Topic: Formal Analysis of Claude Monet Charing Cross Bridge

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Painting – Claude Monet Charing Cross Bridge in the art gallery of ontario
This assignment gives you the opportunity to apply the vocabulary and techniques of visual analysis that you have been learning without becoming involved in a discussion of the object’s larger meanings or social significance.
A formal analysis is not merely an itemization or description of all the formal aspects of a particular artwork, but an analysis of which aspects of form matter most and how the artist’s formal choices come together to create particular effects. This means that you will be doing what you almost always do in academic writing: building an argument in support of a thesis. Your thesis is, of course, the central claim that you are going to make and provide evidence for in your essay. In a formal analysis this will be your claim about what you think the most important formal aspects of the work add up to. The evidence for your thesis claim will be there in the formal aspects of the artwork itself, but it is up to you to identify what matters most and organize your evidence in support of a coherent argument. A large part of the assignment will be deciding which aspects of form are critical to the point you are making, so that you can focus on what is most relevant.
Remember the limitations of the formal analysis however. In this first assignment you are going to avoid interpretation of subject matter and stick to formal questions exclusively. Yes, it can frustrating to distinguish form and content so absolutely, but being obliged to run up against, explore and question that boundary is part of the value of this exercise. In almost all of your writing about art in the future you will need to be able to articulate how the meanings of artworks are carried in or relate to the form of a particular object. Being able to understand and describe an object in rich detail will then be crucial to explaining its significance.
Don’t forget that along with summarizing your main argument, your thesis statement should also tell us some basic facts, including which artwork you are looking at, who made it (if known), the date and which gallery it is in.

FA/ARTH 1900 3.0 , ART in the CITY

Formal Analysis Grading Rubric

1. The essay begins with a clear statement of the thesis that concisely summarizes the
argument being made in the essay. There is no extraneous information in the thesis
statement.
/10

2. The essay argues its thesis well. This means that it is a logically organized presentation
of an argument that flows convincingly from point to point, contains no obvious
omissions or unnecessary digressions and does not over-emphasize trivial points or
underemphasize important ones.
/20

3. The essay provides an accurate description of the object and its key formal aspects
while building toward an analysis of how these formal aspects are combined by the artist
to create a particular effect or effects. It does not contain a discussion of the works social
or political meaning or context.
/40

4. The essay uses the vocabulary for discussing art introduced in the course appropriately
and effectively.
/15

5. The essay is clearly written with no awkward or con fusing sentences or inappropriate
word choices, is free of grammatical and spelling errors, adheres to the conventions of
formal academic writing and is not significantly too long or too short.
/15

Total: /100

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