Art Appreciation Journal

Pick 5 different work of art from the list of website below and interpret them. Please use a different link for each work, 200 words per, and cite it. The last piece needs to be roughly 250 words.

• Art and artists | Tate (http://www.tate.org.uk/art)
• Art Institute of Chicago (http://www.artic.edu/)
• Art Renewal Center Artist Index (http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artistindex.php)
• The Frick Collection ( http://www.frick.org/art)
• Google Art Project (http://www.googleartproject.com/)
• Guggenheim (http://www.guggenheim.org/)
• Louvre Museum Official Website (http://www.louvre.fr/en)
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art (http://www.metmuseum.org)
• MoMA | The Museum of Modern Art (https://www.moma.org/collection/)
• National Gallery of Art(https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings
• The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (https://www.sfmoma.org/artists-artworks/
• SIRIS – Smithsonian Institute Research Information System (https://sirismm.si.edu/siris/ariquickstart.htm)
• Smithsonian Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York (http://www.cooperhewitt.org/)
• The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/)
• Uffizi, Uffizi gallery, Florence (http://www.uffizi.com/)
• Vatican Museums – Official web site (http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/MV_Home.html)
• Victoria & Albert Museum (http://www.vam.ac.uk/)
• Web Gallery of Art (http://www.wga.hu/)
• WebMuseum: Famous Artworks exhibition (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/)
• Whitney Museum of American Art (http://whitney.org/)

Explore a museum from the list of museum and digital image resources above. Select a work of art that particularly
interests you. In your analysis, taking care to cite the textbook or any other source of
information that you use in your journal. Contemplate the work of art, and discuss your interpretation of the art
based on the characteristics of the corresponding movement in your art
journal entry. Pay close attention to style, media (materials), methods,
subjects, and any other details that make this work significant, using
appropriate art terminology and taking care to correctly cite
information that you use from the textbook or any other source. Be sure
to include your personal reaction to the work of art and an image of the
work. Include an image of the work of art you have chosen in your
journal.