Students —
I hope this will assist you, not only here, but in future research papers about some subject!
PAGE #1
Look on the web for essays, their personal websites, and more for general information about the artist you are researching
BIO
Write about the birth/death date of the artist
What is their nationality, where are they living, have lived, died?
What formal educational training did they study, where, who did the study under?
Important factors about their lives that might seem especially connected to their work you may have found
What collections can their works be found in, name of institution, city, country
Who/what are their influences?
PAGE #2
Select 2 images you like of the artist’s works.
Speak about the earliest first, call this Figure #1
Speak about the latest second, call this Figure #2
Explain the influences you see evolving from Figure #1 to Figure #2
PAGE #3 - #4
Deconstruction of the Figure #1
Introduce the work of art with the details: title, date, media, dimensions, collection it might belong to
Is there anything oddly significant about the materials, the scale, the site? I.E. Mona Lisa created by Vic Muniz in chocolate syrup is VERY different than Da Vinci’s Mona, yes?
How?
Speak about how the artist may have made it.
For instance Tom Friedman’s carved self portrait in an aspirin, prompts a very different response in regards to meaning than say a self portrait carved in marble. Yes?
Describe the most dominant Elements + Principles of Design that you see within the work
Line
Shape
Color & value
Form / volume / mass
texture
repetition
etc.
Discuss at least 4 of these in at least two or three paragraphs each.
Embed the image of the work you are discussing and give details below it.
For instance…
Figure #1
Artist
Title (italics always), date
media
dimensions
collection
My examples I have published onto the course assignment will assist you here.
Please READ them to assist you in how to structure an excellent paper anatomy.
PAGE #5 - #6
Do the same as above with a deconstruction of FIGURE #2
Duplicate Figure #1 structure above
PAGE #7
Summarize the overarching artist’s work you have presented and convince your reader how important this individual’s works are to the world at large.
PAGE #8
Works cited or bibliography page include URL’s
Tad-da!
Make sure you run your written work through grammarly.com - to proof towards establishing excellent mechanics of writing; grammar, spelling, etc.
Re read your work out loud.
Have someone else read it!
If they have questions, I will too!!
Get ‘er done!
:: Pepper
Research papers are always double spaced, formerly written with factual researched examples to back up the writer’s statements.
It is not a subjective paper, saying very little or being vague, riddled with spelling errors or sentences that don’t make sense, thus tripping-up the reader in their read!
A good paper should teach the reader something.