Chapter 3: Being a Critic of the Arts Flashcards
Interpretive criticism centers upon
content
Descriptive criticism focuses upon
form
Evaluative criticism centers on
the relative merits of a work
A work of art is most likely to be judged a masterpiece by an evaluative critic if
it resists monotony
A detail relationship of an artistic form is
the connection of a part to another part or parts
A region of a work of art is
a larger distinct part or group of parts
A structural relationship in a work of art is
the connection of a part to the overall structure
Which of the following was considered shock art?
Hirst, This Little Piggy Went to Market, This Little Piggy Stayed Home
Jackson Pollock’s Autumn Rhythm has
no clear-cut regions
The statement that Picasso’s Guernica is a better painting than Blume’s Eternal City is
evaluative
The statement that there are more detailed relationships in Autumn Rhythm than in Composition with Yellow, Blue, and Red is
descriptive
The statement that the bull in Guernica symbolizes Franco’s utter insensitivity to suffering is
interpretive
The statement that the subject matter of Guernica is about the bombing of defenseless citizens by the fascists in 1937 is
historical
Noticing the rhyme, steady meter, and quatrain stanza structure of Yeats’s “The Lake of Innisfree” is
descriptive criticism
N. J. Berrill points out in Man’s Emerging Mind that
we are more likely to see what we believe
