If you are concerned that your grade is too low, you can do extra work to help strengthen your grade. This extra credit work is due by Thursday, June 4. You may do them multiple times to build up points. Here are the options:
1) GALLERY/MUSEUM VISIT
Choose a gallery or museum to visit on your own time and write
about your experience. You might write about works of art that you love or
works that you don’t like at all. Give me an honest response. Let me know why
you chose to go to that gallery/museum, and give me specifics on what’s there
so I’ll know that you really did go. And/or bring a brochure that proves that
you were there. Your response should be typed, 12 pt font, single spaced, minimum
of one page, with no grammatical errors.
*Worth up to 25 points, same as a homework grade
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2) ART MOVIE REVIEW
Watch a movie about art and/or artists or designers. Have fun with
the format -- pretend that you are a film critic working for the L.A. Times.
Write a complete and thorough response to the film, and tell me whether I
should see it or not. Give it a critic’s rating (Like thumbs up, 3 stars, or
whatever method of rating that you come up with.) Your review should be typed,
12 pt font, single spaced, with no grammatical errors.
Some suggestions (but there are plenty more out there):
FRIDA CRUMB
BASQUIAT ARTEMESIA
VINCENT & THEO GOYA
EN BORDEAUX
SURVIVING PICASSO BEAUTY
IS EMBARASSING
POLLOCK FUR
I SHOT ANDY WARHOL EXIT
THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP
*Worth up to 25 points, same as a homework grade
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3) FIND A DRAWER (Drawer = someone who draws. Not the thing you put
socks in.)
Look in art magazines (print or online) and find a contemporary
artist who DRAWS. Research that artist and find multiple examples of their
work. Then write about how YOU respond to their work. Do not write a biography
of the artist – it doesn’t matter when they were born or where they went to
school. Just look at their drawings and write what YOU think about them, purely
opinion. Include a list of sources, where you went to see the images. If
you quote any facts, you must use proper endnote/footnote citation. But you
shouldn’t quote facts. Because this is your opinion.
Your response should be typed, 12 pt font, single spaced, minimum of one page, with
no grammatical errors.
*Worth up to 25 points, same as a homework grade
