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How to Critique Art 101

How to Critique Art 101. If you were 5 years old…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1I8ZvZG6AA&NR=1 1:02sec. What is critique?. 4 steps: Description Analysis Interpretation Judgment/Evaluation http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/3338/. What is critique?. Description

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How to Critique Art 101

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  1. How to Critique Art 101

  2. If you were 5 years old… • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1I8ZvZG6AA&NR=1 • 1:02sec

  3. What is critique? • 4 steps: • Description • Analysis • Interpretation • Judgment/Evaluation http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/3338/

  4. What is critique? • Description • Describe the work without using value words such as "beautiful" or "ugly": • What is the written description on the label or in the program about the work? • What is the title and who is (are) the artist(s)? • When and where was the work created? • Describe the elements of the work (i.e., line movement, light, space). • Describe the technical qualities of the work (i.e., tools, materials, instruments). • Describe the subject matter. What is it all about? Are there recognizable images?

  5. What is critique? • Analysis • Describe how the work is organized as a complete composition: • How is the work constructed or planned (i.e., acts, movements, lines)? • Identify the Principles of Design and what they are doing in the work… • Identify some of the similarities throughout the work (i.e., repetition of lines, two songs in each act). • Identify some of the points of emphasis in the work (i.e., specific scene, figure, movement). • If the work has subjects or characters, what are the relationships between or among them?

  6. What is critique? • Interpretation • Describe how the work makes you think or feel: • Describe the expressive qualities you find in the work. What expressive language would you use to describe the qualities (i.e., tragic, ugly, funny)? • Does the work remind you of other things you have experienced (i.e., analogy or metaphor)? • How does the work relate to other ideas or events in the world and/or in your other studies?

  7. What is critique? • Judgment or Evaluation • Present your opinion of the work's success or failure: • What qualities of the work make you feel it is a success or failure? • Compare it with similar works that you think are good or bad. • What criteria can you list to help others judge this work? • How original is the work? Why do you feel this work is original or not original?

  8. What it looks like • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wz2bAByWyI&feature=search • 52 sec

  9. What it sounds like • Constructive • Descriptive Pull out your Art Vocabulary and look at the last page… What do you see?

  10. Now You Try… Van Gogh “Starry Night”

  11. One More Time… • Cassatt, MaryWoman in Black (Femme en noir)c. 1882Oil on canvas100.6 x 74 cm (39 3/4 x 29 in.)

  12. What do you Think? By Henri Matisse Madame Matisse, "The Green Line" ( La Raie verte). 1905. Oil on canvas.

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