How to answer a question about a art photo

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These response papers are a critical analysis paper written on an original work of art on exhibit at the Wright Art Center Gallery. The chosen piece must be an original artwork viewed firsthand by the student.

The paper must be typed.

The paper must have a title page that includes all the following information:

Title of original artwork Course/Section Number

Name of artist Your Name

Date of work Paper Due Date

Medium (materials and techniques) Number of words in paper

Name of art museum or gallery visited where original artwork is on display


You may also choose to write about more than one original work of art on display. Don’t be afraid to compare and contrast different pieces.

Check the course Schedule for the critical analysis paper due dates.

Present your ideas with clarity, correct spelling and grammatical coherency. The papers will be assessed on spelling, grammatical, and organizational skills.

The following guideline is only a sample. It does not have to be followed when writing your paper. I challenge you to take a more creative approach to your paper, referring to the guideline for inspiration only.

Suggested Outline

  1. Title Page with required information.
  2. What attracted you to the artwork? Relate it to something in your background of experience (either conscious or subconscious). What visual elements do you respond to in the piece?
  3. What materials and techniques did the artist use? Look up the medium in your textbook and discuss the characteristics of the specific medium used. If the work is a painting be sure to include a description of the binder, solvent and ground. If the work is a print or a sculpture describe the techniques used.
  4. Subject: Describe the work of art in terms of its imagery. What are the recognizable or namable images represented? Has the artist included any personal iconography in the subjects? Describe the setting. Is the style representational, abstract, or non-representational?
  5. Form: How does each of the following visual elements affect the expressive content? Is the work balanced? Does the artist achieve balance through repetition, placement, and rhythm? Does the work imply motion? Is the work kinetic?

Line: how do the lines function in the work? What kind of lines seem to dominate? Describe their direction and character. How do they affect the expressive content?

Shape: Are the shapes predominantly organic or geometric? How do they affect the expressive content? Does the artist use chiaroscuro to give an illusion of three-dimensional reality or does the work seem flat and two-dimensional?

Color: Name and describe the content of hues. Are they light or dark? Are they dull or bright? How does the artist’s use of color affect the mood of that piece?

Texture: What are the textures: rough, smooth, shiny, or dull? Describe them. Are the textures real or implied? Do they seem appropriate to the subject and expressive content as you interpret them? If the work were not a painting, would you describe it as painterly?

Space: Describe the illusion of space and the use of perspective. Does the work have a feeling of openness or does it seem closed in? If it is a three-dimensional work (sculpture), is it a solid or does it have openings or holes (negative spaces)?

  1. Content or message: What is your emotional response to what you see? What message or concept do you think the artist was trying to convey? (Remember to go beyond merely restating the subject here.)

Plagiarism of any kind will not be tolerated. You will fail for the semester if there is a question.

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Brandon Thibodeaux t In That Land of Perfect Day on Thes doc А. bec and a t Artist Statement For the past eight years I have lived with and photographed a number of families in townships and villages spanning some 60 square miles of the northern Mississippi Delta; Towns with names like Alligator, BoBo, and Duncan, as well as the United States' oldest completely African American municipality, Mound Bayou. During this time I came across a sermon by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from November 1967 in which he uses the Biblical story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to voice his call for civil disobedience. The three men, in refusing to bow before King Nebuchadnezzar's golden idol, were cast into a fiery furnace but found their selves shielded from its flames by their faith in their Lord. To this Dr. King exclaimed, "Somewhere along the way you should discover something that is so dear, so precious to you, that is so eternally worthful, that you will never give it up. You ought to discover some principle. You ought to have some great faith that grips you so much that you will never give it up. Somehow you must go on and say, I know that the God that I worship is able to delivery me, but if not, I'm going on anyhow, I'm going to stand up for it anyway!” This quote speaks to two themes, faith and perseverance. And in reflecting upon this I realized that these themes run throughout my experiences in the Delta. From the life of a single mother fighting to provide for her children, to the chorus of the hymns we sing in church, like This Little Light of Mine, Take My Hand Precious Lord, and By and By – from which the title of this project is derived. "By and by, when the morning comes, when the saints of God are gathering home, we will tell the story of how we've overcome, we will understand it better by and by Still they echo in the story of Mound Bayou's founding for which in 1910 a New York Times headline once declared, “Ex-Slaves Dream of Model Negro Community Comes True - Where No White Man Can Own a Square-foot of Property.” In the subtext of the piece it is said that in 1887 the town's founder, Isaiah T. Montgomery, saw his men begin to falter as they cleared the Delta's virgin forest and proclaimed, "Why stagger at the difficulties that confront you? Have you and your forefathers not for centuries braved the miasma and hewn down forests at the command of your masters? Can you not perform the same heroic duty for yourselves and for your children unto successive generations, that they may worship and develop under their own vine and fig tree?" These words took the dreams of enslaved generations and turned them into a reality filled with black bankers, doctors, and lawyers, but most importantly they were landowners, whom for some 20 plus years lived a black American Dream in the very heart of a region most recognize by its history of racial strife. Mound Bayou became a promised land for freedmen heralded by Booker T. Washington and President Theodore Roosevelt as being a “shining example of black achievement.” Over these past eight years I have witnessed signs of strength against struggle, humility amidst pride, and a promise for deliverance in the lives that I have come to know. While this work makes specific reference to the rural black experience, I am reminded with every visit that these themes of faith, identity, and perseverance are common to us all for these are the traits of strong men.
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Art Analysis
Name of the picture: In the land of perfect
Boy with Bird
Name of the artist: Duncan
Name of the museum visited: Wright Art Center Gallery
Personal impressions
The focus of this analysis will be on Brandon Thibodaux which is a picture of a boy with
a bird. One thing that attracts me to the picture is the way the boy is holding the bird so
peacefully that one can imagine that the boy was feeling connected to the bird. With this it made
me realize that at some point as human beings we are connected to nature through things like...


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