What makes a painting good?: an enquiry into the criteria used in evaluation

Title: What makes a painting good?: an enquiry into the criteria used in evaluation
Creator: Frost, Lola
Subject: Painting -- Appreciation
Date: 1988
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MFA
Identifier: vital:2461
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008542
Description: From introduction: "To affirm that a work of art is good or bad is to commend or condemn, but not describe . Thus criticism does not, and cannot, have the impersonal character and strict rules applicable independently of time and place," .. . (Macdonald 1966: 111) "Criticism and appraisal, too, are more like creation than like demonstration and proof." (Macdonald 1966: 112) This essay articulates evaluatory criteria that are used by both critics and laymen and which are cross -culturally applicable. Thus it seeks to articulate relatively objective types of criteria which we all use when evaluating paintings. This essay articulates fixed and objective criteria, but within these categories recognizes that there is much room for skillful, sympathetic and knowledgeable criticism. Thus criticism is a creative act. These objectively- articulated criteria are best seen as aids to, rather than carbon copies, for evaluation.
Format: 66 leaves, pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Fine Art
Language: English
Rights: Frost, Lola

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