ART115/MUS115 art, music & ideas
Art
Museum Visit
Go to the SFMOMA or
the Legion of Honor or The de Young or The Cantor Center for the Visual Arts
(at
SFMOMA
info: www.sfmoma.org
151
Monday
and Tuesday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Wednesday
CLOSED
Thursday
and Friday 10 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Saturday
and Sunday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
1. Select 2 works from the current show and comment on them in analytic terms (principles of design), your emotional response and your aesthetic reaction. How do these works represent Modernism, Pop-Art, or Post-Modernism? Note: the audio tour might be helpful.
2. Select a photograph from the collection on
display and comment on it in analytic terms (principles of design), your
emotional response and your aesthetic reaction.
Compare photography as a medium to paintings.
3. Select an abstract work from the permanent
collection and comment on it in analytic terms (principles of design), your
emotional response and your aesthetic reaction.
4. Describe your overall reaction to the experience––the art, the building, the urban context, etc. Do not write about transportation or parking.
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OR --
Legion of Honor info: http://www.famsf.org/legion/
Open
six days a week, Tuesday through Sunday,
Admissions: Adults: $8.00, Seniors: $6.00, Youth: 12–17
$5.00, Children 11 and under: free
Free
Tuesdays: Admission is now free every Tuesday
1. Select a Renaissance-era work from the
collection on display and comment on it in analytic terms (principles of design),
your emotional response and your aesthetic reaction.
2. Select a Baroque-era work from the permanent
collection and comment on it in analytic terms (principles of design), your
emotional response and your aesthetic reaction.
3. Select a third work (from any period) and
comment on it in analytic terms (principles of design), your emotional response
and your aesthetic reaction.
4. Describe your overall reaction to the
experience––the art, the building, the urban context, etc. How does your knowledge of art history work
in the presence of actual art? Do not
write about transportation or parking.
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OR –
de
Young info: http://www.famsf.org/deyoung/index.asp
Tuesday
through Sunday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m., Fridays until 8:45 p.m.
Golden Gate Park
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco, CA 94118
415.750.3600
Adults $10, Seniors 65 and over $7, Youths 13-17 $6, College Students with ID
$6, Children 12 and under FREE. There is sometimes a special exhibition
surcharge. Admission tickets to the de
Young may be used on the same day for free entrance to the Legion of Honor.
1.
Describe the overall theme of two of the exhibits, and select individual
works from each that typify or help you characterize the show and your reaction
to it.
2.
The building! Describe it – the
shapes and materials inside and out, and the relationship of the building to
its surroundings (including views from within the museum).
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OR --
The
1. Select a Rodin sculpture from the collection
on display (outside the museum) and comment on it in analytic terms (principles
of design), your emotional response and your aesthetic reaction.
2. Select a Baroque-era work from the permanent
collection and comment on it in analytic terms (principles of design), your
emotional response and your aesthetic reaction.
3. Select a work from the 20th
Century and comment on it in analytic terms (principles of design), your
emotional response and your aesthetic reaction.
4. Describe your overall reaction to the experience––the art, the building, the campus context, etc. How does your knowledge of art history work in the presence of actual art? Do not write about transportation or parking.
David Meckler
August 2008