How To Write an Art History Paper - Art History 101: Writing an Art History Paper You have been assigned an art history paper to write. You would like to finish your assignment on time with a minimum of stress, and your instructor fervently hopes to read an engaging, well-written paper. Here are some dos and don'ts to guide you, written by an art history professor who has graded thousands of these papers ranging from the superlative to the good, the bad and the phenomenally ugly. Preparation: 1. Look through an art history book, slowly and leisurely. 2. Remember: a car works on gas, a brain works on info. 3. Ask yourself questions while you read and look up what you can't find or don't understand on the page. Writing Your Essay: Introduction, Body and Conclusion 1. Compose a thesis statement. 2. If you are going to include the artist's/architect's biography, begin with a short summary. 3. Reiterate the thesis. Editing: Be sure to footnote/cite your sources in the body of the paper when you use information or an opinion from a book, article, website, etc. Above All:
Art movement An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, (usually a few months, years or decades) or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years. Art movements were especially important in modern art, when each consecutive movement was considered as a new avant-garde. Concept[edit] According to theories associated with modernism and the concept of postmodernism, art movements are especially important during the period of time corresponding to modern art.[1] The period of time called "modern art" is posited to have changed approximately half-way through the 20th century and art made afterward is generally called contemporary art. Also during the period of time referred to as "modern art" each movement was seen corresponding to a somewhat grandiose rethinking of all that came before it, concerning the visual arts. 19th- and 20th-century art movements[edit]
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