Being Able to critique a piece of art is important in any creative field: film, animation, fine art, photography, design etc. To help you successfully critique art, you can use the following steps: description, analysis, interpretation and evaluation. These are the steps in a formal critique.
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by Friday April 1, 2011 at 3:30pm.
1. DESCRIBE
This stage is like taking inventory. You want to come up with a list of everything you see in the work. Stick to the facts. Imagine that you are describing the artwork to someone over the telephone.
Note First Impression
Make a note of your first spontaneous reaction to the artwork. By the end of the process you may understand your first impression better or you may even change you mind. There are no wrong answers.
2. ANALYZE
A. Try to figure out what the artist has done to achieve certain effects. You should refer to your first impressions and try to explain how the artwork achieves that reaction.
B. Use the vocabulary you learned in class. For example, if you’re looking at a chain-link graphic, you learned reversals, transparency, complementary or analogous color, etc.
C. What do you notice about the artist's choice of materials?
D. What grabs your attention in the work? Refer to your first impression.
3. INTERPRET
Try to figure out what the artwork is about. Your own perspectives, associations and experiences meet with "the evidence" found in the work of art. All art works are about something. Some art works are about color, their subject matter, and social or cultural issues. Some art works are very accessible — that is, relatively easy for the viewer to understand what the artist was doing. Other works are highly intellectual, and might not be as easy for us to readily know what the artist was thinking about.
A. What is the theme or subject of the work? What mood or emotions does the artwork communicate?
B. What is the work about; what so you think it means?
C. Why do you think that artist created this work?
D. What do you think the artist's view of the world is?
4. EVALUATE
This is a culminating and reflecting activity. You need to come to some conclusions about the artwork based on all the information you have gathered and on your interpretations.
A. Have your thoughts or feelings about the artwork changed since your first impression? If so, how? What made you change your mind?
B. If not, can you now explain your first reaction to the work?
C. What have you seen or learned from this work that you might apply to your own art work or your own thinking?
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ReplyDelete1. a woman in between two children with their backs turned. she looks sad and depressed. dressed in ragged clothing, kids look like they're crying. looks like they're in a narrow, concrete hallway. my first impression was a sort of depression or a war-torn family.
ReplyDelete2. the artist has acheived a sad tone by putting the picture in black and white and portraying the woman's expressions. the artist also made it emnate a dark tone by showing the shadows in some places and less in others. the lack of color grabs my attention in this piece.
3. the most apparent theme of this piece is a family during a time of depression or crisis. the moods expressed by this photo are mostly grief and sorrow. the artist probably created this work to describe the issues in this area. you can't really tell what the artist's view of the world is from this one piece.
4. no, my thoughts have "held strong" throughout the whole experience. my first reaction was pity for the people who look like they're suffering. i haven't really picked up much other than how to use color to portray thoughts and feelings/moods.
1) The family in this picture is sad that their homeless, or they are slaves for a family.
ReplyDelete2a) The artist wanted people to understand how the family in the picture felt.
2b) The picture is 3D.
2c) They used real people with this problems.
2d) The dirt on the kids and the mom. When I saw the picture my first thought it a homeless person.
3a) The theme is sad, sad and how they show embarrassed that there sad the way there living.
3b) How people feel when they are on the streets with no money., it shows people different about other people.
3c) to show richer people how other people with no money feel.
3d) People wouldn’t have money in the future.
4a) My thoughts haven’t changed as much.
4b) I said that there homeless or slaves and their tired of it.
4c) When I see a homeless person ill react different.
Sorry my laptop can't connect with the Server so Im posting my report here
ReplyDelete1) The picture is a scene of a desperate looking women clutching on to some children and gazing into the distance. The scene appears to be very melancholy. I can have no reaction really to this picture in part because its part of a routine blog which only inspires annoyance.
2) The artist made the picture black and white to get add a bleak effect to the image, that much is obviously. the photographer used film to make it gritty. Its very hard for me to really pay attention to this photo because its part of a blog.
3) The theme is how hard the Great Depression has hit families, and yes, I know its the Great Depression because I've seen this before. It's supposed to convey hopelessness and sorrow and pity unto to viewer. The artist is clearly trying to depict the great depression.
4) No, my thoughts have not changed in the short period of writing this blog report, and like I said earlier, my first reaction would simply be peeved, because this is kind of a long blog, and that is REALLY distracting from the photo. I learned nothing new, although I suppose I did get some practice writing down an honest critique of a piece of art.
Nielsen Moffatt
ReplyDeleteI tried to post this on the server earlier, but couldn't so I am posting it here instead.
1. Describe
This black and white photo depicts a mother and two children, hudled together, hugging each other the way people hug after a hardship or trauma. They look worried, unsettled and exhausted. My first impression of this art was exhaustion, hardship and protection.
2. ANALYZE
A. The artist worked with black and white, shadows, light and dark to achieve the look of hardship. Children drape around their mother who looks worried. It creates a feeling of hardship and exhaustion.
C. The artists choice of materials are black and white film, shadows, lighting and expression.
D. What grabs my attention in this piece is the use of lighting, the lack of color and the use of expression.
3. INTERPRET
A. A family in peril is the subject of this work. The mood communicates worry and exhaustion, seeking safety and security.
B. A worried mother is holding, comforting and protecting her children.
C. I think the artist created this work to show how powerful expression, lighting and lack of color is.
D. From this piece alone-- I think the artist's view of the world is thought provoking.
4. EVALUATE
A. My impression of hardship has not changed.
B. When I first saw this piece of art, the lack of color, shadows, expression and setting, told me how bleak their lives were.
C. Use or lack of color, shadows, and expression can portray emotion.