Unless your instructor specifies otherwise, choose ONE of the following question

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Unless your instructor specifies otherwise, choose ONE of the following questions, and give a substantive response to at least two other students. OPTION 1: DESCRIBE AND DISCUSS A FAVORITE WORK 1. Describe a favorite work of visual art and include a picture of it in your post. Your selection may come from the entire range of visual arts, anything from a famous painting in a museum to an iconic architectural masterpiece to a handmade basket seen the actual work of art, rather than a photo or online image. maker or designer. What year is it from? Where is it located? What was its or an especially well-designed object. The only restriction is that you need to have 2. Describe the medium it represents within the scope of visual arts. Tell us about its intended function? What is its significance to you? 3. Does this particular piece help you understand something about reality or is it intended to be more of an illusion, like a shadow on the wall of the cave as in the Allegory of the Cave we looked at last week? 4. Use at least two of the vocabulary, concepts or techniques you or any of your classmates posted in Discussion 2.1. to say something more about this piece of art. OPTION 2: SCAVENGER HUNT 1. Choose a theory of visual art described in this week's Learning Resource titled "A historical overview of ideas guiding the visual arts in the Western world: from Plato to the present day

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1. For this exercise I would like to discuss one of my favourite artist, Vincent Van Gogh’s painting that I had come across on my visit to the Amsterdam museum. The painting is titled “ the potato eaters” in which the Dutch artist has depicted a group of poor, hungry workers gathered around a dinner table to share their meal of boiled potatoes . The painting has been done on canvas using oil paints as the medium. Like the other Van Gogh paintings, the style of the painting is highly expressionist using thick and strong brushstrokes to depict the country scene of squalor and humility where the sadnesses and discredited on the faces of the hard working labourers appears too obviously and explicitly against the otherwise the background of a dimly lit room. The subtle play of light and dark regions on the canvas further elucidate the mood and the social context of the people and the artist’s persona itself. For me, the ‘Potato Eaters’ brings about the essence of the expressionist school of art and the socio-historical factors which led to its emergence.

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