FAH102H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Chiaroscuro, Aerial Perspective, Printmaking
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Discuss key visual elements of the images in details to support your interpretation. Be specific in your references to cultural events. Identify the author and title of the work (usually don"t have to worry about listing the date and polisher) Focus on answering the question and don"t provide a lot of extra background material that doesn"t directly pertain to the subject at had. Three body paragraphs: presenting three main supporting points. Clear topic sentence for each of the paragraphs in the body of your essay. Conclusion: use conclusion to summarize or extend your arguments. To achieve understanding, viewers today must work both from the painting itself, for it provides its own primary evidence for interpretation, and also from general knowledge of northern renaissance culture and society. The idea of reading works of art comes from semiotic theory, which often uses terminology based on language to discuss the process of interpretation.