Duane+Michals

1. Description: Look at the artwork carefully and describe every thing that you see. Name only what you can see, not what you may assume. Name specific elements such as: familiar subjects, materials, lines, colors, shapes/forms, textures, value, and spaces.

2. Analysis: Analyze the overall design of the artwork. How are the design elements organized in the artwork? Look for kinds of: balance, patterns, movements, rhythm, unity, variety, focal point/emphasis.

3. Interpretation – Interpret the moods, feelings and ideas in the artwork. How does the artwork make you feel? What do you think is going on? Discuss any topic you find valuable such as: meaning of familiar objects, symbols, moods or feelings and how the artist expressed them, ideas/beliefs that may be expressed or communicated in the symbols.

4. Judgment – Judge the artwork based on what you have observed in the previous sections. Give reasons for it’s meaning to you. Explain what you think the artist wanted to tell us. Explain why you think the artwork is or is not successful. Explain why others many have a different interpretation of the same work