Formal Analysis Exercise
DIRECTIONS: Below you will find two images that are also available for review in your textbook. For a better view, please turn to the course textbook (the 8th edition) to view the artworks. Image #1: Edvard Munch's The Scream,
Fig.4.35 on page 97. Image #2: Master of the Osservanza's St Anthony Abbot Tempted by a Heap of Gold, Fig. 7.5 on page 162.
Please follow the directions below to complete this exercise. You will be answering questions (A - M) under the pictures on this page.
1. Selection of the Art Object (pick one!)
Man holding face screaming. Picture of St. Anthony with church in background.
Image #1: Munch's The Scream, Fig.4.35 on page 97 Image #2: Master of the Osservanza's St Anthony Abbot Tempted by a Heap of Gold, Fig. 7.5 on page 162
Having looked at both, please select one as your choice to think and write about.
Having selected one for whatever reasons, please respond to the set of below questions.
2. Identification of the Art Object (please answer A through F):
Identify the art object (the painting) of your choice by providing the following information in the listed items A-F.
A. Title of the Work:
B. Artist:
C. Year Completed:
D. Medium Used:
E. Where Made or Found, if known:
F. Current Location:
3. Examination of the Art Object's Medium/Technique/Process Used (please answer G and H):
G. Again, identify the medium:
H. List and explain in detail, the steps - the technique or process used (the basic tools and steps the artist would generally use) to create the work from start to finish. This can be the GENERIC steps used to make an oil painting on canvas. THIS IS FROM RESEARCH! (NO WIKIPEDIA!) This will answer FROM RESEARCH be at LEAST one paragraph. Please paraphrase - put the research in your own words. Large blocks of quotes are not given credit. Get used to paraphrasing researched items.