choose ONE work of art (a painting, sculpture, photograph, performance, building, video, etc.) and write about it. Your subject should be something that you can research and that has preferably been touched upon during the course of the semester, either in lecture or in the textbook. Your paper will begin with a description of the work of art (if you can see it in person, all the better!), then you will discuss the work in the context of the life of the artist and the time period in which the artist lived. For example, you might choose Jackson Pollock’s œFull Fathom Five, and you would perhaps want to write about the style he developed (gestural abstraction/action painting), why this was important in the history of art, how America was doing after WWII, the artist’s interest in jazz music, etc.