Inspirations: Responding to Art

When you Respond to a work of art, you provide helpful feedback to its artist:

1. What do you like?

2. What ideas would you recommend for the work of art?

Response Tips

• Avoid using judgment words such as "beautiful" or "ugly"

• Describe the work - elements, technical qualities

• Analyze the work - how does it work as a whole?

• Describe how the work makes you feel.

• Evaluate the work - does it serve its purpose well? What improvements could be made?

General Art response (critique)

Film Review (ex. 2001 narrative, Scrapertown doc)

Assignments

Literature review - book or magazine - response: explain principles, create something inspired by art you encounter in the source