Show me the Monet is one of the most iconic paintings of the graffiti artist named Banksy. It is an extremely rare entirely hand-painted canvas that helped cement Banksy’s position as a controversial and decisive social commentator for our time. View the painting and watch the auction of the painting in the video below. Your assignment is to write a critique of the painting using at least 10 of the vocabulary words that we have studied to this date. Write you review in the form below and press submit. Your listing of vocabulary words are at the bottom of this page.

scale = the size or visual weight of an object as compared to another object. usage: The scale of the Lincoln Monument is 55 times larger than the average height of a man.

texture = the visual surface of an object that shows the skin or outer dimension as appealing to the sense of touch. usage: The texture of the drawing of the tree showed the detail of the bark in a very real manner.

vanishing point = a single point on the horizon of an image that all lines lead to. usage: the railroad tracks all lead to one distant point.

analogous = similar or comparable to something else ex: An airplane’s joystick is somewhat analogous to the reins on a horse. The emotional impact of a painting by Jackson Pollock is analogous to watching fireworks on the fourth of July.

symmetry = balanced proportions ex: The human face holds symmetry on each side.

asymmetry = the lack or absence of symmetry ex: As Mercury orbits the Sun, it experiences a small torque due to its slight asymmetry in the plane of its orbit.

obtuse = annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand. example: “he wondered why the artist was being deliberately obtuse in showing his art"

nebulous = in the form of a cloud or haze, unclear, vague, uncertain, example: “I felt very nebulous about abstract painting”

obscure= not clearly expressed or understood example: “Mr. Bonnell was very obscure when he explained the art lesson.”

aesthetics = ones own personal definition of beauty that holds a value system or reasoning.

ambiguity = revealing the beauty of opposites within a subject matter or work of art.

symmetry = a term to reveal a mirror image of a subject or perfect balance.

alchemy = Chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold.

allegory = The setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness.

allude = To refer incidentally, or by suggestion.

alteration = Change or modification.

Achillean = Invulnerable.

achromatic = Colorless

acquiescence = Passive consent.

acquisition = Anything gained, or made one's own, usually by effort or labor.

acute = Having fine and penetrating discernment.

addendum = Something added, or to be added.

adjacent = That which is near or bordering upon.

adjunct = Something joined to or connected with another thing, but holding a subordinate place.