Art Criticism, Aesthetics, Art History, & early Art Week 4 February 6, 2018

Greetings & Salutations Recap You read pages 86-134 Completed the vocabulary Studio Art “Upside-down Man”

Beginning Blog: Why is it important to have a way to analyze art rather than simply by one’s feelings?

Art Criticism examines aesthetic qualities for evaluating art. Literal qualities Design qualities Expressive qualities More than casual observation & impulsive expression of like/dislike In order to gain information rather than facts of who created the art, art critics use the operation of Description: literal qualities Analysis: design qualites Interpretation: meaning, mood, or idea Judgment: defending the criticism based on criteria or proof

COLOR INTENSITY VALUE (NON-COLOR) LINE TEXTURE SHAPE OR FORM SPACE BALANCE EMPHASIS HARMONY VARIETY GRADATION MOVEMENT PROPORTION COLOR INTENSITY VALUE (NON-COLOR) LINE TEXTURE SHAPE OR FORM SPACE

Feldman's 4 Steps to Art Criticism YouTube Video

USING AETHETEICS AND ART CRITICISM—determining importance from 3 theories. AETHESTICS—branch of philosophy concerned with identifying the clues within artworks that can be used to understand, judge, and defend judgments about those works. NON-OBJECTIVE ART Imitationalism—the realistic presentation of subject matter or the literal qualities Formalism—design qualities or the way an art is organized (elements & principles of art) Emotionalism—ability to communicate an emotion or idea to the viewer. (mood, feelings, ideas)

Art Criticism Operations—Internal Clues Description—subject matter/elements of art noted in the work Analysis—how principles of art have been used to arrange the elements of art Interpretation—mood, feelings, ideas communicated b the work Judgment—decision about the work’s artistic merit.

DESCRIPTION: Using Aesthetics and the Art Criticism Operations. Inventory of the elements of art in the work. How When Where What

Analysis: Using Aesthetics and the Art Criticism Operations. Identifying the design qualities. Principles of art Design Chart

Interpretation: identifying the expressive qualities in the work (mood, feelings, ideas) Mood (colors) Meaning (what makes you question in this art) Artist suggestion?

Judgment careful thought based on description, analysis, and interpretation NOT your initial reaction.

Nonobjective Art: any artwork that contains no apparent reference to reality. Primary importance on the manner in which the element/principles of art are used Description is not concrete

Visual Analysis in Art History Art historians are concerned with gathering information from works of art and the artist who created them.

Approach—historical versus critique Description—when, where, and by whom the work was done Who created the work? Where was it done? When was it done? Analysis—unique features of an artwork that determine its artistic style What are the main features of the work? Does it represent a particular style? What is the style? Interpretation how the artist is influenced by the world around him or her Which artists or works inspired the artist? What other influences affected the work? Does the work reveal something about the world in which it was painted? Judgment about a work’s importance in the history of art. Does the artwork have historical importance?

Art History: Art of the Earlies Times Paleolithic period—old stone age Megaliths Post and lintel construction

Cave Paintings Altamira Lascaux—southern France Hunting rituals ? Pigments from clay Soft stone ground into pigment Mixed with animal blood Brushes—fingers, reed, or bristle brush

Prehistoric Builders Rock Carvings (petraglyphs) Stonehenge (post and lintel construction) Petroglyph National Monument— Albuquerque, NM

Stonehenge Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, 2 miles (3 km) west of Amesbury. It consists of a ring of standing stones, with each standing stone around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, 7 feet (2.1 m) wide and weighing around 25 tons. The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Agemonuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.[1]

Next Week: Textbook 135-176 Studio Art: pg. 90 , ”Create a personality design” Choose a piece of construction paper (colored paper) to express the color of your personality. Add lines, shapes, colors, values, textures, spaces with scraps of cut and folded or curled paper, or other found materials to show your personality in visual terms. Then, apply the art criticism steps Describe elements Analyze which principles were used Interpret what moods, feelings, or ies does the work express Judge is your work successful What would you improve if you were to create it again?

Week 4 Quiz Analyze the following painting in using the the art criticism approach in Chapter 4, Lesson One. The focus of the analysis is description(literal qualities), Theory (imitationalism, formalism, emotionalism) analysis ( how well the work is organized--chart) interpretation (meaning mood or idea or the art) judgment—(defend whether the art is effective)