Why visit a museum when there are hundreds of “virtual galleries” available with the click of a button?
Photographs are not always good substitutes for the “real thing.” Why visit a museum when there are hundreds of “virtual galleries” available with the click of a button? Is art simply visual imagery, or is seeing or participating in art an essential human experience? STEP 1: RESEARCH To begin to address these questions, you will visit a museum close to you and choose one painting to focus on (it can be from any time period and any style, but must be a painting). Spend 30-45 minutes examining your chosen artwork, paying special attention to the formal elements and principles of design. Also think about how these elements and principles may manifest themselves differently depending on whether you are viewing the original painting or an image of the painting (print or online). For example, are elements such as color, texture, light, and canvas size understood the same way in both cases?
