Category: Art

What, if any, cultural traditions or artworks from your background or heritage do you believe should be preserved and why?

Video Kayla Briët

Watch the video Kayla Briët: Why do Make Art? To Build Time Capsules for My HeritageLinks to an external site., and answer the following questions:

Kayla Briët speaks about a variety of cultural traditions not necessarily associated with fine arts. Why then is it important to preserve these traditions?
How are these traditions or artforms a reflection of the culture?
What, if any, cultural traditions or artworks from your background or heritage do you believe should be preserved and why?
Answers should appear in paragraph format with a minimum of 500 words and include APA citation.

 Select three works of art in either painting, sculpture, or architecture, that best describe these religious developments in the 1200s and 1300s.

Write a 1750+ word essay on ONE of the following two topics. While the first paper was on style, this paper is on the function of art for the viewer, and how art was used to teach people religious stories.

Select three works of art in either painting, sculpture, or architecture, that best describe these religious developments in the 1200s and 1300s.

What are your thoughts about the work?Do you like or dislike the work? Why or why not? Are there any spiritual aspects to the work? Does the work evoke any feeling or emotion in the viewer? Does the work stimulate your intellect? What are the strengths/weaknesses of the artists’ body of work?

What art movement is the artist associated with? Describe the tenets that define that particular art movement.

What do art historians, art professionals and/or art critics say about your chosen artist and their body of work?

What are your thoughts about the work?

Do you like or dislike the work? Why or why not? Are there any spiritual aspects to the work? Does the work evoke any feeling or emotion in the viewer? Does the work stimulate your intellect? What are the strengths/weaknesses of the artists’ body of work?

 What religious rites and rituals were performed with regard to this structure (again,for Stonehenge, what was theorized?)

What religious function did each structure serve? Be sure to include a brief
discussion of each culture’s religious beliefs (with Stonehenge, what is theorized) that support your assessment.

What religious rites and rituals were performed with regard to this structure (again,for Stonehenge, what was theorized?)

How was the structure used in relation to religious belief?

Briefly, how did the architectural elements you discussed in Section 1 reinforce the religious belief system embodied by the structure?

Describe how each structure played a role in society beyond a religious purpose.

Discuss and elaborate on the following points of similarity between these two structures

After considering the similarities, briefly discuss what the differences are
between the two structures. What do the differences tell us about these two
cultures?

What does the comparative analysis you just performed in this essay help YOU determine about what was important to each respective culture and how can we find parallels to our culture today?

What is therapeutic jurisprudence? What value does this approach have for the administration of justice within settler-colonies? Do you think the Koori Court might be considered a practising example of therapeutic jurisprudence?

Research Essay

Answer one of the following essay questions:

What is therapeutic jurisprudence? What value does this approach have for the administration of justice within settler-colonies? Do you think the Koori Court might be considered a practising example of therapeutic jurisprudence?

How do discourses of race and racism influence the quality and access to justice for Indigenous Australians?

Discuss the role Indigenous interpreters in the administration of justice. Why are interpreters necessary functionaries in the administration of justice for many Indigenous Australians? Why do you think access to interpreters has historically been restricted in many settings in Australia, and to what effect?

The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody emphasised the social, cultural and legal issues underlying the incarceration rates and deaths of Aboriginal people in custody. Why was a Commissioner specifically appointed to oversee social issues (Commissioner Dodson, Western Australia)?

The imprisonment rates of Aboriginal people have continued to rise, despite the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody’s final recommendation of “imprisonment as a last resort”. Discuss the impact of policing on Aboriginal people. For this question students will need to examine how over-policing and under-policing impact on these rates, the significance of policing culture and so on.

What kind of truth does each work try to achieve? What methods is each artist using to create this kind of truth? How do these methods differ from each other?

The Truth of Art

Aaron Douglas’s style “is the result of a deep-rooted belief that in trying to imitate the actual world, art-as-likeness was really falsifying the way we see that world.” Although all art is a form of imitation—whether of the actual or the imaginary world—Douglas’s belief highlights the way artists have used conflicting methods of getting to the “truth” of the world. Choose one image from early “realistic” methods of artistic representation and one image from later “art of alteration” and analyze the following:

What kind of truth does each work try to achieve? What methods is each artist using to create this kind of truth? How do these methods differ from each other?

Did the work transform space in new or unexpected ways? Does it provide social commentary, or suggest a break with conventional approaches to art and/or art-making?

Nam June Paik

For example, consider how your example affected your understanding of Video Art (and perhaps of New Media more broadly). Does it give you a new appreciation of how artists can use video to encourage viewer participation and interaction?

Did the work transform space in new or unexpected ways? Does it provide social commentary, or suggest a break with conventional approaches to art and/or art-making?

Give the reader a sense of what you think the work of art is about and what the effect of the use of video has on the viewer?

You might think about why the artist chose video. How would the work be different in another medium?