Describe the movement/period, making sure to include the characteristics of the art during this time, new skills or techniques used during this time, and discuss the main themes and/or reasons for this movement.

Assignment Question

Historical Presentation: How History Impacts Art Objectives: Combine new art knowledge and historical information to create a presentation. Compile artworks that demonstrate a historical shift. Theorize why the art shift occurred at a chosen historical moment. In this activity, you will choose and research a period or movement. In the research, you will describe characteristics of the period/movement, list any major historical events during that time, highlight major artists and pieces of art important to the period/movement, and theorize on how the art and the historical events during that period connect.

STEP ONE: Choose a piece of art from one of the following that we learned about: Byzantine Art Medieval Art Renaissance Art Rococo Art Romantic Art Realism Impressionism Post Impressionism Postmodern/Contemporary

STEP TWO : Make a presentation on Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoint using the format below. Here is a premade template following the format. Feel free to use the template, but you will need to click on the link and it will allow you to make a forced copy of the template to save to your drive: History and Art Presentation and Discussion OR you can use this Microsoft PowerPoint Template as well.

SLIDE 1 – Title Slide-Include the Name of the Period Movement, an image, and your name

SLIDE 2 – Describe the movement/period, making sure to include the characteristics of the art during this time, new skills or techniques used during this time, and discuss the main themes and/or reasons for this movement.

SLIDE 3 – Artists and their work from the period/movement make sure you include why the artists and artwork is important to the period/movement. You should include your discussion, images of the artwork, and, hopefully, an image of the artist. Make sure to cite your sources.

SLIDE 4 – Artists and their work from the period/movement make sure you include why the artists and artwork is important to the period/movement. You should include your discussion, images of the artwork, and, hopefully, an image of the artist. Make sure to cite your sources.

SLIDE 5 – (optional) – Artists and their work from the period/movement make sure you include why the artists and artwork is important to the period/movement. You should include your discussion, images of the artwork, and, hopefully, an image of the artist. Make sure to cite your sources.

SLIDE 6 – Research major historical events during the time period of the artists you used. List 3-5 events in chronological order on this slide.

SLIDE 7- Theorize the artwork’s connection to history. Why do you think artists may have created the work they did after witnessing the historical events? What impact do you think the art may have had? There is no wrong answer to this, as long as you really try to connect a piece of art to a historical event. Please include an image of the artwork along with your theory. Remember to cite your sources. SLIDE 8- Please include any citations for where you found your information for each slide.

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