Overview
This assessment tests your knowledge over the material contained within the lecture notes and this chapter. You will need to have reviewed both and be able to apply the definitions for these terms.
Artwork title:_America Today: Outreaching Hands_____________
Artist: Thomas Hart Benton____________
Website: __ https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/499559?sortBy=Relevance&ft=Thomas+Hart+Benton&offset=0&rpp=40&pos=2 _(4th image)____
1. Consider the definitions of the three categories of an art object from chapter 2.4. Is your assigned artwork: 2D, 3D, or 4D?
2. The medium of this artwork is __________.[[ research this medium type and materials and tell me about it here]] { use quotation marks and an in-text citation for any exact or summarized wording from a source!!}
3. Content/ meaning: as you researched this artwork, what did you learn about it’s meaning { use quotation marks and an in-text citation for any exact or summarized wording from a source!!}
4. Within which object do you see a line in this composition- describe it here?
5. What type of line is it and why?
6. Which technique/s to represent space (chiaroscuro, overlapping, diminishing of size of objects, lessening clarity of color or detail, perspective, color contrast, contour lines) has this artist used to give the illusion of depth in this artwork? And why?
7. Name one object you see within the artwork, and does that object have an actual texture you can feel or has the artist painted/drawn/ etc., an illusion of this objects texture in order to depict the object in a why so it seems more real?
8. List the colors used in this artwork here:
9. Name one cold/cool color seen within the artwork( if not cold colors state here and instead list a cold color:
10. Which color scheme was used(refer to lecture notes)? and which two colors are in it?
11. What one specific area or part of an object is the focal point of this artwork?
12 Which Element of art (see list of Elements of art on lecture notes) brings your eye to this area and why?
13. Rhythm: starting from the focal point you have stated above, state where your eye goes next(which object/area) and which Element of art moves your eye there thus creating rhythm?
14. Use the definition of visual balance. State whether this artwork is symmetrically balanced, asymmetrically balanced or radially balanced. State which objects on the left and the Element/s of art they are made up of – then balance off- which other objects on the right and the Element/s of art they are made up of?
15. Which one Element of art unifies this artwork and why?
16. State here your career field ___ and how some aspect of this artwork relates to your career field ?
Bonus: Review the other group’s assigned artist and artwork and answer one of these questions in reference to it. (Thomas Hart Benton, America Today: City Building, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/499559?sortBy=Relevance&ft=Thomas+Hart+Benton&offset=0&rpp=40&pos=2 (6th image))
(choose one)
If this artwork were an item on a cross word puzzle what clue would you give to identify it?
Which person do you see in this artwork and what do you surmise about him/her?
Which object do you see in this artwork and what do you surmise about it?
Which color do you see in this artwork and what do you surmise about it?
Which musical rhythm do you see in this artwork and what do you surmise about it?
Which object pattern do you see in this artwork and what do you surmise about it?
What current situation do you now see differently after viewing this artwork?
What would you title this artwork and why? Is this now your favorite artwork, why or why not?
In keeping with this artist’s style, describe how you would depict a baker?
How is this artwork similar to Michelangelo’s David ?
How is this artwork similar to Picasso’s Guernica ?
How is this artwork similar to van Gogh’s The Starry Night ?
How is this artwork similar to Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Still #21 ?
How is this artwork similar to Mary Cassatt’s Lilacs in A Window ?
How is this artwork similar to Thomas Kincade’s Artwork Title ?
How is this artwork similar to Damien Hirst’s A Dead Shark Isn’t Art ?
How is this artwork similar to Monet’s Haystacks ?
Morose code, three letter code, or any other secret code could you develop from this artwork and why?
Which song do you associate with this artwork and why?
Which movie do you associate with this artwork and why?
Which Broadway play or musical do you associate with this artwork and why?
Which mathematical formula do you associate with this artwork and why?
Which military maneuver do you associate with this artwork and why?
Which medical condition do you associate with this artwork and why?