IMPORTANT COURSE INFORMATION
If you are taking your first online course don’t panic, within a very short time you’ll understand how everything works.
When you go to WAOL:
FIRST
Go to the COURSE INFORMATION folder on Blackboard (BB) & read EVERYTHING inside.
SECOND
Check out the Discussion Board (DB) now! ALL assignments for the term are listed on the DB.
EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE INSTRUCTOR
EMAILS TO ME MUST HAVE THE FOLLOWING ON THE SUBJECT LINE OF YOUR EMAIL.
Email subject line:
OC (Art History) Your FULL Name
LOOKING AT ART
- Throughout the term, remember that although the majority of artists mentioned in Western Art History textbooks were white European males, there were women & non-white males producing excellent art, too. If you look at old art history textbooks from the 1960’s & before, you’d think that ALL artists were white European males, if that was your only resource. They excluded everyone else. Thankfully, things have changed. When researching the topics, try & remember this & seek out those overlooked in the past.
- NOTICE THE ACTUAL SIZE OF THE ARTWORK YOU ARE VIEWING IN THE TEXTBOOK OR ONLINE & TRY TO ENVISION IT AS IT REALLY IS. The true size is usually stated below the illustration. You may be looking at a little postcard size image, when in actuality the work is 12 x 28 FEET in size. Your response to it would certainly be different!
- WHERE the work you are researching now? If a painting or sculpture was once part of a group setting, remember that you are looking at it as an object in a museum setting instead of in its original one. A good example of this would be an altarpiece removed from its original space & now displayed in a museum, often without the other objects it was designed to be part of.