SEEING AND DESCRIBING ARTAn Introduction

The Lamentation GiottoArena Chapel. (1305-1306)

Arena Chapel, Padua

The Lamentation of the Dead ChristAndrea Mantegna(c. 1480)

FORM

SUBJECT MATTER

CONTENT

FORM - the overall structure of a work

SUBJECT MATTER - what is depicted

CONTENT - what the artwork means

REPRESENTATIONAL

ABSTRACT

NONOBJECTIVE

The Kiss, Auguste Rodin (1882) The Kiss, Constantin Brancusi (1916)

Panel from St. Francis AltarpieceBonaventura Berlinghieri1235Tempera on wood60” x 42”

Nativity, window in Chartres Cathedral (Notre Dames), France

No. 61 Rust and Blue, Mark Rothko (1953)

Tukutuku panels, Maori people, New Zealand

Naturalistic Abstract

Representational or Nonrepresentational

FORMAL ELEMENTS