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CAH2545 Field Trip Assignment Sheet (2)

The CAH2545 Museum Assignment requires participants to select at least three connected artworks from the CUHK Art Museum, detailing their titles, techniques, and creation dates. Participants must identify ten keywords for each piece, determine the most frequent keywords, and choose a focus for a term paper with research questions. The assignment also includes drawing and analyzing the key object, as well as documenting observations and insights.

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CAH2545 Field Trip Assignment Sheet (2)

The CAH2545 Museum Assignment requires participants to select at least three connected artworks from the CUHK Art Museum, detailing their titles, techniques, and creation dates. Participants must identify ten keywords for each piece, determine the most frequent keywords, and choose a focus for a term paper with research questions. The assignment also includes drawing and analyzing the key object, as well as documenting observations and insights.

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CAH2545 Museum Assignment Sheet

February 22, Semester B 2024/25


Course Leader: Professor Lianming Wang
CUHK Art Museum

* Please submit your assignment sheet when you present your topic.

Name of Participant: __________________________________________________

Detailed Schedule
• 10-11.30 am, short intro & museum assignment
• 11.30 am-12 noon, museum assignment

Assignments “Find your Key Object”

1. Please select at Key Object 1:


least three pieces
from the CUHK
Art Museum that
you believe are
connected in some
way. For each
chosen artwork,
list its title, the
technique used,
and the date it was Reference Object 2:
created. Ideally,
your selections
should represent a
variety of genres,
styles, and
mediums.
Consider what
common thread or
theme unites these
diverse works. Reference Object 3:

1
2. Please identify
and list ten Object 1:
keywords that
best describe the
essence of each of
your selected
pieces. Afterward,
determine which
three keywords
appear most
frequently from
your lists. Think
of it as Object 2:
'deconstructing'
the objects to their
core attributes.

For example,
carved lacquer,
‘Spring Morning
in the Han
Palace’, eighteenth
century, Qing
court, Beijing, Object 3:
drama text, etc.

Please indicate the Most Frequent Keywords:

4. Please choose
either one 1. Concept-/Event based
individual object
or a set of objects
to be the focus of
your term paper.
In addition,
indicate the style Research questions:
of essay you
intend to write.
Also, please devise
a tentative title for
your essay. Once
decided, kindly
mark your
selection with a
check mark.

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Please also list 2. Object-based (having 1 key object and several reference objects)
your research
questions here.

Research questions:

Please add drawings of your key object.

Please describe your object here.


1. Basic data. See above.
2. What is depicted?
3. Composition
4. Style and the way of depiction
5. Iconography
6. Context & function

Please also be aware of:


a. Line b
b. Shape
c. c. Size
d. Mass and volume
e. Space
f. Texture
g. Color

Order: From large to small, from bottom to top.

Structure of your observation report - Introduction: objectives - Drawing(s) and photographs with textual
explanations - Description and documentation (incl. size, date, artist, etc.) - Observation remarks - One last
question for yourself: What can be seen/discussed through/based on the selected object?

3
Please place your drawing here!

Please add a frontal view, a profile view, and an analysis of the object’s structure.
Scale is always essential. Use a pencil and rubber while you’re in a museum.
In the final observation report, you are able to add photographs. Please do not forget to take some photos
during your museum tour. No flash.

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