HOW TO COMMENT A WORK OF ART

1. IDENTIFY WHICH TYPE OF ART IT IS:
Example.: This is a picture that shows a building (eg.: A church, a palace), a painting (on a wall, on a panel [sobre tabla], on canvas [sobre lienzo]), or a sculpture.
2. DESCRIBE WHAT YOU SEE, PAYING ATTENTION TO ANY FIGURES FEATURED. Eg:
We see a scene depicting a Christ in Glory. the figure doesn't show any movement and his limbs are disproportionate in relation to the rest of the body. They fit into the available space.
3. Finish by stating the style it has been done in.
4. (IN THE FOLLOWING UNITS. I 'LL GIVE YOU A LIST OF WORKS OF ART AND YOU HAVE TO LOOK FOR THE PICTURES ON THE NET, OR IN BOOKS, POSTCARDS, ETC. BUT I GIVE YOU IMAGES OF THE BUILDINGS).*
EXAMPLE 1. The sculpture up on the right on page 41.
 We see a picture of a statue representing the Virgin and a Child, it is a wooden carving coloured with bright colours. The bodies of the virgin and the child are disproportionate (example:long hands and a big head in both cases). Also their faces did not show any expression of feelings, and their bodies did not show any movement. To sum up, we can say it is a sculpture of the romanesque period.
EXAMPLE 2. Painting B on page 47:
Here we have a painting on a wooden panel (oil on a wooden panel). It represents the descent from the Cross (when they took the body of Christ from the cross to bury it). The scene is more naturalist (the bodies are proportionated, the faces expresses feelings, also the clothes fell naturally). And, in contrast with a romanesque painting, we see the symmetry is broken by two figures: Christ and the Virgin. According to the characteristics we have listed, we are sure it is a gothic painting.