ART 101: Faculty Resources: Unit 7 Assignments

7.1

First, go to the website of the Rubin Museum of Art: http://www.rubinmuseum.org. (You’re also welcome to visit the Museum itself – John Jay students get in for free.) The Rubin Museum has a large collection of art from Tibet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet), a country located between China and India. Choose one work of Tibetan art from their website and examine it. Think about what parts of the work are similar to and different from the art of China and India.

Next, please click “create blog entry,” enter a descriptive title for your new blog post that includes the title of your chosen work, and then type a post of at least 150 words. Your post must:

1. Include the direct link to the chosen work;
2. Describe what you learned about this work from the Museum’s website and any other research you did; and
3. Include an image of either a Chinese or Indian artwork from the textbook and describe how, in detail, your chosen Tibetan artwork was influenced by Chinese or Indian models and how it is different.

To attach an image to your blog entry, first make sure that the image is saved to your computer. Then, when writing the blog, click the “Browse My Computer” under “2. Blog Entry Files” and follow the instructions. To find images of artworks in the textbook, use Google Image Search (https://images.google.com/) and type in the caption of the image from the textbook.

To comment on a classmate’s blog entry, click “comment” underneath that entry.

This is a graded assignment. See the associated rubric for grading details (click “View Rubric” in the Blog Grade section to display the rubric).

7.2

Many of the artworks that we have seen in this module are extremely important to the life of the communities for which they were made – but they have also been vulnerable to theft, because of their appreciation by wealthy Western art collectors. Joy Lynn Davis is an artist and activist who is working on the problem of religious art stolen from shrines in Nepal. Learn about her work on her website, especially http://rememberingthelost.com/about-the-project/ and http://rememberingthelost.com/paintings/. You can also watch short videos about the project here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkTI5L_09Mo or here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xWfM_biYb4, or, if you’re really interested, listen to her giving a talk about it here https://soundcloud.com/rangjung-yeshe-institute/joy-lynn-davis-remembering-the-lost.

Unfortunately, Nepal is just one of the many areas from around the globe where people are losing important artworks. Find a story about art theft, where the stolen art was especially meaningful or important to the community that lost it. One good place to look is here: http://news.culturecrime.org/. You will probably need to do additional research to discover more information about the meaning or importance of the stolen art.

Next, please click “create blog entry,” enter a descriptive title for your new blog post that includes the title of your chosen work, and then type a post of at least 150 words. Your post must:

1. Include the direct link to the news story;
2. Summarize the story and describe the meaning or importance of the stolen art; and
3. Describe a project that you might carry out to raise awareness about the theft of this type of art, as Davis is doing for art from Nepal.

To attach an image to your blog entry, first make sure that the image is saved to your computer. Then, when writing the blog, click the “Browse My Computer” under “2. Blog Entry Files” and follow the instructions. To find images of artworks in the textbook, use Google Image Search (https://images.google.com/) and type in the caption of the image from the textbook.

To comment on a classmate’s blog entry, click “comment” underneath that entry.

This is a graded assignment. See the associated rubric for grading details (click “View Rubric” in the Blog Grade section to display the rubric).