ART
APPRECIATION 1301
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CRITICAL ANALYSIS FORMAT
Use the followingformat
when learning from and about a work of art.
DESCRIPTION: Literal qualities
ABOUT THE WORK:
What is the title of the work? When was this artwork completedand by whom?
Where was theartwork executed? The work is in whatmedia? Where is it located?
FROM THE WORK:
Inventorywhat you see in the artwork. Describe the subject matter
(if any) in detail,
and discuss each element of design:
1. Line
2. Light & Value
3. Shape/Volume/Mass
4. Space
5. Color
6. Texture
7. Time & Motion
ANALYSIS: Formalqualities
FROM THE WORK:
Explain how thework is organized using the principles of design. What
principles seem to stand out? How have these principles been used toarrange the elements? Inventoryall
the principles to assure that you haven't forgotten any.
1.Unity & Variety
2.Balance
3.Emphasis & Focal Point
4.Rhythm
5.Scale
6.Proportion
ABOUT THE WORK:
1.Compare this work
with another work by thesame artist to
determine the artist's recurring, coherent style.
2.Compare this work
with a work by anotherartist who was a contemporary
of your artist, to consider the uniquequalities of
this work and its style.
INTERPRETATION: Expressive qualities
FROM THE WORK:
Determine the possible feelings, moods, or underlyingideas that you think the artist is
trying to convey. This is open to yourinterpretation.
Use clues found inthe description and
analysis.
ABOUT THE WORK:
How
was the artist influenced by the world around him?
Who
or what might have influenced the way this artist worked?
Did
your artist belong to, or influence, a period or style of art?
What do critics or historians say about the work's importance in thehistorical
development of art?
JUDGEMENT:
Make
a personal decision about the artistic merit found in the artwork.
ARTISTS
Giotto
Masaccio
SandroBotticelli
Perugino
AndreaMantegna
Donatello
AndreaVerrocchio
Massaccio
LeonardoDa Vinci
Michelangelo
Raphael
Titian
Tintoretto
Janvan Eyck
HieronymusBosch
AlbrechtDurer
Grunewald
PieterBruegel
ElGreco
Caravaggio
ArtemisiaGentileschi
DiegoVelasquez
PeterPaul Rubens
FransHals
Rembrandtvan Rign
JudithLeyster
JanVermeer
NicolasPoussin
FrancoisBoucher
Jean-HonoreFragonard
Jean-BaptisteChardin
Vigee-Lebrun
WilliamHogarth
ThomasGainsboro
J.Louis David
Jean-A-DominiqueIngres
Franciscode Goya
TheodoreGericault
EugeneDelacroix
JohnConstable
JosephMallord Turner
GustaveCourbet
HonoreDaumier
EdouardManet
ThomasEakins
JohnSinger Sargent
ClaudeMonet
Pierre-AugusteRenoir
EdgarDegas
MaryCassatt
BertheMorisot
Toulouse-Lautrec
JamesA. M. Whistler
AndoHiroshige
VincentVan Gogh
PaulGauguin
GeorgesSeurat
PaulCezanne
HenriRousseau
EdvardMunch
GustavKlimt
HenriMatisse
ErnstKirchner
EmilNolde
VassilyKandinsky
PabloPicasso
GeorgesBraque
MarcelDuchamp
FernardLeger
AaronDouglas
GeorgiaO'Keeffe
KatheKollwitz
MaxErnst
SalvadorDali
ReneMagritte
FridaKahlo
JoanMiro
PaulKlee
PietMondrian
EdwardHopper
JacobLawrence
ThomasHart Benton
DiegoRivera
JacksonPollock
WillemDe Kooning
FranzKline
MarkRothko
HelenFrankenthaler
NormanRockwell
EllsworthKelly
RobertRauschenberg
JasperJohns
RoyLichtenstein
AndyWarhol
AudreyFlack
AndrewWyeth
SusanRothenberg
AnselmKiefer
JudyChicago
MiriamSchapiro
KikiSmith
FaithRingold
RobertMotherwell
SandroChia
PhillipPearlstein
JoanMitchell
FrankStella
BridgettRiley
ChuckClose
IsamuNoguchi
AliceNeel