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artbull-visual-analysis

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Use when performing the close visual and formal analysis that anchors an Art Bulletin article — describing and interpreting composition, form, medium, facture, scale, and viewing conditions of specific works, tied to numbered figures. Close looking is the discipline's core method. Guides the analysis; it does not invent what is not in the object.

When to use

• Writing close-analysis passages
• Moving from formal description to interpretation
• Deciding which works must be reproduced as figures
• Addressing reviewer feedback on thin or impressionistic looking

When not to use

• Inventing what is not in the object
• Adjective-piling that describes reaction rather than the work
• Visual claims with no figure
• Treating a reproduction as the object
• Reading biography or intention directly off brushwork without warrant

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