ASSIGNMENT UNIT ONE
Your Name Madelyn Georgette
ID Number 10930641
Your TA Emily Hood
Date 9/4/14
ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION
Like all of the assignments in this course, this one requires you to apply what you have learned
to the world in which you live. To appreciate art, you have to see it around you! Not all art is in
museums. The vast majority is out in the world.
The first unit of the course introduced you to different artistic media and the array of formal
elements and principles of design artists use to make art in these media. You will demonstrate
your mastery of course content finding works of different categories of media and displaying
the requested formal element or principle of design. You will also explain how the object
embodies the medium and formal element or principle of design. Choose your examples
carefully, as your grade depends on the quality of your selection and justification.
You may not use images from the unit (in the pdf file or the unit text).
ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
1. Use the internet to find examples of the following:
a. a two-dimensional object with real or implied lines that create the sense of
direction and movement
b. a three-dimensional object with negative space
c. a two-dimensional object with light and shadow modeling the figure through
changes in value
d. a monochromatic two-dimensional image. Explain how its composition is
organized.
e. color used to create mood in a two-dimensional object
f. a two-dimensional object with implied space via foreshortening
g. a three-dimensional example of kinetic art
h. a three-dimensional craft art with symmetrical balance
i. a two-dimensional object that has unnatural scale and proportion
j. a work of architecture that has rhythm. Identify the structural system.
2. Paste your examples into the spaces provided below. Resize, if necessary.
3. Compose your answers using a university-level, professional writing style.
4. Include relevant terms and concepts from the Terms and Concepts Worksheet for this
or previous units.
a. The assignment must correctly employ the following terms:
two-dimensional
three-dimensional
implied line
direction
movement
negative space
modeling
light and shadow
value
monochrome
composition
color
