Writing in the Humanities Art Analysis Assignment

 Elements: You don't have to know the periodic table to analyze the elements in your image. 

Element Analysis

Using vocabulary learned from this video, which is also found in the course modules, break down and communicate the elements of the image in an in-depth way. This part should be more significant than the description.  You are essentially taking the larger view from the description and now putting a finer point on it.  To assist you, Purdue OWL's spatial analysis approach might help. Also, review paragraph three of the sample essay below for an example of a finished analysis of artistic elements. 

Sample Element Analysis  

In analyzing the work, lines, shapes, colors, and space combine with and separate from one another to create Warhol’s distinctive design.  Probably the most prominent feature of the work is the gridlines forming twelve full rectangles and four partial ones.  Additionally, with the work repeating the same image throughout, Lady Liberty standing in the foreground of a solidly colored Upper New York Bay creates twelve squares, each capped by a seemingly spray-painted, circle-like shroud.  The blue-gray spray paint dominates three-quarters of the images of the Statue of Liberty, and this coloring practically spatters on most, if not all, of Lady Liberty in the second row of the grid (the first row in blue-gray), but the paint covers less of the statue as viewers move their eyes down the canvas, demonstrating the artist’s use of an uneven fading effect in its design.