Assignment #2

The four domains of creativity in art are fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration. Fluency in art terms is generating many ideas, for instance brainstorming before creating artwork. We can filter through many ideas before we finally come to grips on what we want to do with our artwork. Flexibility is being able to generate different types of ideas or thinking outside the box. We have to be able to to look at our artwork from a different perspective. A good question to ask yourself when creating art is what will people that look at your artwork see? What will they feel when they see you're artwork? Will they be able to understand what you are trying to portray with your art? Originality is generating unusual ideas. Being able to come up with something different is very hard when there is so many different types of art out there. More than likely there has been a pice already published with the same ideas that you have. The hard part is making it original. We have to be able to come up with something different that hasn't been done before so we can get credit for it. Finally elaboration is adding ideas to improve your artwork. Most of the time the art can always be improved. You have to think in the mindset of a perfectionist. Every detail has to be perfect. This can also be hard. Coming up with ideas that make your artwork better when you already think it is the best there is. 

The Feldman Method of Art Criticism is compiled of for steps: describe, analyze, interpret, and judge or evaluate. When describing artwork you ask yourself the question, what do I see? Take the artwork and describe what it means to you. Analyzing artwork is digging a little bit deeper into describing it. Get more information about the piece. Find out when it was done and a little more about the illustrator. Use the elements of art such as line, balance, shape, and form to describe the work. Interpreting the artwork is trying to find out what the artists meaning is behind the work. Find out the purpose behind the artwork and was on the authors mind while illustrating the piece. When you judge and evaluate the art, compile all of what you criticized and determine if the artwork is successful. Is it easy to interpret what the author was saying? Did the artwork effect you in a positive way, or anyway at all? Does the artwork rank in the top 10 of your favorite pieces of art. Being able to criticize art with the Feldman method will really make it easy to pick your favorite artwork and will make you a better artist in general.