CritiquesDuring Digital Photography we will be analyzing and writing about important and historical photographs 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 Look at the Historical Photo given for each Photo Critique. Write a short PARAGRAPH about it in a Google Doc using ALL of the areas in Art Criticism: Description, Analysis, Interpretation, and Judgment. A minimum of 10 well written sentences is required for FULL credit (20 points.) Save this to your Google Driver and then Print it out and turn into the class basket when you are finished. ART CRITICISM STEPS 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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