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The main goal of this research is to investigate the reality of activation of art criticism in the intermediate schools, in addition to measuring the information of art teachers on the meaning and methods of art criticism and its relevance to students through a questionnaire that was designed by the researchers to be applied to a sample survey of two hundred and twenty-eight teachers, in addition to a note card to be applied on quarter of the sample. Important results: 1) 10% of the teachers had very poor knowledge on art criticism, and 17.2% who had high knowledge on art criticism. 2) 52.1% of teachers possess little information about the meaning of art criticism, compared to 31.5% who possess little information about the methods of art criticism, and 1.4% possess little information about the importance of art criticism to the student. 3) Teachers do not include art criticism within the objectives of the plan in their monthly or annual planning reports. On the other hand, 14.5% of them include art criticism in their daily planning. 4) 48.7% of the teachers apply art criticism throughout all classes, and 12.7% apply art criticism from time to time without planning the process and without any explaining the methods of art criticism to the students. Important recommendations and suggestions: 1) it is important to re-formulate the plans approved by the department of education and to include art criticism within the objectives and means. 2) It is important to develop courses directed to intermediate school teachers, related to art criticism, in which the activation of art criticism though out classes is clarified. It is essential to provide art teachers with some references on art criticism in order to increase their knowledge of art criticism. (Published Abstract)