Drawing II Critique Blog

Online Drawing II Critique Blog

Date due: October 1st, 12:00 a.m.(latest you may make your posts)


Hello, Everyone:

By know you should be well-versed in the idea of an art critique (review of someone's creative work with comments on its good or bad qualities)having been through several in class already. Experience has shown that students generally dislike having their work critiqued in a public forum such as the classroom, and also dislike critiquing others works, perhaps for fear of generating an uncomfortable argument. Though that can (and is) be a valid part of art criticism, I believe that having a critique where you are not sitting in the same room with each other that you will be more open to expressing real feelings and ideas about the work. Again: the idea of a critque is constructive, yet sincere criticism of the work (not the student!).


That being said, I'm going to try an experimental exercise. This is why I had you take pictures of the pieces you were submitting beforehand. Using these photos (that each of you have copies of) and working from numbers 1-15 chronologically, we will post our comments about each work. I will provide the intitial post for each work. Then each of you are expected to provide one post for each students work and to read your colleagues' posts (as well as mine, of course). To reiterate; you are required to have a comment posted for each of one your fellow students artworks. Now, can you post more than one comment(for instance, can you respond to someone else's comment on your work)? Sure, and indeed, I would expect you will.

You will be assessed (P/F)on your level of participation in this project. I would expect, as aforementioned, that you will have commented on each person's work at the very least. You should address the formal aspects of the work, and concept or narrative aspects of the work if evident.

Since you don't have a lot of time to post your comments, I would suggest that you not procrastinate. Good luck and I'll "talk" to you in cyberspace!