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

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

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Feldman's 4 Steps to Art Criticism
YouTube Video

7. 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)

8. 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.

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

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

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

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

13. 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

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

15. 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?

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

17. 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

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

19. 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]

20. Next Week:
Textbook
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?

21. 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)