Module 5 – Finding Meaning

38694Module 5 – Finding Meaning

JOURNAL PROMPTS

Directions: Choose one or more of the following prompts and update your class journal by responding to the question or questions in the prompt. Try to write roughly a page on each prompt you select. Refer back to your journal as the course progresses to see if you are experiencing progress in meeting your goals.

Journal Prompt #1: Form & Content

Using the link provided, view and describe Winslow Homer’s painting The Fog Warning from 1885. Try to interpret the meaning inherent in the work from the visual and contextual clues you see.
Here is another link to Homer’s painting http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/the-fog-warning-31042. Here you can compare your interpretation of the work to the curator’s text about it. Write your views and ideas about its meaning.
Journal Prompt #2: Style, Form & Context
Style really matters because each style in art is linked to different philosophical ideas about the world, humanity, the artist, and the meaning of imagery. Using the links below you will see a wide range of art from many cultures. Look for works that seem to you to exhibit the following ideas, and state why you think that work shows that idea. Include a link to the image that you are discussing.

A work of art that is a representation of a human but not a specific or recognizable person.
A work of art that is about a specific time or place.
A work of art that is an image of a god, ruler or king or queen.
A work of art that is about the artist and their view of the world.
A work of art that is not a picture of things in the world.
Here are two good links to get you started:

Timeline of Art History https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/
Styles and Movements in Art History

Journal Prompt #3: Everyone’s a Critic!

Using resources from the External Links page, select an artwork and interpret its meaning in the context of one of the six critical perspectives we studied in this module. Work to uncover the meaning in the image you choose, then explain how your particular critical perspective supports your interpretation.

As a reminder, the critical perspectives we studied in this module are listed below.

Structural
Feminist
Ideological
Deconstructive
Formalist
Psychoanalytic
This assignment will take some focus and structure. Review the major ideas behind your critical perspective first; then search for an image that you think fits the critical test. From there you can begin your explanations.

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