Arts Curotorial Assignment

Curatorial Assignment

ARTS 200, Spring 2010

Professor Wayne Osborn, Ph.D.

Department of Visual Communication

During the second week of class, all students are required to curate a collection of art history images. The scope of the collection is open to student choice, but strong projects will revolve around a curatorial theme (i.e. depictions of animals, architecture and monuments, the color green, etc.). You will need to collect one image from each of the following periods/regions:

1. Ancient Egyptian Art (Gombrich Chapter 2)

2. Mesopotamian Art (Gombrich Chapter 2)

3. Greek Pottery or Architecture (Gombrich Chapter 3-4)

4. Greek Sculpture, 450. B.C.–100 A.D. (Gombrich Chapter 3-4)

5. Hellenistic or Roman Art, 100 B.C, - 300 A.D. (Gombrich Chapter 4-5)

6. Chinese Landscape Painting, before 1400 A.D. (Gombrich Chapter 7)

7. Islamic Art, before 1400 A.D. (Gombrich Chapter 7)

8. Early Christian Art, before 1300 A.D. (Gombrich Chapter 6 and 8-9)

9. European Painting, 1300-1400 A.D.(Gombrich Chapter 10-11)

Your images must be taken from either Ernst Gombrich’s The Story of Art or the online collection of Lecture Slides in the Course Documents area of BlackBoard. For images that are in the Gombrich book, please indicate the chapter number, image number, and page number. For images that only appear in the Lecture Slides, please indicate the filename.

For every image you collect, you must provide the following information:

a) Name of the piece

b) Date of production

c) Artist (if applicable)

d) Original material (i.e. marble sculpture, painting on wood, gold object, etc.)

e) A paragraph analyzing the image and why it appeals to you.

The complete collection of all descriptions (and images) is due on Monday, January 25. This project is designed to get us thinking visually and translate our visual impressions into writing. Try to think visually and aesthetically...