AP Critique
- Description: Just the facts: what do I see? Elements and Principles of Design
- Analysis: How is the work organized? Discuss different compositional elements within the artwork.
This is a detailed description of the use or lack of use of principles within the work. - Interpretation: What are the Ideas? Explain who you think the target audience is, colors or other
principles used to target specific people, where it would be used in society, what the artist is trying to communicate, etc. - Judgment: What do I think of the work? Does it succeed or fail according to my opinions about everything I have written?
Explain why it does or does not according to formalism (using formal elements of art) and emotionalism (does it create or
evoke an emotion?). What would you do different if anything to aesthetically appeal more?