How to Look at Art
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How to Look at Art
Art is Form and Content.
Form means:
The Elements of Art
The Principles of Design
The actual, physical materials the artist used
Content means:
What the artist meant to portray
What the artist actually did portray
How we react, as viewers, to both the intended and actual messages
Francisco Goya, The Executions of the Third of May, 1808, 1814
Jan Van Eyck, The Arnolfini Wedding Portrait, 1434
Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950
Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps, 1801
Lucian Freud, Queen Elizabeth II, 2001
Norman Rockwell, Triple Self-Portrait, 1960
Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889