1. Unit 5: Art Criticism
Grab your sketchbook and handout on the way in and go immediately to your seat.
Put away your phones. NO PHONES TO BE USED THIS LESSON.

2. Agenda Introduction to Art Criticism (10 min.)
Notes and Practice – why is it important to think critically about images? (60 min.)
Glue Notes (10 min.)
Free Time?/Raffle/prepare for paper mache project

3. Discussion Norms
Raise your hand if you have something you would like to say something/contribute to the discussion
Only one person is speaking at a time; everyone else is tracking the speaker
NO SIDE CHATTER; if it doesn’t have anything to do with the topic we’re discussing you shouldn’t be talking

4. Art criticism
Art criticism – responding to, interpreting meaning, and making critical judgments about specific works of art.

5. Objective
I understand why it’s important to think critically about images and art.
I can critically think about and formally critique a work of art.
Essential Questions
Can an image create change?
What kinds of messages are being conveyed from the images we see everyday?
Why is it important to think critically about images and art?

6. Why art criticism?
Being able to interpret meaning and judge other works of art will make our own better.
Artists are kind of like film makers, music producers, music artists, musicians, authors, athletes, etc.
YOU want to be able to create your own art that may have a message.
Being able to look at art critically also helps make you more informed of what you see and what is important to you

7. Why art criticism? (5 min.)

8. What are these two images trying to say about beauty? (10 min.)

9. Image 2

10. Do you agree with either message? Why or why not?

11. 2 Smoking Images (7 min.)
Leader – make sure everyone has a role and is keeping the group on track; asks questions and help stimulate conversation
Recorder – write down the name of everyone in your group and record what every person says.
Timer – keep track of time (7 min)
Presenter – present a summary of what their group wrote to the whole class
I will randomly choose 4 groups to present so presenter must be ready.

12. What are these two images trying to say about smoking? (in a group)
How many
Image 1

13. Image 2

14. What did your group say about the images? (5 min.)
I’ll record on the side board.

15. Try these last two images on your own. (7 min.)
Be prepared to discuss what you wrote if you get called on.

16. What are these two paintings trying to say about war
What are these two paintings trying to say about war? (Try this on your own)
Image 1: Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, George Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851

17. Image 2:
Otto Dix
Trench Warfare
1932

18. Why does it matter?
Is war still an issue?

19. The total number of casualties in World War I, both military and civilian, was about 37 million: 16 million deaths and 21 million wounded. The total number of deaths includes 9.7 million military personnel and about 6.8 million civilians.

21. How often do we look at images? Can a work of art create change?
What kinds of messages are being conveyed from the images we see everyday??
Why is it important to think critically about images and art?
Take a moment to answer the short answer question on page 2. (5 minutes)

22. Cut and paste
Cut along the dotted line and glue the steps to art criticism into your sketchbook.
1st page - Definition, 4 Steps to critiquing a work of art, Step 1,
2nd page –step 2, Step 3, step 4
TURN IN FIRST PAGE OF THE PACKET TO ME.

23. Free Time
Prepare for paper mache project