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=**Introduction to art criticism**=



==**What makes a good painting or a good work of art? Is it all based on taste?**==

**Is beauty or ugliness only in the eye of the beholder?**
==**How does one judge a work of art?**==

**Can one look at a work and not like it but still appreciate its place and value in our culture?**
==**Let's begin learning about art criticism by first establishing what your personal criteria are.**==

Work on the criteria now for 20 minutes.
==You could build your criteria around the formal aspects of the work or even around subject matter== What does "formal aspects" mean?

=In art criticism there are 2 areas that you must examine to understand and appreciate a work of art:=

1: Form (how it is made)
=== 2. Content (what it is about and the circumstances under which it was created) ===