Reflective Analysis
Each Reflective Analysis provides you the opportunity to apply what you’ve learned to artworks of your choosing (that you haven’t seen before) with an emphasis on your personal response, interpretation, and analysis while cultivating your writing and research abilities. As we move through the semester, you will build these skills with each assignment increasing in length and depth and incorporation of course terminology which will culminate in a final project that will combine all of your efforts over the length of course.
Reflective Analysis 3 focuses on how artists use the principles of design to communicate meaning in their work.
This assignment consists of multiple parts: a brief biography of an artist of your choosing as well as how you made your choice, your subjective response to an artwork by the same artist, critical analysis of the selected artwork, and finally, a bibliography documenting your source materials.
Process:
- Begin by choosing one of the artists from this week’s lecture/reading/links that interests you – one you’d like to explore further. It can also be an artist that you are already familiar with that you think fits well with the assignment.
- Find an artwork by that artist which you’d like to reflect on.
- NOTE: you cannot write about the same artist or artwork you used for previous Reflective Analyses, you must select a different artist and artwork.
Then, you will provide details based on your research and answer some reflective questions in the following order which should include all of the following sections in essay form:
1. Artist (15 points): This portion should be comprised of information about the artist of your choice as well as why you selected them. Begin with: Who is the artist? Why did you choose the artist – what is generally interesting to you about it? Additional suggestions for material: date and place of birth and death, family information, lifetime accomplishments, famous art pieces, effects or impact on society, or historical significance.
* Length: At least 250 words, no more than 350 words.
2. Artwork (15 points): This portion should be your own subjective response to a work of art by the same artist you selected. Why did you choose the artwork – what is generally interesting to you about it? What was your initial, subjective interpretation of the artwork? Did it change as you found out more about the context of the artwork? What emotions, concepts, or ideas did it provoke in you? Do not simply describe the work or state whether or not you "like" the work; but rather, elaborate with specific details from the work that illustrate your response.
* Include the title of the work (in italics) and a picture of the artwork
* Length: At least 250 words, no more than 350 words.
3. Critical Analysis (15 points): This portion of the writing assignment should be your own subjective and critical response to a work of art (the same you selected above) by the same artist you chose for the biographical portion of the essay. You must base your opinion on the principles of design – using this specific vocabulary throughout. Things to consider: how does the artist’s use of the POD to emphasize and support their content – the meaning of the work? Thinking back to Reflective Analysis 1, are there broader thematic messages conveyed by the artwork? What are they? Be sure to not simply describe the work, but rather, elaborate with specific details from the work that illustrate your analysis.
* Length: At least 250 words, no more than 350 words.
4. Bibliography (15 points): You must provide a bibliography in one of the formal the correct citation styles that includes at least 3 sources. Online sources are ok, but at least one source must be a book/journal/periodical/catalog and must be in addition to your textbook, and remember, Wikipedia doesn’t count. You are encouraged to research the artwork at your school’s library by searching through books and articles, written by scholars in the field of art and art history. Check out your campus’s library online and ask a librarian or tutor for help.
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