Assignment one
Familiarize yourselves with chapters 1 (“Living With Art”) and 2 (“What is Art?”) in Mark Getlein’s “Living With Art”

Do not quote from the book,each question will be answer in one paragraph.

These questions they’re meant to NOT be answered from your reading.

They’re meant to get you to realize that you guys know a lot more about art than you think you do.

Think of them as brief opinion pieces, not research papers. I just want your thoughts on these various topics.

Question of the Day #1: “Can you understand a work of art’s meaning just by looking at it?” (Or do you need authoritative opinions of critics and professors and other art world people?)

Question of the Day #2: “What is the relationship between why an artist made something and what that work means to the rest of us?” (This will help you differentiate what a work of art means to an artist and what it means to the person that looks at it.)

Question #3. Analyze this picture in your own words.
Let’s Take a Walk: Henri Matisse, “The Piano Lesson,” 1916. (This will help you analyze a work of art using nothing but your eyes and life experiences.)

I will uploaded chapters for you.