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Art criticism is the discussion or evaluation of visual art. [1] [2] [3] Art critics usually criticize art in the context of aesthetics or the theory of beauty. [2] [3] A goal of art criticism is the pursuit of a rational basis for art appreciation [1] [2] [3] but it is questionable whether such criticism can transcend prevailing socio ...
A volume from Graham Reynolds's catalogue raisonné of John Constable [1]. A catalogue raisonné (or critical catalogue) is an annotated listing of the works of an artist or group of artists and can contain all works or a selection of works categorised by different parameters such as medium or period.
Typically the art critic views art at exhibitions, galleries, museums or artists' studios and they can be members of the International Association of Art Critics which has national sections. [3] Very rarely art critics earn their living from writing criticism. The opinions of art critics have the potential to stir debate on art-related topics.
Image credits: Chesnot #7 Pablo Picasso (October 25, 1881 — April 8, 1973) Pablo Picasso was a Spanish artist known as one of the most influential figures of the 20th century.
Guernica is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. [1] [2] It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history. [3]
The Transfiguration is the last painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael.Cardinal Giulio de Medici – who later became Pope Clement VII (in office: 1523–1534) – commissioned the work, conceived as an altarpiece for Narbonne Cathedral in France; Raphael worked on it in the years preceding his death in 1520. [1]
Institutional critique is a practice that emerged from the developments of Minimalism and its concerns with the phenomenology of the viewer; formalist art criticism and art history (e.g. Clement Greenberg and Michael Fried); conceptual art and its concerns with language, processes, and administrative society; and the critique of authorship that begins with Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault in ...
There is no official list of art critics, the compilation of which is compounded by problems in defining art criticism – not least of which is the overlap with art history, [1] and philosophy of art. Herein will be included those authors that are mentioned as being art critics or producing art criticism in works of reference, as are ...