Museum Website Experience

ARTS 1301 Assignment: Museum Website Experience

Assignment Overview

To complete  assignment, you will visit the website for the Dallas Museum of Art by following this link: DMA Website. The assignment is an opportunity for you to demonstrate what you have learned in this course by analyzing your experience of engaging with the museum website and discussing a selection of artworks in its diverse collections. Because the assignment is worth a significant percentage of your course grade, plan to spend several hours exploring the website, taking notes and photos, and contemplating the many artworks you see. In Part One you will write about the museum’s website. In Part Two you will choose artworks in the DMA collection to analyze and place in their historical and cultural contexts. Allow several days to write responses based on your notes and to edit your document before submitting it. 

If the website link does not work, type dma.org into your web browser or google search Dallas Museum of Art

Formal Analysis (worth up to 25 points)

Choose one artwork from one of these collections only: Contemporary Art or European Art. (Navigate from the Collection link in the Art pulldown on the front page and look for the Departments listed.)

Question Part One: Identify the artwork using the information provided on the website. Type the information after the prompts below. If something is missing from the website info, leave that part blank. 

Title:

Artist’s name, if known:

Region/country/culture:

Medium/materials:

Date:

DMA collection number:

Question Part Two: Below the artwork information, write  long paragraph analyzing your chosen artwork in response to the following prompts:

Explain how the artist used 3 visual elements from this list, making specific references to your chosen artwork: line, shape, contrast, volume, mass, texture, value, space, and color.

Explain how the artist used 2 design principles from this list, making specific references to your chosen artwork: unity, variety, balance, scale, emphasis, pattern, rhythm.

Explain the media (materials) and processes the artist used to create ur chosen artwork. (In other words, what is it made out of and how did they make it?)

Review visual elements, design principles, and media in Units 1 and 2 of the textbook to do well on this part.

TEXTBOOK :   Gateways to Art

Understanding the Visual Arts

Third Edition

Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann, M. Kathryn Shields