class review slides

1. REVIEW

2. VISUAL ANALYSIS
an exploration of how the visual elements function
within an artwork, both on their own and to create or
enhance meaning/emotion/mood/viewing experience

3. • “visual elements on their own” can show an artist’s skill - i.e.,
control of brushstroke, fabrication skills, camera work on video
• “visual elements contribute to meaning /emotion/viewing
experience”– i.e., a large scale painting makes you feel a sense
of immersion; texture creates haptic visual experience (feeling
with your eyes - a sense of softness, roughness)

4. CLYFFORD STILL
PH-268, 1955 (left) and PH-921,
1955–74 (right)

5. VISUAL ELEMENTS IN A WORK OF ART
• Medium/Material
• Style (if relevant/identifiable)
• Formal qualities (the most basic visual elements): line, texture, color,
shape/form, scale, pattern, repetition
• Space/setting/place – installation, public art, sculpture/3D
• Other elements – background/foreground, perspective….?????

6. AMADA BROWER
Chromatopia (2017/2018)
Stratton Elementary School,
Champaign-Urbana, IL
Created through community sewing
workshops

7. CHRISTO + JEANNE-
CLAUDE
Wrapped Reichstag (1995)
Reichstag (German Parliament Bldg)
Berlin
for two weeks a 100,000 square meters
of silver fabric draped the building,
fastened with blue rope.

8. J.R.
Cross Border Banquet (2018)
Tecate, MX and San Diego County
border

9. MOVING IMAGES ADDITIONAL FORMAL ELEMENTS
(FILM, VIDEO, ANIMATION, VIDEO GAMES, VR)
(AND PHOTO)
• Editing
• Framing of a shot– close-up, extreme close-up, long shot, shooting from
below or above
• Camera movement – pan across, tilt up and down
• Movement within a still shot
• Sound (or silence)
• Loops – not linear; no set beginning or end; can play indefinitely
• Genre/Medium – animation, live action, experimental video, animated
gif , VR