Pleas do on the paintingGeorges Seurats Evening, Honfleur. Document Preview: Art Humanities Fall 2012 Formal Analysis #2 3-5 pages Due via email no later than Friday, December 14 Write a concise formal analysis of any painting located on the fifth floor of the Museum of Modern Art, except Monets Water Lilies, Picassos Demoiselles dAvignon and Jackson Pollacks One: Number 31. *** You must attach proof of admission (i.e. a receipt or a picture of yourself in front of your chosen work of art). This is not a research paper nor is at an art history paper. This is the beauty of Art Humanities: you are free to analyze works of art on their own merit, without couching them in history or worrying about tedious secondary source research. This assignment is intended to exercise your visual and verbal skills. I would like you to learn to see an image both in all its details and as a whole, and to verbalize and organize this visual information into a coherent essay. These skills are an important basis for thinking about and understanding works of art. Here are some steps you might pursue in preparing your paper: ? Forget for a moment what is represented and think rather about how the image is painted. What kinds of materials are used? How is the paint applied? How are forms constructed and arranged? How is color used? How are effects of light and space created? This list could go onthe essential point is to focus on the how rather than the what. ? Looking now at what is represented in your painting, think about how the formal aspects focused on above contribute to this. That is, consider why the specific figure or scene you see is painted the way it is. You should think about both part and whole here: why are certain areas of the image painted differently than others, and how do these together create an integrated work? ? Then begin identifying the basic elements of the composition: what is depicted? What are the relationships between figures and architectural elements? Between one figure and another? What are the dominant colors or expressions? Attachments: Art-Second-Fo.pdf