Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Who is that person really?

With the first blog, you speculated on a portrait without knowledge of the title or artist’s name; you based your narrative on careful observation and creative speculations. There were no wrong answers. The only way to flub that assignment was to not work at the observations or the speculation or to write poorly.
With this assignment, we are unearthing factual answers to the same question: Who is that person? Sometimes the appearance of a portrait subject is due to the character of the person portrayed. Sometimes the appearance of a portrait is a projection of the artist’s personality. Often there is some combination of the two contained in the image. Art comes to us through the artist’s sensibilities and is received by our sensibilities.
Who is that person? Tell us in the form of an annotated bibliography. Include research using at least two or three sources to solve some of the riddles and to research the image you chose for the Who is that Person assignment. With this short annotated bibliography assignment I am not specifying what type of source you use. You may, with this initial annotated bibliography, use all credible web sites if you can find answers there. All should be cited properly. The object of this assignment is two-fold: Find some answers, through research, to the factual questions surrounding the identity of the portrait and the artist responsible for creating the image. Practice constructing an annotated bibliography. In your annotations, reveal the answers you uncovered with your research. Under the title of your bibliography, specify which citation style you have employed.

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