Visit a virtual museum or an art gallery, and write a 750-word reflective essay on your experience. Pick 3 works of art to analyze them in more detail, and discuss looking at these works within a virtual gallery context, along with the overall experience of your visit. This is less an academic research essay, but more on your personal take on looking at artworks and their display, in conjunction with the historical contexts and methods of analysis we have been learning in class.
In writing this essay, some questions to ask are:
-How does the virtual tour environment (format, speed, interactivity, media/video, zoom, etc) change the way you look at a work of art?
-How does the museum or gallery give visitors information about works of art? Do you think the institution’s goals and the message it wants to convey have on impact on what the museum or gallery has written about the works of art?
-Does the meaning of an artwork change in your virtual visit because of the framing and the context of the exhibition you’re viewing online?
-How did they arrange/order the works of art together? Does the arrangement/order of works change the way you look at a work of art; for instance, with the contrasting or complementary aspect of one work that’s placed next to another?
Rubric for the Essay
1. Analyzes at least three artworks in detail: The essay provides a visual analysis of at least three works in the exhibition, with a description and the resulting personal and/or historical interpretation for the work in relation to some of the questions to address in the prompt.
2. Structure: The essay has a clear structure, with an introduction, conclusion, and body paragraphs divided into themes.
3. Introduction: The essay has a clear introduction setting the expectations of the reader for what they are about to achieve with the proceeding paragraphs.
4. Conclusion: The essay has a clear conclusion summarizing the descriptions and arguments put forward in the body paragraphs, and relating it back to the aim as described in the introduction.
5. Cohesiveness: The essay has a clear overall aim, and each of the paragraphs, when put together into a whole, paints a clear picture of the overall narrative.
6. Length: The essay approximately conforms to the essay word limit as indicated in the prompt.
7. Grammar and spelling: The essay uses correct grammar and spelling, indicating that it was edited carefully to avoid errors
