Category: Art History

3 typed, double-spaced pages, 12 pt font (Times New Roman, Georgia, or Garamond), with a single spaced heading and an original title
Include a brief formal (visual) and historical/ contextual analysis of each artwork/ artifact
Include a thesis statement by the end of the first page that uses a point of comparison/ contrast to make an argument
Organize your essay with an introductory paragraph including thesis statement, supporting paragraphs with evidence for your thesis, and a conclusion
Proofread, spell-check, and grammar check your paper (get someone else to read it if necessary)
You must cite any sources used in composing your essay, whether you use a direct quotation from a text or simply summarize the information you have read. Use Chicago style citations in Notes-Bibliography format. This format uses footnotes for all in-text citations and a bibliography for EVERY SOURCE used, including those not cited in your essay. Please refer to Purdue Online Writing Lab for help with citation: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/resources.html
Include your images, labeled as “Figure 1” and “Figure 2,” with full captions (artist, title, location or provenance, date of creation) at the end of your paper (NOT included in the required 3 pages)
Include a full bibliography at the end of your essay (NOT included in the required 3 pages)

DESIGN ANALYSIS FORM   image choice + design analysis form
The Design Analysis Form is a comprehensive series of questions that will help guide you through a discussion of 1 (one) particular work of graphic design of your choice. The form is relatively self explanatory, and the Design Analysis Guide, also provided here, will give you hints and instructions on answering every single question within the form. The Guide is an indispensable tool to help students successfully complete the form, and must be utilized to assist you throughout your work.
Additionally, an Art/Design Terminology Form, provided here as well, to assist you with the vocabulary used in the Design Analysis Form.
Assignment:
Choose work of graphic design.
Complete the Design Analysis Form.doc.  Utilize the Design Analysis Guide to assist you with every question.  
analysis form.pdf is an example of hoe it should look

ASSIGNMENT 1  Propaganda   image choice + essay
As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda, in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence and persuade an audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political, religious or social agenda. Propaganda can be used as a form of ideological warfare…and can refer to uses that are generally benign or innocuous, such as public health recommendations, signs encouraging citizens to participate in a census or election, or messages encouraging persons to report crimes to law enforcement, among others.
Your assignment is to find one example of what you might consider contemporary (21stcentury – preferably current) published or shared propaganda. This may be single advertisements, posters, websites, videos, tweets, or any kind of published content.  This could be a single example, or a complete campaign.  In general, you should look beyond commercial advertisement (consumerism), and towards public service announcements or any more direct visual communication for a cause or ideology: a movement, a belief, a political position, a conflict, etc.  However, while technically different, commercial advertising can often blur the line between selling a product or service and persuasion toward a particular social cause or point of view and could be considered for this assignment (see notes on advertising vs. propaganda in the supplemental Propaganda_guide.pdf, attached).  Students may not use any images found through simple internet searches of “propaganda” as your selection.  You should make every effort to find and/or photograph your choice in the real world somewhere, in the city, on the subways, in your daily experience, or one that you remember seeing.  This may include social media campaigns or ads/images you see on web browsers; however, online choices should be well researched.  This means clicking on any pop-up ad, and/or researching the secondary information in the ad that identifies who produced the content.    
*Specific focus will be placed on addressing the common persuasion tactics used in advertising and propaganda. You must identify which specific common persuasion techniques are being used in your choice, illustrated and defined in the supplemental Propaganda_guide, attached with this assignment on Blackboard.  There will most likely be more than one tactic used.  Students may not use the examples given in the guide as their choice for this assignment. 
Assignment Instructions :
Read fully the supplemental Propaganda_guide (.pdf attached file on Blackboard)
Choose an example of 21st century (preferably current) published propaganda. 
Write an essay (min. 500 words, 10-11pt/single spaced.) describing your choice & why you have chosen it.  Images of your choice must be included with the essay.  If your choice is a video clip, include a functional link or file.
Submit essay (with image or video link included) into Blackboard. 
In your essay, answer these questions:
Identify the common persuasion tactics (listed in the supplemental Propaganda_guide.pdf) that are being used in your choice. 
Identify and evaluate the tone of voice being used in your choice to communicate the message (i.e. the expression or affectation behind the words/images), using simple, descriptive words that you feel express the tone such as: paternal, maternal, omniscient, aggressive, patronizing, rallying, desperate, sympathetic, angry, humorous, friendly…etc.
What elements of the communication are stressed and why? 
Identify what specifically is being communicated (the underlying message), and the target demographic/audience.  
What kind of language does the speaker use to address the audience? Is the message presented by or through a particular person, personality, or character?  If so, who? How does the speaker persuade you, the viewer? How does the work make you feel?
Who created/published/paid for the propaganda? What is the intent/agenda of the propaganda? 

Write an 8 page reasearch paper on Michelangelo’s significant role in shaping the architectual landscape of the Baroque period through his influence on Baroque artists. Please use MLA format, use a minimum of 4 scholarly sources(i’ve attached two), and include footnotes. I have attached a paper outline for your convenience.
Thesis: Michelangelo’s innovative architectural designs played a crucial role in shaping the architectural landscape of the Baroque period by inspiring prominent Baroque artists Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Francesco Borromini, and Carlo Maderno.

Choose at least two artists from the Renaissance period. Research their lives and their work using a variety of online and print resources.
Answer/address the following questions:
How did each artist’s work reflect the ideas or historical events of the Renaissance?
How was their work similar or different?
Did they influence future artists, and if so, how?
cite references in standard bibliography format at the end of the paper.