Class Assignment Schedule Art Appreciation
Art Appreciation—ART 1309-001 Stinespring Resume
Dr. Stinespring
Spring 2001
Monday/Wednesday/Friday, 9:00-9:50, Architecture 1
Wed. Jan. 10: Introduction
Assignment for next time: Purchase textbooks and course guide.
Fri. Jan. 12: Review of syllabus and course requirements. Class discussion—what is "art"?
Assignment for next time: Write a short paper (See instructions) describing what you think art is.
Mon. Jan. 15: Martin Luther King Day—no classes.
Wed. Jan 17: Featured artwork lecture; *Short paper on what is art due.
Assignment for next time: Read Grieder, pp. 14-30. Prepare to discuss—who are the people in the artworld and how did they get their authority to be in the artworld?
Fri. Jan 19: Featured artwork lecture; Discuss Grieder reading (14-30).
Assignment for next time: Read "Introduction" by Steve Edwards in Art and its Histories (1999), (reading in the syllabus pp. 2-15). Prepare to discuss what the "canon" is and how it got to be.
Mon. Jan. 22: Featured artwork lecture; Discussion of the canon. How can we know what is "good" in art"?
Assignment for next time: Read Grieder, pp. 30-42.
Wed. Jan. 24: Maya Lin video (c. 40 mins.); Discussion: What is the function of public art?.
Assignment for next time: Read Grieder, pp. 43-59.
Fri. Jan. 26: Featured artwork lecture; Discussion on interpreting art.
Assignment for next time: Read Grieder, pp. 59-73.
Mon. Jan. 29: More considerations of approaches to meaning in art..
Assignment for next time: Read Grieder, pp. 77-91. Elements of art.
Wed. Jan 31: Discussion of design, modernism, elements of art.
Assignment for next time: Read Grieder, pp. 92-114. Color, etc.
Fri. Feb. 2: Discussion of color theory.
Assignment for next time: Read Grieder, pp. 115-143. Principles of art.
Mon. Feb. 5: Presentation on principles of art
Assignment for next time: Study for Midterm Exam.
Wed. Feb. 7: Review for Midterm Exam. Prepare to present mini media/techniques report (Using Grieder, pp. 147-315). Each student assigned one medium or technique.
Assignment for next time: Study for Midterm Exam.
Fri. Feb. 9: Midterm Exam
Assignment for next time: Prepare mini media/technique reports.
Mon. Feb. 12: Instructions to prepare visit to Texas Tech Museum (4th and Indiana; opens at 10:00 a.m.) to write up museum report using the Feldman/Mittler method.
Assignment for next time: Prepare to visit Tech Museum; Mini Media/techniques report work.
Wed. Feb. 14: Day off to visit Texas Tech Museum and prepare Feldman/Mittler critique in writing.
Assignment for next time: Visit Tech Museum and write Feldman/Mittler museum criticism.Prepare mini media/technique reports.
Fri. Feb. 16: *Museum report due. Discuss museum experience. Assign topics for major artist research paper (see instructions).
Assignment for next time: Work on research paper on major artist. Write research paper outline. Read Grieder Ch. 10; Prepare mini media/technique reports.
Mon. Feb. 19: Discuss Ch. 10; Mini media/technique reports.
Assignment for next time: Work on research paper on major artist. Read Leakey article in syllabus.
Wed. Feb. 21: Discuss Leakey article; Mini media/technique reports.
Assignment for next time: Work on research paper on major artist; Read Grieder Ch. 11.
Fri. Feb. 23: Discuss Ch. 11; Mini media/technique reports.
Assignment for next time: Prepare mini avant-garde artist reports; Read Grieder Ch. 12; Continue research paper work.
Mon. Feb. 26: Discuss Ch. 12; Mini media/technique reports.
Assignment for next time: Work on research paper; Read Grieder Ch. 13.
Wed. Feb. 28: Discuss Ch. 13; Mini media/technique reports.
Assignment for next time: Work on research paper.
Fri. Mar. 2: Tour of School of Art studio facilities.
Assignment for next time: Work on research paper.
Mon. Mar. 5: Practicing artist presentation.
Assignment for next time: Work on research paper.
Wed. Mar. 7: *Research paper outline with thesis statement due.
Assignment for next time: Work on research paper.
Fri. Mar. 9: Return of research paper outlines with explanation.
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Mar. 10-Mar. 18: Spring vacation
Mon. Mar. 19: A studio experience. Bring pencils, erasers to draw with and 4 sheets of blank paper.
Assignment for next time: Work on research paper.
Wed. Mar. 21: Learning art—lecture on the Nadia case.
Assignment for next time: Work on research paper.
Fri. Mar. 23: Research day—no class.
Assignment for next time: Research paper work.
Mon. Mar. 26: Women artists lecture.
Assignment for next time: Finish research paper.
Wed. Mar. 28: *Research paper due. Instructions and assignments of avant-garde (at the edge artists) reports.
Assignment for next time: Avant-garde report preparation.
Fri. Mar. 30: Students share information about major artists in research paper.
Assignment for next time: Avant-garde report preparation.
Mon. Apr. 2: Students share information about major artists in research paper.
Assignment for next time: Review Chapters 12 and 13.
Wed. Apr. 4: Lecture on modernism—discussion.
Assignment for next time: Avant-garde report preparation.
Fri. Apr. 6: Research paper critiques, comments, return of papers.
Assignment for next time: Avant-garde report preparation.
Mon. Apr. 9: Students share information about major artists in research paper.
Assignment for next time: Read "Introduction" in Weintraub, pp. 10-11; and, "Why Does Art Need to be Explained?" in Weintraub, pp. 12-16.
Wed. Apr. 11: Discussion of Weintraub’s ideas about the explanation of art.
Assignment for next time: Read "How is avant-garde art evaluated?" in Weintraub pp. 254-258.
Fri. Apr. 13: Discussion of Weintraub on evaluating avant-garde art.
Assignment for next time: Mini artist report preparation.
Mon. Apr. 16: No Class.
Wed. Apr. 18: Student mini reports on avant-garde artists.
Assignment for next time: Mini artist report preparation.
Fri. Apr. 20: Student mini reports on avant-garde artists.
Assignment for next time: Mini artist report preparation.
Mon. Apr. 23: Student mini reports on avant-garde artists.
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Wed. Apr. 25: Student mini reports on avant-garde artists.
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Fri. Apr. 27: Final student mini reports on avant-garde artists.
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Mon. Apr. 30: Exam review. Course evaluations.
Assignment for next time: Study for final.
Friday, May 4: FINAL EXAM 4.30 to 7:00 p.m. Please do not schedule weddings, plane tickets, or any other events that might cause you to ask for a different exam date. The date is set by the university and that is the time the exam will be given. No other scheduled class conflicts with this date.