Art Writing Assignment
I need help with a Art & Design question. All explanations and answers will be used to help me learn.
Selecting an Artwork
For your writing assignments, you will need to select an artwork to write about. The artwork
should have been made between 1945 and the present, the time period covered in this course.
You will need to confirm your artwork selection with me via the Chat function on Microsoft Teams
before proceeding to write your first writing assignment.
*Confirm artwork selection with me via Chat on Microsoft Teams by Tues, Oct 13, end of day.
First writing assignment
Your first writing assignment will be to write a one-page abstract of your paper. (In this context, an
“abstract” is a concise, written summary of the final paper that you will write.) The purpose of your
final paper will be to write an interpretative analysis of your chosen artwork, and to put it in
conversation with 1) one of the assigned readings on the course syllabus and 2) another artwork.
Your one-page abstract should provide a roadmap for what will become your final paper.
Your abstract should provide the following information to the reader: 1) what artwork you will be
analyzing in your paper, 2) a brief description of the artwork, 3) what assigned reading you will be
engaging, 4) what other work you will be comparing it to, and 5) what your working thesis about
the artwork is. The text for the abstract should be about 200–250 words in length.
You should also submit 1-3 images of your chosen artwork with your abstract.
So, to be clear, you should upload the following materials to “First Writing Assignment” under the
“Assignments” tab on Microsoft Teams:
*Upload Word doc of your first writing assignment and images via Microsoft Teams by Tues,
Oct 27, end of day.
*To see a sample abstract, scroll down to the end of this document.
