How to be an Art Critic

• Students will be able to define the term 'art criticism.'
• Students will be able to closely examine 2D and 3D artworks.
• Students will be able to identify relevant information about an artwork by using the credit line.
• Students will be able to identify whether a work is realistic, abstract, or non-objective.
• Students will be able to complete the first step of the art criticism process.
• While on a museum tour, students will be able to describe one or more of the artworks they are seeing according to step one of the art criticism process.

After a brief introduction to the course, students will learn what art criticism is and also learn about the various methods of art criticism. We will focus on Feldman’s 4-step approach to art criticism. Today’s lesson focuses on step one, DESCRIBE. Students will learn to look closely at an artwork without judgment, and they will learn what a credit line is and how to pull identifying information from it. Students will determine how realistic an artwork is, and whether it is realistic, abstract, or non-objective. After the guided portion of the lesson, students will practice describing various 2D and 3D artworks.

1. Brief introduction to the 5 week course
2. Introduction to art criticism, definition, explanation of various types of art criticism
3. Explanation of Feldman's 4-step approach to art criticism
4. (Main focus of today's lesson) Description - how to look closely and describe what you see
5. How to use the credit line to get additional information
6. Realistic vs. abstract vs. non-objective
7. Guided practice in the museum room
8. Museum tour with additional practice
9. Wrap-up:  review, questions, preview of next week's lesson.

We will be using https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnoSb19HkSo which is a 360 degree virtual tour.