Commission Questionnaire
A museum visitor spends an average of 17 seconds looking at a work of art. Most images can be identified much more quickly than that. Understanding a piece of art requires slowing down and paying attention to the details. We can see that things are not always as they appear at first glance when we take a thoughtful, close look at them.
When you look carefully and explore a work of art on a deeper level, you are practicing the Art of Seeing Art.
There’s a series of six steps to consider: Look, Observe, See, Describe, Analyze, and Interpret—that you can use when looking at any work of art in the Museum's collection or any image in everyday life.
Oil on stretched linen canvas