Description
PART 1–
Buildings and structures can commemorate events, such as battles, and people, such as emperors. Even churches make religion monumentally grand (and the patron who built it). But for those people that were displaced by the victors, monuments can be a reminder of oppression.
Public can monuments stir up some controversy.
View and learn about these:
President Dwight Eisenhower Monument by architect Frank Gehry, website (http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org (Links to an external site.)) and protests (http://www.eisenhowermemorial.net (Links to an external site.))
Maya Lin Viet Nam Memorial (Links to an external site.)
site on 13 most controversial (Links to an external site.)
monument and memorial controversies in the US (Links to an external site.)
there are several articles here
(Links to an external site.)
Pick 1 to discuss. Give a summary of the monument and its controversy.
Do you support the memorial or are you against it? Why?
Do you think there is a way to help avoid controversy in monuments? If so what can be done?
200-350 Words. Cite your work.
PART 2–.
View the examples of totem poles and formline designs in Northwest Coast Art. The designs are imbued with symbolism in shape, in color, and in the animals used. Traditional shapes and forms are reused, redesigned, and reenergized while still retaining the basic shape of those traditional forms. View many examples of Northwest Coast designs and totems.
Take one of those designs and copy the major shapes from it on a sheet of paper. Reorganize and recombine those shapes to create a new object or animal.
Submit it to this assignment and view the rest of the class. Respond to at least 2 others.
examples of formline designs in Northwest Coast Art
PART 3–
The Dinner Party. http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/home.php (Links to an external site.)
Judy Chicago created The Dinner Party with help from a team of over one hundred.
What is its significance in the history of art?Evaluate the use of the triangle as symbolism and the number 13 on each side of the triangle.
The women honored at the place settings include artist Georgia O’Keeffe, writers Virginia Woolf and Emily Dickinson, political leaders Theodora of Byzantium and Egyptian queen Hatshepsut, and social revolutionaries Sojourner Truth and Susan B. Anthony. Why did Chicago include the women she did? Research and read more about The Dinner Party to inform your discussion.
PART 4–
Barbara Kruger (born January 26, 1945) is an American conceptual artist and collagist associated with the Pictures Generation.[1] She is most known for her collage style that consists of black-and-white photographs, overlaid with declarative captions, stated in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed text.[2] The phrases in her works often include pronouns such as “you”, “your”, “I”, “we”, and “they”, addressing cultural constructions of power, identity, consumerism, and sexuality. Kruger’s artistic mediums include photography, sculpture, graphic design, architecture, as well as video and audio installations.
Addressing issues of language and sign, Kruger has often been grouped with such feminist postmodern artists as Jenny Holzer, Sherrie Levine, Martha Rosler, and Cindy Sherman.[16] Like Holzer and Sherman, in particular, she uses the techniques of mass communication and advertising to explore gender and identity.[18] She discusses her interest in representing “how we are to one another”[19] and the “broad sort of scope”[19] this provides for her work. Kruger is considered to be part of the Pictures Generation.
Read pages 211-232 in the online text.
How are women depicted in popular culture today? The expression “sex sells” can readily be validated by looking in virtually any advertisement or magazine, those geared for either men or women.
Look in five different types of media (ads, online, magazines, tv, etc) to find five images of how a woman is depicted. What is the purpose of the image/ad? How is the woman being depicted? What are the intentions of the figure? And how do you, the viewer, feel towards this woman and/or the intentions of the image/ad? 100-300 words.
