The syllabus state clearly that you have to be aware of some of the methods employed by critics and historians within the history of art and photography.

One of the criteria in the syllabus is for you to:

• Select artists work, methods and art movements appropriate to your previous coursework work as a suitable basis for your study.

To demonstrate your knowledge and understanding you will have to write a paragraph in your essay providing historical context about your chosen artists/ photographers and how their their work and practice is linked to a specific art movement/ ism or theory.

For this task you need to select an art movement/ ism that is relevant to your Personal Study and make a 5 min presentation in class.

Follow these instructions:

Lesson 1 & 2: Mon 4 Dec / Tue 5 Dec

Choose one of these four isms/movements  – you can choose to work alone in pair up with fellow student:

• Pictorialism
• Realism / Straight Photography
• Modernism
• Post-modernism

Start by looking at the PPT presentations here which will provide you with an overview.

M:\Departments\Photography\Students\Resources\Personal Study

Find two other sources, article on  internet, text in book, youtube video etc and identify relevant quotes, at least two that you can incorporate into your blog post/ presentation.

Use Art Movements & Isms sheet as a prompt with information that is required in your presentation

Lesson 3: Wed 6 Dec

Make a 5 mins presentation of the above in class

Your presentation must include visual examples of artists making work within that ism/movement.

Homework task – Independent Study: 
Respond to the art movement/ ism that you have researched and make an image or a set of images that represent the methods/ techniques/ processes/ approach/ styles / aesthetics used by artists working within that is ism or movement.

Complete and upload to blog by Mon 11 Dec.