Art Critic Blog week 11

I first reviewed Mike Farrell's, "Outside Looking In", which featured Landscape Art, Debbie Russell's, "How Bizarre...How Bizarre", featuring Surrealism Art, and Cassandra Krajewski's, "Nature Affected", which focused on nature, and how it is affected by people and things. I selected Debbie Russell's exhibit because I have always liked the against-the-grain appeal of Surrealism, and I was interested to see how a fellow student (curator) would identify and represent the movement in an exhibit. I was also drawn to the exhibit and ended up choosing it because of the introduction she has in the beginning of the project. It captured my interest, and I chose to use it for analysis and criticism.
I was challenged in writing the critique article during the art criticism steps, because I don't have a hard time describing the exhibit itself, but analyzing it, and relating it to memories/ current events etc. was difficult for me because I couldn't think of anything to relate it to. I also didn't like choosing between whether it was "Good or bad/ successful / unsuccessful" I didn't think that was very fair, to sum it up like that in one or two words.
I liked critiquing my own peer's work because I didn't feel the pressure to have certain views or answers based on what I already heard, because as far as I know, I am the first to comment and judge her work. Since I have not yet seen any other responses to Russell's exhibit, I feel better knowing that there is nothing to compare my response to.
I am interested in reading the critique that may or may not have been written about my exhibit because I always accept advice, and I would like to know what someone thought of my work, how it affected them, and what I could have to done to improve it or make it more successful.
I would rate my finished article a 10 because I followed the steps in art criticism to the best of my knowledge, really took a good look and thought about my peer's work, and put in my own most creative words what I thought about it. I think I did a good job analyzing Russell's work, without making it too long.
I enjoyed working on this project because it taught me to be comfortable critiquing someone else's work, and not being afraid about what others think of my response.