23. Online Journal & Participation: The amount of time you spend reviewing the course
material online. This is monitored and necessary for successful completion of the course.
Mid-Term and Final Examinations: These will be made up of slide identification and
comparison, short-answer, and essay questions.
Quizzes: These two assignments will be made up of term and slide identification.
Visual Analysis Paper: This assignment asks you to see a work of art IN-PERSON and write
a complete essay about the work.
Reading Response Paper: The course schedule lists three additional readings in weeks 7, 8
and 9. Your paper will be a thoughtful response to what the author is saying and how it
relates to other course material.
24.
25. Weekly Lectures:
Case Study Focus on specific artist, exhibition, idea
Important Terms Words and ideas specific to period
Linear presentation of works of art to illustrate
Chronology the progression and disemination of artistic
ideas
26. Standardized ideas/terms:
Art:
Contemporary definitions are of two main sorts. One distinctively modern,
conventionalist, sort of definition focuses on art's institutional features, emphasizing the
way art changes over time, modern works that appear to break radically with all
traditional art, and the relational properties of artworks that depend on works' relations
to art history, art genres, etc. The less conventionalist sort of contemporary definition
makes use of a broader, more traditional concept of aesthetic properties that includes
more than art-relational ones, and focuses on art's pan-cultural and trans-historical
characteristics.
–Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosphy
We will be examining art through the first definition!
27. Standardized ideas/terms:
Scientific Method:
This course will follow artistic
development that is dealt with
following this method. The works of
art in this course are all examples of
the process of observation,
questioning, experimentation and
presentation of findings.
28. Unusable Terminology
“childish”
“bad”
Art is “in the eye of beholder”
“good”
“subjective”
29. Course Objective:
This course is designed to give you and
understanding of the last 150 years of
artistic development as well as the
terminology and framework to talk about
art in general. At the end of this course
you should be able to tour the Portland
Museum of Art and identify the various
chapters of artistic development. Also,
you should be able to discuss the works
on view while referencing the appropriate
terms and ideas.
30. Ellsoworth Kelly
Colors for a Large Wall
Who I am:
Chris Stiegler
BA – Art History, University of Delaware, 2004
BA – Art, University of Delaware, 2004
MA – Art History, Christie’s Education, New York City, 2007
Adjunct Faculty – Art History, Southern Maine Community College, since 2011
