Analysing Painting Year 9/10

QUESTIONS

1. What is the title of the work?

2. Who was the artist who created the work?
3. What is the focal point in the work?
4. What symbols can you see and what do you think they mean?
5. What colours come forward?
6. Name the colours

DESCRIPTION

1. What can you see/what is it?

2. How was it made?
3. What materials and processes were used?
4. How was it made or constructed?

ANALYSIS

1. How has it been designed?

2. What is the visual plan?
3. Who has put it together?
4. What was the relationship between the materials and processes
used and the idea or theme chosen?
5. How has it been composed?
6. What is the mood of the work?

INTERPRETATION

1. What does it mean?

2. What ideas do you think the artist was exploring?
3. What feelings about or response to the work do you have?
4. What imaginative qualities do you think it has?
5. What influences (political, environmental, social historical,
religious, etc) do you think have affected the artist’s response?