OSHER 123 - Ways to Talk about a Work of Art

This course offers students an opportunity to explore the process of making critical judgements about works of art by describing, analyzing, interpreting and evaluating specific examples of paintings, photographs, prints and sculptures on exhibition in the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. The primary objective of this course is to introduce ways of thinking and talking about works of art from an analytical perspective. Students will learn to search for and identify what a work of art means (or meant at the time in which it was produced), and to describe how that meaning is conveyed.