Choose your favorite work of art from any period of Art History found in your textbook.
Include the image of your chosen artwork. 5 points will be taken off for the missing image!
Write a 4-body-paragraph essay (of approximately 1000-1250 words):
- Introduction (100-125 words)
- Body Paragraph 1 (250-300 words): Visual Analysis
- What is depicted?
- What is the medium?
- Discuss the work's visual language: composition, perspective, form, shape, line, color, lighting, texture.
- Body Paragraph 2 (250-300 words): Contextual Analysis
- Who has commissioned this work?
- Who is the intended audience?
- How did historical/cultural/religious background affect this work?
- What kind of message does this work project?
- Who would benefit from its creation and its message?
- Body Paragraph 3 (150-200 words): Your own educated perception/opinion of the chosen work of art - what you have learned to appreciate in a work of art after taking this course.
- Body Paragraph 4 (150-200 words): How has your awareness of the role of art in your own life changed since taking this course?
- Conclusion (100-125 words)