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Course Title: Art appreciation and criticism – Tutorial (1)
Dr. Ola HAmdy
Faculty of Applied Arts
Art Appreciation and criticism
Student name: Mina Samy Abd-elZaher Date: 4/11/2020
Student ID: 20173115 Sheet No: 1
Assistant: Grade:
1- Define
A. Artistic Taste
B. Art Criticism
C. Art Work
A) Artistic Taste:
The capacity to take pleasure in certain artistic and natural objects, the capacity to identify the
constituent elements in such objects, and the capacity to discern certain special properties. This
conception of taste is annexed to the idea that ‘beauty’ or ‘artistic excellence’ is not itself an
objective property of things, but that it is recorded in judgments of beauty as a report of a certain
kind of pleasure felt by the judge in the presence of these things.
It is primarily the idea that beauty, elegance, gracefulness and other properties – collectively called
‘aesthetic properties’ that can be felt by the receiver.
The concept of taste has been intensively studied in a variety of fields such as philosophy,
psychology, and sociology and due to its importance, the concept of taste also studied in consumer
behavior and marketing literature as it affect most of our decisions. Standards of taste differs from
one place to another (between cultural areas), level of learning…etc.
B) Art Criticism:
- Art criticism is responding to, interpreting meaning, and making critical judgments about specific
works of art,
- The analysis and evaluation of works of art. More subtly, art criticism is often tied to theory; it
is interpretive, involving the effort to understand a particular work of art from a theoretical
perspective and to establish its significance in the history of art.
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BUC/ Faculty of Applied Arts/ Textiles
Course Title: Art appreciation and criticism – Tutorial (1)
Dr. Ola HAmdy
- Assessing a Work of Art:
1. Description 2.Analysis 3.Interpretation 4.Evaluation
C) Artwork:
Art is a diverse range of human activities involving the creation of visual, auditory, or
performing artifacts (artworks), which express the creator's imagination, conceptual ideas, or
technical skill, intended to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.
Though there is no generally agreed definition of what constitutes art, and ideas have changed over
time, general descriptions mention an idea of imaginative or technical skill stemming from human
agency and creation. The nature of art and related concepts, such as creativity and interpretation,
are explored in a branch of philosophy known as aesthetics.
References:
1. Cohen, Ted. Artistic taste, 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-M041-1. Routledge
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis,
https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/artistic-taste/v-1.
2. Hoyer, W.D., Stokburger-Sauer, N.E. The role of aesthetic taste in consumer behavior. J.
of the Acad. Mark. Sci. 40, 167–180 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-011-0269-y
3. Cawelti, John G. “The Concept of Artistic Matrices.” Communication Research, vol. 5, no. 3,
July 1978, pp. 283–304, doi:10.1177/009365027800500304.
4. contributor: donald burton kuspit title art criticism publisher encyclopædia britannica date
published august 03, 2014 url: https://www.britannica.com/art/art-criticism
5. "Art: definition". Oxford Dictionaries.
6. contributor: the editors of encyclopaedia britannica title art publisher encyclopædia
britannica date published october 30, 2020 url https://www.britannica.com/art/visual-ar