Mar 16, 2017
Ch 6
Visual Analysis is the backbone of art, It takes a bit of practice, but once you’ve mastered the skills, it can help you to analyze any works of art you come across. It will even help you to understand why things you see every day -- ads in magazines, billboards.
To perform a visual analysis, you first need to know the basic visual elements, also called formal elements, that compose all images. Each time you encounter at a work of art, first look for these elements.
A person can look at he gestalt theory to interrupt analysis. This is Gestalt is a psychology term which means "unified whole". These theories to describe how people tend to organize pictures or parts of pictures into groups or wholes. l