Art Criticism

In the Art Criticism article on the Instructional 1 website it explains that an artist needs to be their own critic. To put this on an elementary level you can ask your students how they feel about their art work and what would they do to improve it. In the book it says that art criticism needs to help show kids what is acceptable art language. It also says that to teach proper criticism you should have kids look at examples and point out what they see. They can put two columns on a paper and put for and against. These columns would explain what type of words can be used and what can’t be used to describe one another’s art work. The book explains that to get the student’s to understand you need to ask them questions like what do they see or what does it mean. On the website Princetonol it gave an example of a worksheet where it lists the four parts of art criticism and then next to it there are boxes that say good, average, and needs work. They use this worksheet to practice the skills of art criticism. You give them examples of art work and let them work through the worksheet to gain a better understanding. In order for art criticism to work the kids need to be educated on art and understand what makes art. Art criticism can build an understanding of the true meaning of what an artist wanted to convey.