Theory, Art & Visual Culture
AH4UVC Exercise 1.4 – Research
What is ‘Digital Art’? Visual images have long been used as a form of communications but have become more prevalent with the emergence of the current digital, global, and multimodal…
AH4UVC – Exercise 1.3
Description In what sense could a Dyson vacuum cleaner, Tenniel’s illustrations of Alice in Wonderland and the Nazca lines be works of art. Take a speculative approach to this question.…
AH4UVC Exercise 1.2
Description Identify three works of art in which theory plays a decisive role, and three works of art in which theory seems absent. In 100-150 words reflect on the distinction…
AH4UVC Exercise 1.2 – Research
Modernism – or Modern Art – was a global movement in society and culture that marked a break with the past in search of new forms of expression. This movement…
AH4UVC Exercise 1.1 – Research
Social Theories as Art Theories Art theories relate to the theorisation of art, i.e. the thinking of art as a natural phenomenon that can be analysed like any other social…
AH4UVC Exercise 1.1
Description Look at the painting The Eye of Silence (Ernst, 1944) and see whether you can distinguish the intended from unintended faces. Which seem most ambiguous? (Item 1) Look up…
Basic Principles of Critical Art Review
I am currently doing the Understanding Visual Culture course and was not entirely sure how to approach some of the exercises that required to conduct a critical art review. I…
AH4UVC Exercise 1.0
‘There are portions of the real world, objective facts in the world, that are only facts by human agreement. In a sense there are things that exist only because we…
AH4UVC Exercise 1.0 – Research
‘There are portions of the real world, objective facts in the world, that are only facts by human agreement. In a sense there are things that exist only because we…
Viviane Smith 