i need help with my art paper?

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I need to write a 3 page paper on a work of art. I chose a painting already but I'm confused as to how to write three or more pages on it. The paper is basically supposed to be about how we feel about the painting and what are our thoughts. I know I can write about that but I know that's not going to be long enough for more than two pages. I need suggestions on what else my paper could be about? I know I can research the artist and incorporate that somehow into my own thoughts on the painting but other than that I'm stuck. Help?

KAZUMA AZUMA · Accepted Answer

So you were told to write about your thoughts and feelings.

You can do this. Write about this stuffs in different paragraphs:
1. Introduction
- What is the name of the painting, who made it. What are the basic infos about it
2. What can you see (literally)
- describe what you can see. For example in Mona Lisa, you can say its a painting about a woman wearing black. Center of the painting. It looks like a portrait.
3. What do you feel about it
- The colors, whenever you look at it, is it depressing, disturbing, blah blah
4. Why do you think it made you feel like that
- maybe something about the color, distortion, something about the lightings, proportions, theme, or about a knowledge you know that doesn't seem to be appropriate for the painting, or the beauty. Blahblah
5. What do you think it is trying to say
- why do you think the artist painted it this way
- maybe its connected to what you felt
- do you think it was intended
-perhaps it is connected with the social background

I hope it helps ^-^ that's how I would do it

Jabba · Answer

Three pages is alittle vague...handwritten? Typed? 
  Write your outline first, just sort of put your thoughts in boxes and then organize them before you write the paper.  Traditionally you state the purpose of the paper first, telling your reader, in shortened form what you are going to tell them, and then you introduce the subject.  You might talk alittle about the history of the painting before you complicate it with any facts about the life of the artist.  You might describe the media, and the method of its application, or you might say something about the signifigance of the subject matter to the period in which it was painted.  
  The second, middle part of your paper should be the bulk of the assignment--how you feel about the picture and what about it makes you feel that way.  And why you chose it.  
  The third part should wrap up the paper, for instance in a thought that ties the subject of the painting to its times and how it still has relevance for you in this time, also some how managing to tell the reader, in review, and in summary, what you have accomplished with your paper.  
   Think about who your audience is, and try to tell them something they might not know and cannot guess.  Good luck.

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