Find a work of art in your community. * Analyze your chosen work of art based on the information presented in your textbook and outlined below. * Consider how and why the work was created.

Find a work of art in your community.
* It does not need to be a non-Western image, but it can be from any time period or culture.
* You should select only one work of art.
* Copy down the complete identification information on your chosen work. This includes:
* Title
* Artist’s name
* Date it was created
* Scale (size and shape)
* Medium (material it is made from)
* Analyze your chosen work of art based on the information presented in your textbook and outlined below.
* Consider how and why the work was created.
* Aspects to be considered (these are not listed in a particular order):
* Color: Describe the color and explain how it affects the mood of the work and how it is used to organize the composition.
* Composition: What is the subject or narrative? How is the work organized and unified? How do your eyes move around the work, and what do you focus on?
* Objects: what is in the work? Is it crowded or empty? Is it naturalistic or abstract and to what degree?
* Size and shape: horizontal or vertical? Large or small?
* Technique: the manner and ability with which the work was created. This would be the brush strokes and paint of a painting, or the material of a sculpture and how it is manipulated and moved.
* Style: the distinctive manner in which the work was created and the category into which the work falls. Some examples of styles are expressionist, surrealist, pop art, realism, and abstract.
* Write a 5-page paper (roughly 1250 words).
* Include an APA-formatted title page and reference page.
* Include:
* An introduction
* A paragraph about each of the aspects listed above (Color, composition, objects, size and shape, technique, and style)
* A conclusion that discusses how the creative process is revealed in your selected work
* Demonstrate college-level writing (ideas are well organized and supported; sentences are clear, concise, and precise, with proper spelling, grammar, and scholarly tone).
* Use APA 7th edition style format.
* Include a properly formatted title page
* Use double spacing, Times New Roman (12-point) typeface, and 1-inch margins.
* Include APA-formatted citations in the body of the paper.
* Provide an APA-formatted reference list at the end of the paper.
Course Text
* Kleiner, F. S. (2016a). Gardner’s art through the ages, book C: Non-Western art to 1300 (15th ed.). Cengage Learning.
* ISBN: 9781285838007
* ISBN10: 1285838009
* Chapter 19: Africa before 1800
* Kleiner, F. S. (2016b). Gardner’s art through the ages, book F: Non-Western art since 1300 (15th ed.). Cengage Learning.
* ISBN: 9781285838151
* ISBN10: 1285838157
Chapter 37: Africa 1800-1980

Smarthistory (2017) — How to do visual (formal) analysis in art history

Christopher Roy (2011) — African Art: The Masks of the Bonde Family in Boni Perform, 2007

Sources can only be from the textbooks from above, the files that I have uploaded, or the video that i linked above

I have uploaded the art that the essay will be about and the credential card that goes with it that includes the title, medium, artists name, etc.

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