1. Graphic Design 1 Please get your binders.
DO NOT turn on your computers.

2. 4 steps of art criticism (you are the art detective gathering visual clues or evidence to help you with the next steps)
Step 1 – Use complete sentences to describe what you see in the work of art What is the name of the artist and the title of the work?
What year was the work created in?
Tell about or list the literal objects you see in the work.

3. Step 2
Step 2 – Use complete sentences to analyze the artist’s use of the elements and principles of art within the work
Describe the elements of art – line, shape, form, value, color, texture and space
Describe the principles of art – balance, emphasis, proportion, movement, rhythm, pattern, unity, and variety

4. Step 3
Step 3 – Use complete sentences to interpret what you have already discovered about the work in the first two steps. 
Develop a good guess about the meaning of the work. An interpretation explains what you have already observed and analyzed. You will use your knowledge of art and life to come up with your best guess as to the interpretation of the artwork.
What is the artist trying to say in this work and what makes you think that?
Why did the artist create the work?
What do you think is the meaning and why?
Do you think there are things in this work of art that represent other things – symbols?  What are those things and what do they symbolize?
You will look at the emotions content, symbols, and allegories to arrive at the best possible message or meaning of the work.

13. Literal vs. abstract
To describe something as literal is to say that it is exactly what it seems to be. For example, if you put up a literal barrier to keep the world out, you've actually built a real wall.
in accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the word or words; not figurative or metaphorical: the literal meaning of a word.
true to fact; not exaggerated; actual or factual: a literal description of conditions.

15. Non representational or abstract
an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation

17. Abstract Geometric patterns
characterized by simple geometric forms in design and decoration.

18. Abstract Geometric patterns
Go to Haiku and click on the tab patterns with color and shape
Find 20 examples of patterns that you find interesting.
Cut and paste them into Word and then print them out on the color printer.
If you do not finish it is Homework.