BLOOM'S TAXONOMY FOR ART
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What is your opinion of the painting?
Why?
Evaluation
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What
ways would you render the subject differently?
Synthesis
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Explain
what you think the artist is trying to
say about the subject
matter.
Analysis
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If
you could interview the artist,
what
questions would you ask?
Application
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What
is the subject or theme?
Understanding
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Describe
the painting.
Knowledge
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Adapted
from Dawn Steinecker's Triangle Chart
For sample questions -
see the Jackie Aust Brewer's site
See
Bloom's Revised Taxonomy (Revised by Lorin Anderson)
Classroom critiques use Bloom's
Higher Order Thinking Skills - See these sample
questions by Craig Roland
Helpful links for Bloom's
Taxonomy
ART
CRITICISM LINKS TO USE WITH YOUR STUDENTS:
Successful
Art Class Critique – by
Marvin Bartel
http://www.goshen.edu/art/ed/critique1.html
Student Handout – by Marvin Bartel
http://www.goshen.edu/art/ed/critiqueform.html
How
to Read a Painting
by Will Hanson
http://www.kcsd.k12.pa.us/~projects/critic/
ARTiculation
(designed for middle school – but adaptable)
http://www.brigantine.atlnet.org/Gigapalette
Viewing
Artwork – Art
Criticism Hand-out by Ms. Guttormson (needs some revision)
http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/curr_content/visualart/viewing.htm
What
is Art? What is an Artist?
Sweet Brian College – by Chris Witcombe
http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/artartists/artartists.html
Eyes
on Art
– A Learning to Look Curriculum by Tom March
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/art2/index.html
Art
Crimes
- cautionary tales of art criticism gone too far
(Aesthetic issues – valuing art)
http://www.renewal.org.au/artcrimes/
Sample
Art Criticism Final Exam (Middle school level - adaptable to high
school)
See
It's
the Thought that Counts (pdf file) by Craig Roland
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