Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City..
Research paper art 106 You must choose a work of art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. To select your work of art, visit the Met’s website: https://www.metmuseum.org/. You may choose any work of art from the museum, as long as it was created between 1450 – present and belongs to an era, culture or movement that we cover in the class (in Modules 1 – 15). It must also be a work of Western Art which includes the art that we cover in Modules 1 – 15. It does NOT include art from Asia, Africa, Native North America, South America or Oceania. You will need to know the name of the work, the name of the artist, the date created, the medium and the dimensions. In addition, you should note your personal observations about the work. You should make notes about color, composition, line, texture, content, iconography, the movement the work is a part of (Cubist, Surrealist, etc.) and anything else you may deem interesting or important. Once you’ve observed your artwork and taken notes on your observations, you will write your paper. It must be a minimum of 1,000 words. This is a research paper. Your research and observations should be illuminated by the class lectures and readings as well as outside sources (Internet sites, scholarly journals, books, etc.) You can find resources at the Library. Please use MLA format. If you are unsure about how to cite your sources, refer to: MLA Formatting and Style Guide. A typical paper will spend the first part giving background about the artist and the style/movement to which your selected artwork belongs (ie. Renaissance art). In the next part of your paper you will describe your artwork from the museum in detail using at least 5 vocabulary terms learned in class (ie. sculpture in the round, complementary colors, etc.). You will first describe the form and then address the content (iconography, narrative, etc.). You may also want to talk about the artwork’s significance – how it may be a political statement or shows an innovative style, for example. In the rest of the paper you will compare/contrast the artwork to an artwork that has been discussed in our class (either in my Lectures or in the textbook). You should select a work of art that is more similar than different (in terms of similar time period and/or similar iconography). You will discuss how the works are similar and then how they are different, mentioning at least 3 ways they are the same and 3 ways they are different. You should write at least one page for this comparison (five paragraphs). Remember, the best comparisons have more similarities than differences. The comparison can come from any Module in the class (Module 1 – 15).