ART 1100     Introduction to Visual Art and Culture 

The Human Experience through Art: Be Extraordinary!

Select an artwork that expresses a human experience you have encountered in your own life. The human experience can or will include; birth, love, loss, death, pleasure, happiness, pain, sadness, hope, values, and beliefs. Please choose a work from visual culture, painting, sculpture, architecture, design, photography, film, or music. Describe the artwork you have selected, then answer the following questions listed below in 1200+ words, and be extraordinary!

Human Experience:

1. feeling, sensation, sensibility.

2. 2. appreciation, atmosphere, awareness, consciousness, intuition, perception, sentiment.

Questions:

• What human experience does the work relate to?
• What communal, family-oriented, and cultural values does the work express?
• How is that human experience meaningful to you? How does it express itself?
• Does it contain beauty, inspiration, a sense of community, or a story that reflects your human experience?

Directions:

• Chose or Make an artwork, and reference its message
• State one’s own title (first or second paragraph).
• NO plagiarism (see syllabus for details regarding).
• Make one’s connection honest and descriptive! (try to stay on the topic).
• Answer the questions thoroughly and be creative! 

Guides:

• Title Page, with proper heading.
• ONLY Double Spacing
• Stay on topic!
• Don’t forget a finishing statement!