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CPS - Seminar Presentation Evaluation.

For my CPS seminar presentation I chose to look at Sabine Moritz. I decided to focus particularly on her paintings which explore themes from her childhood depicting her memories as a young girl in Eastern Germany during the 1970's and 80's. 

Evaluating my presentation I feel as though I gave a well spoken account researching into Moritz's life as a young child discovering what it was that influenced her paintings and also into the political history of Germany at the time. However, I think I should have looked at the history of Germany, Eastern Germany most importantly, in a lot more depth to gain an even better understanding of life during the 1970's and 80's. Research behind her influences also needed more depth however this information was difficult to find with little books and articles available. 

Reading feedback from my tutor, comments were made that I did give a clear presentation showing good use of technology with a well organised slide show. The time for the presentations was 10 minutes, mines was in fact 6 minutes so would have needed to have been a little longer. It was commented that I did give the work good context researching into the artist well, but more depth was needed  in order to lengthen the presentation to the time required. It was also mentioned that more critical responses were needed to show how Moritz's work is viewed and experienced by the spectator. I found this part of the research particularly difficult as there were not many articles reviewing her exhibitions.

Looking at my peer feedback, they commented that my presentation was engaging and well spoken with good quality images of Moritz's work and little writing on the slides which gave the artist more presence on screen. They also said that I gave good information on Moritz's childhood and how it relates to her work showing clear links between the two describing it clearly to the audience. Like my tutor suggestions were made that I find out more about her influences and links to artist movements like impressionism and expressionism. 

I believe that I did give a well spoken seminar presentation with good research into Moritz' life as a child giving her work great context. I do agree with the comments and suggestions made about my presentation. If I were to improve it I would go into a lot more depth about the links with the history of Germany in particular the divide of the East and West. I would also research further into her influences and also critical responses to her exhibitions to find out how her work is received by others.