1. The Steps of Art Criticism
In each step of art criticism, you are answering a different question. The four steps of art criticism are:
Description: What do I see?
Analysis: How is the work organized?
Interpretation: What is the artist trying to communicate?
Judgment: Is this a successful work of art?

2. Description Look at the work of art here:
What do you see?
List all details.

3. Analysis How is the work arranged?
Break down the painting into its composition, or the way the art principles are used to organize the art elements.
ART ELEMENTS:
Color=
Line=
Shape=
Form=
Space=
Texture=

4. Analysis
PRINCIPLES OF ART/DESIGN
Unity=
Balance=
Contrast=
Emphasis=
Movement=
Rhythm=
Proportion=

5. Interpretation What do you think Munch is trying to communicate?
Give your opinion based on the clues you have collected.
What ideas, tones, emotions, and stories do you think the artwork communicates?