This is an excellent starting point. I've managed to decompose Anning's
items in these groups, representing
equally the first three parts, this is, Artistic, Technical and Topic:

-Overall impression
-Composition (includes selectivity)

balance-, Textures)
-Stylistic Coherence

-Original techniques

-Rendering  -Use of limits and strengths of the renderer
-Specific techniques (usage of,  creation of, )





This point derived from the same text, could be more subjective,
encompassing the way we 'perceive' the image,
or like the author said, the Picasso's two points

-Expression

Now the true moment, which will be the qualification or assigning numeric
values.  One of the things that is
really funny for me is the  fact that, even when 1-20 scale is considered
arbitrary, I have used it all my life, because in many countries of South
America it is the scale to evaluate formal education.  At the end, these
values depend on
the evaluator, too. What I -me ,personally- did while working , was an
effort to be objective within the subjective field, and
tried -not always successfully- to be fair.
Separating aspects -items- helps a lot., and re-reading this, I stay the
same as I was in the beginning,  the technical part is very tough for me.  I
am very  'new' comparing to others, I might be an artistic educated person,
but I am really a programming illiterate -looking at what people usually
write about-.
Anyway, I think it is a very well and articulated  'evaluation tool' to
begin with.  I will prepare my scale based on these
points and, of course, will try to work more with the technical aspect in
each one of my images, to be able to understand more the works to watch.
Thank you very much for re-posting this, and  for your help.

Marjorie Graterol


Ken wrote in message <369### [at] pacbellnet>...
>
>  Jerry Anning has a philosiphy about voting that I think is about the
fairest
>approach of any I have heard yet. It echoed my own thought so completely
>I'm reposting his reply he made on the subject in november last year. What
>you will read below is what I would say if only I were a little more gifted
as
>a writer ...

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