Below is a powerpoint over the Art Elements and Principles that should help you comprehend the information in Chapters 4 & 5. The Elements and Principles are critical for you to know and understand in order for us to discuss and analyze art throughout art history.
Below are many helpful forms to organizing and understanding how to look at art, organize your thoughts as well as the material to be covered and a one page example with comments so you can get a FEEL for what others have written and how I approach the grading of the papers. You will NOT need to use them all or attach any of them but they are very helpful and you should resort to printing them off to guide you with your paper.
ART ELEMENTS & PRINCIPLES
The Art of Seeing
Art Critique form pg. 1: 2.tiff
Art Critique form pg. 2 :3.tiff
Art Critique form, pg. 3.tiff
Art Critique form, pg. 4.tiff
Elements and Principals of design organization form .tiff
one page paper example.tiff
ART ANALYSIS form(2).doc
Your requirements for your CRITICAL ANALYSIS PAPER:
There are some good options from the text listed below: Choose any 1
Ch 5, Image 5.11, Edgar Degas, “Before The Ballet”
Ch 4, Image 4.7, Thomas Eakins, “The Biglin Brothers Racing”
Ch.6, Image 6.9, Edgar Degas, “The Singer in Green”
Ch.7, Image 7.3 Raphael, The School of Athens Choose one and begin to analyze using the concepts and terminology for Elements of Design and Principals of Design. Be sure to read the “ART OF SEEING” information above as it spells out the four steps you should be going through to cover all the necessary areas in your paper. The additional forms are to be printed off and used as a starting point to help guide the direction of the paper. You will not need to have them attached to your paper. The ruberic grading format you find here at the bottom of the resource page will give you the possibility of earned points attached to each category of the paper. Your paper is worth a total of 100 points.
So basically writing you paper, start with what you see like the information in “ART OF SEEING” explains.
EX: ” I see a variety of colors, mostly reds and blues…deep in hue in a landscape of what appears to be a fall season. There are several buildings in the foreground with trees and a small park. Children are playing with a dog.” ..be very thorough and as descriptive as possible until you have mentioned everything you can that is obvious to the eye.
Describe everything you see then begin to break it down by HOW THE ARTIST USED EACH OF THE ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPALS of DESIGN…It is NOT enough to state, …” the artist used lots of variety to bring the whole painting together.” You are simply throwing one of the terms in a sentence. That is not the way to earn your points. You must describe “HOW” the artist used or created variety in the art piece.
EX: “The artist used dark thick lines to outline the trees and the lines direct your eyes upward toward a bright sky. The lines in the tree for the branches appear thinner and more delicate as though they have lost some life, therefore giving me the impression they are possibly older trees. The artist used thick brushstrokes with the paint creating texture that is obvious to the eye. They also used a variety of colors and lines in the tree trunk and in the leaves that helps to create the rough texture of the tree and it’s leaves.”
Each Element and Principle of Design label should be used in your writing even if you have to describe the absence of any use of it. I will attempt to up load an example of some previous report tomorrow for more helpful guidance. Just be thorough, and you won’t have any problem making the 4-5 pages. Proper sentence structure is required as well as spelling and those things can be counted against you if not used correctly.
Your paper must be MLA style and done in Times Roman font or something as close as possible, double spaced, 10-12 point in size. The paper must be 4-5 pages in length excluding the image itself. YOU MUST ATTACH THE IMAGE.
You are also graded on appropriate grammar. Points are deducted for being short in length. If you have read and understand the material you will have no problems with writing 4-5 pages on the art.
***Follow the following tips for your paper and you should do well.***
Make sure you attach a photo. You will miss points for not attaching or attaching properly.
Make sure you are following directions on format and length. Do NOT use an outline format. Try NOT to be repetitive.
Make sure you understand each concept, use the context of the term properly and according to what we have learned in the course.
Make sure your spelling, grammar and sentence structure is correct. Have someone review it for you if your have to.
Make sure you discuss your Interpretation of the art piece in your paper.
Make sure you discuss thoroughly your personal connection or lack of personal connection to the art work you have chosen to write about in the paper.
Rubric for paper shows details on categories that need to be covered in your paper. Please click on link below.
New Rubric
Textbook: Living with art by mark getlein 12th edition
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