Start your work on the art essay by choosing a subject related to your studio preferences.

When you write about art the spotlight of your analysis is the original art objects and exhibitions. Any estimation about the work of art you present in your essay should be supported by critical overviews about them. When the tutor grades your art essay, he looks for new radical perception of a suggested subject. You should also compare your interpretation of the work against the existing research. That is why art essay suggests extensive reading and research.

Study the sources you have selected and make notes to use this information in your essay. Don’t forget to put down the bibliographical details of the source, including page numbers.

Selecting a topic and doing research take up 60% of total time allocated for your essay. Compose a plan of your future writing; make it as detailed as possible. Once you completed your outline, start writing the first draft.

In the introductory paragraph you state the main argument concerning the topic. The body is meant for developing and supporting the thesis made in the first paragraph. Finally, the summary of the essay is your last attempt to appeal to the reader and stress the points you made in your writing.

Observe the following rules writing your art essay:

• Use short, relevant, direct quotations from other authors to go beyond or support points you make. The essay of 2000 words usually contains two – three brief quotes.
• You should indent direct quotations and enclose them in quotation marks [" "]. Add the footnote at the end of the quote.
• There is no need to use expressions like “ I think…”, “ it seems to me “ and so on, as it is evident that you present your own ideas in the essay.
• Avoid overcrowding your essay with fuzzy ill-informed generalities, like “art is eternal”. Be careful with art historical terms such as Impressionism, Realism or Postmodernism. When you capitalize them, you emphasize their art historical meaning.
• Leave out all the slang and colloquial phrases.
• Formal essay writing suggests referring to the artist by his/ her surname. However, when you introduce the painter, use the full name. After the full name, it is common to include birth/death dates in brackets. Such style concerns not very famous artists and the namesakes to tell one from another.
• Italicize or write in bold the titles of paintings you talk about in your essay. Don’t fail to identify the definite work by adding location or collection and date. Mentioning the date is the minimum requirement.
• All the numbers less than a hundred should be written as words and for numbers greater than one hundred use figures. This rule does not apply to the case when you deal with precise sums of money or dimensions of works of art regardless their cost.( ten years, 10 $)
• If you refer to some unknown work of art, you should footnote the location of the work or the resource where it is illustrated. In a case when the illustration is vital in the essay, attach it as close as possible to the relevant extract. Number all the included illustrations successively using the form "Figure 1." and followed by a description.