Participation with Art and Values

Browse through your textbook and revisit the pictures you have encountered throughout the course over this semester. For the sake of convenience, please limit your response to visual art―painting, sculpture, architecture, etc., that can be visually pictured in your text.

Choose two pictures: one that represents one of your favorite works of art and another that represents one of your least favorite works in the book. Be sure to be as specific as possible and to give thoughtful reasons for your assertions. For this journal, answer the following numbered discussion questions (1-4 and repeat 1-4) based on your choices, as follows:

FAVORITE

1. Name your favorite work of art (from our textbook), and provide the artist’s name, date, and page number. Post a picture of your selection or link to the web address.
2. What is it about this work that attracts you? Discuss the artistic form that made you choose it as your favorite.
3. When you look at this work, how does it make you feel? Discuss how you emotionally interpret it.
4. What main value is communicated through this work of art? Is this a value that you ascribe to personally? Do you think others are attracted to it for the same reason?

LEAST FAVORITE

1. Name your least favorite work of art (from our textbook), and provide the artist’s name, date, and page number. Post a picture of your selection or link to the web address.
2. What is it about this work’s artistic form that repels you? Is it ugly or simply uninteresting? Discuss why did you chose it as your least favorite.
3. When you look at this work, how does it make you feel? Discuss how you emotionally interpret it.
4. What value (if any) is communicated through this work of art? Is this a value that you agree with, or does it offend you? How do you think others respond to it?

Section 2

Is there a civil rights figure or leader that you particularly admire? Explain briefly (no more than 2-3 paragraphs) why you respect that individual.