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ESSAY HEADER Student Full Name Katelynn Benitez Name of Museum Smithsonian National Museum of African American Art Location/URL of Museum https://africa.si.edu/collections/objects/20632/911? ctx=eecd39914832b419fc154416e897084bc0549056&idx=1 Date of Virtual Museum Visit COVID 1

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ART WORK INFORMATION Title 911 Artist Sokari Douglas Camp Creation Date 2001 Discipline Classification How is the selection classified in the Humanities? Is it Literature, Visual Art, Music, Theater, Musical Stage, or other? A mixture of literature and history visual art is my classification on this sculpture. Genre, Time Period, Style What type of art is it? Is it a painting, sculpture, photograph, mixed media, or other? Is it classical, impressionism, abstract, cubism, modernism, etc.? It is a sculpture. Medium What is this work constructed from? What type of materials are used? Steel, glass, acetate, copper Size & Effect of Size What is the size of the work? Do you believe that the size has any impact upon the way that you react to this piece? How? H x W x D: 45.6 x 29.1 x 22.7 cm (17 15/16 x 11 7/16 x 8 15/16 in.) no I do not the meaning of this sculpture means a lot more than the size itself. Social, Historical, and/or Cultural Origin Briefly describe the Cultural Origins and/or the Social and Historical relevance of your selected artwork On September 11, 2001, 19 aggressors related with the Islamic externalmist gathering al Qaeda seized four planes and did self destruction assaults against focuses in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the twin pinnacles of the World Trade Center in New York City The figure wearing fire fighter's uniform is canvassed in substantial residue addressing the fire fighters that day. Western or Non-western Humanities Classification Based on the social, historical, and cultural contexts: Would you classify this work as Western or Non- Western? Based on your research and observations, provide reasons and evidence supporting your classification claim. I classify this painting as both as it didn’t just effect one side of the world or one part I effected the whole world. 3

AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE RESEARCH ESSAY Prompt 1 Using the space provided below, analyze the work of art in at least two fully developed paragraphs with at least 200 words using the following guidelines:  Identify the most significant art principles that were used in the work of art, using at least three relevant and genre-specific vocabulary words, clearly describing how the artist used them. Provide a minimum of three specific, descriptive details to support the use of each selected art principle.  Select two adjectives describing the overall mood of the piece (stay away from vague terms such as amazing, awesome, excellent, etc.). Give a minimum of two specific/descriptive details to support your claims.  Use, cite, and incorporate at least one quality research source pertaining to your piece, its artist, style, and/or historical/cultural contexts. To find these sources, please try using Google Scholar and/or our college library. There are a lot of focal points such as the figure wearing fire fighter's uniform is canvassed in concrete dust I was stunned at the hour of the Twin Towers assault like the remainder of the world, that individuals could kill honest individuals with such ease. Sokari stated he used copper brass on the head of Christ figure to blend with the flames in the background. The main idea of this sculpture is the firemen posing as Christ in front of the two burning budlings, the context in the sculpture really shows how strong it is. This sculpture is beauiftul and has a lot of meaning and is centered around the theme of death and terror in my eyes, the way the fireman is posing as Jesus Christ is having so much depth behind it dying for us Americans, is what it is representing to me. The 911 evacuation of the was one of the biggest tall structure clearings of current occasions – requiring the clearing of approximately 17,400 individuals. Many consider the departure of the twin pinnacles as a triumph as 'just' an expected 2,092 building inhabitants neglected to get away according to the fire safety engineering group of university of Greenwich, UK. 4

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