Reading Notes "Art Writing: A Concise Guide to How to Write about Art"

● Most importantly, never speak of complex thoughts and feelings—a work of art, and our response to it, itself contains complex or even contradictory thoughts and feelings.

●When we write, we first "educate ourselves". Through writing and thinking about what we're writing, we slowly learn how our multiple reactions—like, dislike, uncertainty—all add up. As we write and review our own words, each of us is like some kind of committee, trying to come up with a statement that will satisfy us all. So writing is a way of learning. The second is to draw the reader's attention to our carefully thought-out responses to "materials worth discussing."

●At first, when you're taking notes, or even writing your first draft, you're writing "for yourself"; you're trying to illustrate ideas, to figure out what you're thinking. But when you start revising your manuscript, you are writing for an "imaginary" reader, an imaginary audience. All writers have to imagine some kind of audience: someone who writes a self-help book has a novice in mind, someone who writes for Time magazine has the general public in mind, someone who writes for a law journal has something in mind The readers are lawyers, and the people who write for The Art Bulletin are thinking about art historians. The most important principle of writing is this: When revising your manuscript, always remember your audience.

● Support your proposition with evidence—your argument. Assume that your readers are skeptical, and show them the details that support your interpretation. Good writers have the following characteristics in proposing fate: Assuming the reader is rational and skeptical, persuading the reader by presenting a "dialectic"—pointing out the evidence to convince the reader to say: "Yes, I understand what you're trying to say, and what you're saying does make sense."

●Art writing is mostly for the following two purposes, perhaps alternatively, or both:

1. To inform: "This painting was painted in 1980"; "The anchor in the painting symbolizes hope"; "Conceptual art values concept more than visual enjoyment".

2. To persuade: "This early painting is one of her best works"; "Although it is generally believed that the anchor symbolizes hope, I would say that the anchor here has no symbolic meaning"; " Most conceptual art exhibitions are boring, lacking in sensory stimulation and visual enjoyment.”

●Basic checklist:

Have I asked myself the following questions?

-Is my topic attractive enough?

- Does the introduction provide the necessary information (artist, work, subject or method used in the article)?

-Does the article have arguments and opinions?

- Provide enough and persuasive details to support my argument?

- Are the audience's needs being noticed? For example, are unfamiliar words defined? Are there transitions provided to let the reader know where I'm taking them?

-Did you actually make your own point of view without appearing too arrogant?

- Does the article meet the requirements of the assignment (length, scope)?

-Is there any indication of the source and source of the data?

●How to write effective articles:

1. Select a topic and tentative proposition.

2. Develop ideas, eg: ask yourself questions.

3. Draft a tentative outline of the arguments you want to make.

4. Based on your outline, come up with a rough draft (don't worry about typos or punctuation, etc.), but if you have any new ideas during the writing process, you can also deviate from the big net, and mothers need to hesitate.

5. Significantly revise the draft. You can reorganize the structure, add new details to clarify or support your claims, and delete or merge paragraphs.

6. Revise and edit the text and make minor adjustments.

7. Revise the first and last paragraphs to make sure they are interesting enough to not just clear your throat.

8. Ask others to read your revised manuscript and make comments.

9. Take into account the opinions of others after reading, and then make revisions.

10. Pick up the latest edition, read it again, and make the necessary revisions.

11. Proofread the final version.

~American literary critic and Shakespeare scholar, professor emeritus of English at Tufts University in Massachusetts, and editor-in-chief of Signet Classics Shakespeare, a series of Shakespeare plays/Silvan. Sylvan Barnet

~Art Writing: A Concise Guide to How to Write about Art

~ "A Short Guide to Writing About ART"

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