Judy Nolan
ID 508658
Understanding Art 1: Western Art
This is the contents page for my digital submission for assessment for Understanding Art 1: Western Art.
I followed the course notes received in February 2013 – document control number ua1 wa 121110. This is substantially different to the revised courses released later in 2013 and in 2014.
My written review and copies of tutor reviews are accessible via a password protected page – Click here to view (password supplied in assessment submission email).
Given the volume of material produced a number of navigation methods are provided below. For each Part of the course there are:
- Individual links to each item included in my Assignment submission to my tutor
- A link that will display all Annotations in the Part
- A link that will display all Exercises in the Part
- A link that will display all Research Points in the Part
- For each Project a link that will display all work in the Project, plus individual links to all work items
- Links to other items related to the Part
Please use the return arrow in your browser to return to this page after following a link.
Preparation
- Reasons and hopes for this course: Click to view
- First annotation: Click to view
Part one: Classical and religious art
Assignment one:
- Annotation of a Greek vase painting. Click to view
- Annotation of a Gothic image. Click to view
- A review of the set text Open pdf
Annotations: Click to view all or see detail in projects below.
Exercises: Click to view all or see detail in projects below.
Research Points: Click to view all or see detail in projects below.
Project 1: Ancient Greece. Click to view all or see detail below.
- Exercise – Thinking about the canon Initial post; Take 2; For an Australian; Take 4; In a gallery
- Annotation of a Greek vase painting. Click to view
- Visit to a classical building. Click to view
- Review Click to view
Project 2: Rome. Click to view.
Project 3: Religious art. Click to view all or see detail below.
- Research point – The Romanesque Arch in Britain Click to view
- Exercise – Pugin on Gothic Click to view
- Annotation of a gothic image. Click to view; Visit to Book of Hours
- Visit to a Victorian Gothic church. Click to view
- Review Click to view
Project 4: The Renaissance. Not attempted
Review: Click to view
Response to tutor feedback: Click to view
Other – exhibitions, lectures, workshops, reading etc during time period of Part One: Click to view
Part two: From the High Renaissance to Post-Impressionism
Assignment two: Examples of work so far
- Report on a town house visit. Click to view
- Analysis of a sixteenth century Italian painting. Click to view
- Annotation of a seventeenth century art work. Click to view
- Annotation of a realist image. Click to view
Annotations: Click to view all or see detail in projects below.
Exercises: Click to view all or see detail in projects below.
Research Points: Click to view all or see detail in projects below.
Project 1: Mythology in the High Renaissance. Click to view all or see detail below.
- Research Point – A mythological story. Click to view
- Annotation of a mythological painting. Click to view
- Analyse a sixteenth-century Italian painting. Click to view
- Visit to an art gallery. Click to view
- Review. Click to view
Project 2: The age of Baroque. Click to view all or see detail below.
- Annotate two seventeenth-century art works. Part one; Part two.
- Exercise – A Roman palace. Click to view
- Exercise – Prints for sale. Click to view
Project 3: Depicting history – neo-classicism, Romanticism and realism. Click to view all or see detail below.
- Research Point – The Enlightenment. Click to view
- Exercise – David and neo-classicim. Click to view
- Annotate an image of contemporary events. Click to view
- Reflection – Modern relevance of a mythological theme. Click to view
- Exercise – Decorate a town house. Click to view
- Annotate a realist image. Click to view
- Annotate a painting of a historical event. Click to view
Project 4: Impressionism and post-impressionism. Click to view all or see detail below.
- Exercise – Depicting everyday life. Click to view
- Research Point – Seurat. Click to view
- Annotate a Post-Impressionist image. Click to view
- Visit a town house. Click to view
Review: Click to view
Other – exhibitions, lectures, workshops, reading etc during time period of Part Two: Click to view all
Part three: Modern art and still life
Assignment three:
- A copy or analysis. Click to view
- Finding affinities – plan of a house. Click to view
- Annotation – Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles. Click to view
- Annotation – A still life painting by Cézanne. Click to view
- Review. Click to view
Annotations: Click to view all or see detail in projects below
Exercises: Click to view all or see detail in projects below
Research Points: Click to view all or see detail in projects below
Project 1: Into the twentieth century. Click to view all or see detail below.
- Exercise – Exploring modern art. Click to view
- Exercise – Finding affinities. Click to view
Project 2: From 1945 to the present. Click to view all or see detail below
- Exercise – Reflecting on abstract expressionism. Click to view
- Annotate an abstract work. Click to view
- Exercise – Visit a public square. Click to view
- An aspect of art over the last thirty years. Click to view
- Exercise – A symbol for the present. Click to view
Project 3: Introducing still life. Click to view all or see detail below
- Research Point – Iconography of still life paintings. Click to view
- Annotate and analyse a still life image. Click to view
- Exercise – Attempt to produce a still life image. Click to view
Project 4: Still life after 1900. Click to view all or see detail below
- Research Point – Artists’ letters. Click to view
- Annotate a still life painting by Cézanne. Click to view
- Visit an artist’s studio. Click to view
- Notes about still life. Click to view
- Pop Art and still life. Click to view
- Annotation of a still life by Braque. Click to view
Review: Click to view
Other – exhibitions, lectures, workshops, reading etc during time period of Part Three: Show all
Sketchbook – Click to view
Part four: Portraiture and figure painting
Assignment four:
- An analysis: Three bathers by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Click to view
- Visit a cast gallery. Click to view
- Annotation of a portrait. Click to view
- Annotation of a classical sculpture. Click to view
- Review. Click to view
Annotations: Click to view all or see detail in projects below
Exercises: Click to view all or see detail in projects below
Research Points: Click to view all or see detail in projects below
Project 1: The portrait. Click to view all or see detail below.
- Exercise: Looking at cartoons. Click to view
- Research point: Portrait sculpture. Click to view
- Exercise: Annotate a portrait. Click to view
- Exercise: Visit a portrait gallery. Click to view
- Analyse a formal portrait. Click to view
Project 2: The artist’s self-portrait. Click to view all or see detail below.
- Research Point: Artists’ self-portraits. Click to view
- Annotation: A self-portrait. Click to view
- Exercise: Commission a portrait. Click to view
Project 3: The human figure. Click to view all or see detail below.
- Research point: Representation of the human figure. Click to view
- Exercise: Annotate a classical sculpture. Click to view
- Exercise: Visit a cast gallery. Click to view
- Research point: The female nude. Click to view
- Exercise: Annotate a female nude. Click to view
Project 4: Figure sculpture. Click to view all or see detail below.
- Research point: Recent figure sculptures. Click to view
- Exercise: Annotate a Henry Moore figures sculpture. Click to view
Research for final assignment: The Stripe. Click to view all
Other – exhibitions, lectures, workshops, reading etc during time period of Part Four: Show all
Part five: Inside Outside
Assignment five:
- Written review – the stripe Click here for link on password protected page (password supplied in assessment submission email)
- Visit to a public interior. Click to view
- Annotate an interior view. Click to view
- Analyse an Impressionist landscape. Click to view
- Reflections on the course. Click to view
Project 1: The interior. Click to view all or see detail below.
- Exercise: Annotate an interior view 1. Click to view
- Exercise: Annotate an interior view 2. Click to view
- Research point: Trompe l’oeil. Click to view
- Exercise: Room with a view. Click to view
- Exercise: Visit a public interior. Click to view
- Exercise: Plan a country house refurbishment. Click to view
Project 2: Landscape. Click to view all or see detail below.
- Exercise – The classical landscape. Click to view
- Exercise – Visit a landscape. Click to view
- Exercise: Analyse an Impressionist landscape. Click to view
Final assignment: The Stripe
Other – exhibitions, lectures, workshops, reading etc during time period of Part Five: Show all
Fibres of Being 
Very neat and clear approach to organising your learning log. If I can work out how you did it, I use this next course myself!