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UHON 207 Fine Art as Global Perspective: Social Transformation through Art Spring 2020 Professor Jacobs Political Artists: Oral Presentation Due: See dates below. Your presentation date and artist will be listed on the course outline as well. With your partner, create a concise, 15 minute, oral/visual presentation on the artist you selected from the list below with an additional 5 minutes of class discussion/engagement. Looking at artists such as JR, Alfredo Jaar, and Juan Manuel Echavarria we will investigate how political art uses a range of materials and approaches to engage the viewer. Often, these contemporary artists draw upon contemporary issues and problems in their communities, using their art to address their political concerns publicly. The objective of this presentation is to evaluate your artist’s artwork and in particular their motivations, methodologies, and material usage. Further, the presentations will better acquaint you with the breadth of contemporary political art and aim to spark creative ideas for your future creative projects. Be sure to locate several sources on your scholar’s
- work. Ideally, you’ll be able to draw from the artist’s statements as well as
assessment from scholars, curators and critics. Locating interviews with the artist would be helpful as well. Several of the artists are highlighted in interviews
- n PBS-Art21. Mirroring Lucy Luippard’s three-pronged evaluation of Andre
Serrano’s Piss Christ, please use multiple lenses (formal, historical, expressionist, conceptual, etc.) to evaluate and frame your artist’s work. Part 1: Presentation will consist of:
- Provide an overview of the creative work. Showing background work in
- rder to frame the scope of the artist is fine, but focus primarily one body
- f work and unpack it by using the following prompts below:
- Provide context (e.g. cultural, historic, educational, demographic) on the
artist as relevant to the discussion at hand.
- What concepts are addressed in the work? I highly recommend that you
find one or more critical assessments (by a curator, critic, or an art historian, etc.) of your artist’s work.
- When was the work created? What was happening socially/politically
during the timeframe? Do those social or political issues inform the work? If so, how?
- What materials were used to create the work? Why?
- What formal qualities are utilized? (denote and connote what you see)