1.1 Critically compare a range of critical perspectives that influence the
analysis of art and design
Taking a critical
perspective involves adopting a viewpoint that asks questions about the
rationale and legitimacy of something. The idea behind critical thinking is to
remove normal biases from a point of view to determine whether a conclusion is
the most valid one. To do this, a subject must be thoroughly analysed.
All of
your photography must be under-pinned by research. The more you research and
the more you question and explore other people’s approaches to their
photography, the more informed your photography will become. At the start of all
your projects you must explore the photography of others who work in similar or
associated fields, or use an approach that you wish to explore. As an absolute
minimum you must find two bodies of work or photographers that work in the same
area of photography that you are about to undertake. Identify a series of
images or a single image that you wish to analyse and deconstruct. This will
form the basis of your research.
So, in
order to compare a range of critical perspectives you must initially present a
minimum of three or four viewpoints. We therefore advocate that you do the
following…
(1).
Present your own initial viewpoint without any analysis.
(2).
Present the viewpoint of others via primary research – conduct a survey,
consider using Survey Monkey
(3) &
(4). Present the opinion and viewpoints of 2 people that have a more in-depth
knowledge of the subject – Reviewers, critics, academics etc.
You’ll
have now collated 3 or 4 critical perspectives relating to your research; all
that now remains is that you make sense of the information, forming a
potentially more informed critical perspective of your research.
The final
analysis where you make sense of all the opinions should be produced in the
form of the Gibbs reflection of your research process. It’s at this point you
might want to use the 13
point analysis prompt?
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