Murals
Assignment Instruction
Write a minimum 600-700 word response. You must include at least three specific references to this weeks reading.
This week’s reading:
Doss, E. (2006, October). Public art controversy: Cultural expression and civic debate. Retrieved from http://www.americansforthearts.org/pdf/networks/pan/doss_controversy.pdf(I will upload the reading, you can either click the link or read the reading I upload. They are the same.)
Research Assignment
Review the following website:
At minimum read the following pages:
View the murals online.
Prepare a response to the murals based on your personal experience. Consider the issues raised in the reading and your experience visiting the murals.
Example topics and issues to consider:
- Civic Improvement
- Civic Beautification
- Civic Identity
- Place-making
- Spirit of a place
- Issues of diversity, i.e. ethnicity, gender, age, cultural heritage
- Capturing history
- Appropriateness, time, place, manner
- Relevance
- Personal opinion about the role of public art
- Relationship of your values to these issues
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The two murals found in the knight library at the university are perfect works of art. They create aesthetics while at the same time reminding humanity of its past, and the journey it has made to this day. The two paintings by the Runquist brothers depicts artistically and elegantly the struggles that man has had to endure during his existence and the fruits of his labors and dedications in the modern era (Maruska, 2013). Looking at the murals one can be able to reconstruct the history of mankind and possibly make predictions…………….
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