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The next essay we will be writing will be based on John Berger’s “Ways of Seeing”. In this essay, we will be accomplishing two purposes: 1) analyzing a work of art by
itself, and 2) analyzing a critical argument about the artist’s work, which you must find through your own research.

This research process is not open-ended; you may not Google for the items you need for this essay. All research should be done on the websites and databases as
instructed.

 

PART I: Find the work of art/artist

 

1. Go to the National Gallery, London’s webpage (https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/).

2. On the top bar, click on ‘Paintings.’

3. Under the ‘Explore the Collection’ heading, there are several options. You can look at the “collection overview,” or browse by floor, or look at the 30 most famous
paintings. You can browse the paintings through any of these links.

4. Choose one painting to analyze for your paper. This painting should catch your eye, and spark some thoughts for you. Print out the painting to bring to class on
Monday.

5. Take some notes on the image, using Berger’s vocabulary (“image”, “history”, “perspective”, “visual field”, “information”). We will refine these ideas in class.

 

Famous artists in the National Gallery:

 

– Rembrandt van Rijn

– Sandro Botticelli

– Johannes Vermeer

 

– Jan van Eyck

– Claude Monet

– Paul Cezanne

 

– Leonardo da Vinci

– Caravaggio

 

PART II: Find the critical article

 

6. Go to Menlo’s library page (https://www.menlo.edu/library/).

7. Click on “Academic Search Premier” (under Librarian’s Top Picks).

8. Type in the name of your artist. You may want to type it in quotations, to avoid any mix-ups with other artists of similar names. On the left sidebar, make sure
“Full Text” and “Peer Reviewed” and “Academic Journals” are ALL checked off.

9. Choose an article which critiques some work by the painter. (It does not have to be the same painting you chose for Part I – as long as the artist is the same,
that’s good enough.) The article should be understandable to you, but also challenging.

10. As you read, take some notes of the following:

a. What is the rhetorical purpose of this article?

b. What are the key words this author uses to analyze the painting?

c. Does the author include the history of the painting? (As in, either the historical context of the situation in the painting, or the history of where and when the
painting was bought/sold, etc.)

d. What year was this analysis written? How do you think the analysis of this painting has probably changed since the painting first appear

 

 

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