Research paper topics:

Construct a research paper examining one of the five topics below according to the following guidelines:

1. structure your paper according to the Some Guidelines for Critical Thinking and Writing–rubric.
2. include appropriate biographical and historical information.
3. discuss a selection of critical, scholarly viewpoints on the art/artist.
4. provide a through analytical interpretation of at least three works of art.
5. include a personal assessment of the art.
6. attach color photographs or prints of the examined art.
7. apart from referencing quotes, opinion, information etc. include a bibliography of Works Cited.

Choose one of the following five:

1
What is the importance of Portugese azulejos from a folkloristic or arts-theoretical perspective?

2
What is the religious significance of El Greco's aesthetics in e.g. The Burial of Count Orgaz in the Church of Santo Tomé in Toledo?

3
Provide a discussion of the correlation between aesthetical expression and moral perspective in Goya's Saturn and other works exhibited in Mardrid’s Museo del Prado.

4
Picasso's Cubist art, as with Guernica, introduced a new, significant aesthetical concept. Why?

5
Examine the artistic value of Dali's surrealist universe as e.g. The Persistance of Memory displayed in Madrid’s Reina Sofia museum.

Initial outline is due June 15, 2004. Email outline to instructor.
Other topics may be suggested and discussed with the instructor.