1. Art Criticism
Your personal response to art

2. Sick Cool
Scary
Weird
Disgusting

3. The four steps of art criticism
Description - The facts.
Analysis - The elements of art: color, texture, tone, line, shape, space. And composition, style and technique.
Interpretation - What do you think is happening and why? What was the artist’s intention?
Judgment - Do you like it or not? Why?

4. Step 1 – Description Title: Big Self Portrait 1967-1968
Artist: Chuck Close
Medium/ Class: Acrylic on Canvas, Painting
Size: x 83.5 x 2 inches
Content:
A man is looking at the viewer,. We can see his head and the top of his naked ______ which has some______ on it. He is wearing _________and has a lit ____________in his mouth. He has a _______________and loose, slightly _____ hair.

5. Step 2 - Analysis
The elements of art: colour, texture, tone, line, shape, space. And composition, style and technique.
Color___________________________
Tone____________________________
Texture__________________________
Composition______________________
Technique________________________
Style____________________________

6. Step 3 - Interpretation
What do you think is happening and why? What was the artist’s intention?
I think the man is__________________
because_________________________.
I think he is ______________________
I think the artist was_______________

7. Step 4 - Judgment Do you like it or not? Why?
I like this painting because ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I do not like this painting because ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

8. Now follow the 4-steps for this photograph
Title: The flatiron, 1904
Artist: Edward Steichen
Medium/ Class: Gum bichromate over platinum print

9. And for this photograph
Title: Magic
Artist: Zena Halloway
Medium/ Class:
Underwater Photography