NYU The Imagination and Creativity in Art Emotional Response Discussion

1st paper assignment:

Please write a reflection paper (5 pages, double spaced) on a topic of your choice relating to the time frame under discussion in this course.

Please note: You can find valuable information about the definition of a “reflection paper” in the internet. Checking it may make it easier for you to enter the writing process.

Concerning the choice of topic:

You may either choose one artist whose work you would like to explore in more depth, or you can make a comparison between two artistic positions.

You may choose an artist whom we discussed in class, or will discuss in the second half of the semester, or an artist that is not listed in the syllabus. There is also the option to choose one artist from the syllabus and compare her/him with an artist who is not listed in the syllabus.

Concerning the process of writing:

It is important that you think about the reader of your essay: Why should anybody be interested to read it?

If you make a research question enticing and establish the relevance of it, you have a good change to draw interest from (possible) readers.

Each question leads to the next question. This is a guiding principle.

If you write a text, and you are not totally clear about how to approach the topic, you may reflect on what are the most important things to think about and write about. In you reflection you may come up with three things that you find most important to write about, and these might become the columns that uphold the whole ‘building’ of your text. In this essay I would like you to write a reflection on Gordan matta-clark as an artist and a relflectionof how important he was to art in the 1970s. this reflection paper has to be opinionated with thoughts of yourself and opinions.