Ashford ART101 Week 2 Discussion (dq1+dq2) Latest

ART101 Art Appreciation

Week 2 Discussion

DQ1 Art Historians Ask

Questions Art Historians Ask. 1st Post Due by Day 3. Refer to the assigned reading from the textbook and required videos as examples of how to interpret works of art. Also, reflect on your reading assignments for Week 1.

Review the “Questions Art Historians Use” section in the Introduction of the textbook. Select two of the five questions. Explain what art historians are trying to gain by asking each question and how they might go about finding an answer.

Next, select a work of art of your choice from Gardner’s Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective, one of the assigned virtual reality video tours, or a website listed on the Art101 Museum and Images Websites document located in your classroom. Apply the two questions you have selected to the work of art. Explain the process you used to find the answers to the questions and what you ultimately found those answers to be.

Cite your sources as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center guides on Citing Within Your Paper and Formatting Your References List. For works of art, follow the basic modified APA style reference entry format in the APA Style Reference Entries for Artwork document.

Your initial post must be at least 200 words in length.

Review several of your classmates’ posts. By Day 7, provide a substantive response to at least two of your classmates. Review their applications of their chosen questions to the works of art. What additional implications could be considered in answering the questions? What additional questions would you recommend asking about the works of art? Why?

DQ2 Words Art Historians Use

Words Art Historians Use. 1st Post Due by Day 3. Review the Google Arts and Culture online exhibit, ‘The Fall of the Rebel Angels’: A Closer Look at the Masterpiece. Refer to the assigned reading from the textbook and required videos as examples of how to interpret works of art. Also, reflect on your reading assignments for Week 1.

Review the “Words Art Historians Use” section in the Introduction of the textbook (Kleiner, 2017, p.7). Art historians use specific terminology to describe artworks and buildings of various regions and periods. Drawing on the information that you learned from the exhibit, analyze the Bruegel work, The Fall of the Rebel Angels, in your own words, applying at least three of the most important vocabulary words that art historians use to describe the work art. Explain why you chose those three terms and why they are important for analyzing art.

Cite your sources as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center guides on Citing Within Your Paper and Formatting Your References List. For works of art, follow the basic modified APA style reference entry format in the APA Style Reference Entries for Artwork document.

Your initial post must be at least 200 words in length.