Wilson Homer: The Art Of Choice Research Assignment

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This assignment is to help you become confident using the language of art history.
Write a three-page, three-part paper on learning how to look at art beginning with the inspirational essay, Helen Keller’s Three Days to See, Atlantic (January 1933). https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/33jan/keller.htm
In this essay, Keller imagines a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to view artists from the Renaissance and Baroque eras. Go online to the Met Museum’s website https://www.metmuseum.org and find examples of the works Keller cites. See for yourself what Helen Keller never could. Begin your essay by selecting one artwork from this group and answer the following questions from Gardner’s “What is Art History,” pp. 1-13. How old is it? What is the style? What is the subject? Who made it? Who paid for it? Use six terms that make up the essential vocabulary of formal analysis to describe the artwork. Include the image in color. Next, find an example of Helen Keller’s artists in your textbook. Do the same process. Finally, go to your museum, the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UCSB to find a painting from the Sedgwick Collection of Old Master Paintings. Use the label of the artwork and the vocabulary from your text again to guide you in your description.