Landscape, Nature and Art Assessment Overview

Writing about Art What do you see? What are you looking at? What do you think? What do you feel? And why? What makes you think and feel this way? 20% Writing Assignment 1: Response to the work on art on the next slide (300 words, typed) Start now Due: tomorrow after the lecture (2014–10-09)

4 Pleasures of the Imagination: Connoisseur (1986) Karen Knorr (German-born US American, b. 1954) Cibachrome print, 115 x 115 cm Interim Art, London (UK)

Assignment: Lexicon (dictionary, book or list of words) Word or phrase Definition 3 sample sentences 20% Example Word: Wilderness (noun) Definition an uncultivated, uninhabited, and inhospitable region a neglected or abandoned area Sample Sentences: The garden has turned into a wilderness of weeds. Romantic artists were fascinated by the wilderness. The American wilderness is disappearing.

Assignment: 15-minute Group Presentation (PowerPoint) involving research on a given theme Detailed instructions given on Oct. 15 Due during final group seminars, Oct. 22 Themes Town and Country Taste and Feeling Soil and Spirit Civilization and Wilderness Picture and Process Documentation and Preservation Elitism and Consumerism Habitat and Environment 20%