User:Amarantaperez/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Norman Lewis (artist) - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have chosen this article because I was already familiar with it since I worked on it in another exercise for class. I liked it because it wasn´t too long but it gathered information enough to have an idea of the artist it is presenting.

Evaluate the article
The lead of the article is very brief and concise. It consists of one single paragraph of 4 sentences where the artist is presented. The only information included is dates of birth and death, professions, ethnicity, artistic movement associated with, and theme of his artwork. These points are later developed in the article.

The biggest part of the article is dedicated to his biography including information about his early life and education, family, jobs, and his beginnings as an artist. The following sections center on his work, including a very small part dedicated to social realism and figurative work that mentions some of his paintings, and a much bigger section centered on his interest in abstract impressionism, which includes a subsection about the artist as a founding member of the Spiral art group, and another one with his last works and activities. The next sections englobe information about death and legacy, his exhibitions and awards along his life.

The article is written from a neutral point of view, just presenting information about his life and work. It does not include any opinion or point of view, it just presents facts. All the information exposed has a reference number to the source it was taken from, encyclopedias, books, museums…all of the reliable and working.

The writing is well-organized, offering information about the life and art of the artist in chronological order. It is concise and with no grammatical errors.

The article includes only two images. These two images are of two of his paintings captioned with name and year. One of them is clear and good but the other one is hard to distinguish since is a painting in black. It does not make much sense to include it since you can barely see it.

I don’t see any ratings in this article but it is of interest to five different wiki projects.