Zahnea's+Criteria

1. In my opinion, good art should be completely original, not a reinterpretation of a former creation or of something that I see on a daily basis. 2. In my opinion, good art should be understandable, not only to the artist, but to their audience as well. 3. In my opinion, good art should have the ability to stand out from many other pieces of art, and completely capture my attention. 4. In my opinion, good art should express the artist's feelings. 5. In my opinion, good art is appealing to the eye, I should feel speechless after looking at it. 6. In my opinion, art has to be seen in context. Jessica Stockholder meets numbers 1,3,and 5 of my criteria. I think her some of her pieces of art are intriguing to a certain degree, while others are complete nonsense.

Jessica Stockholder

Mark Chagall

I personally can not stand Jessica Stockholder. Her art work is not appealing in anyway to me. The only comparison between Stockholder's art and Chagall's art is their fascination with color, other than that I do not think their artwork has anything in common. I stated in my criteria that good art is not only understood by the artist but also the audience. Stockholder's artwork is meaningless, and only understood by her, while Chagall's artwork is clearly understood by him as well as his audience. Chagall definitely meets all of my criteria.