklist for Analyzing Movies

•  Read Sayre, Chapters 4
• Read Robinson, Chapter 5

 Oct 2
Vincent's Starry Night
Vincent Biographical
Vincent Iconography
A Website with a Visual Time Line of Vincent's Life
Being An Art Critic: Daumier, Courbet, Manet

• ASSIGNMENT #3 DUE:  On the Waterfront Film Review
• Finish reading Lust for Life
• Read Robinson, Chapter s 6 & 7
• Van Gogh
• http://www.vggallery.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
• Gaugin

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Week 7: The "Shock of the New"

Oct 9
Video: Steiglitz

• ASSIGNMENT #4 DUE:  Van Gogh Film Review/Comparisons
• Read Robinson, Chapter 8

• Beastly Color! "Les Fauves"

Oct 16
German Expressionism
Expressionistic and Symbolist Movements

• German Expressionism
• Expressionistic and Symbolist Movements
• Read Robinson, Chapter 9

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Week 9: Dada & Surrealism

Oct 23
I want my Dada! Duchamp Style
Surrealism

• ASSIGNMENT #5 DUE: Caligari  Film Review
• Read Robinson, Chapters 10 & 11

• A more complex and detailed bio of Frida's life.
• Frida's Surreal Iconography
• About Traditional Mexican Art (Day of the Dead)
• Another Take on Frida
• ASSIGNMENT #6 DUE: MOMA Treasure Hunt Challenge

Oct 30
Movie: Frida
PLEASE ARRIVE TO CLASS AT 7:30 so we can watch the entire movie in one sitting!
 

Nov 1
Joseph Cornell:  Navigating the Imagination

• Art Objects II
• Read about a toilet and Michael Jackson as art:

http://www.sfmoma.org/artthink/lessonactivity.asp?lessonid=29
• Check out SF MOMA's Artcasts:  www.sfmoma.org/artcasts
• ASSIGNMENT # 7 DUE: Frida Film Review

Nov 6
MOMA Trip

• Trip Info & MOMA Review

• Visit the Virtual Armory Show at http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jconte/Armory_Show.html
• American Genre Painting: The Ashcan School
• 19th and 20th Century American Painting
• Contrapposto Magazine Loneliness and Isolation in the Work of Hopper
• Read Dickinson

 Nov 13
 An Introduction to Pollock
 Discussion on the film Pollock

• Pollock
• Color Field Painting
• Contrapposto Magazine Rocking the Cradle of Abstract Expressionism
• Read Robinson Chapter 12
• ASSIGNMENT # 8:  MOMA Review

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Week 13: Genius or What?

 Nov 20
The Myth of the Artist

•  ASSIGNMENT #9 DUE: Pollock Film Review
• Myth or Madness? Mania and the Artistic Genius
•  Ssh Mad Genius (An article about films about artists)
•  PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
•  Sample Final Presentation

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 Week 14:  Art Keeps Popping

 Nov 27
 Pop Art  Hamilton, Warhol, Lichtenstein

• Pop Art too Hamilton, Warhol, Lichtenstein
• http://www.warhol.org/

• A Biography and short Essay about Basquiat
• Recollections of Basquiat by John Seed
• Another Take on Basquiat
• Read Robinson, Chapter 13

 Nov 29
Video: Rauschenberg

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 Week 15: We Learn From Each Other

 Dec 4

• ASSIGNMENT #10 DUE: Final Project Presentations

• ASSIGNMENT #10 DUE: Final Project Presentations

Dec 13

• ASSIGNMENT #10 DUE: (Final Exam): 7:00 am - 9:00 am