EXTRA CREDIT (FINAL CHANCE!) - Questions about the course.

This was done around December 10th  for one of out last extra credit things

1. Which assignment did you ENJOY working on the best? Why?

The slide show of the elements of art and principles of design - I loved going around the city and taking the pictures.
2. Which assignment did you ENJOY working on the least? Why?

 The art curator project I don't like having fellow students grading me

3. How did you like using ANGEL?  Love it. I use it in three out 5 of my classes.

4. If you had the opportunity to change this course:

What would you keep? The structure of the course, the way it progresses

What would you remove? The student evaluations in any way shape or form

What would you add? More monitoring of the discussion boards - we had students posting the questions with no answers and then copying others work. And more student/teacher interaction.  More on current movements in art and current exhibits in the area.  mMore Gallery visits with greater latitude for where we go ( not just local ones)

5. Would you recommend this course to your peers?

 

  I have reccomended to both my advisors that students take this course with HIS380 ( Intro to Museums) as I found the courses work together "hand in glove"  it really added a lotto both courses for me!

If you are going to do the "Comparitive Religions" part of the course you really should include Christianity in that - not everyone who attends this college is, in fact, Christian and they will not have the frame of refrence that we are expected to develop for Budhist and Islamic art. Also you should not allow students to call other people's beliefs "stupid" and "selfish" as was done during the discussions on Buddist art.  and as a friendly FYI there is a manadala, the same one the video shows, at the Buffalo Museum of Science on permant display - if students want to see it.

6. Please list any other comments you would like to share.  Thanks for working with me so that I did not have to place my photo on the 'net.
Happy Holidays.

Blog: Reflections of AED 200

1. What were you expectations for this course and where they met? I had no real expectations for this course. But I could not have *dreamed* up what this course was. The whole idea of having fellow students evaulate my work is NOT what I would have expected. Had I known that would have happened I would never have taken the course. There needs to be another option - some people won't mind this, some will mind but will get through it. Others will find it traumatic - I am of the latter bent, my art is for me alone, I don't share it in real life for a reason - it feels like exposing my soul and while I kind of agreed to allow the teacher there and expected the teacher to grade it I found it horribly intrusive and hateful.

2. Now that you've been through this course, What is art? How would you define it now compared to your intial posting?
This is what I wrote in my intial posting


" I don't think art is just what academics hang in galleries...art is that quilt that someone made,the fiddle piece that John Scott Skinner wrote and others have changes as they played it, the Ode to joy, Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, that cross stitch that someone took the time to do, the meal that some one cooked. The crochet piece or so many other things. I firmly believe that if you limit your vision of Art to the stuff that hangs in Gallaries you will loose so much more to that adds beauty to our lives.

My definition - Art is that which a person made and that adds beauty to someone's life."

I stand by that completely



3. Who was your favorite artist in your original posting and who is your favorite visual artist now? If there is a difference, why do you think so? If you have the same favorite artist, why do you think so?
My intial Posting

"I could not possibly choose just one.
from the ones that most folks would "qualify" as artists.
Painter Vangogh or Monet

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright or Louis Sullivan

Photographer Ansel Adams"


And they are still my favourites. They have been since I wasa kid and they will likely remain so til I die. Although I have seen some others that I would never have looked at, that I now enjoy because of this class.

4. Now that you've completed this course, how do you feel about taking an online course? Is your answer the same as it was in your first posting? How is it the same or different?


I have another class online this semester - I would take another class online if it were not designed that other students grade me. I will not take another art class for a grade again - on or offline

Art Criticism Project Blog Response

1. Which projects did you review? The first three I came to that were handed in on time

Through the eyes of Women - had very few pictures as she linked them rather than downloaded, ect. I could not even form an opinion because there was nothing tobase it on...too bad because from the blog entry it looked like one I would have liked.


Horses in Art- What a fun project! from toys to an impressionistic view this was a joy to view a lot of thought and effort went into it :)


Violence  in art - no description of the pieces or why they fit in or were chosen and this commentary would have made a good deal of difference. Interesting none the less. Some of the



2. Why did you select the Exhibit you critiqued? I looked through all the submissions and found the one I wanted to write about. I chose it because I like hockey.



3. What challenges did you face in writing the critique article and how did you overcome them?
None, other than I don't think this is quite "kosher" we should not be elvaluating other people's work - nor should our work be being given to other people. It's our intellectual property, and we should be the one's deciding to share our work, not anyone else.





4. How do you feel about critiquing your peers work? I hate it...this is not my job as a student that should be solely up to the teacher.


5. Would you like to read the critique your peers wrote about your Art Curation Project? Not at all. It is demeaning enough to have to have my peers review my work, but I have no desire to see how they ripped me apart.  Nor do I give permission for my work to be passed on to other people to read.
6. On a scale of 1-10 how would you rate your finished article and why? Not sure. I don't know the rubric you use. I'll give it a 9 because no one is perfect.
7. Did you enjoy working on this project?  I hated it.

Self Portrait Post

 Charles Willson Peale - an innovator in art and in American Museums. He was ahead of his time in many ways and when this assignment was posted I wanted to do something like this for the project....I don't think I would have gotten away with it 

Drawing Hands by M.C. Escher - I love this piece but I don't draw this well...so I looked for something else 

And found this and while I'd love to do something like this - I don't think Artpark would be amused.

One of the things I came up with was this - I call it Peale meets Escher and it's silhouettes on white. But its not really what I wanted. so I played with some more ideas and came up with this:

I call it Starfish, Snow and Stars - since I am interested in all three lately.  Still not what I wanted so I decided to try one more
And that I will submit to the prof privately.
Here then is the reflection:


1. Why did you select the inspiration pieces? 
Because I liked them
2. Why did you select the media to create your self-portrait?
drawing -graphite and paper - because I like working in those
3. What challenges did you face in creating your self-portrait and how did you overcome them?
I hate having my photo taken and I don't like having to do pictures of myself.  Talked to the teacher about it.
4. How does this piece represent you? It's a drawing of me from memory
5. What elements and principles of art did you apply in this work? shape, line, mass, color, space, form, value
6. Did you enjoy working on this project? not really. I would have preferred to be able to follow my own imagination and not need inspiration pieces. I could have done so much if I were not tied to  "needing" those piece. 
7. What do you think of your final artwork?  I actually like it.  I would have preferred that you give us this at mid term and let us work on it for that length of time - I could have had some real fun.

Art Critique Blog or the post where in I fail

1. Which projects did you review? The first three I came to that were handed in on time

Through the eyes of Women - had very few pictures as she linked them rather than downloaded, ect. I could not even form an opinion because there was nothing tobase it on...too bad because from the blog entry it looked like one I would have liked.


Horses in Art- What a fun project! from toys to an impressionistic view this was a joy to view a lot of thought and effort went into it :)


Violence  in art - no description of the pieces or why they fit in or were chosen and this commentary would have made a good deal of difference. Interesting none the less.



2. Why did you select the Exhibit you critiqued? I looked through all the submissions and found the one I wanted to write about. I chose it because I like hockey.



3. What challenges did you face in writing the critique article and how did you overcome them?


The only challenge I faced was the idea of critiquing others work and then having my intellectual property ( the paper) being given to someone else. I simply can not wrap mind mind around that this is ok.





4. How do you feel about critiquing your peers work? I hate it...positively hate it.


5. Would you like to read the critique your peers wrote about your Art Curation Project? Not at all. It is demeaning enough to have to have my peers review my work, but I have no desire to see how they ripped me apart.  Nor do I give permission for my work to be passed on to other people to read.


6. On a scale of 1-10 how would you rate your finished article and why? Not sure. I don't know the rubric you use. I'll give it a 9 because no one is perfect. I had a hard time writing it not because I didn't have anything to say but that I don't feel right about saying it, in this format. It is one thing to go to a museum and say you enjoy a show and why or why not it is entirely another to do this to someone else and have it affect their grade and yours so very  greatly.



7. Did you enjoy working on this project?  I hated it.

Video Posting week of Dec December 4 - 10

1. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.

Greenburg\art - the sound on this was beyond awful. even with headphones it was hard to understand. The main stream can only be found in retrospective. And that personal prefrences do play a part in art criticsm even if it should. he places limits on nothing and relevance is merely a guideline

Greenburg\ Pollack- Pollack's paintings were not what he wanted them to be.."he did like  easel paintings, but that's what he painted, even the long ones" according to Greenburg. Some times Pollack painted on unstretched canvas. "don't ask anything from art except that it be good"

Critics...Critics get people to think and get the most from their money..and that they want to have their readers love the mediums as much as the critics do. again comes the idea that one's prefrences can get in the way...


Italian REnaissance _ I learned the correct words for some of the techniques, and how Florence was organized in the Middle Ages and Renaissance ( fascinating, btw), That the Guilds trained may of the great artists and that artist learned from the past and built on it.


Colonialism - This was an "expose" of Western societies views of Africa at the end of the 19th and early 20th century versus what the African view of their culture and art. I think judging cultures of another time by today's standards is a dangerous things after about 9min 20 seconds the script repeats itself. In fact, this happens at various points in the video. This just adds to the uncomfortablleness of viewing pictures that degrade the subjects. The art is used as a justification for colonization of other nations, as the colonizers use the arts to claim moral and intellectual supperiority over the colonized.



Pollack/Fried/Clark- This is a conversation between Fried and clark about the importance of Pollack to the art community of the late 20th century. It shows how critics differ in their view of art from those in other disciplines (Clark is a historian) a big point in this was that that Pollack has historical siginficance beyond the art world - that it communicates in a historical context too, that that context is needed but the communication can't be seperated from the visual either. 


2. Do the videos relate to the creation of your Art Criticism project? If yes, explain how. If no, explain why not.

Kind of - the first two served more as warnings against letting one's prefrences get in the way of what the art was supposed to be/do.

3. What is your opinion of the films? Do they add depth to understanding of art criticism?
I think the films could be better chosen the sound qulaities and the scipting issues really interefered with any learning that could take place. Others were a rehashing of stuff I learned in another class this semester.

  For many I am sure they did - however as a museum studies person I haave seen similar stuff before and was familiar with a lot of the concepts. I really liked seeing some of them, tho,