1. Go to the website of an encyclopedic museum website (e.g. Metropolitan, B

1. Go to the website of an encyclopedic museum website (e.g. Metropolitan, Brooklyn Museum, or one of the Smithsonian museums (Sackler, Cooper-Hewitt, NGA, ROM in Toronto, etc.) OR works on display at the Neuberger OR the PepsiCo sculpture garden, other?), and choose one object with which to do a deep color analysis. Add image(s) of the object with label info (artist, medium, size, country, etc) on our class Miro.com board.
2. Create a palette based on the colors of the piece using Colour Code
3. Identify at least 1 pigment, dye, or color-material that plays a role in creating the color effects (e.g. lead white in a Rembrandt self-portrait, cinnabar in Chinese lacquer, or gold in an Akan pendant). Note: This step requires a separate stage of research
a. Research the material’s history, geographic source, etc.
b. Give a good sense of whether this was a precious or common material,
i. Was it dangerous?
ii. Did it have real or symbolic powers (e.g. medicinal, cursed, blessed, etc.)?
iii. Was it the product of a technological discovery?
4. Analyze the color context for the artwork:
a. How do the colors and the palette relate to the period and region it was made?
b. Did the work continue a longer color tradition, or present an innovation or change in how colors were deployed?
c. Research any symbolic, religious, cultural meanings that would have affected how the colors were understood.
d. Were the colors part of a medium’s larger relationship to color? For example: Korean celadon ceramics relied on an understanding of the subtle nuances of the low-saturation grey-green glazes larger medium; another example: The use of color in the Wizard of Oz had a close connection, and served as a commentary on, the new technologies like Technicolor that allowed movies to be made in color.
5. Research should include at least two scholarly sources (published by a University Press, or peer reviewed) and at least 8 sources overall.
You need to have at least:
· 2 scholarly sources
· 3 good but not scholarly sources like the Paris Review’s Hue’s Hue series
· You can include popular/general info sites, but bear in mind that they’re often thirdhand accounts and not very reliable.
6. About 3-4 weeks into the project, your research will be organized as a kind of online exhibition, full of different artifacts like books, articles, websites, art, videos, social media (basically what you want to assemble around your theme).
7. Towards the final, and after further research, organize your findings into a longer paper (about 6 pages) that lays out, in separate sections each of the points above, as well as a historiography (or review of your sources and what scholarship has been done on your topic).