How to Look at Art

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How to Look at Art

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How to Look at Art

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How to Look at Art

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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

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Francisco Goya, The Executions of the Third of May, 1808, 1814

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Jan Van Eyck, The Arnolfini Wedding Portrait, 1434

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Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950

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Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps, 1801

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Lucian Freud, Queen Elizabeth II, 2001

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Norman Rockwell, Triple Self-Portrait, 1960

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Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889