Unit 1 Eassay

Write a 450 to 600word essay, in three balanced paragraphs, evaluating the significance of three selected works of art from Unit I in YOUR human experience, including how they each express a different individual relationship that we have considered in this course. Specifically, you will evaluate your personal connection to a work of visual art, a work of architecture, and a work of literature through their expression of the Individual and Self, Individual and Politics, or Individual and Religion relationship. You will need to support your evaluation of each work with a relevant, accurate, and properly-cited quotation from the Unit I textbook readings. Before getting started, you might want to review art criticism. STEP TWO: Write Your Essay PARAGRAPH 1: Visual ArtFirst Relationship [150 to 200words] Review each of the below works of visual art from the course textbook and choose ONE that is significant to your human experience through its expression of a selected relationship that we have considered in this course: Individual and Self, Individual and Politics, or Individual and Religion. You must select a different relationship for this work of art than you do for each of your other works of art in this essay. After choosing a work of art and selecting the relationship that you believe it best expresses, write a solid paragraph in which you evaluate the personal significance of this work, focusing on how it expresses the stated relationship to you. Support your evaluation of this work of art with ONE relevant, accurate, and properly-cited quotation about the work from the Unit I textbook readings. Head of the Akkadian Ruler Sargon I (ca. 2350 BCE) Pair Statue of Menkaure and Queen (ca. 2490-2472 BCE) Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius (ca. 173 CE) Teaching Buddha (5th century CE) Gregory the Great and Three Scribes (late 9th century CE) Begin your paragraph by clearly stating your chosen work, including its artist and properly-punctuated title, and the individual relationship that you believe it best expresses. Then, use the following questions to GUIDE you in evaluating your chosen work. These questions are not inclusive of what you might choose to discuss in this paragraph, nor should your paragraph simply be a list of answers to these questions. Why is this particular work of art so significant to your human experience? Why does this work of art successfully express the stated relationship to you? Why does the composition of this work of art affect you and the relationship? PLEASE REMEMBER: In order to properly evaluate a work of art, you must first analyze its composition and interpret how its composition transforms its subject matter into content. While this paragraph should not include a detailed analysis or interpretation of your chosen work, your evaluation should demonstrate that you used these art criticism steps in order to form your opinion(s) about this work of art. PARAGRAPH 2: ArchitectureSecond Relationship [150 to 200words] Review each of the below works of architecture from the course textbook and choose ONE that is significant to your human experience through its expression of a selected relationship that we have considered in this course: Individual and Self, Individual and Politics, or Individual and Religion. You must select a different relationship for this work of art than you do for each of your other works of art in this essay. After choosing a work of art and selecting the relationship that you believe it best expresses, write a solid paragraph in which you evaluate the personal significance of this work, focusing on how it expresses the stated relationship to you. Support your evaluation of this work of art with ONE relevant, accurate, and properly-cited quotation about the work from the Unit I textbook readings. Anthemius and Isidorus: Hagia Sophia, Constantinople (532-537 CE) Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, Israel (ca. 687-691 CE) Great Stupa, Sanchi, India (3rd century BCE to 1st century CE) Saint-Sernin, Toulouse, France (ca. 1080-1120) Chartres Cathedral, France (1194-1220) Begin your paragraph by clearly stating your chosen work, including its artist and properly-punctuated title, and the individual relationship that you believe it best expresses. Then, use the following questions to GUIDE you in evaluating your chosen work. These questions are not inclusive of what you might choose to discuss in this paragraph, nor should your paragraph simply be a list of answers to these questions. Why is this particular work of art so significant to your human experience? Why does this work of art successfully express the stated relationship to you? Why does the composition of this work of art affect you and the relationship? PLEASE REMEMBER: In order to properly evaluate a work of art, you must first analyze its composition and interpret how its composition transforms its subject matter into content. While this paragraph should not include a detailed analysis or interpretation of your chosen work, your evaluation should demonstrate that you used these art criticism steps in order to form your opinion(s) about this work of art. PARAGRAPH 3: LiteratureThird Relationship [150 to 200words] Review each of the below works of literature from the course textbook and choose ONE that is significant to your human experience through its expression of a selected relationship that we have considered in this course: Individual and Self, Individual and Politics, or Individual and Religion. You must select a different relationship for this work of art than you do for each of your other works of art in this essay. After choosing a work of art and selecting the relationship that you believe it best expresses, write a solid paragraph in which you evaluate the personal significance of this work, focusing on how it expresses the stated relationship to you. Support your evaluation of this work of art with ONE relevant, accurate, and properly-cited quotation about the work from the Unit I textbook readings (i.e., your supporting quotation must be about the work of literature, though you may include an additional quotation from the work of literature if needed). Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 2300 BCE) Homer: Iliad (ca. 850 BCE) Virgil: Aeneid (ca. 20 BCE) Beowulf (ca. 700 CE) The Song of Roland (ca. 12th century) Begin your paragraph by clearly stating your chosen work, including its artist and properly-punctuated title, and the individual relationship that you believe it best expresses. Then, use the following questions to GUIDE you in evaluating your chosen work. These questions are not inclusive of what you might choose to discuss in this paragraph, nor should your paragraph simply be a list of answers to these questions. Why is this particular work of art so significant to your human experience? Why does this work of art successfully express the stated relationship to you? Why does the composition of this work of art affect you and the relationship? PLEASE REMEMBER: In order to properly evaluate a work of art, you must first analyze its composition and interpret how its composition transforms its subject matter into content. While this paragraph should not include a detailed analysis or interpretation of your chosen work, your evaluation should demonstrate that you used these art criticism steps in order to form your opinion(s) about this work of art. ***You must support your thoughts in this essay with ONE quotation from the textbook readings for each paragraph. Each quotation should be about the respective work of art, rather than from the work. It is up to you to decide where and how to use quoted material in each paragraph, though it must be relevant and supportive, rather than simply providing basic information that you could write in your own words. Quoted material may not constitute more than 20% of your total essay length and must be properly cited (see below).*** STEP THREE: Cite Your Quotations We use MLA Style in the humanities, simplified for this course. For quotes taken from the course textbook, including those from primary sources that are included in the textbook, you only need to list the textbook author’s last name and page number in parentheses at the end of the relevant sentence, as in this example: “The gruesome prints that make up ‘The Disasters of War’ have their source in historical fact as well as in Goya’s imagination” (Fiero 345). Further, since you are only permitted to use your course textbook for this assignment, a works cited list is not required.