Art4: Art Appreciation
Research Paper
(Analytical & Critical Essay)
Length: 5 pages as text, double spaced, 12 point
font of Times, plus at least 3 visual supplements (e.g. copies from published
pictures or Internet)
Outline
I. Introduction
II. Background
A. Development: Time line of basic artistic influences and cultural context.
B. Motivation: The artist’s intentions and purposes.
III.
Body: Using three art works
– early, middle, and late examples – of the artist’s work,
describe and analyze his/her use of the following in the three works;
A. Style
B. Visual structures and organization
C. Subject matter
D. Materials and processes
IV.
Conclusion: What innovations
or new ideas did the artist bring to the art world? What other artists have
been influenced by his/her work?
V. Bibliography
You must reference the following:
*A World of Art (textbook)
*At least one art article found in an art journal or
a general newspaper
*At least two books found in the Slide Library,
University Library, or other Libraries