Composition – What is the subject or narrative? How is the work organized and unified? How do your eyes move around the work, and what do you focus on?
Describe the color and explain how it affects the mood of the work and how it is used to organize the composition.
What exactly is in the work? Figures? landscape? Is it crowded or empty? Is it naturalistic or abstract, and to what degree?
Describe the brush stroke in a painting, or the particular material of a sculpture, and how the material is used or manipulated. How does the material that the artist chose contribute to the interpretation of the work?
Is the work large or small, horizontal or vertical? How does this contribute to how you read it?
