Art Criticism

Circle or highlight all visual elements that apply to the painting Edward Hopper – New York Movie. You can submit the highlighted document or reply back with your answers typed up.

Lines:

– Actual
– Implied
– Vertical
– Horizontal
– Jagged / Sharp
– Curving
– Hard
– Soft
– Ragged / Irregular

Shapes:

– Overlap
– Vertical Placement
– Diminishing Size

Perspective:

– One Point
– Two Point
– Atmospheric
– None

Color:

– Monochromatic
– Analogous
– Complimentary
Art Hunt
For this assignment, please find an arrangement, place or scene that has no previous art intent or function and reframe it as a work of art. This can be anything found in your everyday life. Write at least one paragraph that creates a convincing argument as to why the item you’ve chosen can be considered as art. Include the image in this argument. Certain things like graffiti, visual signs or actual art found on the street cannot be accepted.

Please submit through Blackboard with the image included.
Essay
Art Criticism Essay

750-word minimum
12pt Times New Roman
Double Spaced

Please choose one work of art from our textbook and write a critical review of it. You may write about it in any way that you like as long as you identify the artist, title, and medium which is solely for the purpose of me knowing what artwork you are referring to.

BUT:

There are certain things I want you to write about in your essay:

Describe how its materials, composition and placement work or do not work. Speak about it in a contextual sense. A way to go about this is to identify what the artist is trying to communicate and why. What is the artist responding to? Is he/she successful in communicating that response?

If you would like an example of good criticism that is written well, you can google articles by these well-known critics:

Peter Schjeldahl
Jerry Saltz
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
Dave Hickey