| How does art
connect?
(completion gives you 1/8 credit in English or Social Studies!) |
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| Art
searchable by time period or area
Art of Ancient Greece and Rome Painters of the Harlem Renaissance And don't forget good old search engines! |
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the "new" one!The "old" Aunt Jemima. When I was young, Aunt Jemima on the pancake mix didn't look the way she does today. Back then, Aunt Jemima was fat, very fat! She always wore a bandana on her head, and she always had a rather sappy smile. But then prejudice between blacks and whites became an issue. Before very much time passed, Aunt Jemima had become slim and trim. She was very attractive and always had a smile, but it wasn't sappy. And her name was more prominent than her face. What's the difference? Well, Aunt Jemima became a fashionable black woman selling pancakes rather than a servant to some white people buying the mix. Thus, the "new" Aunt Jemima became popular advertising art with both blacks and whites despite the issues of prejudice. That was the purpose of the advertising-to sell to two cultures in conflict with one another. Sometimes art is used simply to express the way a single person sees the world, but if the art is popular in a given place at a given time, it must reflect the culture. Sometimes it must reflect two cultures at once, but not always. People IN the culture, no matter how it's arranged, must respond well to it. It doesn't necessarily mean advertising art, though. That is true of any style of art. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to find four very different pieces of art on the Internet and decide what they say about the culture. The art you chose must be four different images from at least THREE different cultures. You might consider these ideas: American art from three different time periods, art from three different countries (maybe America, Mexico, Africa, Egypt...wherever), art from different cultural groups within one area (maybe blacks vs. whites vs. Hispanics...whatever). You are to save and print the images and write at least a paragraph about each one explaining how the image reflects the beliefs and attitudes of the culture at the times. The image and the writing should be in the same program - ask if you don't know how to put a picture and a document together. Be sure to report exactly where the image came from. Certainly don't forget to run a spell check and a grammar check! On the left, you will see several links to sources for different kinds of art. Standards addressed: 22, 32, 52, 61, 62, 140, 143, 146, 148, 151, 157, 158, 163, 164, 165, 173, 177, 178, 179, 255, 381, 383, 401, 403 |
