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Museum Visit Aesthetic Experience Worksheet
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. The student will be able to identify elements of style in various forms of western and non-western human creative expression.
2. The student will be able to apply a basic vocabulary essential for communicating concepts in the humanities disciplines.
3. The student will be able to identify how forms of Western and Non-Western human creative expressions reflect the human condition.
4. The student will be able to compare and contrast enduring contributions of individual artists, thinkers, and writers.
5. The student will be able to develop critical analysis skills in reference to works of human creative expression.
GRADING
See the assessment rubric attached to the Aesthetic Experience and Critical Analysis Essay dropbox folder.
MATERIALS
Use all of the online module resources, your textbook, and the Visual Art Vocabulary and Principles at the end of this document to guide
your writing.
INSTRUCTIONS
For this assignment you will physically attend an art museum and select a piece of art to write about. Then you will
compare it to an artwork from our textbook and complete this worksheet.
1. Choose an art museum near your location to visit that meets the following criteria:
 The museum you attend must be an art museum, not a science museum or a children's museum.
 The museum must provide a dated receipt or dated ticket. You must take a digital photograph of your dated
receipt or dated ticket and insert it in the designated space provided below.
 If you experience difficulty finding an art museum near your location, contact your instructor.
2. Visit your chosen art museum, and select a work of art. Suggestions:
 The work can be a painting, sculpture, photograph, mixed media, or any other medium exhibited in the
museum.
 You may wish to take a copy of this worksheet with you to the museum in order to more carefully select a
work of art.
3. Complete the “Essay Header” section in the designated space provided below.
4. Complete the “Art Work Information” section in the designated space provided below.
5. Complete the 3 Prompts in the “Aesthetic Experience and Critical Analysis Essay” section in the
designated space provided below. Respond to the prompts using the following guidelines:
 Use full sentences and paragraphs in your responses.
 Use and incorporate relevant and genre-specific vocabulary for each prompt. Definitions of relevant
vocabulary are provided at the end of this document, in the online module resources, and in your textbook.
 Your completed essay responses should be a total of at least 600 words (at least 200 words per response).
6. Submit your completed Museum Visit Aesthetic Experience Worksheet to the Aesthetic Experience and
Critical Analysis Essay dropbox folder.
ESSAY HEADER