Beth Wilson

       I think Beth Wilson is an effective art critic. She uses lots of strong adjectives to really give you a feeling of the artwork's meaning. Wilson only says positive things about the art work she critiques. In the lucid dream article Wilson only gives you just enough information to want to go and look up those described art works; and even, go to an art exhibit. I think it would be interesting to go and see a variety of different art styles and art works from different cultures.
      In the first reading on Kathy Ruttenberg, Wilson starts off by blandly describing her style or "universe." Kathy Ruttenberg is known for sculpting as well as painting women and nature. As you can see in the attached photo to the left, Ruttenberg often fuses women with nature. Even on their skirts, there is a lot of nature. Wilson also goes on to explain that Ruttenberg is different from other artists because she makes women one with the nature. Overall Wilson did an effective job explaining Ruttenberg's style, form, and uniqueness.
      In the Lucid dreaming article, Wilson describes several works of art. At first I believed it to be annoying to describe something and not show a visual image of it, but I now believe that art critics do this to force to reader to look it up themselves. As you can see in the image to the right looks very interesting. It was only briefly described in the writing, and I had to see for myself, what it looked like. This is a very effective strategy. Also if the art critic posted images of all the artworks they described in their writing it may cause people to not go to those art exhibits. The image to the right is Mary Mattingly’s Mach II. It is supposed to be a crashed spaceship-like vehicle. Overall Wilson did a good job in describing the art exhibit as well as some of the works of art.