· Drawing the Eye This assignments provide a deeper understanding of the content through reflecting and responding to the video. Write one or two paragraphs responding to the assignment question. MLA format https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0opKw7RfXk&feature=youtu.be Based on the video, when the artist describes his process, he states that he is “drawing the eye without drawing the eye,” what do you think he meant by this idea? Why do you think this process, going from basic or general towards the specific or detailed, is a good way to draw? · Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #21, 1978 This assignments provide a deeper understanding of the content through reflecting and responding to the video. Write one or two paragraphs responding to the assignment question. MLA format https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fPwsLeH8fA According to the video, how has the artist, Cindy Sherman, explored the theme of identity in her work? Why is photography a good medium to explore these ideas? · Gaudí, Church of the Sagrada Família, 1882 This assignments provide a deeper understanding of the content through reflecting and responding to the video. Write one or two paragraphs responding to the assignment question. MLA format https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMqERP-J2tQ&feature=youtu.be According to the commenters in the video, Gaudi’s Church of the Sagrada Familia is an inventive synthesis of very eclectic elements and structures. Can you describe at least three of these elements and structures? · Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, 1483-85 This assignments provide a deeper understanding of the content through reflecting and responding to the video. Write one or two paragraphs responding to the assignment question. MLA format https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdp22elrY7s&feature=youtu.be&list=PLAAEFE618A27E29D2 According to the presenters in the video, what are two ways Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus is different than other paintings from the Renaissance period? · Olmec Mask This assignments provide a deeper understanding of the content through reflecting and responding to the video. Write one or two paragraphs responding to the assignment question. MLA format https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9uJxXnDTU8&feature=youtu.be According to the video, what is one way the Aztecs dealt with artifacts older than their culture that is similar to how we deal with ours? What is one way that it is different? · Duchamp's Shovel: Art as Concept This assignments provide a deeper understanding of the content through reflecting and responding to the video. Write one or two paragraphs responding to the assignment question. MLA format https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRv20I13vqM&feature=youtu.be From watching the video discussion on Marcel Duchamp’s In Advance of the Broken Arm, how do you think this art challenges our idea of what art can be? Also, the narrator says he thinks Duchamp failed. What was Duchamp trying to do that he apparently was not able to do? Based on images form.

1. · Drawing the Eye
This assignments provide a deeper understanding of the content
through reflecting and responding to the video. Write one or
two paragraphs responding to the assignment question. MLA
format
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0opKw7RfXk&feature=you
tu.be
Based on the video, when the artist describes his process, he
states that he is “drawing the eye without drawing the eye,”
what do you think he meant by this idea? Why do you think this
process, going from basic or general towards the specific or
detailed, is a good way to draw?
· Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #21, 1978
This assignments provide a deeper understanding of the content
through reflecting and responding to the video. Write one or
two paragraphs responding to the assignment question. MLA
format
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fPwsLeH8fA
According to the video, how has the artist, Cindy Sherman,
explored the theme of identity in her work? Why is photography
a good medium to explore these ideas?
· Gaudí, Church of the Sagrada Família, 1882
This assignments provide a deeper understanding of the content
through reflecting and responding to the video. Write one or
two paragraphs responding to the assignment question. MLA
format
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMqERP-
J2tQ&feature=youtu.be
According to the commenters in the video, Gaudi’s Church of
the Sagrada Familia is an inventive synthesis of very eclectic
elements and structures. Can you describe at least three of these
elements and structures?

2. · Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, 1483-85
This assignments provide a deeper understanding of the content
through reflecting and responding to the video. Write one or
two paragraphs responding to the assignment question. MLA
format
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdp22elrY7s&feature=youtu.
be&list=PLAAEFE618A27E29D2
According to the presenters in the video, what are two ways
Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus is different than other paintings
from the Renaissance period?
· Olmec Mask
This assignments provide a deeper understanding of the content
through reflecting and responding to the video. Write one or
two paragraphs responding to the assignment question. MLA
format
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9uJxXnDTU8&feature=yo
utu.be
According to the video, what is one way the Aztecs dealt with
artifacts older than their culture that is similar to how we deal
with ours? What is one way that it is different?
· Duchamp's Shovel: Art as Concept
This assignments provide a deeper understanding of the content
through reflecting and responding to the video. Write one or
two paragraphs responding to the assignment question. MLA
format
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRv20I13vqM&feature=yo
utu.be
From watching the video discussion on Marcel Duchamp’s In
Advance of the Broken Arm, how do you think this art
challenges our idea of what art can be? Also, the narrator says
he thinks Duchamp failed. What was Duchamp trying to do that
he apparently was not able to do?

3. Based on images formally analyze the works on display. Keep a
list of all of the elements and principles of design handy to help
identify them. Remember to go beyond just naming the element
or principle, see if you can describe the quality of each. For
example, don’t just say you see lines, describe them and how
they work in the picture (vertical, horizontal, gestural, etc.).
1-2 paragraphs.
MLA format
Elements of Art
Line - We do not see any actual lines in the painting, but there
are some linear elements and implied lines. The strong
horizontal of the shoreline is echoed by the horizontal seats of
the boat. We also see two strong diagonal thrusts in the oar and
the man’s left arm (this slightly curved diagonal continues up
through the woman’s right arm). These help create the deep
perspective of the space. We also see an implied line formed by
the woman’s glance towards the man’s face.
Shape - There is some large, bold curvilinear shapes formed by
the boat and the sail. Theses curved shapes echo each other. The
front brim of the woman’s hat also repeats this curve. The water
forms a defined negative shape in the composition and the
man’s back is so dark we perceive a large organic shape in the
foreground.
Space - We see an interesting dichotomy of space in this image.
It shows both deep space, with the horizon line so high up in the
picture and the perspective created by the oar and the man’s
arm, and shallow space formed by the large, flat shapes of the
boat and man’s back, giving us an intimate, tilted-up view of
the boat and people.
Color and Value - The color harmonies are mostly analogous
with green and blue shades. The baby’s pink dress offers a stark
contrast. There is a huge value contrast in the picture, formed
by the dark values of the man’s clothes compared to the lighter
tones of the rest of the picture.
Design Principles

4. Unity and Variety - The picture is unified by the overall color
scheme and repeated curvilinear shapes of the boat, sail and hat.
The picture is enlivened by the variation of space (deep and
shallow) and the high-contrasting values of the man and the rest
of the image. There is also strong contrast between the
horizontality of the shoreline and the repeated curved shapes.
Balance - The painting is asymmetrically counter-balanced
between the large dark figure of the man and the shape of the
sail and diagonal of the oar leading our eye back to the left.
Emphasis - We can say the focal point of the picture is the
infant. This is created by the contrasting color, the framing of
the baby by the edges of the boat and the adult figures, the
centralized location within the canvas, and “arrow” formed by
the man’s arm and oar.
Line - An implied horizontal line is formed by the heads of the
soldiers. This same line continues through the gun barrels
towards the central figure with raised arms and the heads of the
peasants behind him. This line creates a strong division between
the top and bottom halves of the picture.
Shape - The figures in the picture can be seen to create two
main opposing shapes in the image. The larger, rectangular
shape is formed by the row of soldiers/ firing squad. The
smaller, squared shape is formed by the huddled peasants
directly across from the firing squad.
Value - The most important element in this image is value. The
emotion and symbolic content of the work is heightened by the
strong value contrasts of the bright (pure) central figure
compared to the dark (dreary, evil) soldiers.
Design Principles
Unity and Variety - The painting is unified by the overall dark
tones and by the repeated types of shapes of the soldiers’ hats,
backpacks, boots, etc. Variation is evident in the high contrast
created by the central figure and also the raised arms, which
contrast with the other peasants’ arms that are mostly covering
their faces. The position of the central figure’s arms is echoed
in the dead peasant in front on the ground. Variety is also

5. created by the contrasting arrangements of the soldiers (rigid,
organized) versus the peasants (random, chaotic).
Balance - The painting is asymmetrically balanced by the
opposing masses of the soldiers and peasants.
Emphasis/Dominance - A major principle at work in this piece
is emphasis created by the main focal point of the central,
brightly lit peasant.
Rhythm - The repetition of the forms that make up the firing
squad (rifles, boots, etc.) creates visual rhythm. This
accentuates the machine-like coldness of the soldiers.
Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, oil on canvas, 1889. This
work is in the public domain in the United States, and those
countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100
years or less.
Gordon Parks, American Gothic, Washington D.C. This work is
in the public domain in the United States because it is a work
prepared by an officer or employee of the United States
Government as part of that person’s official duties under the
terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.
Kasimir Malevich, Suprematism, oil on canvas, 1916. This work
is in the public domain in those countries with a copyright term
of life of the author plus 75 years or less.