art appreciation

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Content and Analysis

Briefly review the main points of each type of analysis listed in your textbook. Use the list below as a guide.
Choose a work of art that you think lends itself to the analysis you are considering. Copy and past a picture of that piece. Each piece should be by an artist found in your book BUT NOT THE ONE USED AS AN EXAMPLE IN YOUR TEXT BOOK FOR THE MODE YOU ARE DISCUSSING.
Write a short analysis of each of your chosen pieces using the mode. (2-3 paragraphs)
Remember: YOU analyze each piece using the mode of analysis. These modes don’t exist in the piece.
THEN: write a longer combine analysis of a piece of your choosing (not the one your text uses as the example of a combined analysis)
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Iconographic Analysis

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Short iconographic analysis using above picture:

Biographical Analysis

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Short biographical analysis using above picture

Feminist Analysis and Critique

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Short feminist analysis using above picture

Contextual Analysis

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Short contextual analysis using above picture

Psychological Analysis

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Short psychological analysis using above picture

Formal Analysis

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Short formal analysis using above picture

Stylistic Analysis

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Short stylistic analysis using above picture

Gender Studies Analysis and Critique:

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Short gender studies analysis and critique using above picture:

Critical Race Analysis and Critique

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Short formal analysis using above picture

COMBINED, MORE IN DEPTH ANAYSIS:

MORE EXPLANATION:For each of the categories listed, pick a different art piece. The piece you select for each category should be something that you think lends itself to the category you are working on. For example, if you pick a Picasso and try to do a feminist analysis of the work, it might be harder than if you picked a Kahlo piece to discuss. Picasso didn’t usually work in feminist channels. I mean it could be done with regards to a number of his images, but it would just feel a bit forced or be a lot more difficult. Does that make sense?

For each category, then write a quick analysis in that mode. So if you picked Kahlo’s Two Fridas for feminist analysis, you would then write 1-2 paragraphs discussing that image in a feminist mode of analysis–talk about those kinds of themes. If you picked Van Gogh’s self portrait for a biographical analysis, you would then discuss that image with regards to his biography.

For the combined analysis, pick an image and then talk about multiple ways to critique/analyzing the image. For example, you could talk about Van Gogh’s biography but you could also discuss it in a formal way. Most images lend themselves to more than one kind of analysis.

One thing NOT to do: write “this image shows a formal analysis”. No, it doesn’t . YOU are DOING THE ANALYSIS to the work of art! So instead…”I’m going to look at this work of art from the perspective a formal analysis” or something like that. Does that distinction make sense? It’s kind of important

Keep in touch…ask questions if you have them! This is a difficult (and longer) assignment.