In learning how to analyze art, you have to start simple. So far in English 151H we have built our way up to not just analyzing a flat canvas rhetorically, but a three dimensional object: sculptures. While sculptures can display some of the same technical elements and ideas as paintings and photographs, they display them in a whole new way. Three dimensions expand this analysis beyond a canvas and bring the art to life.
My sculpture of choice is Pieta by Bruno Lucchesi. This piece was built in nineteen-seventy and consists of a young girl draped over the bed of her elderly, dying loved one. My sculpture, Pieta, shares a name with another piece that served as its inspiration: the original Pieta by Michelangelo (below this paragraph). There are some major differences between these pieces such as subject context and how the sculpture expressed the “pieta” or sorrow. I plan on addressing some of these differences and similarities within my analysis.
My analysis of this piece is going to much different than my past ones. Instead of presenting an essay form analysis of the rhetorical elements of my piece, I will be addressing my sculpture in a letter form. While this letter is directly to my sculpture, I will want to include details that can help my audience (discussed later) follow my analysis. In my letter I plan to center my rhetorical analysis on the name: Pieta. Sorrow is a big aspect of this piece and pathos is developed from the audience by just simply looking at it. Along with talking about the simple and obvious pathos that is developed by this piece, I will also take this thought a little further and talk about the sympathy that can be developed from viewers that can relate personally with this very intimate setting.
Rhetorical elements are very important in my analysis. This includes, but is not limited to, what the sculpture is made of and the way the material is manipulated. While material is very important, the environment in which this piece is positioned is also important. The artist chose this material for a reason. He knew how this material would be effected in the environment it is placed and how it could be viewed when it was placed in the garden as well as forty years later.
While analyzing this argument, it is also important that I keep in mind my audience. Primarily, my audience will be my fellow peers and my professor. They will be able to see my performance and will know what is expected and asked of me. This audience is my most critical.
As mentioned in CDA p.40, context of audience is just as important as whom the audience is Along with my peers and professor, anyone that happens to be walking by the Sheldon will be able to view my presentation and hear my analysis. My secondary audience consists of these bystanders, as well as anyone that reads my blog online. My letter will be posted here and available to anyone who finds it. This makes my audience very broad. Therefore, I should keep my analysis on a level that would be acceptable to a variety of people reading it.
Overall, I hope to convey this message of Pieta in such a way that it not only reveals the aspects of my analysis, but brings meaning to this sculpture.
My sculpture of choice is Pieta by Bruno Lucchesi. This piece was built in nineteen-seventy and consists of a young girl draped over the bed of her elderly, dying loved one. My sculpture, Pieta, shares a name with another piece that served as its inspiration: the original Pieta by Michelangelo (below this paragraph). There are some major differences between these pieces such as subject context and how the sculpture expressed the “pieta” or sorrow. I plan on addressing some of these differences and similarities within my analysis.
My analysis of this piece is going to much different than my past ones. Instead of presenting an essay form analysis of the rhetorical elements of my piece, I will be addressing my sculpture in a letter form. While this letter is directly to my sculpture, I will want to include details that can help my audience (discussed later) follow my analysis. In my letter I plan to center my rhetorical analysis on the name: Pieta. Sorrow is a big aspect of this piece and pathos is developed from the audience by just simply looking at it. Along with talking about the simple and obvious pathos that is developed by this piece, I will also take this thought a little further and talk about the sympathy that can be developed from viewers that can relate personally with this very intimate setting.
Rhetorical elements are very important in my analysis. This includes, but is not limited to, what the sculpture is made of and the way the material is manipulated. While material is very important, the environment in which this piece is positioned is also important. The artist chose this material for a reason. He knew how this material would be effected in the environment it is placed and how it could be viewed when it was placed in the garden as well as forty years later.
While analyzing this argument, it is also important that I keep in mind my audience. Primarily, my audience will be my fellow peers and my professor. They will be able to see my performance and will know what is expected and asked of me. This audience is my most critical.
As mentioned in CDA p.40, context of audience is just as important as whom the audience is Along with my peers and professor, anyone that happens to be walking by the Sheldon will be able to view my presentation and hear my analysis. My secondary audience consists of these bystanders, as well as anyone that reads my blog online. My letter will be posted here and available to anyone who finds it. This makes my audience very broad. Therefore, I should keep my analysis on a level that would be acceptable to a variety of people reading it.
Overall, I hope to convey this message of Pieta in such a way that it not only reveals the aspects of my analysis, but brings meaning to this sculpture.
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