Due: November 24, 2015
Library Research
The objectives of this assignment include:
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To broaden your personal understanding of “fine art.”
To check out one book from CCH’s library on “fine art” for a small period of time; while
reviewing it, read, learn, and develop a deeper appreciation for fine art.
To learn about Fine Arts’ influence & history beyond photography via reading and reviewing
a book from CCH’s library on fine art.
To take time and independently learn about different fine artists, time periods, and
different famous pieces of art as well as famous photography images that impacted
society/culture via Internet and books.
To develop a stronger definition of “fine art” through the process of art appreciation.
To learn and describe how fine art influenced photography and how photography
influenced fine art.
Typed, take time to answer only one of the following fourteen questions using complete
sentences, proper grammar, and strong critical thinking. A 5-point rubric will be used for each
response. Your response should be typed using 500 words, contain a specific and clear thesis statement, include 3
detailed supported examples, and your summary should contain strong conclusion statement and analysis.
A.
What is the purpose of art? Describe, analyze, and interrupt.
B.
Explain the different types of art mediums providing examples of famous fine artists,
title name of the images/products, and brief history of these items.
C.
How has fine art changed since 1860’s because of the influence of photography?
Describe, analyze, and interrupt.
D.
Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of
Paris-based artists. Describe what happened, which artists contributed to this
movement, and what were the changes that influenced culture and the fine arts?
E.
How has photography changed since the mid-1800’s, and how has it impacted our
culture and society, why? Describe, analyze, and interrupt.
F.
How have the legal aspects of photography changed during the past 20 years &
why? Describe, analyze, and interrupt.
G.
What changes do you see impacting photography during the next 25-50 years &
why? Describe, analyze, and interrupt.
H.
How has photography affected culture, society, political landscapes, and lifestyles?
Describe, analyze, and interrupt.
I.
What is the purpose of photography and how does it persuade public opinion?
J.
Pictorialism is the name given to an international style and aesthetic movement
that dominated photography during the later 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Describe the effect that this photography movement made upon fine artists and the
then current culture. Describe, analyze, and interrupt.
K.
During World War II and the Viet Nam War, photography gained prominence, power
and popularity; but, images captured during these two wars also manipulated,
controlled, and helped to affect the war’s effort, affected cultural perspectives, and
shaped political landscapes. How and why? Describe a couple of images taken,
which were iconic and became powerful influencers. Describe, analyze, and
interrupt.
L.
What is censorship and is photography immune or not to government restrictions?
Describe, analyze, and interrupt.
M.
The possibility exists that there is a fundamental change in today’s culture towards
the concept of the “Artist.” The artist is slowly becoming the creator of surreal
worlds/dreams and experiences that are shown in movies, video games, and
commercial television and print ads. Therefore, describe, analyze, and interrupt how
has technology changed artists of the 21st Century compared to the “Artist” of
centuries before, which included Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Picasso? And how do
you equate the value and end-product of today’s creative artist who is producing
(art) through digital electronic means and websites?
N.
How is photography an extension of our right to express ourselves as it relates to
the First Amendment, what recent changes is restricting this freedom, and are the
changes justified? [The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States
Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion,
impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on
the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or
prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.]
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