Gold Marilyn Monroe

Use the golden Marilyn monroe painting by Any Warhol For the first paper, you will be required to register with ArtStor (available through the college’s library website) and find a work of art that interests you.  You will then compose a paper which is a visual analysis and conclusion.  You will be graded according to your ability to look at and consider the work of art based on the skills you have learned in the course.  You are not required to do any research for this assignment. You will find an object of your choosing and craft a formal analysis.  You will, through the use of descriptive language, illustrate to me what kind of object it is, what it is made of, what are the possible meanings, or function.  If you choose a piece of sculpture, you should note how it feels to walk around it and experience the object in 3-dimensional space.  If you choose a painting, you might want to mention the texture of the painting.  There are many ways you can describe your object so please do not worry about the “correct” way.  You are being challenged to use your eyes to see what’s in front of you rather than reading about it in a book.  The paper must include a section devoted to a physical description of the object and also showcase your ability to draw critical or analytic conclusions from the visual evidence.  As you will see from the first week of class, as art historians, we make assumptions based on what we can see in front of us.  You may not always be “correct,” but your ideas need to be grounded in the evidence.  In the same way you would not argue that Huckleberry Finn is a story about space exploration, you should not make assertions that an image of the historical Buddha from the Gupta period is a commentary on colonialism. You will need to tell me the artist, title, date, medium of the object you choose, and what museum you visited. This paper must be 3 pages, typed, double-spaced, 12-point, Times New Roman.  Do not adjust margins from the default settings.  Do not center-justify.  The paper needs to be left-justified (this does not mean you should not indent for each new paragraph).  All papers must have a title page that is separate from the body of the text.  The title page should include the title of your paper, name, class number, and date. You are not required to do any outside research but if you do consult an outside source, you must cite it using the Chicago Manual of Style.  Failure to do so constitutes plagiarism and will result in a failing grade.

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