Title: Museum of Contemporary Art at Pacific Design Centre

Contents

1. First, describe the urban environment of the art institution. Where is it located? What surrounds it…? How do you think the building’s location will impact the art-viewing audience?

2. Describe the building. What is the overall architecture of the building like? What are the exhibition spaces like? Talk about the colors of the walls, the lighting, the spacing of the art, etc.

3. Next, describe the room(s) in which the two artworks are exhibited. What other artworks are includ­ed? What unites all of the artworks in that room? Why do you think the museum professionals chose to hang these artworks together?

4. Now, look at the other museum visitors. How are your fellow art-viewers responding to the work?

5. What is your initial reaction? It’s okay if you don’t like one or both of the works. Sometimes it’s hard to write about art that we do love!

6. Focus on the two artworks. Start by identifying the two art artworks as completely as possible. Give the full names of the artists. What are the titles? What are they made out of? How big are they?

7. Now talk about their subject matter. What do they represent? How do they represent it?

8. After you have described both artworks completely, then compare and contrast them. How are they similar? How are they different?

9. Conclude your essay with a discussion of which of the two selected artworks you prefer, and why? Does either of the artworks give you a new perspective on contemporary art? How does it do that?

Number of words: 1,291 (4.3 pages)