ARTAPP 3

• Art criticism


  The process of evaluating and interpreting works of art
• Four coordinates of art criticism


  • Subject matter
  • Artist
  • Audience
  • Form
• Mimetic approach


  Art criticism that focuses on the subject matter or content of the artwork
• Expressive approach


  Art criticism that focuses on the relationship between the artwork and its creator
• Pragmatic approach


  Art criticism that focuses on the value, function or significance of the artwork to the audience
• Formalist/Aesthetic approach


  Art criticism that focuses on the formal elements and composition of the artwork
• How to critique artworks

  1. Description

  2. Analysis

  3. Interpretation

  4. Judgment
• The Frankfurt School is a group of German intellectuals associated with the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt, established in 1923
• Critical Theory

  The Frankfurt School's critical mix of Marxism and psychoanalysis
• Critical Theory provides a specific interpretation of Marxist philosophy with regards to some of its central economic and political notions like commodification, reification, fetishization and critique of mass culture
• Challenging ideologies


  • Coco Chanel's breakthrough in fashion industry
• Marxism


  A body of revolutionary theory with the purpose of changing the world
• Marxist approach to culture


  insist that texts and practices must be analyzed in relation to their historical conditions of production. Example Sugar cane (painting) by Jose Diego Maria Rivera portraying class struggle
• Deconstruction


  Examining a text or artwork to demonstrate that it has irreconcilably contradictory meanings, rather than being a unified, logical whole
• Deconstruction


  • Frozen (2013 film) reversing the protagonist from the original Danish fairytale "The Snow Queen"

  
• Feminism


  A political movement concerned with women's oppression and empowerment
• Feminism in art


  • Beyonce Knowles presenting a strong independent woman image in her music
• Queer Theory


  Exploring the relationships between lesbians, gay men and the surrounding culture, and attacking the "naturalness" of gender and compulsory heterosexuality
• Queer Theory


  • Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda novel where the main character is blackmailed to reveal his true gender identity
• Critical Race Theory (CRT)


  A movement that challenges conventional legal strategies to deliver social and economic justice, and calls for approaches that consider race as a nexus of American life
• Critical Race Theory


  • The Color Purple play depicting the cyclical world of pain and violence experienced by the main character Georgia
• Postcolonialism


  Concerned with the culture affected by the imperial process from colonization to the present day
• Postcolonialism


  • Influences of European architecture in the Northern region of the Philippines
• It involves a technical description, basic form and elements of the art; this includes:

  1. Artist’s Name
  2. Title of the Artwork
  3. Type of the Artwork
  4. Subject
  5. Elements
  6. First Impression
• Seven Da Vincian Principles of Arts:

  1. CURIOSITA (curiosity)
  2. DIMONSTRAZIONE (demonstrate)
  3. SENSAZIONE (senses)
  4. SFUMATO (going up in smoke)
  5. ARTE/SCIENZA (art/science)
  6. CORPORALITA (corporation)
  7. CONNESSIONE (connection)
• CURIOSITA - is an insatiably curious approach to life and an unrelenting quest for continuous learning.
• DIMONSTRAZIONE - is a commitment to test knowledge through experience, persistence, and a willingness to learn from mistakes.
• SENSAZIONE - the continual retirement of the senses, especially sight, as the means to clarity experiences.
• CURIOSITA - "the desire to know is natural to good men."
• DIMOSTRAZIONE - "Experience is the heart of wisdom."
• SENSAZIONE - "All our knowledge has its origin in our perspective."
• SFUMATO - a willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox, and uncertainty.
• SFUMATO - "I wish to work miracles."
• ARTE/SCIENZA - the development of the balance between science and art, logic and imagination.
• ARTE/SCIENZA - "study the science of art and the art of science."
• CORPORALITA - the cultivation of grace, ambidexterity, fitness, and poise.
• CORPORALITA - " Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so out intellect wastes unless it is kept in use."
• CONNESSIONE - a recognition and appreciation for the connectedness of all thing and phenomena.
• CONNESSIONE- "the greatest geniuse, sometimes, accomplish more when they work less."