Background Information: you have been asked to choose a painting that you have never examined, evaluated, or analyzed. The purpose of this research essay is for you to explore the possibilities of new information and for you to connect the information to a very influential artistic genre: painting. Paintings have ways of revealing the painters' feelings and ideas, such as joys or sorrows or mysteries. Our job as interpreters is to explore possible meanings.
Writing Prompt: in a five-page research essay, you will interpret a painting poem by completing the following steps. First, you will write an initial interpretation for the painting using only your personal knowledge. Second, you will research the artist's life, the artist's historical culture, another of their paintings, other artist of the same style, and a painting by a different artist of the same style. Third, you will compose an outline for the essay. Fourth, you will compose your six-to-seven-page essay in which you make connections between the information and the painting.
Outline:
I. Introduction to Topic HOOK:
Initial Interpretation w/Important Details of Painting
Analysis of Details and Overall Meaning
Thesis Statement: Answer Prompt, Set Up Research Structure, and Introduce Important Vocabulary
II. (1 Sentence) Point- Introduce Research Element
(4-5 Sentences) Illustration-introduce source (website or article or book) Lead in + quote
(7-9 Sentences) Explanation- Analysis of Research Element and Its Connection to Painting or Poem
III. (I Sentence) Point- Introduce Research Element
(4-5 Sentences) Illustration- introduce source (website or article Or bOok) Lead in + quote
(7-9 Sentences)Explanation- Analysis of Research Element and It's Connection to Painting
IV. (1 Sentence) Point- Introduce Research Element
(4-5 Sentences) Illustration- introduce source (website or article or book) Lead in + quote
(7-9 Sentences) Explanation- Analysis of Research Element and It's Connection to Painting
V. (1 Sentence) Point- Introduce Research Element
(4-5 Sentences) Illustration- introduce source (website or article or book) + lead in + quote
(7-9 Sentences) Explanation- Analysis of Research Element and It's Connection to Painting
VI. (1 Sentence) Point- Introduce Research Element (4-5 Sentences) Illustration- introduce source (website or article or book) + lead in + quote
(7_9 Sentences)Explanation- Analysis of Research Element and It's Connection to Painting
VII. (1 Sentence) Point- Introduce Research Element
(4-5 Sentences) Illustration- introduce source (website or article or book) + lead in + quote
(7-9 Sentences)Explanation- Analysis of Research Element and It's Connection to Painting
VIII. Conclusion
Topic Sentence: General Interpretation