The questionnaire relates to the following painting from MoMA
The Questionnaire
Answer the questions on a separate sheet of paper. You have 25 minutes
in total (you may write in note form):
1. Describe the
central figure in the painting, so that someone else could visualise her as she
is in the painting.
2. How do you relate
to her as you look at the painting? This might include feelings of closeness or
distance, interactions between what you imagine of her feelings and thought
with yours as you look at the painting.
3. What are the basic
forms that you see in the pictures? These could be shapes that you see in the
picture. These shapes might be created by outlines or differences in the colour
of different patches within the picture? Do you sense or imagine different
textures in different parts of the painting? How do different forms or shapes
relate together? Is there a pattern or different patterns? What effect do any
of these things have?
4. What does ‘home’
mean in this painting, which is called Christina’s
Home? How is meaning and/or feeling about this word conveyed? Whose meaning
of ‘home’ is it?
All the best
Steve
