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Notes to your selfie post.
Part 1: (answer to everything in part should be 125 words)
Read the Plato/Descartes PDF. Follow the steps and links and post your notes and/or a picture of the marked-up text here.Top of Form
Part 2: (answer to everything in this part should be 125 words)
Do the ‘favorite selfie’ task and study the examples listed & linked below:
- Favorite selfie task: pick your favorite selfie/photo of you or take one of yourself (think about background, clothes, posture, facial expression, objects you might hold…) Post it under Discussions with one sentence about it: This is so me because…. (please complete). (I will do this one prof. Alister, so ignore it)
- Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (video)
- Michelangelo’s David: 1. video (do your own image search if you want to look at specific details) and 2. text (look up any words you don’t know)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (novel by Oscar Wilde, here the film trailer from 2009 for a a glimpse at the idea: his portrait ages instead of his body)
Take some notes about the artworks relation to Forms/Ideas, life, and ‘reality.’ What makes them art? How ‘real’ are they? What do they tell us about the figure they depict? Can a representation capture ‘reality’? Add these notes to your selfie post.
Part 1: (answer to everything in part should be 125 words)
Read the Plato/Descartes PDF. Follow the steps and links and post your notes and/or a picture of the marked-up text here. (gethelp)
Part 2: (answer to everything in this part should be 125 words)
Do the ‘favorite selfie’ task and study the examples listed & linked below:
- Favorite selfie task: pick your favorite selfie/photo of you or take one of yourself (think about background, clothes, posture, facial expression, objects you might hold…) Post it under Discussions with one sentence about it: This is so me because…. (please complete). (I will do this one prof. Alister, so ignore it)
- Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (video)
- Michelangelo’s David: 1. video (do your own image search if you want to look at specific details) and 2. text (look up any words you don’t know)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (novel by Oscar Wilde, here the film trailer from 2009 for a a glimpse at the idea: his portrait ages instead of his body)
Take some notes about the artworks relation to Forms/Ideas, life, and ‘reality.’ What makes them art? How ‘real’ are they? What do they tell us about the figure they depict? Can a representation capture ‘reality’? Add these notes to your selfie post.