FINAL PROJECT AND EXAM
Final Project and Exam Schedule:
Proposals Due: Mon, 11/23, by 11:59 p.m.
Slide Presentations Due: Th., 12/3, by 11:59 p.m.
Peer Reviews Due, Mon., 12/7, by 11:59 p.m.
Final Paper Due: Th., 12/10, by 11:59 p.m.
Final Exam Due: Th, 12/17, by 11:59 p.m.
Final Project Description:
Your final project will envision a display of THREE works (art, music, architecture, literature, dance) drawing on a theme or themes we have discussed in class. Broadly, these are Modernism, New Psychology, War, Existentialism/Meaning, Equality and Liberation, the Information Age, and Globalism.
ONE of the works should be one that you can experience in person at either Crystal Bridges or The Momentary.
Plan a visit to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and/or The Momentary (more information below).
Preview the exhibitions and collections here: Search the Crystal Bridges Collection and preview Nick Cave: Until at The Momentary.
You will place this work with TWO others: a poem, a musical score, a play, a story, a dance performance, architecture, or other painting, photograph, or sculpture from your textbook.
Propose a title for your exhibition. Does it cross themes, from Freud to Sartre, for example? Or Modernism to War? Is it about a particular hardship or discovery or issue?
Your detailed analysis of your pieces should support your exhibition idea: this piece shows the inner psychology of a dream, while this one suggests how our actions determine who we are, for example; or the fight for gender equality threads through these works…
Your grouping should include at least TWO different media: you could combine 2 paintings with an essay; or a dance performance, painting, and architecture; opera, painting, and poem (recited or printed), etc.
Your exhibition theme will act as your thesis statement: these three works of art demonstrate our increased knowledge or ideas about the human psyche…
You should give your works roughly equal attention in three body paragraphs, unless you isolate traits across the works, in which case your paragraphs would address these traits in all three of the works in each body paragraph.
When you visit the museum, take extensive notes, consider making a sketch, take photographs – maybe even a selfie!
Decide what the work does. Does it challenge? Calm? Provoke? Isolate? How?
Proposals Due: Mon., 11/23, by 11:59 p.m.
On Canvas, provide a brief write up about your three works and a preliminary title for your exhibition. Why have you chosen them? What stands out when you bring them together?
Slide Presentations Due: Th., 12/3, by 11:59 p.m.
Provide a slide presentation of your works and describe your exhibition and what impact it might make.
Peer Reviews Due, Mon., 12/7, by 11:59 p.m.
Provide a constructive review of the other presentations in your class. Includes suggestions to consider for the written report.
Final Paper Due: Th., 12/10, by 11:59 p.m.
Your final paper should articulate the points and feedback from your presentation. Be sure to organize specific points into paragraphs that support your main thesis. 4-5 pages, double-spaced, 12-pt font, 1 inch margins.
Final Exam Due: Thursday, 12/17, by 11:59 p.m.
The final exam will follow the format of the midterm: demonstrated familiarity with terms, works, and passages through IDs and short and long answer.
Here is a list of artists also covered in your textbook (upon approval, you may certainly choose others; one work in your project is required to be housed (and preferably ON VIEW) at either The Momentary or Crystal Bridges):
Chapter 35: The Quest for Meaning
Jackson Pollock
Helen Frankenthaler
Edward Hopper
George Segal
Alexander Calder
David Smith
R. Buckminster Fuller
Frank Lloyd Wright
Chapter 36: Liberation and Equality
Kehinde Wiley
Jacob Lawrence
Romare Bearden
Bettye Saar
Kara Walker
Cindy Sherman
Barbara Kruger
Chapter 37 Information age
Roy Lichtenstein
Andy Warhol
Jasper Johns
Claes Oldenburg
Jeff Koons
Robert Rauschenberg
Fank Stella
Louise Nevelson
Donald Judd
Isamu Noguchi
Chuck Close
Duane Hanson
Bill Viola
Museum Information:
Crystal Bridges is open Wed through Mon with free, timed tickets required. Visit https://crystalbridges.org/ for more information and to reserve tickets.
Unfortunately, the Frank Lloyd Wright Bachman-Wilson House is closed, but please enjoy this virtual tour: https://crystalbridges.org/frank-lloyd-wright/; And don’t forget to visit R. Buckminster Fuller’s Fly’s Eye Dome.
The Momentary is open Sun and Tu-Wed, 10 to 7; and Thu-Sat, 10-10; Closed on Mon: free