I created a presentation and an article for the Apollo Art International Magazine. The topic of my genres was Egon Schiele and his artwork “Portrait of Wally”. Both of my genres have the same audience: art historians, art major students and people who are just familiar or interested in art. My original research paper was about Egon Schiele and particularly his artwork “Portrait of Wally” and it also had a lot of details and artistic terms which are quite unfamiliar to a regular audience. Therefore, I didn’t have a hard time adjusting either of my genres to the audience. However, the process was still a lot more different. I created a presentation and had to make it somewhat simpler, include more pictures and delete some specific details which were unnecessary in the presentation — color, description of background and foreground and etc. I also played with the design a little bit, although I tried to keep it all in the same style and not too much decorated. The process of making an article was slightly easier, because I had to use pretty much the same text, however, I changed some parts of it and their location: I talked a lot about Egon Schiele himself in the beginning, later about the painting and its value to Egon Schiele and his life. I chose the genres of presentation and article, because I like “visual” art, the one you can observe rather than listen or read. Of course, the article includes a lot of text, but it is still more entertaining that just reading a book with lots of details. Presentation is even more easy to comprehend, because it consists almost entirely of pictures, you just have to look at it and listen to the presenter. These two genres are highly entertaining, therefore they are very suitable for any kind of environment, especially kids, young school students or people not familiar with art. However I included a lot of specific art terms, therefore my work decided for itself that it will be for art-connected people, who know about the topic enough so they understand. I tried to get right to the topic and its facts in order to maintain audience’s interest in the subject. I thought that talking about Egon Schiele in the beginning was a right idea, because some people would be unfamiliar with him and would like to know about him more first, before learning about the artwork itself.

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