Art Appreciation

Art Appreciation
Art 1053
Research Paper Instructions
This document is intended for clear directions of my expectations for this paper.
If you find inconsistencies, please advise me and I will clarify.
Assignment
The purpose of the research paper is to allow you to go more in depth into the
study of a specific artist and work of art and to begin to prepare you for the
formal research and writing assignments you will encounter throughout your
college experience.
You will select and work of art from the list provided at the end of this
document. The assignment is broken out into 3 stages to keep you on track
in your process and to prevent you from becoming overwhelmed at the
end of the semester.
Paper must be:
• 4- 5 pages in length (excluding title page, imagery or bibliography)
• double-spaced
• 12-point font
**The title page, images, and list of works cited DO NOT count towards
your page count.
You will use Chicago style to format your citations for this paper. This style
will be new to many students; don’t worry if this is your first experience with
it. That is why we are using it! Most of what you will need to know is in the
Research Writing Lecture at the bottom of this document.
Grade
Your paper is worth 200 points in total:
• Stage 1 is 30 points
• Stage 2 is 20 points
• Stage 3 is 150 points
**A rubric is available in the TurnItIn Submission for your review
of my expectations.
Stage 1: Topic and Annotated Bibliography
You will turn in your selected work of art and a suggested list of sources
you will use to assist you in your research. You must also write a brief
statement about each source that explains why this source will assist you in
your research and summarize the information that you will use from the
source.
• You MUST use at least five sources.
• You may only use ONE website source and it must be a site with an address
that ends in .org, .edu, .gov or another nation’s equivalent to these.
• You may NOT use Wikipedia as a source
• You may NOT use dictionaries or encyclopedias as sources in either print or
electronic form.
• You may NOT use the course textbook as source.
• The other sources must be published books or scholarly journals (see
EBSCO instructions in writing lecture).
Stage 2: Outline
Your outline is just that. An outline of what research you are presenting and
how it supports your thesis. The good news is once you have your outline, the
writing should come fairly easily because most of your research will be done.
The bad news is, you will have to have most of your research done by this
point to know what form your outline will take.
See the Research Paper Writing Lecture at the bottom of this document for
an example of what your outline should look like.
Stage 3: Final Paper
Final paper due, complete with a title page, endnotes or footnotes, works
cited list and citations for images used.
See the Research Paper Writing Lecture for examples of how to use endnotes
and footnotes and how to format your works cited list. You may also want to use
a Chicago Manual of Style for detailed instructions on proper formatting. You
can find these in the library.
Topics to choose from for research paper:
Eugene Delacroix. Liberty Leading the People. 1830.
Rafael. The School of Athens. 1509.
Edgar Degas. L’etoile. 1878.
Jackson Pollock. Lucifer. 1947.
Hieronymous Bosch. The Garden of Earthly Delights. c. 1500.
Michelangelo. Battle of Cascina. 1505.
Andrea Mantegna. The Lamentation Over the Dead Christ. c. 1490.
Parmigianino. Madonna With Long Neck. 1534–40.
Botticelli. Primavera. 1482.
Michelangelo. The Last Judgment. 1537-41.
Riace Bronzes. c. 460 BCE.
Bernini. Apollo and Daphne. 1622-25.
The Bayeux Tapestry. 1080.
Nike of Samothrace. c. 220-190 BCE.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The Netherlandish Proverbs. 1559.
Matthias Grunewald. Isenheim Altarpiece. 1515.
Caravaggio. The Calling of St Matthew. c. 1599.
Leonardo da Vinci. Virgin of the Rocks. 1483-86.
Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors. c. 1553.
Arcimboldo. Virtumnus. c. 1590.
Artemisia Gentileschi. Judith Beheading Holofernes. 1611-12.
Vermeer. Woman with a Scale. 1660-61.
Jean-Honore Fragonard. The Swing. 1767.
Jacques-Louis David. Death of Marat. 1793.
Eugene Delacroix. Liberty Leading the People. 1830.
John Henry Fuseli. The Nightmare. 1781.
Manet. Olympia. 1863.
Pablo Picasso. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907.
Jean-Michel Basquiat. Charles the First. 1982.
Great Stupa. Sanchi India. 3rd C.
Terra Cotta Army. Xian China. 210 BCE.
Marcel Duchamp. Fountain. 1917.
Chris Ofili. The Holy Virgin Mary. 1996
Robert Smithson. Spiral Jetty. 1970
Research Paper Lecture
Why do you need to use Chicago Style as opposed to MLA?? Good question. That
is because humanities subjects (art, history, and art history) should always be
written in Chicago Style. For many taking this class, this is their first experience with
Chicago Style; this assignment serves an introduction to this style. You will likely
encounter writing assignments using this style as you progress through your collage
experience.
Beginning your research: You should plan to research more sources than you will
end up using for your research paper. The more you read, the more you will
understand and the easier the writing will come!
The instructions for the research paper describe what types of sources are required
and what types of sources are not acceptable. Be sure to review the instructions
BEFORE you begin your research!! They are found in “Welcome To Art
Appreciation.”
Where to look for sources
Oklahoma City Community College Library
• On-line catalog search – use this to search the library resources from your
personal computer. You will have to physically go to the library to check
these out!
• On-line “Find Articles” at EBSCO – This is a data base of scholarly journals and
has thousands of articles you can access on line for your research:
o Go to www.occc.edu
o Under the “Departments” drop-down menu, select the “Library”
o On the Library’s main page, select “EbscoHost” under “Find Articles”
o You will need to enter your OCCC user name and password
o Select “MasterFile Premier” and “Academic Search Premier.”
Depending on your topic, you might look in some of the other
databases as well, but these are the two that will have a lot of art
related articles.
o Search on your topic and see what comes up!
o These are all scholarly articles that you can use in your research.
You may also use your local library
They will likely have a similar on-line catalog search and may have a good selection
of books available on your topic.
Websites
You may use one website as a source for your paper, but you must choose this
source wisely. There are some very informative and scholarly sites out there.
Museums, other colleges and universities, sometimes even government sites can all
be excellent resources for research. However, there are also many websites that are
put together by people who are not experts on the content and/or will only offer
you the most basic information on your topic and will not provide you any valid
research.
Annotated Bibliography and Works Cited List
In Stage 1 you need to turn in an annotated bibliography in an editable document
such as .docx. JPEG, PDF, RTF or PAGES will not be provided feedback. Chicago
Citations may be new to you. An annotated bibliography is a source list that includes
a brief summary of the material covered in each source. Please be sure to include
the type of source you are using in the description. If you are using images, please
cite them correctly. (see example)
In Stage 1 you must also provide a brief overview in a Research Statement. You
should include what you plan to research for this topic and what aspect you’re
interested in? What angle do you plan to research? This is a draft so no need to be
too specific; that will come in the next stage.
The reason you are asked to do this for your research paper is so the instructor can
be assured you are selecting sources that are going to be appropriate to your topic
and to be sure you are on the right track in your research.
In your final paper, due in Stage 3, you will include a works cited list at the end of
the paper. A works cited is the listing of all of the sources you have used and
referenced in your research and writing, listed alphabetically by author/editor
with publishing information. This will be formatted just like the annotated
bibliography except without the summaries of each source.
Remember: You must provide citation for any information from a source. This
includes portions that may be paraphrased. If it is not your original thought, you
must cite!
Examples of Formatting for Works Cited List
Chicago Manual of Style
**Refer to Purdue OWL Citation Chart for more examples:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/949/1/
Basic Format for a Book
Authors Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Place published: Publisher, Date.
Greenblatt, Stephen. Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare.
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Books with two or three authors
First Authors Last Name, First Name, and Second Authors First Name followed by
Last Name. Title of Book. Place published: Publisher, Date.
Buck, Stephanie, and Jochen Sander. Hans Holbein the Younger: Painter at the Court
of Henry VIII. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003.
Multiple sources by one author
Warnicke, Retha M. The Marrying of Anne of Cleves: Royal Protocol in Early Modern
England. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
———. The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1989.
Selection from Edited book with various authors
Tittler, Robert. “Portraiture, Politics and Society.” A Companion to Tudor Britain.
Edited by Robert Tittler and Norman Jones. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004.
Translated work
Augustine. Confessions. Translated by R.S. Pine-Coffin. Harmondsworth: Peguin
Books, 1971.
Edition other than the first
Strunk, William, Jr., and E.B. White. The Elements of Style. 4th ed. New York: Allyn and
Bacon, 2000.
Article in a journal or magazine
Authors Last Name, First Name. “Title of Article.” Title of Periodical, Volume
Number. Issue Number (Date): Page(s).
Starkey, David. “The Court: Castiglione’s Ideal and Tudor Reality: Being a Discussion
of Sir Thomas Wyatt’s Satire Addressed to Sir Francis Bryan.” Journal of the
Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 45 (1982): 232–9.
Website
** You do not need to include date accessed. If source is time sensitive, include date
after URL listing.
Author (and/ or owner, sponsor). “Document Title.” Site Title. URL or DOI.
The J. Paul Getty Museum. “Adriaen de Vries’s Bronze Casting Techniques.” The J.
Paul Getty Museum.
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/videoDetails?segid=437.
Podcast or YouTube
Authors Last Name, First Name. “Title of Clip.” Online Video Clip or Podcast. Name of
Site. Publisher, Video upload Date- Day, Month. Year. Time if only a Segment. Web.
Access Date. URL.
Balcasell, Rebecca. “How to Cite YouTube Videos.” Online Video Clip.
Sixminutescholar. YouTube, Apr. 22, 2006. Sept. 5, 2020.

Film or video
Authors Name(s) Last Name, First Name, First Name Last Name. Title of Movie.
Directed by First Name Last Name. Place of Origin: Producer, Date of
Release. Media Type, Time.
Chapmin, Graham, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael
Palin. “Commentaries.” Disc 2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail, special ed.
DVD. Directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. Culver City, CA: Columbia
Tristar Home Entertainment, 2001. DVD, 1 hr 36 min.
Outline
In Stage 2 you are also asked to create an outline of your paper. This is a detailed
sketch of your entire paper. Your Research Statement should include your thesis
and establish a good hook to engage the reader. This allows me to see what
direction you wish to pursue. Your conclusion should summarize what your have
written about and provide an answer to your thesis. The conclusion does not have to
be established in the outline, but you should begin to think about it.
Example:
Research Statement – Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors was a work that
expressed the tumultuous period of Tudor England to which he bore witness.
I. Introduction
a. Introduce the paper with a hook to engage the reader
b. Thesis
II. Who were the Ambassadors
a. Jean de Dinteville
b. George de Selve
III. The Most Monumental Portrait
a. A page from history
b. Elements of 1533 – political, social, religious
IV. Commission or pure artistic expression?
a. Why was it made?
b. Commissioned by Dinteville
1. Provenance
2. Polisy
3. Melancholy
V. Holbein and Nicholas Kratzer
a. Playground for hidden meaning
b. Astronomy
VI. What does it all mean?
a. The skull and Holbein’s use of the memento mori
b. The crucifix
c. Reform/Catholicism/Humanism
d. Magic and Henry VIII
VII. Holbein’s masterpiece of expression
a. Free reign to reflect
b. Total freedom to demonstrate ability
c. A patron who allowed Holbein’s talent to flourish
VIII. Conclusion
a. A page in history
b. Ultimate expression and reflection
Title Page
The title page should be its own page with no page numbering (although the page
should be counted). See Page Numbering for more details on this. The format should
be as follows:
Title of Paper in Italics
(located in center of page)
Your Name Here
for
ART 1053- Art Appreciation
Jeremy Fineman MFA
Page Numbering
• Numbering starts on second page (The numbering counts the title page
starting with page 2). All pages after are numbered accordingly.
• Located in upper right hand corner
• Format options:
o 2, 3, 4…
o Smith 2, Smith 3, Smith 4…
Citations within the paper (Footnotes or Endnotes)
For this assignment, you must use citations within your paper. This is visually one
of the biggest differences you may notice with Chicago Style as opposed to other
writings styles.
You can select either footnotes or endnotes for this. Your software for word
processing (Microsoft Office or Open Office) will allow you to easily insert footnotes
or endnotes and will number them and keep them formatted appropriately for you.
Below is an example of what footnotes will look like in your paper (endnotes are
exactly the same, except the notes are all at the end of your paper as opposed to at
the bottom of each page)….
Footnote Examples:
…focus mainly on Holbein’s practices and career.1 While there is no doubt
that these are the most important studies of Holbein, Foister, Rowlands, and Strong
add little to our understanding of his identity. They have not, for instance, attempted
to interpret the presence of critique within Holbein portraits. This study begins to
address that lacuna. The critique and commentary embedded in Holbein’s English
portraiture provides insight into the mind of this social observer while lending
further valuable perspective to the history of sixteenth-century England.
The political atmosphere at the court of Henry VIII differed drastically from
that in Holbein’s native Germany. Whereas in Germany many small ruling enclaves
were scattered across the country, London was the social center of England, and the
1 Susan Foister, Holbein and England (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004); Susan
Foister, Ashok Roy, and Martin Wyld, Making and Meaning: Holbein’s Ambassadors (London: National
court was at the very heart of it all.2 Once Holbein reached London, he almost
immediately found himself at the center of the realm, giving him access to the key…
** Notice that the footnotes are single spaced and a smaller font size.
**If you use the same source two or more time consecutively, you should replace the
long footnote with the word ‘Ibid.’
2 Joseph S. Block, “The Rise of the Tudor State,” A Companion to Tudor Britain, edited by Robert Tittler
and Norman Jones (West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), 33.
Additional Notes for Success
• Do not attempt to include entire history or biography of your artist.
• Only include history that is directly relevant
• Find something that engages you
• Do not write in first person
• Proof read aloud
• Let someone else to proof read aloud (you may choose to go to the
Communications Lab located in 1M8)
• You can use ECHO 2.0 (online writing tutoring service) by clicking this link:
http://www.occc.edu/comlab/echo.html
• Make sure your submission has less than a 25% similarity report from
TurnItIn
You may contact the Communications Lab for
Assistance and peer help. The phone number is
(405) 682-1611 x 7379. Be sure to provide this
document so they can fully understand the
assignment.
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and only intended for students enrolled in this
class.