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=**Introduction to art criticism**=

//American Gothic// by Grant Wood

==**Let's begin learning about art criticism by first establishing what your personal criteria are. What makes a work good in your eyes? Decide on a minimum of 5 criteria and list them on on your museum page. What's your taste in art?**==

You could build your criteria around the formal aspects of the work or even around subject matter
What does "formal aspects" mean?

=In works of art there are 2 areas that you must examine to understand and appreciate a work of art:=