Critical Perspectives: Image Analysis Exercises

Critical Perspectives: Image Analysis Exercises

Exercise One
Ready for week 2 of Critical Perspectives, find and print a copy of the image Still Life with Chair and Caning (1912) by Pablo Picasso; in your own words (a minimum of 500 words) write an analysis of this image that includes a consideration of its technique (collage) in relation to the aims of the Cubist movement. Your review should contain 3 elements: Description, Analysis, and Evaluation.

Include:
- the key ideas contained within the chosen piece
- primary research; i.e. a direct reading from the image
- secondary research; to include a bibliography including books, journals (1 is acceptable) and the internet (utilizing 2 academic search engines only)
- different styles of writing
- quotations from and references to your sources used
- a clear, copy of your image correctly labelled

Exercise 2

Ready for week 3 find and print a copy of the image Cut with a Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Era of Weimer Beer-Belly Culture (1919-20) by Hannah Höch; in your own words (about 600 words) write an analysis of this image that includes a consideration of its technique (photomontage) in relation to the aims of Dada in Berlin. Your review should contain 3 elements: Description, Analysis, and Evaluation.

Include:
- the key ideas contained within the chosen piece
- primary research; i.e. a direct reading from the image
- secondary research; to include a bibliography including books, journals (1 is acceptable) and the internet (utilizing 2 academic search engines only)
- different styles of writing
- quotations from and references to your sources used
- a clear, copy of your image correctly labelled

Exercise 3

Ready for week 4 find and print a copy of the image Bathers at Moritzburg (1909-1910) by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner; in your own words (about 600 words) write an analysis of this image that includes a consideration of its technique (colour and image distortion) in relation to the aims of the Expressionist movement in Europe. Your review should contain 3 elements: Description, Analysis, and Evaluation.


Include:
- the key ideas contained within the chosen piece
- primary research; i.e. a direct reading from the image
- secondary research; to include a bibliography including books, journals (1 is acceptable) and the internet (utilizing 2 academic search engines only)
- different styles of writing
- quotations from and references to your sources used
- a clear, copy of your image correctly labelled
-

Exercise 4

Ready for week 5 find and print a copy of the photograph Girl with Leica (1935) by Aleksandr Rodchenko ; in your own words (about 600 words) write an analysis of this image that includes a consideration of its technique (photography) in relation to the aims of the Russian Constructivist movement and the Bauhaus. Your review should contain 3 elements: Description, Analysis, and Evaluation.


Include:
- the key ideas contained within the chosen piece
- primary research; i.e. a direct reading from the image
- secondary research; to include a bibliography including books, journals (1 is acceptable) and the internet (utilizing 2 academic search engines only)
- different styles of writing
- quotations from and references to your sources used
- a clear, copy of your image correctly labelled
-

Exercise 5

Ready for week 6 find and print a copy of the image Monogram (1955) by Robert Rauschenberg; in your own words (about 600 words) write an analysis of this image that includes a consideration of the image in relation to contemporary (to the image) art and design in America. Your review should contain 3 elements: Description, Analysis, and Evaluation.

Include:
- the key ideas contained within the chosen piece
- primary research; i.e. a direct reading from the image
- secondary research; to include a bibliography including books, journals (1 is acceptable) and the internet (utilizing 2 academic search engines only)
- different styles of writing
- quotations from and references to your sources used
- a clear, copy of your image correctly labelled

Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today

This exhibition at The Liverpool Tate, marks the departure point at which artists would traditionally associate certain hues with different emotions or symbolic meanings. The works illustrate how artists began to perceive colour as a ready-made substance (e.g. Dulux paint colour charts), rather than as scientific or expressive. Artists went to great lengths to remove their own personal choice in the tones they used, employing their own complicated systems or working with 'found colours'.

The exhibition takes something that we take for granted and think we know about and strips it down. The ideas presented are simple yet complex at the same time. It serves as a good reminder of some of the content of Basic Design. The most interesting exhibits where the displays of swatch books and sketchbooks dedicated to the subject that I wanted to turn the pages of.

The exhibition runs until the 13th September 2009