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StudyGuide

How to critiqueYou will need to know the steps, in order & a brief description.

• Step 1 : Description - Make a visual inventory. Describe exactly what you see.

• Step 2 : Analysis - Describe how the work is organized as a complete composition.

• Step 3 : Interpretation - What is happening? Base on what you see. What do you think the artist trying to communicate?

• Step 4 : Judgement - Present your opinion of the work’s success or failure & EXPLAIN why.

Duchamp “Fountain” – found art

“Avalanch” Arman – found art

“Head of Bull” Picasso – found art

Ready-mades = completely unaltered everyday objects used as “art”

The term found art describes art created from undisguised, but often modified, objects that are not normally considered art, often because they already have a non-art function.

Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position to manipulate human emotions by displaying facts selectively.

Picasso “Guernica” 1937 - propaganda

Glenn Grohe 1942 “He’s watching you” - propaganda

“Hope” Shepard Fairey

“We can do it!”

J. Howard Miller 1943

Keith Haring, Retrospect, 1989

Futura 2000“the Clash” 1981

Graffiti was used as a form of expression by political activists.

Seen 6 1985 is an example of WILD STYLE

Invader “ Paris”

Zevs : “Zevs vs. McDonalds”

Shepard Fairey – “Obey”

*possible bonus – the original titleof this art before it was re-worked.

Bristol Center England, Bansky

Bansky “Paradise in Bethlehem”