ART 100: Art Appreciation: Part III             

Remember: the Journal Assignments are due on test day for Part III and your points need to add up to 10 points.

Mandatory assignment (4 points possible): San Diego Museum of Art.

Choose from the following Journal Assignments to make up 6 points.

Exotic Stuff from Our World Village: We live with objects from all over the world. If you look around your home and identify where all of the items in your home come from, you’d probably be surprised! Make a list of objects and the countries they come from. Example: check out your kitchen for olive oil from Italy, etc. (5 different objects and countries = 1 points possible. 10 different objects and countries = 2 points possible.)

Your Ancestral Art Heritage: Where in the world did your ancestors come from? Find an object of art in your home that represents that heritage and bring in to show the class and tell us about its use and beauty. (3 point possible)

Not Your Ancestral Art Heritage: Find an object of art in your home that you particularly like that comes from somewhere else in the world (not the USA.)  Bring it in to show the class and tell us what you know about it and why you like it. (3 point possible)

Web site questions: Got to my web pages on the Cuyamaca web site, and choose from Part III, one or two questions to answer. My web pages can be reached directly at:

www.cuyamaca.net/diane.weintraub

or by going to the Cuyamaca site and following this path:

Click on Directory at the top band of the page then click on my name from the faculty list.

Once you get to my pages, click on Part III. If you choose one question/activity to do it is worth 1 point. If you choose 2 question/activity to do it is worth 2 points.

Beautiful Writing/ Calligraphy: Do you do calligraphy or would you like to try it? Copy your favorite quotation using calligraphy. You can get a calligraphy felt tip marker at Michaels, Staples, or Arron Bros. (3 point possible)

Useful as Well as Beautiful?: Can a useful object be beautiful as well? Are most of the objects in our lives both useful as well as beautiful? Write a short essay of 100 words to state your opinion on this thought.  (1 point possible)

Pottery Cities of China: The pottery cities in China of the Ming Dynasty are legendary in the perfection and beauty of the items produced. Research and write an essay of 100 words on them and tell what you find interesting about how they produced pottery. (1 point possible)

Clay Pinch Pot: Around the world one of the oldest ways of making small clay objects id simply to grab a small lump of clay and pinch it into a pot shape. You can make one too! Go to Michaels or any craft store to find some clay. (2 points possible) Paint it with a geometric or other decoration. (3 points possible)

Include this page with your Journal and please check off the assignments you have chosen to do.