1. ART APPRECIATION de
Beaufort
Art Critique 200 points
During your visit to the Norton Museum, please select a work to write a Formal Criticism.
Follow the instructions given on the handout entitled Art Criticism: How to Critique Art.
For each stage in the analysis write a separate section/paragraph with at least 6 sentences each. Please
type your criticism and attach an image of the work that you have found on the museum web-site or
google image.
All writing must be YOUR WORDS ONLY. Cutting and pasting from online sources is
plagiarism and will result in a grade of 0 out of 200. I will randomly check papers by
googling suspicious passages.
Grading Rubric:
• Description (50 points)
o Describe at minimum 4 Visual Elements.
• Analysis (50 points)
o Explain at minimum 4 Design Principles.
• Interpretation (50 points)
o Address at minimum 3 categories of inquiry (see Group Project #3)
• Evaluation (50 points)
o Explain the work in relation to at least 2 Value Systems.
Objectives:
• Demonstrate an understanding of sociocultural, expressive, and formal criticism.
• Demonstrate an understanding of Description, Analysis, Interpretation, and Evaluation.
• Demonstrate an awareness of how a work generates meaning-both literal, symbolic, metaphorical,
and sociocultural.
• Demonstrate an awareness of the relationship of content and form.
• Demonstrate an ability to Describe, Analyze, and Interpret without first Evaluating a
work based on your own subjective values.