WELCOME On a Journey of Artistic DISCOVERY!

Welcome to Discover Arts, a site and evolving community of interest about new ways to perceive the arts. We will be providing multimedia renderings, musical arrangements, and many other ways to experience and understand art forms. Artistic gestures can inform each other when they occur together, so here we will explore where MUSIC and MEDIA MEET!

Your Captain on this Journey of Artistic Discovery,

John Chmaj (pron. “Shmay”)

Sammamish, WA

Analysis Form

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Holistic First Look

What do you see and feel when first looking at this?

Do any words, ideas, moods occur to you?

What would you say to others about this painting?

Perceptual

What are the main colors you see, and how do they FEEL?

Are there any colors that really engage you?

What combination of colors are really striking?

Analytic

What types of shapes/images are there, and how do they relate?

Is there any sense of motion in the picture? How/where does it move?

Emotional

Are any emotions or memories initially suggested?

What do you see that engenders these feelings?

Holistic (Summary)

How did your eyes move about the painting?

Was there anything you found yourself referring back to for further clarification or meaning?

Remembering/feelings you had, any summary thoughts about what it means