Art Critique

Chris Wolf

5/9/2011

Art Curator Project Review

            The project that I decided to critique is called “Back to Nature” by Christine Krolewicz.  It was publishes via angel web on 5/7/2011.  After looking through a few projects I came to Christine’s and decided to review it because I share similar interests with the theme of the project.  I enjoy the outdoors and really any activity outside in nature so it would be fitting that I would appreciate the art works related to this topic.  The outdoor scenes, pieces that were chosen, and explanations that Christine gave all drew me to her project.  The presentation is very neat and organized and would be really interesting to tour if this project was actually in a museum. 

            Christine’s project is well done she exhibited that she knows how to put the art in a way so the projects flows for the viewer.  She has an extensive explanation of each work displayed in her project as well as how the work relates to her project.  All the pieces that are displayed are properly sourced and all have the artist year and medium used to make it.  I enjoy the verity in the presentation because all the pieces were related to the same common theme but all type of art works were displayed like both sculptures and painting. The art that was in public places really caught my attention I did not rea3lise that all this art was displayed in such everyday places. This project was well thought out and just by looking at it you can tell alto of effort was put in to making it perfect.

 The first challenge that I had in critiquing this piece is that I have never critiqued artwork before.  I never was interested in art before this semester; I do not have the background in art so my understanding is simple and basic.       To overcome I viewed multiple videos related to the class and critiquing.  I don’t feel that comfortable critiquing others work because what I think looks good does not look good to other people.  Who am I or anyone for that matter to tell people how their art work should look.  The beauty of art is in the creativity and how is someone supposed to be creative if someone is telling them what to do.  I think with this project that I decided to critique I can relate to it and maybe Christine and I have similar views in art and maybe our critiques would be similar.   This project was a lot of work and I can tell Christine put a lot of time and effort in hers project and I believe that she gave it her all before she summited the piece.

I would enjoy reading what my classmate have to say about my project and how they think that I could have made it better.   I like being constructive criticized it make me focus more on what I need to improve.  Before looking at what others had handing in and completed I would have rated my project at a nine out of ten.  After looking at what my classmate handed in I would rate my project at a 7 or 8 when compared to other classmate’s projects.  I put a lot of time and effort forth in completely my project but others project were more organized and themes were better represented.  I did enjoy completing this project.  I liked it because I was able to see what curators at art museums must go through to put an exhibit together.  Before this project I thought that the art was just thrown on the walls but after seeing what goes into making and displaying art I give the museums a lot of credit.