+1 862 207 3288 1. Assignment Description and General Directions:
For this assignment, you will be writing an essay on a painting of your choice. Your essay will focus on interpreting and expressing the painting’s dominant impression — the painting’s overall, consistent, yet very specific mood/feel that is generated through the participation of its details. As the boldness of “very specific” suggests, make sure that when you assert the dominant impression (which amounts to the same as providing a thesis) you qualify it with as much description as it deserves: a vague mood/feel like “depressing” or “depression,” “love,” or “happiness” will not be enough — somehow providing a sense of, say, the “color,” cause, severity, or associations that accompany the mood would be closer to the point (though there are doubtlessly other ways to make the dominant impression more exact).
Once you have successfully provided this thesis, your objective is to discuss how a selection of the details within the artwork generate the dominant impression. In this respect, the essay is analytical, as you are analyzing how your experience of the piece was produced. To tie all of this into what we’ve been studying, whether you consider the painting as a whole or in different parts, its details give you the necessary evidence with which to successfully provide the reader with examples and reasons that support your own, specific interpretation of the painting’s dominant impression; and in this way, the details act as grounds, while your explanations of how they create the mood act as warrants.
While offering your analysis of the impression, also recreate the sense of it through your writing. In other words, the mood that your writing generates should match the mood of the painting as you see it. (For example, if your dominant impression were one of repressed boredom in the face of predictable change (get used to it), then your writing style and word choice might be designed around creating feelings of routine, false enthusiasm, distraction, and underlying apathy or exhaustion.)
You can research the painting if you wish. But whatever historical details you find are not really the concern of this assignment. Also, providing a backstory for the painting — like for the figures/characters in it — is not really the point and will likely distract from the object of study: the actual painting and the mood it creates for you.
2. Specific Requirements/Suggestions (or, Checklist):
1. 375 to 550 words, double-spaced, appropriate headings, 12 point font, and numbered pages.
2. Introduce your object of study (the painting) to the reader and provide a thesis that indicates the painting’s dominant impression. (Be specific.)
3. Make sure that you logically divide your discussion of the painting into different paragraphs and that these paragraphs have effective topic sentences. (Revisit the concept of topic sentences if/as necessary.)
4. Use descriptive, vivid language that makes your writing generate the same dominant impression you are discussing.
5. [Yet,] make a concentrated effort toward succinct clarity in your wording and phrasing.
6. Try to use as many transitive/active verbs as possible. (Visit concept as necessary.) *And use the present tense for your verbs.*
7. Proofread the hell out of the piece in every respect.
1. Try to attach an image of the painting to your essay, but in a footnote, definitely include a link to the image.
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