Future Art Historian

Textbook: Gardner’sArtthroughtheAges:Non-Western Perspectives by Fred S. Kleiner, 13th Edition,
Instructions provided below

Future Art Historian
• In this assignment, imagine that you are an art historian investigating the art and architecture of your city. The year is 4020, at least 2000 years from now. In at least 1 page, describe what art, architecture and cultural items would you find and why? What would you not find and why? Based on your findings, how would you assess the culture of our civilization?
• Include at least 3 images. To embed images, use “image icon” not paper clip. These images can be taken from your own collection of photos of spaces you’ve been to or by taking screenshots from the pedestrian view on google maps. Please do not include other people’s images found online.
• Apply the “Questions Art Historians Ask” and the Art Vocabulary from pg. 1-7 in your response, as well as reasons art survives or not, from Week 1 Lectures.

Art vocabulary
Definitions of these terms are widely available. Many appear in the Introduction, chapters and Glossary of the Textbook.
Art History Terms
Defined in the Introduction
Chronology
Period Style
Iconography
Symbols
Attribution
Patron (who paid for it?)

Themes of Art
What is the artwork about? What is its role in its culture?
Sacred
Political
Stories (historical, myths, etc.)
Daily life
Fantasy
Nature
Art from Art

Visual Elements
The elements we perceive in a visual work of art: what we see
Form
Content (or Motif)
Context (or setting)
Composition
Materials
Medium
Line
Contour and outline
Direction and Movement
Color
Value
Hue
Light and shade
Texture
Pattern
Space, Mass and Volume
Carving and Casting
Relief sculpture
Architectural drawings
Space
Linear perspective
Atmospheric perspective
Isometric perspective
Foreshortening
Overlapping
Representational or naturalistic
Abstract
Nonrepresentational or nonobjective

Principles of Design
How all the Visual elements are arranged, also known as the composition
Unity
Variety
Balance:
Symmetrical balance
Asymmetrical balance
Emphasis
Proportion
Scale
Hierarchical scale
Rhythm