Art History

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What is the Journal Entry?

For your journal entries each week, you will reflect on and further explore some of the topics discussed throughout the course. Below you will find prompts to help guide this week’s journal entries. Use the prompts to think more deeply about your connections with art and how you relate to subjects we cover in art history. These will be visible to the rest of your classmates, so check out others’ responses, see if you find new perspectives or similar thoughts to your own, and connect!

Please Cite Your Sources

In the course, we will use APA-style formatting for citing sources of information or images. 

Please see the attached style guide below (bottom of page) if you need additional information about the APA format.

Below are two online resources for APA style information:

Purdue Writing Lab website

Citation Machine

Second posts/ Self Reflection: 

Your second post is a further self-reflection by answering the second prompt below titled "Self Reflection." To do this, you will post your reflection as a reply to your first post. 


Note about responding to other posts:

Responding to other students’ posts is not a requirement for your grade, but participating in the discussion is encouraged. It is a great time to interact and discuss topics with other students.

Developing Your Eye

Consider:

Before you begin on your journal entries this week, review the History of Photographyvideos included in Lesson 3.3.

As part of your journal this week, consider how you compose images. You may also want to review Chapters 9 and 22.4 of your text. 

You will take three photos and post them in your Journal Discussion for this week. Each photo should be an example of one of the elements of art, design principles, or compositional tools listed on the chart below. Identify which element, principle, or tool each represents.

You will be taking photographs, but these same elements, principles, and tools are also used for video/film, page layouts, advertisements, web design, painting, drawing, and even music.

    Journal Prompt (First post):

    Now, let’s take some photos!

    1. Take your three photos using one of the key compositional tools listed on the chart. You will use one of these compositional tools for each photo.

    NOTE: You are to take your own photos for these. Do not use stock or images from the web. They do not need to be perfect photos, they just need to illustrate the concept/ term. If you want to work on taking beautiful photos, that is great too!


    Rule of Thirds Linear Perspective Balance 
    Golden Ration Atmospheric Perspective Symmetry
    Unity Variety Contrast
    Monochromatic Color Saturated Color Complementary Color
    Pattern  Repetition

    You may upload your photos as a jpg or png file for this part. 

    2. Identify which element, principle, or tool you used for each of your three photos. You may label each image with this information. You will have three images with three identified terms when complete. 

    For example: "Image #1- Rule of Thirds." Image #2-Pattern Image #3- Saturated Color" 

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Journal Self Reflection (Second post)

    1. How do you think photography as an art form has impacted the world today? How has photography impacted the industry of your Full Sail degree program?

    Think of examples that we discussed this week or from your eBook. 

    Please answer this question as a response to your first post with a minimum of two sentences.