Get on Board - How to Analyse a Picture

1. Observe and react
What captures your attention? 
How does it make you feel at first glance? 

2. Describe and analyse 
What do I see? landscape, people, animals, objects… 
Action or actions? 
Time of day, season, weather, inside/outside, environment, historical period… 
Organization: composition (background, foreground, position of the different elements), contrasts, emphasis, movement… 
Colors and light 
The people: possible age, social position, relationship, body language and attitudes… 
How does the artist get the viewer's attention? 
What do you think the artist wants you to think or feel? 
How does the painting make you feel now that you have analyzed it?  

3. Interpret and judge 
If you could ask the artist one question, it would be ... 
I like this picture because ... / I dislike the picture because ... (you can also ask your partner) 
I would / would not hang it in my home because  

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The artwork is about ... 
The artist wants to … 
It reminds me of … 
There are symbols such as ... 
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4. Recap 
Sum up in a few sentences what has been said about the picture. 
Think of 3 different adjectives or nouns and be ready to justify.