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Action painting is an artistic style and technique consisting in the splashing, spilling and throwing of paint directly onto the canvas. It was developed in America in the middle of the 20th century (1940...

Andy Warhol was a visual artist working in the 1960s in New York. He is best known for his involvement with Pop Art culture and movement. 

His work drew heavily on the modern and popular (hence pop...

Firstly, identify who the work is by, the date it was made, and the materials used to make it. For example, Artemisia Gentileschi, Susannah and the Elders, 1610, oil on canvas. Now, it is important to ide...

The key is to make sure that your visual analysis is integrated into your argument. You don't want to be writing several sentences of visual analysis without linking it back to your argument. You also don...

Many of Gellert’s works exemplify this growing public discontentment, most rhetorically in his untitled mural that was commissioned for the Rockefeller Center in 1932, where Gellert’s recurring representa...