Ask your partner to send you an image of the piece of art that s/he brought in on Thursday. Examine the piece for a few minutes… don’t start writing right away… spend some time looking at the piece and thinking about what kind of reaction it provokes.
Next, brainstorm a list of formal features that you recognize in the piece. By formal features I mean things that would fit into the “evidence” column on the chart we made on Thursday… i.e. things that are indisputable facts about the piece. Brainstorm a list of at least 15 of these features and post them to your partner’s wave.
After you have brainstormed these formal features, examine your list and re-examine the artwork. Next, brainstorm a list of claims you might make based on the evidence you found. Brainstorm at least 6 claims and post them to your partner’s wave. Group the larger and smaller claims; the larger claims might form the basis of an entire paper, while the smaller claims might serve as a paragraph topic sentence in support of a larger claim.
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