SCAVENGER HUNT

1. Choose a theory of visual art described in this week’s Learning Resource titled “A historical overview of ideas guiding the visual arts in the Western world: from Plato to the present day.
2. Then find a related work of visual art represented within the Learning Resource link to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, or any of the Learning Resources included within the “Range of Visual Arts.”
3. Include a picture of the work in your post, and Discuss your interest in both and the relation you see between them. That connection may relate to visual qualities, history, use, or meaning.
4. Finally, point out how your response uses at least two of the vocabulary, concepts or techniques you posted in Discussion 2.1. Underline or bold the vocabulary, concept or technique you use as a interpretative tool in your post. (MLA)

Vocabulary words:

• Linear perspective: Drawing system that gives the appearance of a three-dimensional object on a bi-dimensional surface as a paper set such that all the lines converge on one or two points of the horizon, giving the flat image the illusion of depth (Artists Network n.d.).
• Negative space: Open space between the figures in a drawing (Artists Network 2017).

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  Learning Resources:
• 1. View this narrated PowerPoint presentation as an historical overview of ideas guiding the visual arts in the Western world from Ancient Greece to the present day. It is meant to be an entry into the Humanities 100 session on the visual arts. A PDF transcript is available.