Critical Method

Describe Observe & Investigate. Pay close and careful attention to the work. Read artists' statements, artists' bios, curatorial essays, reviews, etc. What media are used? How are they used? What are the work's formal qualities: tone, pace, style, color, composition, etc. 6. How does the work relate to its environment? What is the context in which you encounter it? 2. Analyze 1. Is the work concerned primarily with materials? Ideas? Narrative? Form? Emotional expression? Politics? 2. What does the artist appear to trying to say or do with the work? 3. Does it comment on or refer to other art works? 4. How does it relate to the artist's other work? 5. In short: What is the work "about?" 3. Evaluate 1. What do you like most about the work? In which ways is it most successful? 2. What do you like least about the work? How and where is it not "working?" 3. Does the work achieve the goals the artist seems to have set for it? 4. Alternative ways to present or distribute work. 5. Things the artist might change or do differently. 6. Artists, texts, or other things the artist might investigate. https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/Critical+Method 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.