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History of Art
A Level

What is visual analysis?

Visual analysis is when we look at an artwork and try to understand what is going on inside the frame. This could be as simple as identifying the story (or the narrative), or it could be analysing the col...

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Highlight the main differences in the style of painting from the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

Many stylistic features changed from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. In order to fully understand these changes, it is first important to understand the motivation of each period. The Renaissanc...

GS
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What is the best way to structure an essay that is asking me to analyse three art works.

There is more than one way to do this; however the method that has proved most efficient and effective for me is to begin with an introduction that briefly addresses the question (by providing some contex...

TS
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Write a Visual Analysis Essay of Uccello’s The Hunt (currently in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)

Example answer:

Uccello’s painting The Hunt in the Forest has a highly regular composition. The painting is constructed almost symmetrically using linear perspective. The hunters, their ho...

LK
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I need help with visual analysis!

Fistly remember that visual analysis is the fun part of history of art essays! This is the part where you can go adjective crazy, also remember that it's is better to go overboard with the descriptions th...

MC
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