It is when you explain, interpret, or evaluate artworks through writing or speaking. There are four different schools of criticism: 1) Representational/Realism 2)Abstraction 3)Expressionism/emotionalism 4)Surrealism/Fantasy
Criticism in Schools Lesson
MATERIALS:
Ribbon glue
Magazines paper
Small containers Scissors
-Bring in magazines, have them decide what is beautiful and ugly and tell why
Prompt: What makes art good or bad?
What is art criticism: explain, interpret, and evaluate artworks by writing or speaking
“We can then look at an artwork and use the inherent qualities as a basis for judgment.”
What is it NOT: expressing random feelings, stating personal preferences
-4 styles of art
-4 stages of criticism
-Divide class into 4 groups with 1 painting from each genre, they figure out what genre it is and then try to persuade the class to buy it based on the inherent aesthetic qualities they’ve been taught, rest of class guess what art style it is based on selling points of presenters
-Critics:
-Past vs. Present Critics
-Relation to Language Arts
-Activity – “art criticism containers”
- need a small container (with a completely removable lid), ribbon, scissors, paper, glue, pictures or anything else wanted.
- to make: glue a long piece of ribbon on the inside bottom, and bottom of the lid of the container. Cut pieces of paper that will fit into the shape of the container, and glue to either side of the ribbon. Put pictures, poems, notes, ANYTHING on paper glued to the ribbon. It should kind of “fold out” when you open the container
ENDING
Now ½ way to being a critic b/c you know the 4 questions to ask, now just need to learn more art history
STATE STANDARDS
Standard 3
The student will choose and evaluate artistic subject matter, themes, symbols, ideas, meanings, and purposes.
Objective 1
Explore possible content in art prints or works of art.
• Select themes or symbols appropriate for describing an idea or personal experience in art.
• Group artists and their works according to style or similar visual characteristics.
Objective 2
Discuss, evaluate, and choose symbols, ideas, subject matter, meanings, and purposes for artworks.
• Evaluate a significant work or works in terms of craftsmanship, concepts, objectives, creativity, beauty now, and beauty when it was created.
• Create a work of art portraying an object or animal important to the student.
LANGUAGE ARTS
Standard 7
Comprehension-Students understand, interpret, and analyze narrative and informational grade level text.
Objective 1
Identify purposes of text.
a. Identify purpose for reading.
b. Identify author’s purpose.
Objective 2
Apply strategies to comprehend text.
• Relate prior knowledge to make connections to text (e.g., text to text, text, to self, text to world).
• Generate questions about text (e.g., factual, inferential, evaluative).
• Form mental pictures to aid understanding of text.
Objective 3
Recognize and use features of narrative and informational text.
• Identify characters, setting, sequence of events, problem/resolution.
• Compare and contrast elements of different genres: fairy tales, poems, realistic fiction, fantasy, fables, folk tales, tall tales, biographies, historical fiction, science fiction).
• Identify information from text, headings, subheadings, diagrams, charts, captions, graphs, table of contents, index, and glossary.
• Identify different structures in text (e.g., description, problem/solution, compare/contrast, cause/effect, order of importance, time, geographic classification).Art Criticism.ppt
MY THOUGHTS
This was an interesting lesson. I really liked learning about the different schools of thought when it comes to art and how critics may judge art. It was really interesting to talk about critics and why what they say is important to people. The artifact we made was sooo fun! I am definitely going to use that just for gifts itself.
PROTOTYPE
Just looks like your average altoid tin right?
WRONG! With some work it is a cute little picture holder. You can use whatever size container you want to create these cool picture books.
