ARTH 1100 Chapter 2: D'ALLEVA CH 2 - Formal Analysis
10 Feb 2017
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Looking @ the work of art to try to understand what the artist wants to convey visually. Viewer provides context way that you interpret things is based on who you are. Basic characteristics of works of art that you will focus on in formal analysis . Works of art change w/ the passage of time be sure that you"re not ascribing visual/physical characteristics to the work that it didn"t have @ the time it was made. Whether artist is using a particular range of colors (e. g. primary vs. secondary colors) Characteristics of each color used: highly saturated appears to be a representation of the color in its most vivid form, low saturation hue can hardly be distinguished. Value: describes the relative lightness of a color whether it tends more toward white or more toward black. Linearity works that emphasize line & linear contours.
