Description = pure description of the object without value judgments, analysis, or interpretation.

ü It answers the question, "What do you see?"

ü The various elements that constitute a description include:

a. Form of art whether architecture, sculpture, painting or one of the minor arts

b. Medium of work whether clay, stone, steel, paint, etc., and technique (tools used)

c. Size and scale of work (relationship to person and/or frame and/or context)

d. Elements or general shapes within the composition; identification of objects, (e.g. architectural structural system which may include building of post-lintel construction or a painting with several figures lined up in a row

e. Description of axis whether vertical, diagonal, horizontal, etc.

f. Description of line, including contour as soft, planar, jagged, etc.

g. Description of how line describes shape and space (volume); distinguish between lines of objects and lines of composition, (e.g., thick, thin, variable, irregular, intermittent, indistinct, etc.)

h. Relationships between shapes, (e.g., large and small, overlapping, etc.)

i. Description of color and color scheme = the palette

j. Texture of surface or other comments about the execution of the work

k. Context of object: original location and date