Why do we "like" something? --> Critiques in Fine art and Design: Getting to the heart

                                   

1. What do you see?  (Visual description of formal elements only)  (Left Brain)

2.  What does it remind you of?  (Right Brain)

3. What feelings – if any does it raise?  (Right Brain)

4. What questions does it raise?  (Left Brain)

5.  What can you synthesize from this as far as what the content is?  (Right and Left)

Image taken from:

http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/modern_art/bird_in_space_constantin_brancusi/objectview.aspx?collID=21&OID=210006973

Bird in Space, 1923
Constantine Brancusi (French, born Romania, 1876–1957)
Marble

 

1. What do you see?  (Visual description of formal elements only)  (Left Brain)

2.  What does it remind you of?  (Right Brain)

3. What feelings – if any does it raise?  (Right Brain)

4. What questions does it raise?  (Left Brain)

5.  What can you synthesize from this as far as what the content is?  (Right and Left)

Image taken from:  http://www.thebody.com/visualaids/web_gallery/2002/baysa/05.html

Untitled (portrait of Ross in LA), 1991
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
175 lbs Fruit Flasher Candy, size variable

 









"On the occasion of Marilyn Monroe’s suicide in August 1962, Warhol used this image for his screenprinting. It was a publicity shot by Gene Korman for the film Niagara, made in 1953. " http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/marilyns.html