Put up your work-prints – prioritized from you best [you think] on top, and so on down.
Your least favorite will be on the bottom.

Put up your contact sheet and the paper bag also.  Your contact sheet needs to have been marked up with grease pencil, indicating the ones you are interested in.

In your notebooks, write down the two strongest photographs by each person, and decide which of those is the strongest for you.  Write down your reasons why – these can be notes you refer to in the critique – it is not a written assignment, but notes for you to refer to.

Remember the important art aesthetic issues of:
Line
Light & Dark
Tone
Texture
Surface
Form
Composition
Abstract
Meaning
Formalism
Narrative
Lyrical
Symbolic
Surrealism

And other words to describe distinction:  special, beautiful, uncommon, evocative

 

We will discuss everyone’s picks and why you picked those.  We want to talk about them in a sophisticated manner – avoid works such as “like” or “pretty”.

This notebook assignment must be completed in your photo notebook with the heading on the page of Paper Bag Crit.

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art definitions -2007-
you will need these to talk about the work
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LIGHT – a particular illumination; something that makes vision possible

PICTURE - a visual representation or image rendered on a flat surface

FORMAL ELEMENTS OF A PICTURE - light and dark, line, tone, texture, and form

LINE - a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface

FORMALISM - adherence to a strict set of rules

ART- the act of creating beautiful things; the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects

CRITIQUE - a serious examination and judgment of something; "constructive criticism is always appreciated

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PRETTY - pleasing or attractive; appearing pleasant or nice but lacking strength, force, purpose, or intensity

BEAUTIFUL - having a quality that delights the senses or exalts the mind; exciting sensuous or aesthetic pleasure

SPECIAL - uncommon; noteworthy; being other than the usual

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FORM - the structure of a work of art
CONTENT- meaning or significance

COMPOSITION - the act of combining parts or elements to form a whole; structure

FULL FRAME – composing the picture completely in the camera with no cropping of the image
CROP – In photography. to cut off or mask the unwanted parts of (a print or negative)

EXPRESSION - communication of an idea, emotion, etc.

FIGURATIVE - represented by a figure

REPRESENTATIONAL - likeness to an object; artistic likeness
ABSTRACT - having only intrinsic form or no pictorial representation
expressing a quality apart from an object.

DOCUMENTARY - presenting facts objectively in artistic form

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NARRATIVE - recites the details of (story or situation)
LYRICAL - expressing direct and usually intense personal emotion
SYMBOLIC - stands for something else

METAPHOR - figure of speech in which a word denoting one subject or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness between them

SURREALISM – artistic movement that attempts to express the workings of the unconscious mind

MODERNISM – a self-conscious break with the past and a search for new forms of expression

POSTMODERNISM – recent movement in art that is a reaction against the philosophy and practices of modern movements; appropriation of images from media and re-use of them

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link to union student paper bag galleries