Visual Analysis and Annotated Bibliography Berthe Morisot

My research artist is Berthe Morisot, (French, 1841-1895),
Research of object: Jeunes Filles sur le balcon, 1893 pastel and charcoal
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you can't use wikipedia to research.

Arts 2150 fall 2019 Research Project On your visit to the Jule Collins Smith Museum, you will tour the galleries and then be introduced to the works of art you will concentrate on for your research project this semester. Some of the work you will do for this project will be in groups. See the separate sheet that lists your group and work of art. 1. Visual Analysis and Annotated Bibliography (Due October 24) Students will return to the museum and closely observe the work of art in person, and then write an essay (min. 2 full pages of Times 12-point font with 1” margins on all sides, or min. of about 700 words) that describes the significant visual elements of their work of art, discussing its formal and stylistic qualities and analyzing how its composition is organized. Note that you must return to the museum study the artwork in person during official, documented appointments. If you do not go back to the museum and/or do not document your visits, your visual analysis and annotated bibliography grade will be docked 30 points. To set up your appointment, contact Ms. Danielle Funderburk.  She will have a sign-in sheet for when you arrive to see your work. A. For the Visual Analysis Paper, you will write an essay (min. 700 words or 2 full pages) that describes the significant visual elements of the work, including the its formal and stylistic vocabulary and recognizable subject matter and content. *Your essay should begin with a paragraph that introduces the work of art from the exhibition to your reader in general terms. This paragraph should contain the basic information to identify the work: the title of the work, its date of production, country of origin, its medium, the artist, and his/her dates. You should also describe the subject matter of the work here. *The body of your paper will consist of several paragraphs that discuss and analyze the form and composition, guided by the questions below. Within this, you will also address how the work was made/technique, and the technique affects the visual elements and composition. In this section, you should try to move beyond description and towards an analysis of the work’s composition and style. Do not delve into a discussion of its meaning or try to interprete the subject matter. *In your final paragraph, conclude by highlighting what you consider the most significant compositional and stylistic components of the work. Keep these questions in mind when discussing your work of art: Subject Matter: *What is presented in the work of art, in general and more specifically? Humans, animal, objects, buildings, landscape, abstract lines and colors, etc. If there is an easily identifiable, specific source for the subject, like a well-known moment in history or literature, state it. Do not do any research on the subject matter at this time. Just write about what you see and what you can tell by observation of the work. Form and Composition: Using the Tool-Kit in the introduction of your course textbook as a guide, describe and analyze the composition. *What is the overall composition of the work? How are the various components organized? Be explicit in your description, and describe it so that someone who has not seem the work could visualize it. *What are the most prominent formal elements at play in the composition (balance, rhythm, symmetry, asymmetry, pattern, scale, proportion, color, line, space (including types of perspective), light/dark, texture, etc.? *How do those formal elements work together to create an overall composition? Do they help to focus attention on something in the work or art? Technique and materials: *What is the technique used to make the work (painting, photography, drawing, engraving, woodblock print)? *What are the key characteristics of that technique and how are they visible in this work? 2 B. Students will attach to the visual analysis an annotated bibliography of two scholarly, peer-reviewed sources directly relevant to your work of art; within your group, your sources must be unique, meaning if you have 5 students in your group, together the group will have 10 unique sources. In other words, you must coordinate your sources with your group, and groups are not allowed to have any duplicate sources on their annotated bibliographies. Students will be meeting during class time on Tuesday, October 8 in the library with art & architecture subject specialist Ms. Kasia Leousis to help with finding scholarly sources. The sources should be the best, most directly relevant scholarly sources you can find. Look for the most up-todate sources as well, and try to avoid sources dating to before 1980, unless they are exceptionally important to your work of art. The bibliography will be formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style format for humanities. After each bibliographic entry, you will include a brief (min. 150 words, single-spaced) summary of the book’s/article’s thesis or argument, its main points, the source material used, and any information that is relevant to your work of art. The summary must be entirely in your own words—no quotations allowed for this assignment. Guidelines on sources: *Use the online databases (Art & Architecture Complete, JSTOR and WorldCat would be especially helpful) available through the Auburn library website to locate articles that pertain to your work of art. Once you have located one or two good sources, check their footnotes and bibliographies for further sources. *Scholarly sources in general are written by scholars, peer-reviewed, and published by university and academic presses. They will typically have extensive foot- or endnotes. If there are no citations, avoid the source! *A “scholarly” journal is one that publishes articles written for a specialized scholarly audience. Examples of scholarly journals are Art Bulletin, Art History, Burlington Magazine, Apollo, Art Journal, etc. Again, look for sources that have footnotes or endnotes and a bibliography. *If you are working on a prominent artist or work of art, you will have to choose the most relevant and substantial sources. Do not just include the first ones you come across. *Articles from publications like Time, Newsweek, travel magazines, and journals, scholarly or not, published for fields other than art, cultural studies, and history are not acceptable. *Online artblogs and encyclopedias, such as Wikipedia or the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, are unacceptable as well. If the website is reliable, it will have scholarly sources cited, and you can find those cited sources and potentially use them. *A good source for scholarly articles can be in edited volumes or museum exhibition catalogues. *While you may find pertinent information on your work of art or artist in your textbook, it cannot count as one of your sources; nor will any other general survey or textbook on art history. *Book reviews are not acceptable as sources for this assignment. If you find a book review and think it may be relevant, get the book or exhibition catalogue itself and see if it is appropriate. The bibliographic format *Bibliographies must follow guidelines for the humanities in the current edition of the Chicago Manual of Style or Turabian (and not author-date style). *Information within each bibliographic entry should be single-spaced; double-space between entries; lines after the first line of each entry should be indented. *Bibliographies should be alphabetized according to the author’s last name, and should never be numbered. *Articles in edited volumes and museum catalogues must be properly cited by article author and title, and not just by the overall title and editor of the book. *If you use a database to find sources and produce your citation, do not just cut and paste the citation they provide: do not include any of the database info in the bibliographic entry and be sure to delete all superfluous information and punctuation; you must give accurate article page numbers, pp. 51-84, not 33 pp. or just 51; check the bibliographic entry against the actual source for accuracy! Examples: For books: 3 Smith, Jennifer, Sculpture in late Seventeenth Century France. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. For an article within edited volume or exhibition catalogue: Smith, Jane, “A new document regarding Bernini’s Baldacchino,” in Insights into Italian Baroque Art, edited by Peter Jones and Jennifer Smith, 45-91. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. For a journal article: Jones, Peter, “Vermeer’s late genre paintings,” Art History 45, vol. 1 (2007): 145-52. For books or catalogues with editor and not an individual author: Soames, Amelia, ed. Princely Patronage in Seventeenth-century France. State Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Annotated Bibliography for XYZ Jones, Peter. “Vermeer’s late genre paintings,” Art History 45, vol. 1 (2007): 145-62. (skip a line, then begin your summary) Jones argues that Vermeer began to depict women almost exclusively in his late genre paintings, a change from his early use of only male figures. Jones presents evidence from Vermeer’s correspondence with his main patron to explain his shift in focus, which occurred because.... Smith, Jane, “A new document regarding Bernini’s Baldacchino,” in Insights into Italian Baroque Art, edited by Peter Jones and John Smith, 45-91. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Smith publishes the original contract that spells out the specifics of the commission of the baldacchino in St. Peter’s. She argues that this document sheds new light on the working practices of Bernini, as well as on his growing artistic network of patrons in 1620s in Rome.... Formatting Requirements: *All assignments must be written in complete sentences that are arranged into coherent paragraphs; each paragraph should have a strong topic sentence. *The assignments must meet the length requirements as stated for each. *Formatting: The assignments must be typed in Times 12-point font, double-spaced with the margins 1” on all sides. (Exceptions: the annotated bibliography and the final paper’s endnotes should be single-spaced). Be sure to change the default margins, which are usually 1.25”. The print must be clear and legible. Make sure you turn off the automatic extra or triple-spacing between paragraphs. Feel free to print your paper double sided. Be sure to staple your pages together. *Include your name and group #, the course and section number, the assignment name, and the date due on the top right of your first page of text (this must be single-spaced). Do not use a title page, and do not give a title to the visual analysis assignment; for the final paper, you can add a title, centered one line below the information in the upper right. It should look like this: Jane Doe, Group 3 Arts 2150-002 Visual Analysis & Bibliography October 20, 2019 Skip a line, and then begin your visual analysis. Or, for the final paper, add your title on this line, and then skip a line to begin the paper. *If your paper fails to adhere to these formatting guidelines, it will be docked up to 10 points. *Be sure to proofread your own work. Papers that are not proofread will be docked up to 10 points. Guidelines for the style and content of your writing for all assignments: *Your paper should work from the general to the specific, not the opposite. 4 *Avoid speculation about the interpretation or the meaning of the work. *Avoid value judgments and personal statements about the work of art; maintain an analytic and scholarly distance. For this paper, it would be inappropriate for you to tell me whether you like the artwork, if and why it caught your attention, or your personal reactions to it. If you include personal comments like this, you will be docked up to 10 points. *Italicize the titles of the works of painting, photographs, prints, sculpture, etc.; *Avoid the use of contractions, slang, and colloquialisms. *Avoid passive voice verb constructions. Use active subjects and verbs. *Build strong topic sentences for each paragraph; topic sentences should implicitly indicate what the rest of the paragraph is about and move the paper (and argument) along. *Avoid referring to works of art as “pieces”. *Avoid the use of the first and second person (“I” and “you”) pronouns. *Remember: it’s=it is. The possessive form is its. *Do not plagiarize—do not use someone else’s words or ideas without proper citation (see the course syllabus for more on this). If you are found to have used a website, another publication, or another person’s words or ideas, and/or you have not cited your sources, you will be reported to the University Academic Honesty Committee. *See the course syllabus for further discussion of issues of academic honesty and the citation of sources. 2. Oral Presentation and Research Paper (due November 14) Students will prepare an oral research presentation and paper on their works of art. Students will share their sources and annotated bibliographies within their group, and can draw upon each other’s research for this second part of the project. A. The oral research presentations will be done in groups on November 14, with about 12 minutes per group, or 2-3 minutes per person. One member of the group will introduce the work of art to the class with a basic description and visual analysis, and the other students will each explore one way to interpret and think about the work of art: through a deeper analysis of formal or stylistic qualities; iconography or content/meaning; artistic, social, and cultural contexts; gender issues; and other interpretative models that you find in your research. Students should avoid overlap of information presented within their group’s presentations, so be sure to coordinate. B. You will also prepare a research paper that elaborates on your own analysis and interpretation of the work of art, drawing upon what you have learned from your sources; for this you are expected to go beyond what you presented orally and beyond information in the two sources you initially found for your annotated bibliography (so definitely use the sources your groupmates have found). The research paper will be about 3-4 full pages, or 800-1000 words, with citations done in Chicago Manual of Style format for the Humanities. The research paper is due the same day as the presentations, November 14. After introducing and describing the work of art, the paper will discuss the information you have found in scholarly or critical sources: very briefly summarize the sources, characterize the information and analysis they provide, and discuss the ideas in the sources in relation to one another and your work art. The paper should demonstrate your thorough understanding of the key questions and issues presented the sources as they relate to your image/object. You will develop an argument, or thesis statement, about the work of art and the information provided in the sources. *Your introductory paragraph will identify your work of art by artist, title, date, and medium and describe its general subject matter and composition, and give a brief overview of what your sources say about the work of art, artist, and/or contexts. Your argument/thesis statement should be clearly stated at the end of this opening paragraph. *Your thesis statement will be based on what you have observed in the work and what you have read about your work, and its artist, style, subject, technique, and/or contexts. It can relate to how your work fits in with other works by the same artist or by contemporary artists, the traditions it builds upon or breaks down, the big themes 5 that scholars discuss about the work, different interpretations or contextualizations of the work by scholars and critics, and so on. Whatever your argument is, you need to base it on the evidence you have: the work of art itself and the sources you have read. Often one composes the thesis statement after much of the paper is written, as one needs time to think about the argument. *Your next paragraph or two will provide a brief description of your work of art’s form and composition, subject matter, etc., which can be a revised and condensed version of your visual analysis paper. Be sure to address any feedback you received on the visual analysis assignment as you revise it for this paper, and integrate any new observations and insights that you have now, after further looking and thinking about your work and reading through all your sources. This description must be shorter than the one you wrote for the visual analysis paper so you have plenty of space for the analysis of your sources. *Your next few paragraphs will discuss the ideas in your sources. Here, be sure to concentrate on analyzing and comparing the information in your sources and identifying the big themes that emerge about your work and/or artist. Consider whether the authors/sources provide biographical, formal (compositional), iconographical, social, and/or cultural information on your work or artist, and try to group together sources that have similar approaches and be sure to identify those approaches. Most sources will engage in more than one of these categories of analysis, so think about how best to organize the material. Be sure to note whether the source is an exhibition catalogue, a journal article, a book, an exhibition review, etc.; you can group similar types of sources together, too. In any case, consider: What kinds of ideas or issues do the authors emphasize? What insights do the sources bring to your work of art? What types of evidence or source material do the scholars and/or critics engage with in their articles/books? *Your conclusion will sum up the major ideas you have presented in the paper, and put your work of art into a larger artistic and/or historical context and offer an interpretation of it, as your sources and observations allow. This should coincide with and wrap your thesis. Do not just repeat information here, offer a nuanced conclusion. You will be allowed only two short (no more than one line) quotes in your paper, so if you want to quote something, choose carefully. A quote from an artist or an important critic or scholar would be fine, but make sure it is something that is so important and well-phrased that paraphrasing would do it an injustice. **Attach a correctly formatted and updated bibliography of all the sources your have used to the end of your paper, along with an image of your work, labeled with artist, title, date. Note that the endnotes and bibliography do not count toward the 3-4 page/800-1000-word count requirement. Staple your graded visual analysis paper and annotated bibliography (and the rubrics used to grade them) to the back of your Research Paper. Part of your grade on this assignment will concern how well you have responded to feedback and revised material from the previous assignment. Citation of sources Any ideas that are not your own, including all quotes, must be properly attributed to their source. So, if you paraphrase or summarize a source, it needs an endnote citation. Information that is considered “common knowledge” does not need a citation. Every quotation must have a citation at the end of the quoted material. If you use a source or two for an entire paragraph, and you have no quotes, you can choose to cite it when you first use the material, or at the end. Citations must be in endnote (not footnote) format and follow the current edition of the Chicago Manual of Style/Turabian for the humanities, the standard format for the field of art history. Note that endnote formatting (which you will use in your final paper) is different from bibliographic formatting. Endnotes must refer to the specific pages where the information you are using is located. The list of endnotes will start directly after your conclusion; switch to single-spacing, skip two lines, and then put a heading labeled, “Endnotes.” You will indicate in your text the endnote with a superscript number.1 Do not use letters or Roman numerals for endnotes: use Arabic numerals, and number your notes consecutively.2 The easiest way to make an endnote in Word is to click on Insert, then Footnote, select Endnote, choose format as 1, 2, 3, and 6 hit Insert. 3 The first line of each entry should be indented; subsequent lines are not indented (as in paragraph formatting). 4 Numbers run consecutively and names appear with first name first in the endnotes. Single space within the citation, double space between notes.5 Example: End of your conclusion. End of your conclusion. End of your conclusion.... Endnotes 1. Peter Jones, “Vermeer’s late genre paintings,” Art History 45, no. 1 (2007), 147-48. (Note here that this is not the full page run of the article, just the pages that have the information used.) 2. Smith, Jane, “A new document regarding Bernini’s Baldacchino,” in Insights into Italian Baroque Art, ed. Peter Jones and John Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 46-47. Jane Smith revisits, and revises, John Smith’s argument in her article. 3. Jones, 152. (Once the source is cited once in your footnotes, you can refer to it by the last name of the author.) 4. Jane Smith, 49-51. (Note here that Jane Smith’s full name is used, because there is another source whose author had a last name of Smith.) 5. Jennifer Smith, Sculpture in late Seventeenth Century France (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), 133-39; see also Jones, 157, for an alternate dating.