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15 Questions to Inspire Quality Art Critiques

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Next time we critique use these questions to facilitate a discussion filled with genuine responses. Make sure to collaborate and not be afraid to share your view and listen well!

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Many Minted artists say peer critique is one of the most valuable aspects of our community and challenge process. After submitting your work to a challenge, Minted artists are encouraged to share feedback on other artists' work and invite fellow community members to critique their own work.

We've found that when artists ask specific questions about their work, they are more likely to generate quality feedback. Armed with this constructive feedback, many Minted artists iterate their submissions or put the feedback in their back pocket for future projects.

We asked Nathan Bond, an art instructor at Parsons School of Design, to create the following list of prompts to inspire quality critiques. We recommend that you copy and paste the questions that resonate with you into the "Ask for Feedback" pop-up field after submitting your work.

" Fossilized Rock " by Frooted Design

With more than 20 years of experience, Nathan said he created this list for a wide range of artwork, including paintings, drawings, and photography. "These questions focus on the fundamental elements of all works of art, regardless of genre or style," he said. "I organized them in an order that develops similarly to how you would develop a formal critique, starting with the basic foundations of the image and developing toward the more interpretive aspects."
15 Art Critique Prompt Questions
1. Does the composition effectively move the viewer's eye around the image?

2. My intent with this composition is to take the viewer to ____________ location. Did your eye go there?

3. Are there any classic compositional errors? For example, is the subject matter too centered or too far off to one side? Are things cropped in an effective way? Is anything "kissing" the edge?

4. Is there good positive-negative space, and is it balanced and harmonious?

"Skyward Angles" limited edition print by Gabrial Reising

5. Is the color system balanced and harmonious?
Learn more about color harmony here.
6. Do the colors work well with each other?

" Emperor " by Moglea

7. Does the color system support the emotional feeling that you, the artist, intended?

8. Is there a strong value system? Are the darks and lights working together to increase each other's voice to the appropriate level?

9. Is there a wide enough range of values, and are the mid-tones varied enough?
About mid-tones:
The range of tones that lie between highlights with detail and shadows with detail. Usually represents the portion of tone reproduction in which gradations change in proportion to change in brightness. Learn more about depth of field (as it relates to photography) in this video.
10. Does the sense of space or depth of field in the image come across? Is the method used to show depth of field (overlapping objects, perspectival lines, focus and value shifts) easy to read?
About mark making:
As Tate Modern explains here, mark making describes the different lines, dots, marks, patterns, and textures we create in an artwork. It can be loose and gestural or controlled and neat. It can apply to any material used on any surface: paint on canvas, ink or pencil on paper, a scratched mark on plaster, a digital paint tool on a screen, etc.
11. Is the mark making (brushstrokes, palette knife marks, created textures, direction of the marks, etc.) effective and appropriate for the piece?

12. Setting aside personal taste, is the genre and style executed with a high level of craftsmanship?

13. Is your style a good choice for this particular Minted challenge?

14. Are all of the above questions contributing to the successful and desired emotional context of the work?

15. What do you think is the "emotional voice" of this piece, and does it work for this challenge?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
As a painter, Nathan's work has been exhibited internationally from London to Japan to Spain, and all over the United States from New York City to Washington, D.C. to Colorado, and is included in several public and private collections. His work was recently added to the permanent collection at The New Britain Museum of American Art. Follow Nathan Bond on Instagram @paintbond and Facebook, and learn more at nathanbond.com. LEARN MORE ABOUT CRITIQUING ON MINTED
At Minted, we believe in Paying It Forward. Learn more about how to give and get great peer critiques here. Published June 7, 2016 * Want to join the Minted Artist Community? Submit to a Challenge here. 7 Ways to Master Art and Design Critiques
10 Tips for Critiquing Minted Art and Designs After graduating from The Rhode Island School of Design in 1995, Nathan Bond settled in New York in the spring of 2001. After setting up a studio practice in Brooklyn, he accepted a teaching post at Parsons School of Design in 2002, where he has helped guide students in classes from Freshman Drawing to Sophomore and Junior level painting as well as Illustration Concepts and Senior Thesis ever since.
Nathan Bond and his daughter, Sadie

YOU'RE INVITED TO THE ART OF CRITIQUE
Minted artists are invited to join Nathan Bond on Thursday, June 16, for a live art critiquing video lecture. To help you improve your work, Nathan will share best practices for self-critique in addition to giving and getting quality critiques on Minted. Thursday, June 16 at 1:05 p.m. PST ( Time Zone converter)
RSVP here and we'll follow up with more information on how to join the lecture.

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15 Questions to Inspire Quality Art Critiques

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By Nathan Bond & Amy Schroeder Many Minted artists say peer critique is one of the most valuable aspects of our community and challenge process. After submitting your work to a challenge, Minted artists are encouraged to share feedback on ...

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Look through this Pinterest board filled with knitting, embroidery, and sewing ideas and pick a craft to start!

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write a journal entry and sketch something that represents that entry. Could be something tangible you talked about or abstract conveying how you feel. Be creative!

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cutout cardboard and go outside and find patterns and designs in nature.

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Take the time to read all the prompts and pick one that resonates the most with you to create an art piece from.

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Look at the perspectives in these famous works of art, take a straight edge or protractor and measure the angles and observe how they work for the pieces.

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Perspective in Art - Conjuring the Space | Widewalls

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What is perspective in art? Is perspective in art all about the lines, vanishing points, and composition or is there more to the method?

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Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences (start here)

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Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences (start here)

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Look through this article on Multiple Intelligences to get a better understanding of the theory and how it works.

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Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences

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Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences posits that individuals possess various distinct types of intelligences, rather than a single general intelligence. These types encompass areas like linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic intelligences, emphasizing a broader understanding of human capability.