This week you will use your reading for the week as a point of departure to create your own artistic production to present to the class in a narrated PowerPoint.

Directions

• Complete the reading for this week  

• Select one of the visual art pieces from the chapter or any other chapter in your textbook to use as a point of inspiration  

• Create an art piece inspired by your selected art piece (This could be visual, auditory, etc. Last class, someone shaped their meal like a sailboat, another person set up kids toys and took a picture of that, several  decided to draw and paint, a few wrote poems or short stories inspired by the image, etc.).    

• Write a one-page reflection about the relationship between your art production and the inspiration piece  

• Create a 5-minute narrated PowerPoint and upload to the Discussion Forum for this week  

For Your Inspiration Piece

• Record the title, artist, year, place of origin  

• Explain the context and artistic movement  

For Your Art Production

• Methods: paint, watercolor, pencil, crayon, marker, collage, sculpture

• NO COMPUTER GENERATED PIECES  

• Provide a title  

• Explain the narrative of your piece and the connection to the inspiration  

For Your Presentation

• Provide an introduction  

• Explain and show your inspiration piece  

• Describe and show your art piece  

• Explain the thematic connection between the two pieces  

Be sure to submit your written and visual assignment here for grading and the visual part into the discussion for viewing.