The Paper Itself:
This exercise is called a response essay. Looking is not as simple as you may think. Rather than merely describe the object, you will want to analyze and interpret it. You need to ask yourself the questions:
• “What is the most important thing this work communicates to the viewer?”
• “What conveys this thing? What attributes of this work evoke the associations, ideas or emotions in the viewer to convey its meaning?
The challenge is to analyze a work of art, separating its parts in order to understand the whole. Resist the urge to merely describe, and instead evaluate the object.
