Your assignment is to write a 3 page formal analysis of one of the following artworks on view at the Art Institute of Chicago. Briefly introduce relevant background information for the artist, artistic movement and historical context (you can look on the AIC’s website for this information or read relevant sections in your class textbooks). Then you will proceed to the formal analysis, which will comprise the bulk of your paper.You should footnote any information that is not common knowledge. You should use the Sylvan Barnett guide (in the Files section on Canvas) for help in writing your formal analysis. Your paper should have an introduction (with a clear statement of your thesis that addresses a “why?” or “how?”) and a conclusion. You will be graded on the quality and development of your formal analysis skills, organization and writing skills. If you have questions, please ask your T.A. for help.If you are able to visit the AIC and view the artworks in person, that’s great.In that case, you will view the artworks on AIC’s website. Either way, have your Sylvan Barnett guide handy and be prepared to take notes on what you are observing. Sometimes it also helps to make a sketch of the artwork.PAPER – REQUIREMENTS 3 pages, double-spaced, normal margins & font, number the pages I do not want you to include any quotations in your essay. However,if there is any information that you include in your essay that you found from an outside source (including wall label text), then you will need to phrase that information entirely in your own words, and also cite your source in a footnote or endnote (no “in-text citations”!). You will also need to include a “Works Cited” page at the end of your essay. Make sure that it adheres to standard format such as MLA or Chicago Manual of Style.  Also attach a color image of your artwork.**DUE WED. MARCH 24**
CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING ARTWORKS:AIC MODERN WING 3RD FLOOR: Robert Delaunay, Champs de Mars: The Red Tower, 1911/23, oil on canvas Gino Severini, Festival in Montmartre, 1913, oil on canvas Vasily Kandinsky, Painting with Green Center, 1913, oil on canvas Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, The Apparition of the Seven Deadly Sins to Eulenspiegel, 1923-24, oil on canvas Francis Picabia, Edtaonisl (Ecclesiastic), 1913, oil on canvas Suzanne Duchamp, Broken and Restored Multiplication, 1918-19, oil and silver paper on canvas Salvador Dali, Inventions of the Monsters, 1937, oil on canvasAIC MODERN WING 2ND FLOOR: Mark Rothko, No. 2/No.7/No. 20, 1951, oil on canvas David Hockney, American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman), 1968, acrylic on canvas Richard Hamilton, Towards a Definitive Statement on the Coming Trends in Men’s Wear and Accessories (c): Adonis in Y-Fronts, 1962, oil and collage on panel Eric Fischl, Slumber Party, 1983, oil on canvas Barbara Kruger, We Will Not Become What We Mean to You, 1983, gelatin silver print Jean-Michel Basquiat, Boy and Dog in Johnnypump, 1982, acrylic, crayon and spray paint on canvas Takashi Murakami, Mr. Pointy, 2011, acrylic on canvas