Visual Inquiry Paper

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Requirements: APA style (for a complete sample see https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/10/ ). Your essay should be typed, double-spaced on standard-sized paper (8.5″ x 11″) with 1″ margins on all sides. You should use a clear font that is highly readable. APA recommends using 12 pt. Times New Roman font. The outline below is provided to help you frame your paper. The final paper is an art criticism paper, not a fill in the blanks or short one sentence answers to the questions. The outline is presented to focus your writing on art criticism. The following link gives you additional resources regarding the assignment: https://www.uwgb.edu/malloyk/art_criticism_and_formal_analysi.htm Artist whose work is being analyzed

I. Description/First Impressions: What is the artwork about? What ideas and feelings emerge? What in the artwork gives you these impressions? II. Analysis/Take a closer look at the: 1. Subject matter/objects: 2. The sensory qualities

 

3. The formal qualities 4. The technical qualities 5. The expressive qualities Review your first impressions. Any changes? What theme(s) seem to emerge? III. Contextual Analysis/ What is the title of this work? Does that affect your understanding of the image? Examine the work in context to the following: 1. Cultural information: What have you discovered about the time and culture in which this artwork was created? 2. Historical information: What have you discovered about the artist’s life, personal style and expression? IV. Interpretation/ Re-examine your artwork using the cultural and historical information to add to your understanding and interpretation of the work. What are the potential meanings of this work? V. Judgment/Which of the artistic styles do you think the artist is employing? Formalism Critical Theory (Marxist or Feminist) Deconstruction Enlightenment Structuralism Modernism Post-structuralism Psychoanalytic Relational Visual Culture Phenomenology On what basis do you define this employed style? Do you think it is “art”? Why or Why not?