Evaluating Art

​In the book’s early chapters, it defines art and the process of evaluating artwork. You will write a 3 page paper about a contemporary (20th century or beyond) artist of your choosing. Look in the library for books on artists or online (legit sources). In this paper, you will write about an artist and their artwork using the methods particularly described in Chapters 4 and 5. Use the critical theories to approach, evaluate, and discuss the artwork (you can discuss one artwork, or multiple artworks by the artist). The paper needs to be typed, and double-spaced. A Works Cited page will be your 4th page. Images need to be included on a 5th page, which will be an Artwork Cited Page. Make reference to the images you are discussing in the body of your paper by the artwork’s title and provide a citation with a figure-number designation (see supplemental Brightspaceattachments regarding ‘Artwork Cited’ page). Cite your sources. Do not plagiarize.  Use MLA documentation. Additional attachments are provided to assist you in formatting and citing your sources properly.

Use at least two sources when writing this paper.

The paper is worth 10 points of your overall grade and will be due by Sunday, February 27th on Brightspace at 11:59pm.

There are two components to this essay as follows:

You will use the three theories of evaluating art to create your own written evaluation (as found in chapter 5)

You will also discuss how the principles of art (chapter 4) are present in the artist’s work. Note: some artworks do not present all the below principles. If this is the case, you will want to discuss the lack of the principle(s). You are the author of this paper, so explain how you interpret the principles in the artwork. Principles are:

Stumped in your Research? Here are some ways to jump start your research. Along with making sure there is enough literary information available on the artist that you have chosen, you may search for the following information about your artist.