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Art Criticism and Aesthetics Lesson Plans
Erin SeickelARE 6195 Teaching Art Appreciation and Criticism
December 2, 2008
- Lesson One - An Introduction to Feldman
Blood Connection, Mixed Media, Aviva Beigel
- Lesson One -
An Introduction to Feldman1. Describe and Name the VISUAL FACTS.2. Analyze the VISUAL FACTS:
– Using Form Descriptors: Line, Light, Shape, Color and Temperature, Size and Quantity, Space and Location, Surface and Texture.
– Further Observations: Similarity, Closeness, Contrast, Sequence, Direction, Rhythm, Symmetry, Balance, Completeness, and Closure.
– The Technical Process: based on the visual facts.
3. Interpret the Evidence:– Create a critical hypothesis:
• Where is this happening?• Who lives here? What did they do? Why did they do it?• Are the represented events real or potentially real?• Was this place seen remembered or invented?• Where are we in relation to what we see?• What happened before we arrived? What will happen afterward?• If this was real how would our world be different?
4. Judge the Work:– Use your interpretation to ground your judgment.
Scared Dead, Mixed Media, Aviva Beigel
Using Feldman on Your Own
• DESCRIBE
• ANALYZE
• INTERPRET
• JUDGE
- Lesson One - An Introduction to Feldman
- Lesson Two -
Finding a Message• Looking at art that
conveys opinion or political message.– What does the artist
want to say?– What techniques and
strategies does the artist use to communicate that message?
– How effective is it?
Capital Dunking, Paul Marcus
Gun Karma, Copper Plate Photogravure, Pieter Myers
- Lesson Two -
Finding a Message
And Every Time He Told a Lie…, Copper Plate Photogravure, Pieter Myers
- Lesson Two -
Finding a Message
- Lesson Three -
Initial Reactions• Describe and Analyze• Take five minutes and
write down some of your initial reactions to one of these two pieces.
• Trade papers so that you have the reaction of one of your peers.
Chara Rose, Mixed Media, Anne Ggrich
- Lesson Three -
Initial Reactions• Compare and
contrast your
reaction with that
of your peer.– If it is different why do
you think that is?
– What do you think
they were responding
to?
– If it is the same what
elements lead to that
reaction?Hysophia, Mixed Media, Anne Ggrich
Toast Served with a Smile, Acrylic on canvas, Heather Merckle
Lesson Four -
Using Narrative as Art Criticism
Remember when we used to make a fort, Acrylic on canvas, Heather Merckle
Lesson Four -
Using Narrative as Art Criticism
- Lesson Four -
Using Narrative as Art Criticism
• Describe and Analyze• Write a story as if you were the artist telling
what happened to make you create this painting.
• Include the following:– Some background on yourself as the artist.– What events lead up to the creation of this
painting?– How are both of these elements reflected in the
work?
- Lesson Five -
Decoding Messages in Media
• How can you use
the Feldman
method to better
understand
messages in the
media?
Lesson Five -
Decoding Messages in Media
- Lesson Five -
Decoding Messages in Media• Who does this work think I am?
• What is this work trying to sell me?
• What does is want me to admire?
• Whom does it want me to be?
• What does it ask me to do?
• What does it want me to think?
• How does it want me to feel?
- Lesson Five -
Decoding Messages in Media• Studio Component:
– Create a self-portrait collage that answers some of Feldman’s questions.
– Apply the Feldman method to your own work and describe how you used elements of art and principles of design to answer Feldman’s questions.
- Lesson Six -
Considering Aesthetic Distance
Serenity, Film, Joss Whedon
What did you see?
http://www.hulu.com/watch/26021/serenity-straight-ahead
- Lesson Six -
Considering Aesthetic Distance
Stellar, Film, Stan Brakhage
What did you see?
- Lesson Six -
Considering Aesthetic DistanceLOOKING AT LOOKING INTO
Finding meaning in visual expression.
Perfunctory aesthetic judgment.
Looking beyond narrative to the same language used in describing, analyzing, interpreting, and judging other art pieces.
Looking only at narrative limits your ability to describe, analyze, interpret, and judge.
References
• Anderson, T. (1993).Defining and structuring art criticism for education. Studies in Art Education. 34(4), 199-208.• Beigel, Aviva (2005) Blood Connection Mixed Media. Retrieved 1 Nov. 2008 http://www.avivabeigel.com/ • Beigel, Aviva (2005) Scared Dead Mixed Media. Retrieved 1 Nov. 2008. http://www.avivabeigel.com/• Brakhage, Stan (1993) Stellar Film. Retrieved 16 Nov. 2008.
http://www.filmlogging.com/log/2008/08/stellar-stan-brakhage-1993/• Braudy, L., & Cohen, M. (Eds.). (2004). Film theory and criticism. New York City, NY: Oxford University Press.• Duncum, P. (2008). Holding aesthetics and ideology in tension. Studies in Art Education. 49(2), p. 122-135• Feldman, E.B. (1994). Practical art criticism. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.• Ggrich, Anne (2005) Chara Rose Mixed Media. Retrieved 16 Nov. 2008.
http://www.marciaweberartobjects.com/grgich.html• Ggrich, Anne (2005) Hysophia Mixed Media. Retrieved 16 Nov. 2008. http://www.annegrgich.com/art-02.html • Greenburg, C. (1987). The critic as educator. Achieving Cultural Literacy in Visual Art. April, 25-27.• House, N. (2008). Using critique in the K-12 classroom. Art Education. 61(3) 48-51.• Journey’s Advertisment (November 2008) Seventeen Magazine• Lacoste Advertisment (November 2008) Men’s Health Magazine• Lee, S. (1993). Professional criticism in the secondary classroom: Opposing judgments of contemporary art enhance
the teaching of art criticism. Art Education. May 42-51.• Marcus, Paul(2003) Capital Dunking Etching. Retrieved Nov 16 2008
http://www.washprintfair.com/imagegallerycontemporary.htm• Merckle, Heather (2007) Toast Served with a Smile Painting. Retrieved 12 Oct. 2008
http://gallery.mac.com/hmerckle#100047/DSCF0699&bgcolor=black• Merckle, Heather (2006) Remember When We Used to Make a Fort Painting. Retrieved 12 Oct. 2008
http://gallery.mac.com/hmerckle#100047/DSCF0590&bgcolor=black• Myers, Pieter S (2006) And Every Time He Told A Lie… Copper Plate Photogravure. Retrieved 1 Nov. 2008.
http://www.psmyers.com• Myers, Pieter S (2007) Gun Karma Photogravure. Retrieved 1 Nov. 2008. http://www.psmyers.com• Teen Vogue Fashion Spread (November 2008) Teen Vogue Magazine • Whedon, Joss (2005) Serenity Film. Retrieved 16 Nov. 2008. http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/serenity2.htm