Instructions:

If you are going to do the Time-Travel Tour Brochure, Print this page

Develop a tour-guide for a time traveler. You have the freedom to make a personalized tour for only one or two travellers, or a whole group. Invent a method of transportation and decide whether you are travelling with them.

Your tour guide will be a web site, which you will submit to me as

• An html file. If you choose this option, check www.cfkeep.org it is a website that will allow you to build a project on-line and then you can e-mail it to me as an html file. I have already developed a "Time-Travel Tour Template in this site and can make it available to you, if you are interested.

• A pdf (need acrobat writer,)

• A Microsoft Publisher file, or

• rtf (make your file in Microsoft Word, then "Save as" choose: rich text format)

Microsoft Word "doc" files are not good for this assignment because they use too much space for images.

Your tour in time brochure must include:

• Maps and/or routes, when necessary (there are good images of historic maps in the student companion web site.)

• List a visit to at least one famous building for that period, including a brief description of the architect, style, location and important characteristics of the building in relation to the period.

• A list of art works to view, including the artists names, dates, media used, location and style. Mention what made each work special. The criteria to decide which art work and buildings to visit should be based on who were the most important three or four artists in that period, (unless otherwise noted.) Feel free to ask which artists were the most important in any given period if you are uncertain.

• Tourists should meet one patron when they visit a period where patrons are mentioned in your book. Invent an event or dinner opportunity to meet them.

• In some centuries you will have to pick and choose which countries you will cover, based on the artists you picked

• You can use your book as the main source of information, but also use the web, particularly web sites sponsored by universities, museums, official sites, or cities. Of course, you can ask me if you have doubts about what to cover.

• At the end of your "Tour in Time" post a list of all the sources you used for your web site.

Areas/Periods to cover:

Fourteenth Century Italy (from Gothic to the Renaissance.)

Fifteenth Century in Spain and in Northern Europe (Late Gothic, International Style.)

The Italian Fifteenth Century (Early Renaissance, consider the following cities: Florence, Rome, Mantua, Padua, and Milan.)

The High Renaissance in Florence, Milan, Rome and Venice. In the same chapter in Italy, have your tourist meet one Mannerist artist or architect, and one Late 16th Century artist or famous building in the city of Venice.

16th Century Art in Northern Europe: Pick a selection of artists/buildings of the Renaissance in the Holy Roman Empire (Germany,) France, The Netherlands, and/or Spain

Baroque Art of the 17th Century: Pick a selection of artists from Italy, Spain, Flanders (Belgium,) The Dutch Republic (Holland,) France, and/or England.

Rococo Art in France and Germany (first part of Chapter 20, pick only one artist or architect/building.)

The Age of Revolutions: Neoclassicism in France, England and the USA

The Romantics: Cover Goya, Gericault, Delacroix. Also cover the Romantic Landscape: Constable, Turner and The Hudson River Painters in the USA, explaining to your tourist the differences between the English and American Romantic Landscape painters. For Romanticism in Architecture design a tour of Revivalist Styles in England and France.

Meet the Pioneers of Photography (Pick three photographers that define the different ways in which photography was used from its inception.)

Early Moderns:

• Pick one artist from one of the movements listed, and describe his/her work. Your time-traveler will meet the artist in person and visit with them either in their studio or in an exhibit: Realists, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists (Cezanne, Van Gogh, Munch, Gauguin, or a Symbolist,) or sculptor Auguste Rodin.

• Pick two later 19th century architectural structures to visit (P. 728-732.)

• Expressionists: Have your costumer meet at least one artist from one of the three different expressionist groups (Fauvism, Die Brucke, or Der Blaue Reiter.)

• Abstraction: Pick one artist from one of the abstractionist movements, Cubism, Purism, Futurism, to meet (and give links or post pictures of some of their work.)

• Then have your tour go through Russia, Holland and Germany and meet one of the Russian Utopian artists (Malevich, Gabo, or Tatlin,) Mondrian or Rietveld in Holland (De Stijl,) and visit with Walter Gropius, at the Bauhaus in Dessau (Germany.)

• Avante Garde: Have your tourist meet one artist from DADA art, "Neue Sachlichkeit" (New Objectivity,) or the Surrealist movement, and have your tourist get out of Europe, for safety, during First World War.

• To finish your early 20th century art tour, have your tourist visit some of the highlights of the modernist architecture and one artist who made social or political statements in his/her art in America (Dorothea Lange, Edward Hopper, Jacob Lawrence, or Diego Rivera-- I know, Rivera was Mexican, but he did lots of murals in the USA.)

Students can consult each other, and post questions for me in the "Questions" section of the Discussions Board if in doubt about how to do this assignment, which artists to pick, or how to format.

I can help you answer questions about how to best save your images for the web, image size, etc. For this kind of help we might need to talk over the phone.

I can preview and make suggestions for student final assignments before submission if the assignment is submitted at least three days before deadline, through the mail tool, and student requests a preview (no last minute previews.)