English_ Analysis of picture. Flashcards
Tips
Like a Essay, a visual work is something that has been composed. It can be analyzed as such, both for technique and purpose.
What do you see?
This refers to literal, and not Interpretive
Imagery Sizing Colour Positioning What is happening?
Quadrants
This helps group the scenery into four sections_ allowing for better analysis of events.
top-bottom/ left-right or
Bottom-top/ left-right
What information are you simply curious about?
The Title: “The wounded Deer”
When: 1946
Artist: Frida Kahlo
The Tittle:
“The wounded Deer”
when: 1946
“Diction”- Explore specific icons:
Why might the artist have chosen that image and, not some other?
Deduce from from specific images
Organization: Why might the artist have placed objects where they have.
Explore spacing and imaging.
what if they went where they are?- how would that change the image.
Interpret
Summary of your interpretation of the image.
Attach this to your Global issue_ the Global decline in Relationship.
Diction 1
Branches: Conflict - > Trials and the aftermath of a Battle.
Confliction - > [ Between the female face -male horns. ]
Diction 2
Fight or Flight stance: Spread legs for quick mobility.
Diction 3
Arrows: Female face on a Male Body [ They Both suffer]
Number: Symbolism wounds - Arguments, Conflicts, Strife and wounds on Both.
Diction 4
Ocean-River: Psalms
- Deers-“ As a deer panteth for the water, so my soul panteth for you”
Deers: their need for large amounts of water- adaptations for fleeing from prey.
Diction 5
Corridor: Clear corridor for going to the brook of water.
What information would help facilitate a better understanding of the work and its point?
Communication- “ to what extent is a text vehicle for communicating a writers messages?”
Culture- “ How do texts and literary works express the values and beliefs of a society?”
Representation- “Can Art represents reality”
