Art REfelction on Judith with head of holofernes
Write a reflection paper as outlined below on the painting that is linked below.
Judith with the head of holoernes-
https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/judith-with-the-head-of-holofernes
Length: 3 pages, 12 point Times New Roman font, double space with normal (1” margins); do not write more or less than 3 pages. Include a picture of your work on a separate page with identifying information (artist, title, date, medium, size and accession number). This will not count as part of your 3 pages.
Objectives:
Apply the skills and vocabulary of formal analysis to your work.
See how much you can see just by careful observation of the piece (remember the “power of patience.) Could you spend 3 hours just looking at this work?
Doing this will put you in the position of the maker of the piece, considering the decisions that they made and their reasons for doing so.
After your careful looking, you should come up with an interpretation of what the artist was trying to communicate based on your observations. Do not ignore your experience of the piece; but try to analyze your experience in light of the artistic choices made. For example, in writing about the Parthenon metope you might say that the sculptor was using a variety of techniques to convey the energy and the tension of the battle between the Lapiths and the Centaurs. You would then say what those techniques are.
Your interpretation should be stated as a thesis, but remember, your evidence is what you can see in the work. There is a tendency to want to make broad claims about symbolism or philosophy, or political intent, but that would require research, which I’m not asking you to do at this point. This is the step that would help you to formulate questions for further research.
The steps to doing a formal analysis can be found here:
