Employing the principles and terminology introduced during the first two weeks of the course, students will write a comparative analysis of two artworks selected from the online collections of three major art museums, including:
1) Art Institute of Chicago (AIC), https://www.artic.edu/collection
2) Metropolitan Museum of Art, https://www.metmuseum.org
3) National Gallery of Art, https://www.nga.gov/collection.html
I recommend limiting your selections to these three sites in order to keep your research manageable, A word about three-dimensional art: because sculpture cannot be analyzed properly through a flat image, you are encouraged to select two two-dimensional artworks (paintings, prints, drawings, photographs). There are no restrictions on the artworks you choose—your selections may belong to the same culture, and even to the same artist, or they may emerge from entirely disparate contexts. Finally, while you should include some minimal background information from a scholarly source such as Oxford Art Online (accessed through the Daley Library’s databases) this is not a research paper, but rather, an exercise in applying your own observational skills, informed by the vocabulary and concepts taught in AH 100.