2. Create your own art critique for The Raft of the Medusa.
3. What elements or principles of art does the artist use in The Raft of the Medusa? Identify at least four elements or principles of art in the artwork and describe how they are used.
4. How does context influence art critiques?
5. What are some of the factors that can influence an art critique over time?

Review Questions

1. What is an art critique?

•simple: an evaluation of the artwork.

•Google: is an oral or written discussion strategy used to analyze, describe, and interpret works of art.

•There are four different stages of art criticism, which will be covered in later questions.

2.In an art critique, what is the "describe" step? What is included in this step of the art critique?

•The describe step is basically telling what you see in the art piece. This includes foreground, middle ground, background etc. But do not judge the art, as this will take place later.

3. What is the "analyze" step of an art critique? What would you include in this step?

•Looking for and paying attention to the different techniques an artist uses in their art pieces, such as line, shape, texture, etc. but not form, as it is a 3d element.

•Also the way these elements are organizes, such as balance and unity.

4. What is the "interpret" step of an art critique? What would you include in this step?

•This stage requires one to be creative and imaginative, and is more open to different ideas than other stages seeing as the beauty is "In the eye of the beholder."

• list the feelings one gets from looking at the artwork.

5. What is the "evaluate" step of an art critique? What would you include in this step?

• Deciding whether the work was overall successful and if the artist was also successful in conveying their emotions through the piece.

• One should used evidence from other steps to come to a conclusion here.

Critical Thinking Questions

Once you understand the review questions, the critical thinking questions will be understood as well. I'm afraid I can only help you up till here, because it wouldn't be your own interpretation and answer if I were to critique it myself.

Hope I helped!

the above mentioned statements talks about the creativity of an artist and to what extend they can utilize and experiment on the objects provided.   differing size and subjects are given so that an image of wisdom is created. displaying a transition from light to dark in something by darkening sections in order to create a shadow. and lastly, putting bits and pieces together to formulate a new image.