Sunday

Assignment #3


1. Do you remember how I talked about making a practical experience into an aesthetic experience?

I would like for you to think about something that you do everyday. Something that you do without thinking about it too much. Now, take that practical experience and turn it into an aesthetic experience. Use similes, metaphors and any other descriptive information from your English classes. Post a picture...

Example: I drink coffee in the morning. I choose just the right coffee cup. I pour the coffee into my coffee cup and watch as the dark brown liquid cascades into the cup like the fall of a waterfall. As the liquid hits the bottom, steam rises bringing with it that yummy, familiar aroma that hits my olfactory senses and makes me salivate. I watch as I pour a bit of cream into the coffee and watch it swirl around and around. It billows and swirls, like foreboding clouds of dust in a storm until it settles and quiets - becoming all one light mocha color.

Assignment #2

Describe the 4 domains of creativity:

Fluency
Flexibility
Originality
Elaboration

Describe the Feldman Method of Art Criticism:

Describe
Analyze
Interpret
Judge or Evaluate

Assignment #1

The Purpose of this assignment is to provide me with some background on who you are and what you may already know about art. Please use complete sentences.

Consider:

a. Have you ever made art? What kind of art do you like?
b. Have made a drawing, painting, sculpture?
c. Have you ever been to a museum, gallery, or artist studio?
d. Have you ever been to a play, opera, art film?
e. Do you dance?
f. Under what conditions do you learn the most?
g. Why are you taking this class?
h. Have you ever looked at at or anything really and been moved by what your eyes see?
i. What inspires you?
j. Do you consider that movies are a form of art? How about video games, Comics, Television?
k. Who decides what is good art?
l. When you debate music with your friends what are your critical elements or standards to which you hold the music to?
m. What was the best movie you saw last year?
n. What is an Art Film?
o. What music is in your ipod or mp3 player, car, albumns