The Frames Quiz

What style is used by the artist?

What materials are used?

Describe the use of perspective

Describe the use of space

What identity group is represented and how?

Describe the use of tone.

What period of time does the work belong to?

What movement does the work belong to?

What has it got to do with me?

Does the image produce wit?

What is my lasting reaction to the work?

What process was used to create the work?

What belief is presented and how?

What is omitted? What is disregarded?

What ideology is represented and how?

What do I see? What do I experience?

What cultural group is represented and how?

What formal conventions of western art are used? (e.g. vanishing point, one point perspective)

What symbols are visible? Where do the symbols come from?

Describe the use of texture

What is challenged in art? (Styles? Movements? Classifications? Standards?)

What words can I use to describe the work?

What social group or class is represented and how?

Does the image produce playfulness?

Describe the use of colour.

What place is represented and how?

What is appropriated (borrowed) from another source?

What cultural conventions are used (e.g. portrait, mother & child, nude, landscape?)

What gender is represented and how?

What is my first impression?

Is the work mainstream? Is the work outside the mainstream?

What is challenged? (History? the masterpiece? the 'truth'? the status of art?)

What signs are used? What do they mean?

Describe the use of shape

What is quoted from another source?

What is reconfigured? Or reinterpreted?

What meaning is represented and how (what signs or symbols are visible)?

Does the image produce parody?

What does it make me recall?

What racial group is represented and how?

What age group is represented and how?

Does the image produce irony?