What techniques has the artist used to unify the composition?How does the artist use color? Is there a particular color scheme?

Norman Rockwell’s The problem we all live with.

Length: 750 words 2. Typed. Size 12 Font 3. Double-spaced. 1. DO NOT give me a research paper! DO NOT give me a history of the artist or a history of the work. This is a ‘looking’ exercise. 2. Discuss the work you have selected thoroughly. Give the artist’s name and underline the title of the work. Format: Use the following general structure to help you construct your paper. I will be looking for this type of organization.1. Introduction: Inform the reader of the subject of the paper. It will include your thesis statement. Your thesis statement should include what visual elements and principles of design you will be addressing when analyzing the artwork you have chosen. You will tell me a little about the title (underlined) and name of the artist of the work you are going to discuss. The introduction should:

catch the readers attention

provide a clearly stated

not say, am now going to discuss.

2. Body: The next several paragraphs comprise the body of your paper. A. Background paragraph: This sets the stage for your discussion. This is the area where you provide general information on the work you have selected. You’ll need to state the obvious giving the general description. (It’s a landscape of a family picnicking in a field by the mountains on a summer’s day). Is the work representational, abstract, non-representational. What is the subject. B. Body: The next paragraphs will be the body of your paper. Here is where you get into the core of your discussion. This is where you get specific in your description. Describe the work as if the reader can’t see it. You should be using the terms introduced (the Visual Elements and the Principles of Design!) How does the artist use iconography (symbols, signs, and images.)What techniques has the artist used to unify the composition? How does the artist use color? Is there a particular color scheme? How does the artist convey space, mass, volume, etc…. 3. Conclusion: The last paragraph will contain your conclusion. (Perhaps you have a greater feeling for art in general or the type of work you selected to review. What were the most memorable thing about the work you looked at.). This is where you sum it all up. A. Refresh the reader by alluding to portions of your introduction. B. Summarize your major ideas. C. You want to mention the title of the work (and the artist) one last time.