Art100 fall2016 class5.1_formal_analysisstepbystep
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This document provides guidance on analyzing artworks by focusing on various formal elements including line, color, shape, pattern, light, texture, size, and orientation. It emphasizes that not all elements will apply equally and to choose a few to focus on specific to the artwork being analyzed. Examples of artworks are provided to illustrate different elements, such as Cy Twombly's use of texture in his paintings. Guidance is given for each element, such as looking at how light is distributed or where its source originates in a work.
Art100 fall2016 class5.1_formal_analysisstepbystep
- 2. Formal Analysis You are going to examine this object closely in terms of: • line • color • shape • pattern • light • texture • size • orientation
- 3. KEEP IN MIND Not all of these will apply equally to every work of art. Based upon the actual work you are analyzing, you will choose a few of these to focus your energies on.
- 4. LINE and COLOR Are considered the two most basic elements of two- dimensional art
- 5. SHAPE organic (or biomorphic) vs. geometric
- 6. Vasily Kandinsky, Composition VIII, 1923 Oil on canvas, (55 1/8 x 79 1/8 in), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
- 7. Sonia Delaunay Rhyme 1938 oil on canvas
- 8. Frank STELLA, Jasper’s Dilemma, 1962-3, oil on canvas
- 9. Arshile Gorky, Garden in Sochi, 1943
- 10. Joan Miro, Flight of the Dragonfly in Front of the Sun, 1968
- 11. Edgar Degas Four Jockeys c. 1889 oil on board 18 1/8 x 14 5/8 inches
- 12. Tina Modotti Workers’ Demonstration, Mexico City 1926 Platinum print
- 13. Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970, mud, salt, rocks, water, 15 x 1500 ft, Rozel Point, UT
- 14. PATTERN
- 15. Bridget Riley Fall 1963 polyvinyl acetate paint on hardboard 55 x 55 inches
- 16. Bridget Riley, Hesitate 1964 Oil on canvas 1067 x 1124 mm
- 17. Tomma Abts Fenke, 2014 Acrylic and oil on canvas 18 7/8 x 15 inches
- 18. Henri Matisse La Gerbe Cut paper 1953
- 19. Diego RIVERA The Flower Seller 1941 Oil on masonite 48 x 48 inches
- 20. Loïs Mailou Jones Ode to Kinshasa 1972 Mixed media 48 x 36 inches
- 21. Thomas RUFF Interieur 13B 1980 Chromogenic print 10 7/8 x 8 inches
- 22. LIGHT is light evenly distributed across the picture plane or concentrated in one place for dramatic effect? where is the light source and how does it create emphasis?
- 23. Caravaggio Conversion on the Road to Damascus 1601 Oil on canvas 91 in × 69 inches Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome
- 24. Georges de la Tour The Penitent Magdalen c. 1645 oil on canvas 61.4 x 48 inches
- 25. Mary Cassatt Young Thomas and His Mother 1893 Pastel on cardboard 24 x 20 inches Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
- 26. Weegee (Arthur Fellig), Two Offenders in the Paddywagon, c. 1942
- 27. Raymond PETTIBON No Title (And now the…), 1987 Ink on paper 22 1/2 x 13 inches
- 28. TEXTURE/MATERIALS • texture can be a quality of a two-dimensional surface—it is most noticeable at the extremes of roughness and smoothness • it can also be a more literal—a choice of unusual materials that seem to carry a symbolic charge
- 29. TEXTURE Jean Dubuffet Grand Master of the Outsider 1947
- 30. Paul Klee Highway and Byways 1929 oil on canvas 32 5/8 x 26 3/8 inches
- 31. Cy Twombly Leda and the Swan 1962 oil, pencil and crayon on canvas 6' 3" x 6' 6 3/4"
- 32. Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1971, Oil and crayon on canvas, 118 x 188¼"
- 33. John MCCRACKEN, Green Slab in Two Parts, 1966
- 34. Mickalene Thomas A-E-I-O-U and Sometimes Y 2009 Plastic rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel on panel 24 x 20 in
- 35. Cady NOLAND, Frame Device, 1989, Pipes, stantions, and twelve walkers 132 × 132 × 54 in, installed at the Hammer Museum
- 36. Nayland Blake, Feeder 2, 1998, steel and gingerbread, 7 x 10 x 7 feet
- 37. Liu Wei, Density 1, 2013, books, mild steel and wood, dimensions variable
- 38. SIZE Richard Serra, installation at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 39. Donald RODNEY, In the House of My Father, 1996-7
- 40. ORIENTATION Carl Andre, Breda, 1986, blue Belgian granite
- 41. Robert RAUSCHENBERG, Monogram, 1955
- 42. Xu BING A Book from the Sky 1987-1991
- 43. E.V. Day, Bride Fight, 2006