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Writing a Formal Critique

This is your opportunity to study a work of art and to use the vocabulary that you have been learning in order to fully describe and analyze it. Then you can come to some conclusions about the work's purpose and level of success. Critiquing master works of art will help you to understand and take aesthetic stances and to effectively use the Elements of Art and the Principles of Design in your own work.

AESTHETICS

Understanding art criticism:

REALLY helpful Resources:

  • Writing About Art
  • How to Critique Art (general info.)
  • How to Critique Edward Hopper's "Early Sunday Morning" (tutorial)
  • Analyzing the Elements of Art: Six Ways to Think About Shape
  • Visual Literacy
  • Listen, visualize, and learn to describe!

Visual Literacy Skills are Transferrable: 

"Read" this painting....

Here's another way to think about it....

"Read" this painting....

And lest we take ourselves too seriously....

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