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Jerry Saltz (born February 19, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American art critic.Since 2006, he has been senior art critic and columnist for New York magazine. Formerly the senior art critic for The Village Voice, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2018 and was nominated for the award in 2001 and 2006. [1]
"The Critic as Artist" is a significantly revised version of articles that first appeared in the July and September 1890 issues of The Nineteenth Century, originally entitled "The True Function and Value of Criticism." The essay is a conversation between its leading voice Gilbert and Ernest, who suggests ideas for Gilbert to reject.
David Hickey (December 5, 1938 – November 12, 2021 [2]) was an American art critic who wrote for many American publications including Rolling Stone, ARTnews, Art in America, Artforum, Harper's Magazine, and Vanity Fair. He was nicknamed "The Bad Boy of Art Criticism" [3] and "The Enfant Terrible of Art Criticism". [4]
There's a new critic on the art scene - a robotic dog. AICCA - Artificially Intelligent Critical Canine - is able to analyse artworks and print out its 'thoughts' about the pieces under its tail ...
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.
While art history and art criticism overlap as disciplines, we usually tend to think of the latter as writing the first draft of the former. 7 Essential Books of Art Criticism for Fine Arts ...
John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English polymath – a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as art, architecture, political economy , education, museology , geology , botany , ornithology , literature, history, and myth.
Art criticism includes a descriptive aspect, [3] where the work of art is sufficiently translated into words so as to allow a case to be made. [2] [3] [7] [11] The evaluation of a work of art that follows the description (or is interspersed with it) depends as much on the artist's output as on the experience of the critic.