Art Critique
The title given to a person who writes about artwork.
What is a "critic"?
Mark Rothko uses soft edges and focuses on color in his artworks in this technique.
What is "COLOR-FIELD PAINTING"?
This type of inspiration for art comes from direct observation, personal experience, and events.
What is "EXTERNAL inspiration"?
An influence of transportation advancements on artists in the late 1800s and 1900s.
What is . . . ?
Artists depicted trains and touring cars.
Artists had new, exciting subjects to portray due to the advancements in transportation.
Artists made artworks showing tourists exploring the land.
This artist's sculptures use a single color and repeated box shapes to create unity.
Who is Louise Nevelson?
The first step in critiquing art. This step focuses on what you see and observe about the artwork.
What is "DESCRIPTION"?
This type of art is created from lines, shapes, forms, colors, and/or texture with no intention of representing real objects.
What is "NON-OBJECTIVE"?
The arrangement or placement of visual elements in a piece of artwork, also known as layout structure or way a subject is presented.
What is "composition"?
Artists create these to honor people who have died or an event in which they have died, to honor a person who has done a brave deed, or to give people a place to think about important things.
What are "MEMORIALS"?
The artist who created a jazz rhythm in his abstract artworks of New York City scenes by using flat shapes, bright colors, and decorative patterns.
Who is "Stuart Davis"?
Interpreting art is this, meaning it is based on personal feelings, opinions, background, etc.
What is subjective?
The style of art that Georgia O'Keeffe and Edward Weston worked in?
What is "MODERNISM"?
Josef Albers and Mark Rothko both used these elements of art as the focus for their paintings.
The nickname given to Thomas Moran for his paintings of the ideal views of the west in a realistic style.
What is "Father of the National Park System"?
His photographs were the first stop-motion photographs.
Who is "Eadweard Muybridge"?
In a personal critique, it is important to determine if your work is really complete by doing this.
What is making changes based on peer/teacher feedback?
What is showing growth and learning?
What is figuring out which areas need improvement and making those improvements?
Where subjects come from in the artworks of Ashcan School artists like John Sloan.
What is "CITY LIFE"?
The relationship of parts to the whole. For example head : body.
What is "PROPORTION"?
Eadweard Muybridge' photography influenced this by influencing other artists, like Thomas Eakins. He used photographs as a teaching tool; photographs were also used to study the human body and the phases of action.
What is "SOCIETY"?
Artist Edward Hopper used this technique to create contrast and a sense of loneliness and isolation in his paintings of New York City scenes.
What are "LIGHT and DARK VALUES"?
The steps are in the Art criticism process are 1. __ 2. ___ 3. ____ 4. _____
What are Describe, Analyze, Interpret, Decide/Evaluate
This Art style uses visible brushstrokes, depicts modern life, uses vibrant or soft pastels, shows a moment in time, and uses blues, greens, or violets for shadows rather than black.
What is American Impressionism?
The difference between two elements in art (small/large; dark/light; straight/curved; smooth/rough)
What is "CONTRAST"?
Roy Lichtenstein creates this type of art which imitates the popular comic book style of his time by using the primary color scheme, thick black lines, and the Ben-Day dot system.
What is "Pop Art"?
This artist created playful sculptures that have contrasting shapes.
Who is "Alexander Calder"?