Writing a Thesis about a Visual Text

We're going to continue discussing art this week by sharing what we wrote about the different pieces we selected last week.

Then we will switch to individual writing about this work by the painter Peter Blume.  It also might help to look at this handout from the Art Institute - the quality of the image is better.

We'll do a series of creative writing exercises together before writing the essay below.  You can do these in your notebook or on your blog - it's up to you.

Essay:  Write a blog post in which you analyze what the message of "The Rock" is and how it is communicated.  Your response needs to be an extended paragraph, using at least 6 pieces of evidence from the painting.  You may include details about:

• color
• light
• people
• symbols
• actions
• movement
• foreground / background / use of space
• relationship between different parts of the painting
• time
• place / setting
• mood / tone