Artist Research

Choose an artist from the list below:

144 Artists

Find a favorite example of the artists works and post them to your blog.

Include the following info:
Title:

Date

Media 

Size:

Location (museum/collection):

URL/ site name 

Answer the following:

1. What is the subject matter?
   
2. Genres. Is this a still life (group of things)? a portrait (a painting, drawing or sculpture of a person)? or a landscape/seascape/cityscape (picture of the land/water/city)? other (explain)?
   
3. Style/form: Is this artwork realistic (as real as possible)? abstract (distorted reality)?  non-objective (as far from reality as possible)? symbolic? functional? other (explain)?
   
4. Description. Identify the sensory qualities (art elements). Can you identify a color scheme? Why do you think the artist might have chosen the colors she/he did? Do they make sense? What kind of lines did the artist use? How does the texture add to the work? etc.
   
5. Discuss the formal properties - use of design principles.
   
6. Interpretation. What do you think the artists was trying to say? Why do you think he/she chose this subject?
   
7. What feeling does this artwork give you and why?
   
8. What part of the artwork is your favorite and why?
   
9. Judgment: Defend this as a work of art using one of the theories of aesthetics (or combination): Art as Realism - Art for Formal Properties - Art as Expression - Art as Functional.