CAL Online - Art History

Module 3 - Art Analysis

Purpose: This module will challenge students to expand their knowledge and concern for writing about art by exposing them to theory about the analytical writing process.

Module 3 Index

Assignment	Estimated Time
3.01 Analytical Thinking: Seeing and Saying	60 min
3.02 Subject Matter and Content	60min
3.03 Form and Content	30 min.
3.04 Getting Ideas: Asking Questions To Get Answers	60 min.
3.05 Formal Analysis	30 min
3.06 Style as the Shaper of Form	60 min
3.07 Module Quiz	30 min

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Analysis

Overview: For this module, you will be using passages from A Short Guide to Writing about Art. This module is intended to deepen your understanding of writing about art. It will deal specifically with analysis. According to Barnet, “An analysis is, literally, a separating into parts in order to understand the whole.” By dissecting a work of art into parts such as its source, materials, size, context, etc., the writer can gain a better understanding of the work and by bringing these parts back together (synthesis), the writer may enlighten his audience to a possible interpretation of the work.

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