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Transcript: Looking at Pictures Formal Analysis "Looking isn't as easy as it looks" Ad Reinhardt (1913-67) Artist Questions to ask when examining a painting Looking at an artwork and trying to understand what the artist wants to convey. There are certain basic characteristics such as colour, line, space and mass, and scale. Often these are best discussed in terms of a sliding scale between pairs of opposites: Linearity vs painterliness Flatness vs three-dimensionality Dark vs light Remember works of art change with the passage of time. What did it look like originally?