1. How to Read a Painting
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”  ― Leonardo da Vinci

2. Use of Color

3. Medium: Material

4. Medium: Paint

5. Technique: Brushstrokes
2 The Regatta at Argenteuil (Régate à Argenteuil), Claude Monet. Oil on canvas; 19 x 29½ in. (48 x 75 cm). Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

6. Technique: Line
3 Whaam!, Roy Lichtenstein. Oil and acrylic on canvas; 68 x 161 in. (174.7 x cm). Tate Modern, London.

7. Size and Symbolism

8. Use of Space
Raphael’s ‘School of Athens’ (1510)