THE CRITICAL EYE: VISUAL LITERACY & CULTURAL APPRECIATION

In this course, we will look at artworks from around the world and from different time periods to learn visual literacy and cultural appreciation skills.

Welcome to The Critical Eye! Before our first class today, please watch each of the eight videos below. We will use the information from them for our in-class activities! See you soon!

Watch each of these before our lesson today:

1. Elizabeth Shores, The Critical Eye: Lesson 1, (19:46)
2. Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 1982, Washington, DC, USA, (7:12) 
3. Ken Burns reflects on James Baldwin’s understanding of the Statue of Liberty, 2020, (5:40) 
4. Woman climbs base of the Statue of Liberty, 2018, (1:04) 
5. Students build the Goddess of Democracy in Tiananmen Square, 1989, China (1:25)
6. Jaume Plensa’s Crown Fountain, 2003, Chicago, USA, (2:24) 
7. UK Protestors topple slave trader statue in Bristol, 2020, (1:35) 
8. Moving the Temple of Ramses II, (6:26)

Welcome back to The Critical Eye! Before our second class, please watch each of these videos. We will use the information from them for our in-class activities! See you soon 

Watch each of these before our lesson today:

1.   Elizabeth Shores, The Critical Eye: Lesson 2 https://www.loom.com/share/eb7255744c9b4d728426f0212875c0b0 (30:26)
2.   Cannupa Hanska Luger, How to Build Mirror Shields for Water Protectors, https://vimeo.com/191394747(4:43)
3.   Cannupa Hanska Luger, Water Serpent – Mirror Shields for Water Protectors at Standing Rock, South Dakota, USA https://youtu.be/78epQ8GspaQ(3:12)

Welcome back to The Critical Eye! Before our third class, please watch the first video. We will use the information from it in our in-class activities! See you soon.

Before Class: Watch One Video:

1.   Elizabeth Shores, The Critical Eye: Lesson 3

These are Optional, for fun, and are not required:

El Anatsui: https://art21.org/watch/extended-play/el-anatsui-studio-process-short/(4:21)

Ann Hamilton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fJ4umqXGjM(4:57)

James Turrell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEN_mkuV0sU(2:33)

Welcome back to the Critical Eye! Before our fourth class, please watch the first video. We will use the information from it in our in-class activities. See you soon!

Before Class: Watch One Video:  Elizabeth Shores, The Critical Eye: Lesson 4 (40:00)

These other videos are optional, for fun, not required:

Cai Guo Qiang, ‘The Artist Who Paints With Explosives’ (1:43)

Olafur Eliasson, ‘Rainbow Assembly’ (2:57)

Lorna Simpson, ‘Easy to Remember’ (2:35)

MoMA, ‘What is a Print?’

Nam Juin Paik, ‘Electronic Superhighway’ (2:10) 

Tony Oursler (1:46)

Welcome back to the Critical Eye! Before our fifth class, please watch the first video. We will use the information from it in our in-class activities. See you soon!

Before Class: Watch One Video:  Elizabeth Shores, The Critical Eye, Lesson 5 (40:06)

These other videos are optional, for fun, not required:

o  Formal Analysis of Landscape (4:50)

o  Edward Hopper, Nighthawks (4:47)

o  Gerhard Richter

o  Cindy Sherman, Extended Play 3:35)

o  Andrea Zittel, Extended Play (5:52)

Welcome to The Critical Eye! Before our sixth class today, find some art materials and a piece of fruit and bring them to our zoom lesson!

Here are some other optional things:

o   Optional viewing, not required:

• Elizabeth Shores, The Critical Eye, Lesson 6 (37:32)
• Contemporary Aboriginal Art
• Japanese Tea Ceremony (9:16)

Welcome back to the Critical Eye! Before our seventh class today, watch this video and briefly write/draw/reflect upon a work of political art. Be sure to bring your art materials to class for our daily art exercise.

Welcome back to the Critical Eye! Before our eighth class today, please watch this video and create a self portrait as discussed in the video. Be sure to bring your art materials to class for our daily art exercise, which will use the self portrait you create after watching the video

Welcome back to the Critical Eye! Before our ninth class today, please watch this video and create a psychogeographic response following a derive as discussed in the video. Be sure to bring your art materials to class for our daily art exercise, which will use the response and photographs you create after watching the video!

Welcome back to the Critical Eye! Before our tenth class today, please watch this video and follow the instructions at the end to research a monument in BiH that interests you and also to find a news article today that deals with the same subject matter. We will talk about them in class for our final discussion. See you soon!