Art Criticism & Aesthetic Judgment

Professional people who appear on television or write reviews about new movies, plays, television shows, videos, books, art and music art called?

• a director

• an analyst

• a critic

• an aesthetician

An organized approach for studying a work of art

and a sequential approach for looking at and talking about art.

• Art criticism Operations

• Aesthetic experience

Your personal interaction with a work of art that makes art more meaningful and memorable.

• Art Criticism

• Aesthetic Experience

• Art History Operations

The qualities that can increase the understanding of the works and serve as the criteria on which judgments are based. Identifying and assessing enables art critics to make judgments and to defend those judgments with intelligent reasons.

• Aesthetic Qualities

• Formal Qualities

• Literal Qualities

• Expressive Qualities

List the Steps of Art Criticism:

What is the first step of art criticism where you carefully make a list of all the things you see in the work of art. (The size of the work, medium used, and process used. The subject, object, and details. And the elements of art used in the work).

• Judgment

• Interpretation

• Analysis

• Description

The second step in art criticism answers how the work is organized. In this step you discover how the principles of art/design are used to organize the elements of art: line, shape, form, value, space, color & texture.

• Description

• Analysis

• Interpretation

• Judgment

The 3rd step of art criticism that answers what message the artwork communicates. You will explain or tell the meaning or mood of the work.

• Description

• Analysis

• Interpretation

• Judgment

The 4th step in art criticism or art critique answers question: is the work successful. It determines the degree of artistic merit. You make your own decisions by answering: Do you like the the work? Do you think the work is successful based on the aesthetics.

• Description

• Analysis

• Interpretation

• Judgment

What are the realistic qualities that appear in the subject of an artwork

• Literal Qualities

• Formal Qualities

• Expressive Qualities