Humanities Homework Help

What is Art? Presentation

For this project your goal is to try to solve the question: What is Art? To do so you will be required to collect a series of images, cited text, links, and your own opinions. From these resources you will be required to create a presentation and document that attempts to answer the question: What is Art? This presentation must be a voice over slide show or video presentation.

Presentation Guidelines

Synopsis

To begin your presentation, briefly discuss your ideas of the question “What is Art?” You may want to answer some of the following questions (*note only choose those that are appropriate to your idea):

• What is the function of art?
• Why do artists make art?
• How does art reflect culture?
• Why does art have value?
• Why is art preserved and protected?
• How can art help in times of crisis or struggle

Images

1. Your presentation must include at least 3 different artists. *note: you may use the artist you chose for your research.
2. Each artwork must be labeled with the artist’s name, title of artwork, date, medium and dimensions of artwork.
3. Include at least two different artworks by each artist and be sure to use high resolution images.
4. The artworks you chose must have a connecting theme or idea.

Content

1. You must describe why you consider each artwork a work of art and why you chose the work.
2. What makes each work of art significant? Consider the history of the work, the message of the work, the time period it was created in, how it was made etc.

Conclusion

How have your ideas of art changed?

Presentation Requirements

1. Your presentation must include an audio recording of you discussing your presentation. This can be screen recording or a video recording . You can create a PDF, Power Point, google slides, website, or any other form that can be presented and recorded. A simple example would be to create a power point slide lecture and screen record using zoom. Videos must be posted to YouTube or Vimeo, OneDrive, Google drive, or another file sharing platform. You must provide a hyperlink to share it with the class.
2. Your recorded presentation must be no longer than 5 minutes. Avoid reading from your presentation. Explain in your own words why you have chosen the works in your presentation.
3. Your final document must contain your name, project synopsis, and the links to your presentation.

Examples of student presentations:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9_fIshTfcZA (Links to an external site.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZZZxJu6d80 (Links to an external site.)