Worksheet 6 - Asheville Art Museum

WORKSHEET #6, Asheville Art Museum

PAPER #2

DUE: October 27, 1998

Note: Many of these questions should be answered on your visit to the museum. You will need to take this worksheet on your tour of the Asheville Art Museum and complete questions 1-4 in the museum. Special tickets to the Asheville Art Museum are available to UNCA students for $1.00 should you wish to go back to the museum. You may purchase these tickets 10am – 4pm, Monday – Friday in HC #27.

1. List four artists in the exhibition “The City: Urban Visions 1900-1940” who are included in the “Ashcan School”.

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2. Use the remainder of this page (2-3 paragraphs) to write a critical analysis of a painting chosen from “The City: Urban Visions 1900-1940” exhibit. Your analysis should include the name of the artist, the title of the work, the date, a brief description of the work and your critical response to the work. Your critical response may include a comparison to another work of art, a response to the work as it relates to Asheville, the content of the course, the social, historical period in which the work was created, etc. Your critical analysis should help the viewer to understand the work or to bring new insights to light for the viewer. (Use the back of the sheet, if necessary.)

3. Which of the portraits in the exhibit “Beyond Likeness” were your favorites. Name 3 and describe what you liked about the portrait. (Remember to give the name of the artist, if known)

4. What did you find personally interesting in the curator’s tour and remarks regarding the exhibitions in the Asheville Art Museum? Or not?

Were you stimulated to want to know more about some aspect of the art in the museum? If so, what? If you were not stimulated by what you saw or by the curator’s remarks, why not? What were your expectations?

5. In your view, what is the difference between an art object and an artifact (like those seen at the Vance Homeplace)? What implications do these distinctions have for museum exhibitions today? You may choose to compare museums. (2-3 paragraphs. Use the back of the page if necessary)

6. Museum exhibits are not neutral. What social concerns are reflected in the exhibit “The City: Urban Vision 1900-1940”? What biases?

Which of these social concerns, in your view, also concern the city of Asheville?

7. In your view, what is/should be the role of the museum in the cultural life of a city?

8. Locate and explore three Web sites for American art museums. Give the Web URL for the site, the museum name and briefly comment on the site (for example, does it provide access to images of its collections?)

1. URL_______________________________NAME______________________________

Comments:

2. URL________________________________NAME_____________________________

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3. URL________________________________NAME_____________________________

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9. Locate two periodical articles about Robert Duncanson. Cite, using MLA format.

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Do we have this periodical/s in Ramsey library? _____________________

How would you locate these articles for your use? Explain.

10. Paper #2 - Robert Duncanson and artists of “The City” exhibit

Compare Robert Duncanson’s urban vision with that seen in the paintings in the exhibit “The City: Urban Visions 1900-1940”? Is Duncanson’s painting an example of social realism? If so why? If not, why? Suggestion: You may choose to limit your comparison to specific works in the exhibit or focus on the issue of the social realist versus the romantic. What were the sources of Duncanson’s frame of mind, in other words, what historical and social elements were at work during the time he was painting? (1 page)