Describes component materials and how they are used to create the visual work.
What the object looks like; How did the artist use line, shape, color, value, texture, form, and composition?
Use Elements and Principles
Explore the interacting, communicative elements of design, representation and presentation
Includes: subject matter – visible imagery may involve formal depictions, representative depictions and/or symbolic depictions
Narrative, symbolic, spiritual, historical, mythological, supernatural, and/or propogandistic
How does the interpretation change with different audiences?
Consider the artist's intended use(s) for the work and actual use(s), which may change according to context.
Functions: utility, intercession, decoration, communication and/or commemoration
Spiritual, social, political and/or personally expressive
Why was it made?
When and for whom?
By whom?
How was it received?