VISUAL DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS

Watch this video! Museums make verbal description audio tours for the vision impaired. Its an important skill in writing about art to be able to describe the visual aspects of the work very clearly. This video serves as an example of how to describe what you SEE.

Verbal Descriptions Audio Tour: J.E.H. MacDonald’s The Tangled Garden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmUlqbV7Fqs

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/

The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection.html