HUM 12 Reading Visual Art

Assignment 2

I.

A. Read the visual art above using Formalism/Structuralism by answering the questions below.

1. What do you see? Describe the following:

a. Color
The color of the artwork creates a sense of calm for me.
The colors are well blend and well organized base from their positions
The colors visualizes a place. The orange color was formed as a sunset while the blue
Color is the sea. For the color black in the art, I assume that it is the shadow part of the
art
b. Lines
The lines in the art have only one direction
 The lines form of line used was only straight lines
The lines inside the blue color of the art forms a gentle waves which makes the blue
color more conceivable as an image of a sea
c. Texture
The texture in the art was smooth and gentle to visualize
d. Space
It has a vanishing point, so I assume that the space is a 3 dimensional
e. Value
Z
f. Proportion

2. What is your overall impression of the work?

II.

Guided by the approaches in reading visuall art, answer the questions briefly.

1. How does the artist portray women in this artwork?

2. What ideology (social/economic/political) is promoted in this artwork?
 3. Do the images or objects in the artwork convey meaning? What do they mean?

N.B. Submit your output in pdf file following this format for the file name—Course-Surname-
Assignment 2. Email your assignment at chimey39@gmail.com on or before Monday, October
11, 2021.