Question about 'commentaries' in art exam

[coconut stripes]

It says you have to refer to at least two commentaries in section c (art issues). My question is, can one of the commentaries be spoken by the artist themselves?
That's what we did for our unit 4 sac, but I'm starting to wonder if that's acceptable in the exam.

[literally lauren]

I'd probably use two commentaries + quotes from the author, just to be on the safe side. I'm not sure if you ever get a formal definition of what a 'commentary' is (- I know we never did ) but something tells me there might be some stuffy assessors who make a distinction between the artist's intention, and critical commentary by other people.

It still seems like it'd be a valuable addition to your essay, but implementing other commentary would make it 100% safe rather than a 50/50 chance that's dependent on your marker