Critique VVWA
1. Read the section "Defining Criticism". After reading, what are your thought about criticisms role in art?
Criticisms area mainly used to give positive feedback, and the can be negative sometimes. Not all writing about art is criticism.
2. Read the section "Kinds of Criticism". Explain the difference between Exploratory and argumentative criticism.
In doing exploratory aesthetic criticism, a critic delays judgments of value and attempts rather to ascertain an object’s aesthetic aspects as completely as possible, to ensure that readers will experience all that can be seen in a work of art. In doing argumentative aesthetic criticism, after sufficient interpretive analysis has been done, critics estimate the works positive aspects or lack of them and give a full account of their judgments based on explicitly stated criteria and standards.
3. Read "Describing Photographs: Defining Description". When writing or talking about a photograph what are the three things that should be included?
Descriptions are answers to the questions: “What is here?
What am I looking at? What do I know with certainty about this image ?”
4. Read "Describing Form". What are some formal design elements that can be described?
From the older art forms of painting and drawing, photography has inherited these formal elements: dot, line, shape, light and value, color, texture, mass, space, and volume.
5. Read "Comparing and Contrasting" Look up one off the other photographers mentioned. Post an image and describe the comparison you see in the photos to the ones in the gallery above.
The photo by Matthew Brady uses a different color scheme compared to the black and white photos in the gallery.
Criticisms area mainly used to give positive feedback, and the can be negative sometimes. Not all writing about art is criticism.
2. Read the section "Kinds of Criticism". Explain the difference between Exploratory and argumentative criticism.
In doing exploratory aesthetic criticism, a critic delays judgments of value and attempts rather to ascertain an object’s aesthetic aspects as completely as possible, to ensure that readers will experience all that can be seen in a work of art. In doing argumentative aesthetic criticism, after sufficient interpretive analysis has been done, critics estimate the works positive aspects or lack of them and give a full account of their judgments based on explicitly stated criteria and standards.
3. Read "Describing Photographs: Defining Description". When writing or talking about a photograph what are the three things that should be included?
Descriptions are answers to the questions: “What is here?
What am I looking at? What do I know with certainty about this image ?”
4. Read "Describing Form". What are some formal design elements that can be described?
From the older art forms of painting and drawing, photography has inherited these formal elements: dot, line, shape, light and value, color, texture, mass, space, and volume.
5. Read "Comparing and Contrasting" Look up one off the other photographers mentioned. Post an image and describe the comparison you see in the photos to the ones in the gallery above.
The photo by Matthew Brady uses a different color scheme compared to the black and white photos in the gallery.
How to give a formal critique
1. What are the two main ideas of "What is a critique"?
It was important to have a ratio of 2:1 (positive vs negative feedback).
3. What are the three elements that go into a constructive critique? What are a few questions that resonate with you and why?
Remove all distractions, judge the composition, judge the content. Does the photographer make me feel anything? This question I usually ask because I usually want to feel an emotion when I'm looking at a photograph.
4. When delivering a critique “sandwich” what are the 4 elements?
Tell the photographer your intial impressionsThe top bun (positive feedback)The meat (negative feedback)THE BOTTOM BUN (POSITIVE FEEDBACK)
5. What are things to consider in the difference between an online critique and a face to face critique?
When it comes to written vs oral critique, I prefer receiving and giving oral critique. Why? Because when giving a written critique (via the internet) it can be difficult to specifically point out what parts of the image you like/dislike. Furthermore generally critiques that are written via the internet tend to be shorter and have less substance.
- Critique is generally used to find faults in certain arguments. According to the definition, it is not required that you include the positive aspects when you critique, but in order to give a constructive critique I believe it is important as well.
- A critique should be based on an informed opinion, and never upon a personal opinion. In the end any critique you give will always be your opinion, but it should be based on your past experience, your techinical knowledge, or training you have received in the past.
It was important to have a ratio of 2:1 (positive vs negative feedback).
3. What are the three elements that go into a constructive critique? What are a few questions that resonate with you and why?
Remove all distractions, judge the composition, judge the content. Does the photographer make me feel anything? This question I usually ask because I usually want to feel an emotion when I'm looking at a photograph.
4. When delivering a critique “sandwich” what are the 4 elements?
Tell the photographer your intial impressionsThe top bun (positive feedback)The meat (negative feedback)THE BOTTOM BUN (POSITIVE FEEDBACK)
5. What are things to consider in the difference between an online critique and a face to face critique?
When it comes to written vs oral critique, I prefer receiving and giving oral critique. Why? Because when giving a written critique (via the internet) it can be difficult to specifically point out what parts of the image you like/dislike. Furthermore generally critiques that are written via the internet tend to be shorter and have less substance.