To engage new students enrolled in the CMA/CWRU Joint Program in Art History, and to better assist the art history faculty in enhancing the students’ research and problem-solving skills applicable to the field of art history, the Ingalls Library reference staff implemented a problem-based learning approach to the new student orientation.
What is problem-based learning?
In the problem-based approach, complex, real-world problems are used to motivate students to identify and research the concepts and principles they need to know to work through those problems. Students work in small learning teams, bringing together collective skill and acquiring, communicating, and integrating information. The problem-based learning approach for new student orientation is used to realize the following:
2010
In Rembrandt van Rijn painting connoisseurship, many different terms are used to suggest how closely an artist was linked to the Rembrandt workshop. The attached “Glossary of Terms” from the Sotheby’s New York “Old Master Paintings & Sculpture" sale held on January 29–30, 2009 helps us understand the following terms:
Using these terms, how would we find out which artists were documented to have worked in Rembrandt’s workshop in Amsterdam?
Search for the answer to your assigned question utilizing a monograph, an encyclopedia, a serial or an auction catalogue, a biographical dictionary, or an electronic resource from the Ingalls Library collection. Keep a list of titles you consulted, and note if they were helpful in your search.
2010
On the March 10, 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson walked into the National Gallery, London, and slashed Diego Velázquez’s painting The Toilet of Venus (1647–51), a recent and popular acquisition known as “The Rokeby Venus.” If you were to write a gallery card or wall label about this painting, subsequently repaired and returned to display, what aspects of its artistic and physical history would you stress?
Links:
[1] http://www.clevelandart.org/learn/Library/%7E/media/4_Learn/PDFs/pbl_2010_1.ashx
[2] http://www.clevelandart.org/learn/Library/%7E/media/4_Learn/PDFs/pbl_2010_2.ashx