ART 101 Week 2 Discussion 1

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Week 2 - Discussion 1

Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Refer to the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric under the Settings icon above for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.

Refer to the assigned reading from the textbook and required videos as examples of how to interpret works of art. Also, reflect on your reading assignments for Week 1.

Review the “Questions Art Historians Use” section in the Introduction of the textbook. Select two of the five questions. Explain what art historians are trying to gain by asking each question and how they might go about finding an answer.

Next, select a work of art of your choice from Gardner’s Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective, one of the assigned virtual reality video tours, or a website listed on the Art101 Museum and Images Websites  Download Art101 Museum and Images Websitesdocument located in your classroom. Apply the two questions you have selected to the work of art. Explain the process you used to find the answers to the questions and what you ultimately found those answers to be.

Cite your sources as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.) guides on Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.) and Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.). For works of art, follow the basic modified APA style reference entry format in the APA Style Reference Entries for Artwork  Download APA Style Reference Entries for Artworkdocument.

Your initial post must be at least 200 words in length.

Review several of your classmates’ posts. By Day 7, provide a substantive response to at least two of your classmates. Review their applications of their chosen questions to the works of art. What additional implications could be considered in answering the questions? What additional questions would you recommend asking about the works of art? Why?