CUNY Hostos Community College Formal Works of Art Analysis Paper

15 Works in total

3 sentence formal analysis for each work

This doesn’t include name of artist, year and material used in work.

Please begin analysis with material used for EACH work. Ex: oil paint, canvas, wood panel, carved ect…

Formal Analysis

Color: Hue, Saturation, Warm (red, yellow, orange)/Cool (blue, green, purple), Monochromatic

Line & Shape:

Line: Thick or thin, straight or curved, contour (defined or indistinct)

Shape: Geometric, organic/biomorphic

Space: Linear and aerial/atmospheric perspective, relative proportion, relationship between figure/environment

Texture: Real and fictive

Composition: Symmetrical or asymmetrical, open or closed

Scale & Proportion

Picture Plane ( from eye)

Color/light/tone/

Is the painting “impasto” a textured painting ?

Does the artist use:

-fresco

-oil

-tempera

Does the artist focus on idealization ?

Is it a didactic image ?

Does the work focus on religion ? or the concept of liberty/ knowledge?

What the reason ?

Hieronymus?

Commissioned work?

The title and year of each work is below , a file is provided with all 15 images if needed

1.Cimabue, Madonna and Child in Majesty Surrounded by Angels, 1280

2.Giotto, Ognissanti Madonna, 13104.

3.Masaccio, Trinity, Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 1426-27

4. Raphael Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione, c. 1514- 15

5.Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1500

6.Titian, Venus of Urbino, 1534

7.Caravaggio, Conversion of Paul, 1600-1601

8. Goya, Nude Maja, 1801-03

9. Goya Courbet, The stone Breaker, 1849-50

10. Manet, Olympia, 1863

11. Gustave Caillebotte, Paris, Rainy Day, 1877

12. Mary Cassatt, At the Opera, 1879

13. Cézanne, The Basket of Apples, 1890-1894
14. Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907

15.Picasso, Still Life with Chair Can