Critiques
During Advanced Photography we will be analyzing and writing about important and historical photographers from the past. Art Criticism - is a process where we focus our attention on one art object, carefully examine that object and then come to conclusions about the meaning and the value of that object. DIRECTIONS – Select one Photograph from the given website (see right side bar link to current critique) and write a short PARAGRAPH about it using ALL of the areas in Art Criticism: Description, Analysis, Interpretation, and Judgment. A minimum of 20 well written sentences is required for FULL credit (25 points.) Save this to your Z: drive folder. Print it out and turn into teacher. Description What do I see? Inventory what you see. Make a list. No conclusions. No assumptions.
Analysis How is it organized? What elements & principles of art are used? Take your list and look for relationships. Compare things that you see. Look for similarities and differences.
Interpretation What is the photographer trying to communicate? Offer hypotheses for the relationships that you discovered. Offer up a brainstorm of possibilities for what the photo means, why the photographer took it and what the viewer should derive from it.
Evaluate Do you feel this successful photograph? Based on you assumptions from the Interpretation make a statement or offer your opinion of how successful the photographer was at making the photograph.
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