Humanities Homework Help

Grossmont College Bishapur and Ctesiphon Description Discussion

 

I’m working on a design question and need guidance to help me learn.

    1. Just like last week, you’ll need to write a paragraph that describes the lines, colors, shapes, patterns, light, contrast, perspective, scale, etc., in as much detail as possible to give your reader a good idea of the overall visual composition. Help your reader picture this work in their mind as accurately as possible.
  1. Explain the presence of these specific visual elements and/or stylistic features of the artwork with regard to its historical, cultural, political, and religious context in a second, detailed paragraph.
    1. Help the reader understand why the work looks the way it does based upon where and when it was made, who it was for, and who would have seen it.
    2. Consider and explain how you think the context of the work helped enhance the narrative quality as well, which basically means, how was this artwork able to tell a particular story or convey a specific message or theme about its subject because of where it would have been seen and who would have seen it originally.
  2. Provide a final, brief reflection (just a couple of sentences) on how you think understanding the context of an artwork enhances your experience of it as a viewer.
    1. This reflection can apply to images and artworks you see in your everyday life as well as the ones we have seen in our course so far.