i'm maria cheremeteff the art department at city college of san francisco. and i welce you to gallery 52 where we havselected works of art to simulate a gallery or perhaps a museum setting so that we can experiment analyzing works of art. this particular program really a supplement the telecourse art of the western world. i'd like to start by aing you a question. how many of you have gone to a musm or perhaps an art gallery and stood before a work of art and lt pplexed, confused, possiblyngry or perhaps even usated and wondered, "what is it that i'm supposed to be loing at is there a particular way of analyzing a work of art? are there special features that you should look at pick out in works of art? the answer is, of course, yes. but i've had quite a number of sdents come up to me and ask, "well, how should we analyze a work of art?" today's topic is descriptive criticism. and descriptive criticism involves an analysis of a work of art. it focuses on style. and style involves formal visual elements, elements that the artist had available in order to mapula

i'm maria cheremeteff of the art department at city college of san francisco. and i welcome you to gallery 52 where we have selected works of art to simulate a gallery or perhaps a museum setting so that we can experiment in analyzing works of art. this particular program is really a supplement to the telecourse art of the western world. i'd like to start by asking you a question. how many of you have gone to a museum or perhaps an art gallery and stood before a work of art and felt perplexed, confused, possibly angry or perhaps even frustrated and wondered, "what is it that i'm supposed to be looking at?" is there a particular way of analyzing a work of art? are there special features that you should look at or pick out in works of art? the answer is, of course, yes. but i've had quite a number of students come up to me and ask, "well, how should we analyze a work of art?" today's topic is descriptive criticism. and descriptive criticism involves an analysis of a work of art. it focuses on style. and style involves formal visual elements, elements that the art