{"id":940,"date":"2017-08-07T05:37:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T05:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.oeru.org\/art103\/?page_id=940"},"modified":"2017-08-07T05:37:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T05:37:56","slug":"tasks-interpreting-visual-art-challenge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/art103\/learning-pathways\/spirituality-and-myth\/tasks-interpreting-visual-art-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasks-Interpreting Visual Art Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\"><div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"objectives\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/art103\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_objectives.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Interpreting Visual Art Challenge Tasks<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>This learning challenge has two parts: Five-step system and Opinion about art.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Five-step system<\/b><br \/>\n<br \/>\nConduct brief research (mainly for context) on each of the following two images:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grant Woods&#8217;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artic.edu\/aic\/collections\/exhibitions\/Modern\/American-Gothic\">American Gothic<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>African Kongo culture image <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/Collections\/search-the-collections\/50003572\">Power Figure: Male Riding Dog (Nkisi)<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nWrite about the two works of art in your learning journal using the five-step system for interpreting visual art outlined here:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Description (an explanation of the works of art from an objective point of view: their physical attributes and their formal construction)\n<\/li>\n<li>Analysis (a look at the works of art that combines physical attributes with subjective statements based on your reaction to the works)\n<\/li>\n<li>Context (any historical, religious, or environmental information that surrounds the particular works of art and which helps to understand the works&#8217; meanings)\n<\/li>\n<li>Meaning (a statement of the works&#8217; content. A message or narrative expressed by the subject matter of the works)\n<\/li>\n<li>Judgment (a critical point of view about the works of art concerning their aesthetic or cultural value)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nChoose any new image from the course <a href=\"\/art103\/course-guide\/art-resources\" title=\"Art Appreciation and Techniques\/ART103\/Art resources\">Art Resources<\/a>, or any source you wish, that fits with the theme of sprituality and myth, and follow the same procedure outlined above. Share your work in the <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/forums.oeru.org\/t\/art103-interpreting-visual-art-challenge\/278\">course topics discussion forum<\/a>. Remember to include a link to your chosen image.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Opinion about art<\/b><br \/>\n<br \/>\nAnalyze and state an opinion in the <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/forums.oeru.org\/t\/art103-interpreting-visual-art-challenge\/278\">course topic forum<\/a> on each of these two statements (one paragraph each):\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Art is for entertainment value only.\n<\/li>\n<li>Art helps humans explore their lives and their world.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.032 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.620 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 103\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 774\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 5546\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 4095\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 7\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key wikiedu-mw_:pcache:idhash:181488-0!*!0!*!*!2!* and timestamp 20170807053747 and revision id 1029916\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/art103\/learning-pathways\/spirituality-and-myth\/start-interpreting-visual-art-challenge\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/art103\/learning-pathways\/spirituality-and-myth\/output-interpreting-visual-art-challenge\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<br \/>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2190 Previous Next \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":924,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-940","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/art103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/art103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/art103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/art103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/art103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/art103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/art103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/940\/revisions\/941"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/art103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/art103\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}