EL CAMINO COLLEGE
Worksheet part 1: Choosing Work of Art from AHIS 101 (Prehistory to 19th century)
Style or Culture
Artwork Example/Title
Creator/Artist
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4. Now, select only one of the three artworks, and answer both of the following questions in two to three sentences:
Artwork selected: ______________________________________________________________________
When was this artwork created? What is the medium/material in which this artwork was executed (i.e. oil on canvas, marble etc.)?
Where is its current location? What is its place of origin?
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Student Name ___________________________________________
Worksheet part 2: Artwork Chart
Artwork
What is your chosen artwork from part 1? Include a link to or a picture of the artwork.
Describe the artwork in detail. For instance, how would you describe it to someone who could not see it?
Choose elements of the artwork that you believe are most important to how you experience it and explain why. For instance, what particularly catches your senses or makes you want to keep experiencing it? Does the choice of medium impact your experience?
Assumptions about your artwork
State your opinion on what you believe is the purpose of this artwork and the success of the creator in achieving the purpose. For instance, what message do you believe the creator is trying to express, and is that message successfully expressed?
Discuss how the artwork reflects the culture (or context) in which it was created. Be sure to address what aspects of culture have relevance for this artwork: politics, history, religion, social perceptions, technology, media, education, and so on. In other words, how do the artwork and its culture interrelate?
Use the artwork to discuss how acts of creative expression impact and are impacted by the people and situations that surround it. How might the artwork and the person who created it have impacted each other? For instance, how might the geographic location where the artwork was made, the materials used to create the artwork, the medium of the creative process, or the environment where the artwork is displayed influence the creator’s life or future creative work? Any interesting or additional information you have found related to your chosen artwork, which you did not mention previously, should be included here.
Questions: Pose questions you have after thinking deeply about this artwork. What more do you want to know about it:
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Speculate on how you would go about answering these questions. For instance, what sorts of things would you study about this artwork and its context that might begin addressing these questions?
Worksheet part 3: Artwork from Modern and Contemporary World
Modern World and Contemporary World
Artist/Creator
Artwork Created/Title
Medium and Date
Purpose or Intention
20th Century:
21st Century:
Answer the following questions:
1. What differences do you notice between the artworks created during the Prehistory to 19th century timeframe and those from Modern and Contemporary World?
2. In the context of what you have learned in this course so far, where do you think those differences stemmed from?
3. How relevant your chosen work of art from part 2 (Prehistory to 19th century) still is?
4. Did your chosen artwork from part 2 have any influence on 20th and 21st century art and architecture?
5. Have its iconic features been repeated often in popular culture? If yes, why and where?
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